{"id":32,"date":"2010-11-12T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sensingt\/2010\/11\/justified-by-faith\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T20:42:11","slug":"justified-by-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sensingt\/2010\/11\/justified-by-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Justified by Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

We who are Jews by birth and not \u2018Gentile sinners\u2019 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justidfied by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.\u00a0 If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin?\u00a0 Absolutely not!\u00a0 If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker.\u00a0 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.\u00a0 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.\u00a0 The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.\u00a0 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing! (Galatians 2:15-21).<\/em><\/p>\n

Let me read to you the first and last lines of the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free…And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God…. \u00a0\u2014Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n

Historians have mixed reviews about Lincoln’s personal views.\u00a0 From my study, it appears to me that Lincoln was universally anti-slavery but not an anti-racist.\u00a0 He did not advocate complete equality.\u00a0 He shared the racial prejudices of his contemporaries.\u00a0 He was a man of his time who spoke about slavery and slaves differently.\u00a0 In Lincoln’s debate with Frederick Douglass, he articulated what today would be considered strongly racist sentiments.<\/p>\n

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.\u00a0 That I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.\u00a0 And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.<\/p>\n

Lincoln was a moderate.\u00a0 Frederick Douglass wrote, “From the genuine abolition view, Mr.\u00a0 Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent, but measuring him by the sentiment of his country\u2014a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult\u2014he was swift, zealous, radical and determined.”<\/p>\n

Lincoln did not foresee the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation.\u00a0 His thought and his actions evolved over time.\u00a0 If he would have lived, most historians believe, reconstruction would have been a positive experience for both the South and the African-American.\u00a0 Maybe the Civil Rights Movement would have come earlier rather than being so tardy.<\/p>\n

Lincoln did not foresee the impact of freedom.\u00a0 Freedom brought equality.\u00a0 Freedom brought opportunity.\u00a0 Freedom has helped us as a nation to grow toward, although not yet accomplished, the unity Paul spoke about in Galatians, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”<\/p>\n

Lincoln’s journey to social justice eventually led to the civil rights movement in our lifetime.\u00a0 Lincoln’s journey to social justice would not and could not lead to re-enslavement of slaves after the war.\u00a0 The result was African-Americans sitting in the front of the bus and not colored slaves in chains.\u00a0 The result was equality.<\/p>\n

Although not foreseeable in Lincoln’s day, we now have an African-American sitting on the Supreme Court, an esteemed president Barak Obama, and an ethnically diverse Congress.\u00a0 Can you imagine an African-American Professor of English not only advocating a return to slavery but selling himself back into bondage?\u00a0 Can you imagine the grand-daughter of a share-cropper signing a petition for the repeal of the Emancipation Proclamation?<\/p>\n

How much more should freedom be loved by those of us who at one time were enslaved to sin and law keeping principles?\u00a0 Can you imagine a Jew, once accepting Jesus as the Messiah, enslaving him\/herself again to the Mosaic covenant?\u00a0 Can you imagine a Gentile who never new Phariseeism, enslaving him\/herself to the book-keeping righteousness of legalism?\u00a0 The cross makes a difference!\u00a0 Just as the Emancipation Proclamation made a difference, so does the cross make a difference in our lives.<\/p>\n

Some today, like the KKK or neo-nazi groups, still forcefully proclaim anti-black sentiments.\u00a0 Civil rights threaten their ideas for a perfect society.\u00a0 Paul’s emphasis on faith also threatened his Jewish Christian opponents and their understanding of God’s covenant.\u00a0 Some Jewish Christians from Jerusalem were threatened by the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Therefore, they proclaimed a legalistic understanding of the Law which perverted the very Law they believed in.\u00a0 They proclaimed a legalistic understanding of the Law which perverted the very gospel they also claimed to believe in.<\/p>\n

Let’s examine the fundamental ideas to Judaism’s sense of identity: First, Jews held the conviction that God had made a special covenant with the patriarchs.\u00a0 The central feature of that covenant was the choice of Israel to be God’s peculiar people.\u00a0 God had given them the Law as an integral part of the covenant.\u00a0 The Law showed Israel how to live within that covenant.\u00a0 God’s covenant was God’s atonement.<\/p>\n

