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Wednesday Nov 11, 2015
ROMANS 3:25-26 GOD’S DEMONSTRATION OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
Wednesday Nov 11, 2015
Wednesday Nov 11, 2015
Ro
3:25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to
demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over
the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time
His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has
faith in Jesus.
The
Righteousness of God v 25 -26
Forbearance... in Romans
2:4 we saw this spoke of a truce between two warring parties and that God
rather than destroying us the first time we sinned he graciously and patiently
holds back judgement so that we might have a chance to repent and be saved
Passed over sins: doesn't
speak of God ignoring sin, but withholding judgement for a period of time since
every sin requires punishment
Psalm 78:38-40 But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His
anger away, And did not stir up all His wrath; 39 For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes
away and does not come again.40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!
Acts 17:30 "Truly, these times of ignorance God
overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness,
but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all
should come to repentance.
In the OT sins were
temporarily paid for by an animal sacrifice and It might have appeared that God
did not take sin seriously, but the cross removed all doubts
To
demonstrate the righteousness of God was shown by Jesus' incarnation (God
taking on a human form), his sinless life, and substitutionary death
That
he might be just and the justifier: God in his infinite wisdom set in place a
plan that would allow Him to punish Jesus in the place of sinners and thereby
justify undeserving sinners without compromising his standards of Justice
Notice
in verses 25-26 that the phrase to demonstrate or declare His righteousness is
repeated(emphasis)
The
Reasoning by God v27-31V27-28
Boasting is excluded by the law of faith
1Corinth1:28 and the base
things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the
things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God----and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption---- 31 that, as it is written,
"He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."
V28
Justified by faith... Nothing in my hands I bring, only to thy cross I cling
There
was a certain kind of Judaism which tried to keep accounts with God and finally
come to a point where they felt God owed them and then they could go to heaven
Faith
is a self-emptying, self-denying and casting all our hope of Heaven on Christ
and Him alone
This
reasoning allows God to get all the glory which he deserves
V29-30
Prejudice is excluded
Here
is Paul's answer to the Jews who might say that is okay for Gentiles since they
do not know the law, but not the Jews
Deut 6:4 "Hear, O
Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one!
V31 through faith we
establish the law Salvation by grace through faith shows the true importance of
the law by
· 1. Providing a payment for
the penalty of sin
· 2. By fulfilling the law's
original purpose which was it was to be a tutor which showed us our inability
to keep the law and drive us to Christ
· 3. It gives us the ability
to obey the law
Up to that time the Jews kept the law out of
fear of God, that day is gone. Now we are to keep the law not out of a fear of
punishment, but out of love for God and his amazing mercy
Many times we are stopped
from doing wrong because of the fear of hurting those we love
Think, sin is not so much
breaking God's law as it is breaking God's heart
Wednesday Nov 04, 2015
ROMANS 3:21-24 BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD APART FROM THE LAW IS REVEALED
Wednesday Nov 04, 2015
Wednesday Nov 04, 2015
Romans
3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being
witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God,
through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no
difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being
justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Man's
so called quest for God has gone down so many roads, The Jews have said you
need to keep the Law. Most of the other false religions of the world say you
have to do works or good deeds to get into Heaven, some say you keep coming
back until you get it right and then you can attain a release from this world.
So
what is it that allows a man to be acceptable in God's sight, what is it that
can remove the penalty of the law, what is it that makes a person's entrance
into Heaven a sure thing.
False
religion says do and God says it is done
Verses
21 -26 are probably the most important words ever written
Donald
Grey Barnhouse drew a heart over these verses in his Bible and said this
passage was not only the heart of Romans, but the heart of the NT and the whole
Bible.
1.
The
Righteousness from God apart from the Law
v21-23
V21
Now we come to the great BUT Now of God's Righteousness apart from law revealed
1ST
of all, this but now signals the start of a new train of thought and 2nd
it also show that in this current period of time that the righteousness of
Christ has been revealed
Having
shown the impossibility of gaining righteousness by human effort, Paul now
turns to explain the righteousness that God himself has provided.
Philippians
3: 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having
my own righteousness, which is from
the law, but that which is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Being
witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets:
Deut
18:18 `I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren,
and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I
command Him. 19 `And it shall be that
whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. 20 `But the prophet who
presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak,
or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' 21 "And
if you say in your heart, `How shall we know the word which the LORD has not
spoken?' -- 22 "when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the
thing does not happen or come to pass, that is
the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
V22 Through Faith......all who believe
Acts
10:43 "To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever
believes in Him will receive remission of sins
Charles
Spurgeon said faith is believing Christ is what he said he is, He will do what
he said he promised he will do and then to expect this of Him.
v-22-23
No difference..all fall short of the glory- All
men of all races cannot meet the standard of complete perfection(glory
of God)
1
Corinthians 11:7 For a man indeed ought
not to cover his head, since he is
the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
This
righteousness is available to all who believe
All
have sinned- Paul is restating what he has already proved in Rom 1:18-3:20
Nowadays
preachers who speak of the sinfulness of man are looked down on, because they
are always speaking of how bad man is and how you are going to hell, they
forget the fact that the whole reason this is done to show man a better way of
living. It is living based on what God has done and can do with us if we let
Him run our lives. Saying man is a sinner is not just to make him feel bad
about himself, but to make him realize what he can be through God. The motive
is a good one.
2.
The
Justification by God v24
Justification
is a word from the law courts which
speaks of a man on trial before God
This
word means not to make a person something he is not, but to treat him as if he
was that. To reckon or account to him something he does not deserve. If an
innocent man appears before a judge then to treat him as innocent is to acquit
him
Justification means that even though man is
thoroughly guilty that God in his amazing mercy treats him, reckons him,
accounts him as if he were innocent.
When
Paul says that God justifies the ungodly he means that God treats the ungodly
as if he were a good man. This is what shocked the Jews, they thought this was
a sign of a wicked judge
That
is why the Bible says in Mark 10:15 and Luke 18:17 "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does
not receive the kingdom of God as a little child
will by no means enter it."
We
must come to the Lord as a little child who comes to his mother brokenhearted
and sorry for the wrong committed and asking for forgiveness, knowing as a
mother who loves her child will receive that child in love and forgive him.
Before
Christ there was judgement, now there is Justification
Numbers
21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we
have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take
away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. Numbers 21:8
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is
bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." Numbers 21:9 So Moses made a
bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten
anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
John
3:14-20
Freely
....
this is the word gratis or without charge
Rev
22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears
say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him
take the water of life freely.
By
his grace: the unmerited favor granted to undeserving sinners
It
is not merely a free gift, but a free gift to those(us) who deserve exactly the
opposite given to us while we are without hope and without God.
Redemption
is a commercial term. It was used in the OT to speak of purchasing the freedom
of a prisoner or slave for the purpose of setting them free. Jesus' death,
blood sacrifice, and the wrath of God poured out on Him while he was on the
cross is the price that was paid to set us free.
Leviticus
25:50 Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price
of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he
was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it
shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.