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justification

02 What is justification and why do I need it?

June 27, 2018 by Krisan Marotta

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Review

  1. Death is the phenomena of human existence where everything physical & spiritual breaks down. It’s the process of decay and corruption.  Life is the opposite of death; tendency toward good in all of human existence
  2. Life automatically and inevitably flows from holiness.  Death automatically and inevitably flows from sin.
  3. God is the sole source of life, because He alone can give holiness.
  4. When we cut ourselves off from God (the source of Life), we inevitably experience death.

The Problem: Rebellion

In the photos below, my right hand represents God and my left hand (wearing the watch) represents mankind.

Fellowhip - Justification Explained | WednesdayintheWord.com
Before, the Fall, we are metaphorically face to face with God.
  • Before the fall we are fellowship with God and God is granting us Life (as we defined it).
  • We are metaphorically face to face with God.
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Mankind rebels and metaphorically turns its back on God
  • When we rebel, it is as if we turn our backs on God.
  • The first consequence of our rebellion is we now experience death.
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In response God metaphorically turns His back on us.
  • The second consequence to our rebellion is God’s wrath.
  • The rebellion is wrong and deserves punishment.
  • Our crime incurs a judicial penalty that must be paid.
  • Until God’s justice is satisfied, He will not grant Life.

Romans 1

In Romans 1:18-32, Paul makes these 3 claims: 1) mankind rebelled; 2) the consequence of that rebellion is death (as we defined it) and 3) God responds to that rebellion by abandoning mankind to the custody of death.

We rebelledTherefore: 1) we experience deathand 2) God abandons us to death
1:21 –  For though they knew God they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks. .1:21-22 – . . . they became futile in their speculations , and their foolish heart was darkened.1: 24 – Therefore, God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity    . . .
1:22-23 – Professing to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man . . .1:24 –  their bodies might be dishonored among them.1:26 – For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions
1:25 – For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator . . .1:27…receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.1:28 –  . . . God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, . . .


The Solution: Justification

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Once we are justified, God metaphorically turns back to us.
  • Justification is the forgiveness of our debt to justice which qualifies us to receive Life.
  • To be justified is to be in a position where God’s justice is satisfied.
  • None of us can justify ourselves by keeping the law.
  • Knowing and understanding God’s Law is not enough; we have to be the kind of people who can keep the Law (Romans 2:13-16).
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Return to fellowship
  • Justification is a gift from God.
  • Justification is based on God’s mercy.
  • Justification is made possible by the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23-26).
  • God grants justification to those with saving faith.

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Next: 03 What is saving faith and why is it so important?

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19 Romans 13:1-7 Submission, Fearlessness and Conscience

May 9, 2018 by Krisan Marotta

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Paul is continuing in his application of how we should live in light of the gospel, and in this often-discussed and debated passage, he explains how to be good citizens.

In Romans 1-8 Paul explained the glory of the gospel and the greatness of God — how no one can be saved by keeping the law; we can only be saved by trusting that God, because of the blood of Jesus Christ, will forgive us and solve the problem of sin in our lives.

In Romans 9-11, Paul examines how God treated Israel.  He argues that God did not fail Israel, nor reject them and that proves he will be faithful to Gentile believers as well. In a great crescendo at the end of Romans 11 he extols the living God with dynamic praise. Then in Romans 12 he turns to believers and says, “It is only reasonable that we worship this God with our bodies.” The rest of the book then talks about our practical response to the greatness of the gospel: How should it make our lives different?

Chapter 12:3 has implications for everything that comes after it: “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” – Romans 12:3 ESV

In Romans 13 the issue is still learning not to think too highly of ourselves, or seeing ourselves accurately in relation to the authorities that govern any nation. There are three words in this passage that summarize its themes: submission, fearlessness, and conscience.

13:1Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.  2Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.  3For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,  4for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.  6For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.  7Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.- Romans 13:1-7 ESV

  • Submissiveness helps give us proper perspective about ourselves.
  • Submission is not slavish obedience.
  • Submission is an attitude in which we are predisposed to let God, through government and other authority structures, put limits on where we go, what we do, and how we spend our resources.
  • Compare with Acts 4:18-20 and James 4.
  • Fearlessness is not the same thing as safety.
  • Being fearless means not being guilty of anything.
  • If we are going to be punished for anything, it will be for righteousness.
  • Compare with 1 Peter 2:11-20.
  • Punishment is one means by which we are impelled to do right. But Paul says there is a better reason, and that is your conscience.
  • Conscience demands that we keep the record clear for God’s sake, and not for man’s.
  • We are free to submit because God is in control.  We are free from guilt and anxiety if we practice what is good.  We honor God when we keep our conscience clear in dealings with authorities.

