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Raised for Our Justification
What is this faith that justifies?
How can a person be justified before God?
This was Job’s question.
The question infers these:
It infers God.
It infers this Holy God.
In fact, that God is Holy, holy, holy.
It infers our sin.
It infers that we need to be justified.
Let me ask the question another way:
How can you know your sins are forgiven?
How can you approach God in prayer?
How can you face death without any fear?
So, here’s our question again:
What is this faith that justifies?
And the apostle has these answers.
I. Faith that justifies is a faith that believes in God and glorifies God.
“It will be credited for us who believe in Him...”
The faith Paul speaks of believes in God.
Much is said about the Lord Jesus Christ and about the Holy Spirit, but ignores the Father.
We must keep everything in order in the way in which they are found in the Scriptures.
Everything starts with God and everything must end with God.
All that the Lord Jesus Christ did was designed by the Father to bring us to God,
to reconcile us to God.
2 Corinthians 5:
It is God who sent Him to do that work,
John 5:
therefore it must all centre ultimately on God the Father.
God the Father is the starting point of true faith.
Faith does not start with me and my subjective circumstances and feelings.
It starts with God Himself.
“Believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
II.
Faith that justifies is a faith that believes in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“It will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
Faith is a belief in God, but not only a belief in God in general.
Jews believe in a god.
Moslems believe in a god.
Hindus believe in millions of gods.
But Paul says something very particular and specific here concerning the resurrection.
Abraham believed in God in general, but there came a day when God said something particular and specific, something special, to Abraham and when he believed it was that faith that was credited to him for righteousness.
In exactly the same way, God has said something very particular and specific, something special, in raising the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.
Faith is a belief in God the Father who raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.
And this is a literal bodily resurrection.
Luke 24:39-43
1 Corinthians 15:13
And Paul then concluded in — Your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.”
Romans 10:
There is no promise of salvation if God did not raise the Lord Jesus from the dead.
“Believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
III.
Faith that justifies is a faith that believes that God raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
— “who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
Notice that Paul didn’t say Jesus our Savior — But Jesus our Lord!
In other words, when God the Father raised Him from the dead He was making a proclamation, and the proclamation was — “This is My only begotten Son.”
Faith that justifies is the faith that believes that God raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
He’s already said this in .
Romans 1:
It is the Resurrection that finally establishes the fact that Jesus is God, that He is the eternal Son of God.
This is the final proof of the doctrine of the person of Christ — Jesus is Truly God and Truly man.
“Believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
IV.
Faith that justifies is the faith that believes Christ was delivered for our offenses.
Verse 25 — “He was delivered up for our trespasses.”
He didn’t merely says that Jesus died, but that He was delivered up.
Delivered up is a judicial term that referred to the commitment of a criminal to his punishment.
Jesus our Lord was delivered up to serve the sentence of death that our transgressions deserve.
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Who delivered up Jesus our Lord?
The answer: God the Father delivered up Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:32
Why?
The answer: for our trespasses.
What is your view of Christ’s death?
Why did He die?
What is the Biblical view of Christ’s death?
Notice the word — For.
It means “on account of.”
It’s a very strong word.
It focuses in on the reason why Jesus was delivered up.
Why did the Son of God ever die?
Why did He die on the cross?
Couldn’t He have avoided it?
The answer is found beginning in this word For that points at it with a big huge arrow — It was My Sin!
It’s like pointing an arrow to it — the reason is My Sin!
“Believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
He was delivered up for our trespasses.”
V. Faith that justifies is the faith that believe that Jesus our Lord was raised for our justification.
— “He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.”
Paul says we are justified by His death.
Is he contradicting himself?
You cannot separate the death and the resurrection.
They go together —
“I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus
Isn’t chapter 15 about the Resurrection?
This is not Paul contradicting himself, but referring to one ultimately refers to the other.
They go together.
The resurrection is the Divine Proclamation of the fact that God the Father is fully and completely satisfied with the work that His Son did on the cross.
Jesus Christ bore the full punishment for our sins and in doing so He fully and completely satisfied the Law’s demand for sin.
The wages of sin is death.
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