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Feb 2, 2024 · Lab by. John Piper. Founder & Teacher, desiringGod.org. What is Look at the Book? You look at a Bible text on the screen. You listen to John Piper. You watch his pen “draw out” meaning. You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. And (we pray!) all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love.
- Introduction
- God – The Absolute Standard
- Humans – Guilty, Condemned and Helpless
- The Dilemma – How Can A Person Be Right with God?
- Jesus The God-man – The Sinner’s Representative and Substitute
- Justification – Central to The Good News About Jesus
- Answering Common Objections
- Results and Implications For Believers
The good news concerning God’s justification of sinners by faith in Christ alone without the addition of human deeds or the church’s administrations was the biblical truth rediscovered by Protestant Reformers and is one of the distinctive features of Evangelical Protestantism. It is a precious doctrine that is constantly attacked and misrepresented...
To appreciate justification, it is important to start with the one true and living God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This triune God is the ultimate moral standard. Even Pharaoh acknowledged that the Lord is righteous (Exod 9:27; see Psa 119:137). That absolute standard of what is right is expressed in the Mosaic law especially as it is summarised...
Human beings, created in God’s image and accountable to God, all fall far short of that ultimate standard of righteousness. God’s assessment of the human condition is beyond dispute: no one is good or righteous. Even people’s best efforts are viewed as filthy rags (Psa 53:1,3; Isa 64:6; Rom 3:9-23). God’s law condemns us and before the presence of ...
Job posed the question to his friends, “But how can a man be in the right before God?” (Job 9:2), and yet in the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, Jesus made it clear that it was possible for God to justify sinful people (Luke 18:9-14). But how can sinful humanity ever be justified by the God who judges justly? The Bible indicates how ...
God’s good news concerns his Son, who became the man Jesus the Messiah, in fulfillment of Old Testament promises (Rom 1:1-3). He is God’s answer to the human predicament. The Son took human nature to rescue humans by becoming the representative head of his people and their substitutionary sacrifice. As Adam was the original representative head of h...
Contrary to some recent teachings, justification lies at the very heart of the Christian message for it presents real hope to guilty, rebellious humans who deserve nothing but for God’s wrath to fall upon them. The gospel of God’s justifying grace proclaims that sinful people who put their trust in Jesus Christ have all their sins forgiven, are pla...
It’s out of date.The legal language relating to justification is biblical and not at all outmoded. People are constantly crying out for justice or being brought before a judge in a court of law whe...It’s a legal fiction.Justifying the ungodly who believe in Jesus is not legal fiction for Christ, through his perfect obedience and sacrifice, has fulfilled all the demands of the law so that they...It encourages lawlessness. This freeness of justification in no way encourages lawless living as a Christian. This is where the believer’s union with Christ is so important for those who are justif...It contradicts the Bible’s teaching regarding judgment based on works. For the believer, there is no future or final justification based on works. There is a judgment based on works, and the works...We have peace with God (Rom 5:1). The relationship broken by sin is re-established.There is a sure and certain hope of a future beyond this present world order (Rom 5:2).Assurance is based, in the first place, not on feelings but on the truth that as believers we are righteous before God through Christ’s obedience and blood (Rom 8:30).We are adopted into God’s family (Rom 8:15; Gal 4:5).People also ask
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Feb 19, 2024 · By definition, justification is a state where a person, or in this case a Christian, is declared righteous or just, in the eyes of God. In the Old Testament, God’s plan of justification was put into place when He made a covenant with followers of the Abrahamic faith. This covenant stated that if humans faithfully followed God, living ...
Oct 11, 2023 · Justification is a manifestation of God’s unmerited favor and kindness. It is His grace that provides the means for sinful humanity to be declared righteous. God’s grace is a gift that we cannot earn or deserve. It is a reflection of His boundless love and His desire to reconcile us to Himself.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1. ( n.) The act of justifying; vindication; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. 2. ( n.)
Mar 21, 2019 · The Meaning of Justification. 1. Justification is judicial, not experiential. Justification means to declare righteous, not to make righteous (in the sense of transforming one’s character to be righteous). It is a metaphor from the law court, where a judge pronounces someone as either guilty or not guilty.
Justification. Process by which an individual is brought into an unmerited, right relationship with a person, whether that relationship is established between people or with God. Old Testament In its simplest form, the cardinal theme of Scripture could be described as God's relationship with His people. Justification is a term which explains ...