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Next: 20 Romans 13:8-14 Freedom in Christ

Previous: 18 Romans 11:33-12:21 How Shall We Live?

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17 Romans 11:1-32 Did God Reject His People?

January 24, 2018 by Krisan Marotta

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In Romans 11:1-15, Paul gives five reasons why it is evident that God has not forgotten his people the Jews.

  1. One of the reasons why God begin saving some of the Gentiles is that He desires to make Israel jealous. God is reaching Gentiles because, ultimately, He wants to reach the Jewish people.
  2. The Old Testament promises of worldwide blessing hinge upon the restoration of Israel to God.
  3. If the first Jews (the patriarchs, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob) could be made holy by God, then God is able to make Jews holy after thousands of years have passed. Therefore there is hope for Israel.
  4. Paul uses the figure of an olive tree. The natural branches of the tree are broken off and unnatural branches are grafted on. Jews who become Christians today are “completed Jews,” but Gentiles who become Christians become spiritual Jews.

Beginning in Romans 11:25, Paul explains the restoration that is coming to Israel.

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16 Romans 10 Prayer & Legalism

January 17, 2018 by Krisan Marotta

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How many of you have resolved to lose weight at some point?  I have attempted scores of diets in my lifetime.  Usually I start with a sense of heroic purpose!  But of course the diet never lasts, and my zealous self-discipline always falls by the wayside.

I mention diets because essentially the same issues are raised in the passage before us this morning. This type of  wrong-focused zeal is as useless in spiritual things as in physical diets.   The problem we face is not the absence of religion.  There is plenty of the wrong kind of religion (just like there are plenty of the wrong kind of diets).  The problem is the absence of the wrong kind of religion, a lack of religious depth.

In Romans 10, Paul is answering the question of why some people who have little knowledge are saved while some who have much knowledge are not saved.  He gave part of his answer in Romans 9.  All of us are born lost, and God in His mercy and grace chooses to call some people to him.  Paul continues his answer into chapter 10.

For more detail and explanation, please listen to the podcast.

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15 Romans 9:14-33 God’s Sovereign Choice

January 10, 2018 by Krisan Marotta

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In the opening verses of Chapter 9 Paul gave us three reasons God himself gives for his actions. These are the principles upon which he acts.

  1. Romans 9:1 tells us that God does not base redemption or salvation on natural privileges, like inheritance, ancestry, education, opportunity. All these natural privileges, though they may be granted to an individual and may give him great access to knowledge about God, do not guarantee that a person is chosen of God.
  2. Salvation is always based on a divine promise. God himself promises to act. He never bases salvation upon what human beings are going to do.  At the heart of redemption is a promise that God has given and that we are to respond to.
  3. Paul points out that God’s choice is never based on the behavior of individuals, whether good or bad. Paul proves it in the case of Jacob and Esau, in which a choice was made before the boys were born, before they had opportunity to do anything, either good or bad. God made a choice. Therefore, salvation or redemption never is based on human works.

On what is the basis does God choose then? If it is not works, if it is not the natural advantages which he himself gives, then what is it?

Paul’s answer, in the second half of Romans 9, is that it is based upon God’s sovereign right to choose.

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14 Romans 9:1-13 Is the gospel too good to be true?

January 3, 2018 by Krisan Marotta

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Romans 9-11 must be read as a unit that builds to a wonderful climax. It contains some of the most difficult material in the Bible.

The first eight chapters of Romans make a powerful case that the news from heaven is the best possible news.  Our problem was worse than we thought, and yet God acted graciously to save us through faith in Christ.  The news of the gospel is so gloriously good that it defies description.

But is this news too good to be true? How do we know that we can rely on these marvelous promises of God?

To answer the question, “Is the good news of Romans 1-8 true?” Paul reminds us in Romans 9 that God made promises to Abraham and to the nation Israel. Paul asks: “Has the word of God failed for Israel?”

Romans 9-11 contain a complex argument that answers both philosophical and historical arguments that arise from the experience of the Israelites, yet when read read as a unit it builds to a wonderful climax.

