Assurance of Justification and Victory in Christ

"God justifies the ungodly and he does so because he's already condemned justification is a declaration that we are no longer under condemnation but let's look at it like this this means then that God's justice is fully satisfied now that's the most important Point God is just we were emphasizing that last Friday night but here the Apostle again puts it more in detail in this way in order that we may take a firm grasp of this Justice is fully satisfied and therefore we can argue like this that if we were to be punished now who believe in Christ it would be unjust." [00:18:36]

"Well very well says the Apostle John you need to have no fear about this the very truthfulness the faithfulness and the justice of God make certain that you are forgiven because God has already dealt with the sin has already punished or condemned it and has already punished it in the person of his own son so you see we can put it like this that God's justice now far from being a source of Terror to a Christian believer should be his greatest Comfort his greatest Solace his greatest security." [00:21:29]

"The justice and the righteousness and the truthfulness of God now insist upon and demand that we be pardoned completely why will because of what he's done in Christ it would be unjust to punish the same sin twice over and God can never do that God can never be unjust he is faithful and just that's what the argument ear so that you see here is an absolute proof not only that we cannot be condemned but that it is because of the death of the Son of God that this is impossible for us to be condemned." [00:23:49]

"The resurrection is not the cause of our justification the death of Christ is the cause of our justification as I've just been showing you it isn't it isn't the resurrection that justifies us well what does the resurrection do the resurrection is the proof to us that we have being justified by the death that's what he say you see Christ had to die because of our sins he dies because of our sins he rises because of our justification the justification is before the rising the rising is the proclamation the Declaration the Assurance of the fact that we are Justified and accepted in the Lord Jesus Christ." [00:32:09]

"God in raising his son again from the dead is proclaiming to us that he is satisfied with the work that he had done that he had fully borne the punishment of sin that everything the Lord demanded has been more than fully satisfied that there is nothing left at all that he's taken it all upon himself and that every demand of God's character and law has been fully satisfied the resurrection is a great proclamation of that it's because of that that God Ra raised him from the dead." [00:33:33]

"The resurrection helps at this point tremendously we've seen already do you see how sin and guilt and the law have already been dealt with by the death of Christ but what about death itself what about the grave what about hell here are powerful enemies and foes that are confronting us you remember how the author of The epistle to the Hebrews puts this in the second chapter of his great epistle he puts it like this he says for as much then as the children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject abundant." [00:35:50]

"The resurrection does this it is a mighty proclamation of our Lord's Conquest over death over the grave over hell what is death it's the wages of sin so that's why people are afraid of death The Sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is is the law that's why people are afraid of death The Sting of death is sin this sense of guilt what's going to happen to me people who call themselves atheists they don't like facing death and that's why this fear it's there it's innate in the H of men." [00:38:12]

"The answer is the resurrection he has conquered death he's conquered the grave he's conquered hell oh death where is thy sting oh grave where is thy Victory he's LED captivity captive he's conquered everything the devil and all his forces all have been conquered he's entered into the lowest parts of the earth and he's LED captivity captive he's conquered everything and every that is against us even death and hell are conquered he's conquered them and the proof of that is to be found in his resurrection from the dead." [00:41:07]

"Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death has no more dominion over him for in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God what does that mean well what it means is this he died under sin once once and for all never again he put himself under the law that's how he came to die as I say he wouldn't have died but for that but now that only happened to him once he'll never die again." [00:44:39]

"Don't let death frighten you don't let the grave frighten you don't let hell frighten you he's conquered them all he's out of that realm he came into it for a while in order to save us he's out of it he'll die no more he's alive we are in him we are join to him you're alive un to God nothing can bring you into condemnation the thought of death should not make a make a Christian Feel condemned the thought of the Grave should make us feel condemned the thought of Hell shouldn't terrorize us it's all been dealt with the resurrection is a proof of it he's come right through never again to go back to that and we are in him so what is true of him is true of us." [00:50:11]

"Let the devil come let sin come let the law come let death come let the grave come let hell come all are answered yeah rather that is risen again very well then I say that realizing this great doctrine that he's already laid down in chapter 6 about our Union with Christ you remember it in the early chapters in the early verses how shall we he says that are dead to sin live any longer therein know you not that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ we're baptized into his death therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like us Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in newness of life." [00:54:39]

"Jesus Lives thy Terrors now canot death no more a US Jesus Lives by this we know thou oh grive can no can not appall us can not enthrall us Jesus Lives henceforth is death but the Gate of Life Immortal this shall calm our troubled breath when we pass its gloomy portal Jesus lives our hearts know well not from us his love shall s life nor death nor powers of hell tear us from his keeping ever Jesus Lives to him the throne over all the world is given may we go where he is gone rest and reain with him in heaven." [00:59:11]