Justification by Faith: Trusting God's Power and Mercy
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"Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him, but for our sake also. Let's start there. Here's the point of that little phrase: don't miss it because it is directed to everybody in this room. What was written down in Genesis 15:6, it was credited to Abraham as righteousness, was not written just for Abraham; it was written for you." [00:58:00]
"Trust me. Rest in Me. Come to me. Lean on Me. Bank on me. Hope in me. Don't bring me your righteousness; you don't have any. I bring you my righteousness. Receive, receive, receive. Don't work. Don't work. Now unto him who does not work but trust in him who justifies the ungodly, it will be credited to him as righteousness." [02:12:00]
"Paul identifies the God we believe in by what he's done. Faith will be credited to you this morning as Divine righteousness if you believe in this God. So we need to find out: believe in what about him? What is it about him that we're to believe in? Now let me step back and get the bigger picture with you in Romans 4." [03:30:00]
"Romans 4, interestingly enough, up until right now in verse 25, has not talked about the foundation or the basis of our getting right with God, but only the means of our getting connected with the foundation which gets us right with God. It's been all about faith and how God reckons us righteous through faith alone." [03:57:00]
"We must trust in a God who performs inconceivable power, and I have in mind the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. So I will read for you verse 24 in the middle again: we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. Now why does he put the resurrection of Jesus first and then drop back and talk about the death of Jesus?" [05:45:00]
"The faith of Abraham is the model for our faith, and the faith of Abraham was in one who could raise the dead, and it was foreshadowed in verse 17 with words like these: him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead. He's talking about Abraham here now, verse 17. Abraham believed in one who gives life to the dead." [06:37:00]
"In order to be justified, we must believe in a God who performs inconceivable power by raising Jesus Christ from the dead as Lord outside the universe as well as inside the universe, creator of it, and now by virtue of the miraculous Incarnation. We must believe in a God who performs inconceivable power." [12:21:00]
"We must believe in one who performs merciful Redemption. I get this from verse 25: two powerful phrases: he who was delivered over—it's talking about Jesus—he who was delivered over, that's the first phrase, because of our transgressions, that's the second phrase. Now here's the main thing to see about these two phrases: they teach us that the one God raised from the dead died by design." [13:03:00]
"Do you see in the death of Christ a work of God that is the paramount expression of love in the universe, or do you see Divine child abuse? This is redemption. He wanted to deal with your transgressions. He had two ways to deal with them: send you to Hell forever or send his son to death. That's the two choices." [18:05:00]
"We must believe in one who performs triumphant Justice. Where do I get that? I get it from the last phrase of verse 25: because of our justification, he was put to death. Now what's the parallel in the Greek as well as in the English of good translations? It's the parallel construction: he was put to death because of our transgressions, and he was raised because of our justification." [20:31:00]
"That death so completely and perfectly purchased our justification and paid the full debt and the full condemnation of all of our sins that there is absolutely now no just warrant for Jesus staying dead, and it would be a matter of Injustice on God's part if he stayed dead because he so fully and completely paid the debt and atoned for the sin." [21:16:00]
"Therefore, the only sins that brought him to death are now finished. Nothing remains to keep him dead except Injustice, and God is not a god of Injustice, and therefore there is a triumphant Justice in verse 25 in the sense triumphant because it triumphs over death, it triumphs over hell, it triumphs over sin, and it's just because Christ had finished it." [22:48:00]
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"Trust me. Rest in Me. Come to me. Lean on Me. Bank on me. Hope in me. Don't bring me your righteousness; you don't have any. I bring you my righteousness. Receive, receive, receive. Don't work. Don't work. Now unto him who does not work but trust in him who justifies the ungodly, it will be credited to him as righteousness." [02:12:00]
"Paul identifies the God we believe in by what he's done. Faith will be credited to you this morning as Divine righteousness if you believe in this God. So we need to find out: believe in what about him? What is it about him that we're to believe in? Now let me step back and get the bigger picture with you in Romans 4." [03:30:00]
"Romans 4, interestingly enough, up until right now in verse 25, has not talked about the foundation or the basis of our getting right with God, but only the means of our getting connected with the foundation which gets us right with God. It's been all about faith and how God reckons us righteous through faith alone." [03:57:00]
"We must trust in a God who performs inconceivable power, and I have in mind the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. So I will read for you verse 24 in the middle again: we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. Now why does he put the resurrection of Jesus first and then drop back and talk about the death of Jesus?" [05:45:00]
"The faith of Abraham is the model for our faith, and the faith of Abraham was in one who could raise the dead, and it was foreshadowed in verse 17 with words like these: him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead. He's talking about Abraham here now, verse 17. Abraham believed in one who gives life to the dead." [06:37:00]
"In order to be justified, we must believe in a God who performs inconceivable power by raising Jesus Christ from the dead as Lord outside the universe as well as inside the universe, creator of it, and now by virtue of the miraculous Incarnation. We must believe in a God who performs inconceivable power." [12:21:00]
"We must believe in one who performs merciful Redemption. I get this from verse 25: two powerful phrases: he who was delivered over—it's talking about Jesus—he who was delivered over, that's the first phrase, because of our transgressions, that's the second phrase. Now here's the main thing to see about these two phrases: they teach us that the one God raised from the dead died by design." [13:03:00]
"Do you see in the death of Christ a work of God that is the paramount expression of love in the universe, or do you see Divine child abuse? This is redemption. He wanted to deal with your transgressions. He had two ways to deal with them: send you to Hell forever or send his son to death. That's the two choices." [18:05:00]
"We must believe in one who performs triumphant Justice. Where do I get that? I get it from the last phrase of verse 25: because of our justification, he was put to death. Now what's the parallel in the Greek as well as in the English of good translations? It's the parallel construction: he was put to death because of our transgressions, and he was raised because of our justification." [20:31:00]
"That death so completely and perfectly purchased our justification and paid the full debt and the full condemnation of all of our sins that there is absolutely now no just warrant for Jesus staying dead, and it would be a matter of Injustice on God's part if he stayed dead because he so fully and completely paid the debt and atoned for the sin." [21:16:00]
"Therefore, the only sins that brought him to death are now finished. Nothing remains to keep him dead except Injustice, and God is not a god of Injustice, and therefore there is a triumphant Justice in verse 25 in the sense triumphant because it triumphs over death, it triumphs over hell, it triumphs over sin, and it's just because Christ had finished it." [22:48:00]
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