This is some of the most difficult material in the Bible. It is going to challenge us both spiritually and intellectually. It will assault our pride. Yet the hard questions must be answered. It is not enough to just proclaim the good news without replying to the doubts, “Can I be sure it really works? Has God’s word never failed?”

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13 Romans 8:26-39 Confidence in Christ

December 27, 2017 by Krisan Marotta

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Paul argues that because of the activity of the Spirit, we can have confidence that everything that happens to us is in our own best interests.

In Romans 8:1-11, the Apostle Paul claimed faith in Jesus solves the problem of our sin.

His goal in this section is to explain how salvation can come about through Christ when it couldn’t come through the law.  The law could not make us righteous, because the law didn’t solve the problem of our sinfulness.  But because of God’s grace, He gives us His Spirit and it is through the Spirit of God we are actually made righteous.

Romans 8:12-39 is an exhortation against legalism, Paul is encouraging the Romans to give up the mentality of seeking to be sanctified through our own resources.   The point of the section is that we should seek holiness through trusting in God, not through trusting in our own resources, self-reliance, legalism.

Romans 8 :12-14 is the summary statement: Trusting yourself to gain holiness (legalism) leads to death in our present experience; Trusting in the Spirit of God to gain holiness leads to life in our present experience.

Romans 8:15-30 discusses two things that are true about  those who trust the Spirit of God to make them righteous.

  1. The Spirit of God produces within believers an agonizing grief over sinfulness and a longing for righteousness.  This grief over sin and longing for righteousness is tangible evidence of belief (Romans 8:15-25).
  2. We can have confidence that everything that happens to us is in our own best interests because of the work of the Spirit (Romans 8:26-30).

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Next: 14 Romans 9:1-13 Is the Gospel too Good to be True?

Previous: 12 Romans 8:12-25 Grief over Sin

Series: Romans: Justification by Faith

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12 Romans 8:12-25 Grief over Sin

December 20, 2017 by Krisan Marotta

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Summary

In Romans 1-5, Paul argues for justification by faith.

  • Romans 1:- tells us that 1) we sinned, 2) we now experience death and 3) God abandoned us to our sin and death.
  • Romans 2: Neither the moral nor the religious person is exempt from the disease of sin.  No one can be justified by keeping the law.
  • Romans 3: He announces the good news that we can be justified by trusting that God will forgive us and make us holy because of Jesus’ death on the cross.
  • Romans 4: He argues that even Abraham & David were justified by their faith and not by their works.  And that that because justification is based on a promise it is guaranteed and open to everyone who believes, not just the Jews.
  • Romans 5: He argues that justification by faith gives us a reason to boast (exult, rejoice) because we have been singled out by God to be made glorious and holy and that our hope is guaranteed because God loves us.  Our receiving the promise is up to God, not us.

Romans 6 -8 is question and answer section where the questions are objections raises by opponents to the gospel.

  1. The first objection was that Paul’s gospel implies we should pursue sin to glorify God;   Paul answers no, because grace includes setting us free from sin, not just forgiveness.   To continue to pursue sin — the very thing from which God is saving us — would make a mockery of His gift and would not bring glory to God.
  2. The second objection was that Paul’s gospel removes any incentive not to sin because it removed the threat of the law.  Paul says, no, sin leads to death and death is a big incentive to avoid sin.  It was our weariness of the death in our lives that drove us to God in the first place and it still provides the incentive not to sin. Further he adds that the law was no incentive to avoid sin anyway.  Because the Law forced us to rely on ourselves and we could only find sin there.
  3. If the Law promotes our sinfulness, then it must be an evil thing.  Paul answers, no the Law is good.  The Law alerted us to our sinful state and our need for a savior.  And a follow-up question, if the Law is a source of condemnation for me, then how can it be good and holy?  Paul answers that the Law does not condemn me, my sinfulness does.  The Law merely reveals my sinfulness which was already present.

In Romans 7 as part of his answer about the role of the Law, Paul describes “moral paralysis”  —  the distinction between my desire to be holy and good and my inability to be holy and good.  On the one hand, I desire to be righteous, I agree with the Law, and I resolve to keep the Law.  But on the other hand, I continue to fail and sin and do the very thing that I do not wish to do.  I’m trapped in my sinfulness.  The mechanism that I thought would control my sin — willpower, muster, resolve, determination — doesn’t work.  Left to myself, there’s nothing I can do to stop being sinful.   That’s what I mean by moral paralysis.  The only solution to that is faith in Jesus and as we looked at last week Paul explains why faith solves that problem.

