Free Justification

Happy New Week everyone,

Yesterday, I explained that the law was meant for a purpose which it had fulfilled, therefore, we are not to rely on it any longer, rather we are to move from the law to what the law fulfilled. In other words, our focus shouldn’t be on the law any longer, because it had fulfilled its purpose. We are to focus on what the law fulfilled. Also, I explained that our righteousness doesn’t come from the law, as Romans 3:21 says that there the righteousness apart from the law, which I would start explaining from today.

Romans 3:20 says, “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” There could be some who could argue that they had been keeping the law faithfully, but what they failed to understand is that the keeping of the law was a physical exercise and not a Spiritual exercise, and sin originates from the spirit which was gotten from the first Adam. The entire world was born into sin, in other words, everyone on earth carried a spirit which was not the Spirit of God, and if it is not the Spirit of God, then it is a sinful spirit. Thus, the spirit had to be corrected first for progress to be made. In other words, man needed another life to survive which has been provided which Romans 3:21 speaks of.

Man on his own is compelled to follow what the law says, it is not in the nature of man to do what God wants us to do if this were not so the law wouldn’t have been given. It was because man did what was wrong, God pegged us by providing the law in order for us to see that we have been sinning, and not for us to keep because it is impossible to keep the law whose job was only to show us that we need a saviour and another life to survive which Romans 3:20b says, “…for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Since this is so, our righteousness has to come from another source.

Romans 3:21-23 says, “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ₂₂even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; ­₂₃for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” These verses explain how the Law and the Prophets were speaking about the true righteousness from the onset, which everybody is expected to receive through faith in Jesus Christ. There is no one who can say he is not part those who needs a new life of righteousness to stand before God, because the law did not bring righteousness, it only showed us that what we called righteousness is as a filthy rag before God, which is why Romans 3:23 affirms this by saying all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, in other words, we need this true righteousness.

As Romans 3:23 tells us that we all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, verse 24 continues saying, “being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Jesus redeemed us freely, does that mean God forgot our sins? The answer is “Yes” and “No”, and I’ll tell you why when you log on tomorrow same time.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)