Even Ten Commandment Law was given as a response to God’s gracious activity.\u00a0 “Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me….”<\/p>\n

Paul tells us in Romans seven that the Law is “holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.”\u00a0 And a few verses later he states, “We know that the law is spiritual.”\u00a0 But the culprit is sin.\u00a0 The Jews, by their own sin, abused this understanding and it resulted in a yoke of slavery they themselves could not bear.\u00a0 It resulted in their strong sense of special privilege that led to their hatred of other nations.\u00a0 By abusing the Law, by making it into a legal system of justification, the Jews became self-righteous.\u00a0 And self-righteousness leads to death.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Look down at our text.\u00a0 I’m beginning in Galatians 2:15\u201316a.\u00a0 Paul states, “We who are Jews by birth and not ‘Gentile sinners” know that a man is not justified by observing the law,…” What does Paul mean by “justified by observing the law?” Let me offer these observations: (1) “Works of the law” are those things that characterizes one as being in the covenant and not simply getting into the covenant.\u00a0 Obedience to the law in Judaism was never thought of as a means of entering the covenant only or of attaining that special relationship with God.\u00a0 It was more a matter of maintaining the covenant relationship with God.\u00a0 (2) The expression “works of the law” is a self-evident expression for Paul’s readers for he does not define it explicitly.\u00a0 Although Paul used no word for “legalism,” “works of the law” is the expression Paul uses to express the idea of “legalism” or “Phariseeism.” (3) “Works of the law” are those things that a typical Jew placed his\/her confidence in for salvation.\u00a0 Law observance documented his\/her membership in the covenant.\u00a0 A Jew’s righteousness was demonstrated by him\/her as being a loyal member of the covenant.<\/p>\n

Jewish Christians then equated dietary laws (Gal.\u00a0 2:11\u201314), circumcision (Gal.\u00a0 5:6; 6:15), and Jewish holidays (Gal.\u00a0 4:9\u201310) as boundary markers for their identity.\u00a0 These Jewish Christians were demanding strict obedience to these rules for justification.\u00a0 Jews cannot live like Gentiles.\u00a0 Gentiles cannot continue to live like Gentiles and be good Christians.\u00a0 Gentiles must learn to live like Jews.\u00a0 Jewish Christians were enslaving themselves and some unsuspecting Gentiles to a yoke of slavery.\u00a0 This yoke of slavery was contrary to the Gospel.\u00a0 Paul called it “another Gospel.” They were enslaved, though emancipated, and enslaving others who had also been emancipated.<\/p>\n

Have you ever heard of 3×5 card religion? This is when a Christian writes down good advice upon a 3×5 card to carry around in his\/her pocket, or tapes it to the bathroom mirror, or puts it under a magnet on the refrigerator door.\u00a0 When the Christian is driving down the road, s\/he can pull out his 3×5 card and read its advice.\u00a0 S\/He can commit it to memory.\u00a0 S\/He can incorporate it into his\/her life.<\/p>\n

Let’s pull out a 3×5 card.\u00a0 It reads, “Pray every morning for forty-five minutes.\u00a0 It is best done when you use a prayer journal.\u00a0 Record your prayer requests and God’s answers.” That’s good advice.\u00a0 No one here would argue with that.\u00a0 But if forty-five minutes every morning is good, so would forty-five minutes at night.\u00a0 What about forty-five more at noon?\u00a0 Why not fifty minutes? If fifty minutes makes me spiritual, then two hours surely will.\u00a0 Now we are up to six hours a day.\u00a0 If you are not praying six hours a day, brothers and sisters, then you must not be spiritual.<\/p>\n