Romans 8 explains how faith in Jesus promotes obedience and righteousness:  The Law made no provision for giving us God’s Spirit while grace does.

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Next: 13 Romans 8:26-39 Confidence in Christ

Previous: 11 Romans 8:1-12 Deliverance from Sin

Series: Romans: Justification by Faith

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Do believers sin?

October 23, 2013 by Krisan Marotta

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1 John 3:6: No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

As a new Christian, I told another believer I was struggling with anger. She told me that I was not a genuine Christian because if I was, I wouldn’t sin this way.  When I asked her how she knew this was true, she read me 1 John 3 — particularly verse 6.

If her interpretation of this passage is correct, not only was I not a Christian then — I still am not a Christian now.  Is this what John is saying? How do we know?

When you discover two very different interpretations of the same passage in the Bible, how do you decide between them? 

Scholar A says the passage means X and scholar B says the passage means Y.  They both sound persuasive and both offer some compelling evidence, how do you know who’s right?  Or in my case, my young friend understands John to mean genuine believers no longer sin; and if they do sin, something is wrong.  How do I judge whether or not her understanding is right?

The 5 C’s of Bible Study

The 5 C’s of Bible Study are best tool for judging whether an interpretation of a passage. Using the 5 C’s let’s evaluate an interpretation of 1 John 3 which claims John believes genuine believers no longer sin.

Credible: understands the words, syntax & grammar according to their normal usage at the time the author wrote

Is it credible? Yes.  It does legitimately understand the words, grammar and syntax.  The interpretation is possible.

Comprehensive: explains each and every detail, even if the contribution is insignificant or stylistic

Is it comprehensive? Close, but not quite.  The language of this passage indicates that John is talking about something other than simply committing a sin.  When an author writing in New Testament Greek wants to talk about a repeated ongoing action, he uses present tense.  Notice some translations add “practice” (vs 4,8a,9a) to  indicates this.  An interpretation that claims believers no longer sin does not completely explain why John would use the present tense.

Coherent: fits the flow of thought in the passage and in the larger context of the chapter and book

Is it coherent with the flow of thought in the book?  No.  John makes other statements in this letter (e.g. 1:8-10 and 2:1-2) which imply that John thinks believers continue to sin.

Consistent: is consistent with information which is not in this book (the author’s other letters and the rest of Scripture)

Is it consistent with the rest of Scripture? No.  Many passages in New Testament clearly teach that Christians sin (Rom 7:14-24 for one).  Additionally pick any Old Testament hero of the faith (Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon,….) and we have narratives which record their sin.

Conforms: to the author’s purpose and the author’s plan

Does it conform with the author’s intended purpose?  I don’t think so. John is providing another test by which to discern true Christians from false teachers (note 3:10).  We can tell not only by the doctrine they teach (2:22-26),  we can also tell by the morality they practice. Eventually their lifestyle will give them away.  Up to this point John has been greatly concerned with our attitude toward and response to sin, not whether or not we struggle with sin.  He assumes we struggle with.  Our response to that struggle says something about the state of our faith.

 

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Parable of the Vineyard Workers

November 1, 2012 by Krisan Marotta

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The Parable of the Vineyard Workers (Matthew 20) contains three surprises:

1.  Why does the landowner keep returning to the marketplace?

A successful landowner would know how much work needed to be completed that day and how many workers he needed to handle the job.  He would have hired the required number of workers at the beginning of the day. There is no hint in the story that the landowner is young, inexperienced or mishandling the fields such that he needs to keep returning to the marketplace to hire more workers. So why does he return?

2. A steward appears in the story in vs 8.

Where has the steward been all day?  It would have been the steward’s job to handle the hiring of the workers.  Why wasn’t he walking around in the heat all day hiring the workers instead of the owner?

3. Why pay the last hires first in full view of everyone?

If the owner paid the workers in the order they were hired, each group would leave happy without knowing what the others received.  There would be no grumbling at the steward’s pay table.  Why cause unnecessary grumbling?  Unless the master wants the workers who had worked all day to observe the grace he extends to others.

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Next: The Wise & Foolish Virgins, Matthew 24:36-25:13

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