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Please open your Bibles to
Read Galatians 2:15-16.
How do we stand before God?
One of the most profound books in the Bible is Job.
One of the most profound books in the Bible is Job.
No other book deals with God’s sovereignty and man’s suffering quite like that book.
It’s a difficult book to read as well.
The book is about a wealthy man named Job, who had everything taken away from him.
He lost his riches, his family, his reputation and his health.
The first couple chapters describe the tragedy that hit his life.
How Satan himself attacked Job.
Then the next 30 chapters or so, is a dialogue between Job and his friends.
What makes the book so difficult is that his friends sound like us.
At times they say things that seem right.
But in reality, they are wrong.
Basically, Job’s friends accuse Job of some hidden sin.
They say that the bad things that have happened to Job, have happened because he has some secret sin in his life.
They think that his secret sin has ruined his good standing with God.
That’s the whole book right there.
It’s Job’s friends accusing him of sin.
It’s Job declaring his innocence.
For the most part, Job’s friends are wrong.
But they do ask one good question.
And it’s a question that needs to be answered.
It’s asked in , “How then can man be in the right before God?
How can he who is born of woman be pure?”
This is THE question.
How can we be right before God?
How can we be seen as innocent before God?
If we have sinned, what hope do we have?
God is just.
God will not allow sin in His presence.
famously says that the wages of sin is death.
If we have sinned, then we deserve death.
How do you deal with that?
says, “as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
You either have to say:
You’ve never sinned.
Or, you cannot stand before God.
And so if this is true, then we should ask the question right alongside Job’s friends.
Only the question is much more than how can Job stand before God.
It’s much bigger than that.
The question is how does anyone stand before God?
says, “as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Everyone of us needs to be asking that same question.
How can I be made right with God?
You have sinned, how can you be made right with God?
Because if we are not made right with God, then the consequence is His justice … Hell.
So how are we made right with God?
Every religion in the world attempts to answer that question.
And they al approach it in the same way … you must do something.
You’ve got to do something to earn God’s favor.
Go to mass.
Take communion.
Do good works.
Be baptized.
But the Gospel is different.
The Gospel is Good News.
The Gospel is a message.
The Gospel is a declaration.
The message is what you must do … has been done for you.
Through Jesus Christ.
But this goes contrary to what comes natural to us.
\Man is able to stand before God in the most spectacular of ways.
Man has a tendency to boast.
To say, “Look what I have done.”
And yet, God is to receive all the glory.
God is to receive the credit for us standing before God.
says that this gift of salvation is “not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
And for God to receive all the credit, all the glory … He must do all the work.
Here we are in .
Paul has defended himself against his opponents by saying that what he learned he learned directly from Jesus.
He has silenced his critics.
Then he argues with Peter, and reminds Peter of the Gospel.
He reminds Peter of how man can stand before God.
It’s not by anything we have done.
It’s because of what God has done.
And in , times Paul says the same thing 3 different ways
3 times he says it’s by faith, not by works.
He says we are justified by faith.
Justified means to be made right with God.
And he says we are justified by faith … not by works.
And he repeats that 3 times.
“we know that a person is not justified by works but through faith ...”
“so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.”
That’s the same statement in 3 different ways.
I was debating making the outline for this week the same point 3 times,
Not works
Not works
and Not works
Because that’s how Paul lays out his thoughts.
Just pounding home the message that it is not by works.
Instead, I thought we’d spend some time evaluating our own walk, and our own attempt to boast in Christ.
You see, I love Peter.
Peter’s not a villain.
He’s not the bad guy.
But look at how Paul corrects Peter in verses 15-16,
“We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law ...”.
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