Partake – Words In Scripture Explored – Justification
G’day and welcome to WISE! The word for today is justification.
I wonder if you have come across this word in your reading of the Bible and wondered what it was all about!! Justification means, that God looks as you as if you have never sinned against Him. That means you are declared free from the penalty of sin. Justification is only a reality to you, if you have taken up the offer and are a follower of Jesus Christ.
The basis of this justification is that God the Son, Jesus Christ, is both the Just and the Justifier of sinners (Romans 3v21-26). God is holy; therefore, sin must be dealt with. He cannot arbitrarily forgive sin. The judgment and penalty of sin, which is death, was poured out on Jesus Christ who is the substitute. Therefore justice has been done, because God is just. By faith in Jesus Christ we are declared righteous as a free gift, and Christian Disciples are therefore justified. Nothing we can do could make us justified before Almighty God. It is only through His free grace.
Substitution
Jesus died for your sin, the just for the unjust (1 Peter 3v18). That is how God is both just and the Justifier of sinners. That is why Jesus needed to be both fully God and fully human, so as to be the full substitutionary sacrifice that was required to deal permanently with sin! For while you were yet a sinner, Jesus Christ died for you, (Romans 5v6-8), willingly giving His life as a ransom for you (Mark 10v45) and when He died in your place on the cross, He bore the consequences of all your sin – past, present and future.
Sacrifice
This substitution was the sacrifice required in order that Jesus Christ could take away the sins of the world, which includes yours (John 1v29)! He therefore became sin for you (2 Corinthians 5v21) and it was His blood as the sacrificial lamb without spot or blemish (1Peter 1:18-19) that fulfils God’s requirements permanently. We are justified before God, because Jesus is our substitute!
Because of Jesus’ death on the cross, justification means
- Your sins were nailed to the cross (Colossians 2v13-14)
- You are clothed in a robe of righteousness (Isaiah 61v10)
- You have the righteousness of Christ (Ephesians 1v7; Acts 13v38-39)
- You have received the gift of righteousness. (Romans 5v17)
- You have been declared righteousness by God through faith in Christ (Philippians 3v9)
So I challenge you with this: if He who was without sin, became sin, for you, you are to live a life worthy of Him and your status of freedom from sin in Jesus Christ.
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