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<bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>God's Peace on the inside will manifest itself on the outside!</B></I></div> <bR> <div>      Therefore, the Christian experiencing God's peace will be the most stable, calm, and collected person in the midst of the storms of life that the world is looking for and will be used by God to draw the world to Himself.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Justification </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(cont.)</FONT></div> <bR> <div>      Only God can do certain things.  For man to do those things, he would have to be superhuman, so he must depend on God.  For example, only God can write a book, error free, be consistent, and unfold everything man would need to know - especially when it was written over 1400 years by some 40 different authors.  That's a God-thing.  For man to write a book like that man has to be dependent on God, which he was when man wrote the Bible, “<I>for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”</I> 2 Peter 1:21.  </div> <div>      For man to be saved, someone had to be equal with God and man and pay the penalty that God required.  Only Jesus Christ, the One who was both fully God and fully man in one person was able to pay the penalty God required.  That's the concept of mediator (equal with both parties) and propitiation (satisfying the perfect righteousness that God required).</div> <div>      I addressed “Justification” in the Romans 3:21-31 message called “The Quest for Right Standing with God.”  A few more points should be addressed. (<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Condensed from Chafer's Systematic Theology</FONT>)</div> <bR> <div>      Paul writes, “<I>For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also </I><I><U>justified</U></I><I>; and whom He </I><I><U>justified</U></I><I>, these He also glorified.” </I>Romans 8:29-30  Justification is the last work of God done for the believer on earth, before glorification to heaven, yet seen as accomplished in eternity past.  When we get to Romans 8 we'll understand how significant this passage really is! </div> <div> So how can God justify the ungodly (cf. Ex. 23:7; Rom. 4:5)?  He must have a righteous basis to justify the ungodly.  It <U>seems</U> from Micah 6:8 that man is just because he was true and faithful to the Mosaic Law.  Yet we see in Romans 5:1, justification is God's work for man in answer to faith.  In fact, once justified, there can be no condemnation (Romans 8:33-34).  So what is true for the justified believer?</div> <bR> <div> He is a new creation 2 Cor. 5:17-18. “<I>Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.”</I> The old things are not habits or patterns for living, but the old position in the world, because the new position is in Christ!</div> <div> He receives the righteousness of God Phil. 3:9.  Paul exclaimed, “<I>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.”</I></div> <div> He is perfected forever Hebrew 10:14.  The writer notes, “<I>For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”</I></div> <div> He is complete in Christ Col. 2:9-10. Paul writes, “<I>For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”</I></div> <bR> <div> There are many other fantastic things that happen to the believer at the moment the believer trusts in Jesus Christ.  This is the standing (Romans 5:2) that believers have access to by faith.  We saw this in Romans 3:22-24, where Paul said God FREELY imputes righteousness to those who decide to have faith in Christ.  Freely means there was no cause to justify the person.  It's used in John 15:25 for the world that hated Christ “without a cause”.  There was no basis for that hatred, just as there was no basis for justification for even the one who believes!</div> <div>      What is the basis for Justification?  Romans 4:25 reads, “<I>who [Jesus] was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.”</I>  Because we were justified, Jesus was raised.  In other words, when the thing that completes the basis for justification was achieved, Christ was delivered from death.  What is that thing?  Christ's redemptive work on the cross!  When Jesus said, “It is finished,” the basis was complete and his death demonstrated to all physically, that the work had been done.</div> <div>      Justification does not make you righteous; it rather proclaims you justified and one whom God sees perfected in Christ.  If God sees you as perfected, doesn't that motivate you to want to live for Him?</div> <div>      </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romans 5:68"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B><IMG SRC="0c740400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>