I’ve even seen scripture placed on 3×5 cards.\u00a0 In fact, I have over a hundred myself.\u00a0 The problem comes when there is abuse.\u00a0 3×5 cards is only a method.\u00a0 Let’s examine the method.\u00a0 [Take out a stack of cards and shuffle them.] It’s O.K.\u00a0 to shuffle the cards because they are are all disjointed and isolated rules.\u00a0 Truth is truth.\u00a0 Our hermeneutic, our method of interpretation, is called the “PPP” method.\u00a0 “Pocket,” “Pick It,” and “Prove It” method.\u00a0 When you want to prove a point, or win an argument, or show someone they are wrong, just pull your cards out of your “Pocket,” “Pick a card\u2014Any card,” and “Prove” your point.<\/p>\n

It is like the Old West.\u00a0 The streets clear.\u00a0 The marshall and the outlaw each take ten paces back.\u00a0 DRAW! The marshall pulls his Bible out of his\/her “Pocket,” s\/he “Picks” a verse, s\/he “Proves” his\/her point.\u00a0 And the outlaw lies bloody on the streets of Dodge.\u00a0 And as we have observed in our own fellowship, often the wounded and dead are from our own “friendly fire.”<\/p>\n

Yet we feel secure in Zion.\u00a0 But when the method becomes a law, then you have a nullification of Christ.\u00a0 That’s when the 3×5 card becomes 3×5 jail cell.\u00a0 3×5 card religion does not save me, nor does it keep me saved.\u00a0 Justification does not come by “observing the law.”\u00a0 Any law!<\/p>\n

The danger here is when that stack of 3×5 cards becomes a canon within the canon.\u00a0 It becomes a stack of rules.\u00a0 Opinions become requirements.\u00a0 Scriptures become what they were never intended to be.\u00a0 I’m not justified by Scripture.\u00a0 I’m not justified by law.\u00a0 I’m not justified by keeping the rules.\u00a0 I’m not justified by obeying steps.\u00a0 I’m not justified by five acts or three principles or anything else.\u00a0 I’m justified by the blood of the Son! 3×5 card religion does not save me, nor does it keep me saved.\u00a0 Justification comes by faith.<\/p>\n

But don’t I need to have a basis to know for certain that I’m saved?\u00a0 Don’t I need to have a plan or a commandment?\u00a0 The rich young ruler asked, “Isn’t there just one more commandment that would guarantee my salvation? I have kept all the 3×5 rules.\u00a0 Is there something more?” The Scriptures teach, “Thou shalt not covet.”\u00a0 The rich young ruler replied, “I have kept that since my youth.”\u00a0 “I have not coveted.\u00a0 Since I’ve kept all the Scriptures, I’m saved.\u00a0 Unless there is one rule I’ve missed.\u00a0 Is your stack of 3×5 cards taller than mine?”\u00a0 You see, the rich young ruler was guilty of using the Law as it was never intended to be used, as a means of justification.\u00a0 3×5 card religion can only demand, judge, forbid, and condemn.\u00a0 The fault is not in the law, but in the sinner’s abuse of the law.\u00a0 You see, 3×5 card religion does not save me, nor does it keep me saved; it only brings me death.<\/p>\n

I pray every morning for forty-five minutes.\u00a0 I attend every service.\u00a0 I partake at the Lord’s Table every Sunday.\u00a0 I sing.\u00a0 I give more than I’m able.\u00a0 I serve on the benevolence committee.\u00a0 I conduct home Bible Studies.\u00a0 I even teach Jr.\u00a0 High!!!! Is there something else I need to be doing to be saved?\u00a0 Have I missed some passage someplace?<\/p>\n

3×5 card religion is heard in our prayers.\u00a0 “If we have been found faithful in the end, in heaven save us.” 3×5 card religion is heard in our answer to this simple question, “Are you saved?” We answer confidently, “I hope so.\u00a0 If I’m found faithful.” Let’s just go ahead and change the song, “Blessed Assurance, I Hope Jesus Is Mine.”<\/p>\n

3×5 card religion does not save me, nor does it keep me saved.\u00a0 Paul rejects 3×5 card religion.\u00a0 Follow along with me in Galatians 2, beginning in verse fifteen.<\/p>\n

We who are Jews by birth and not ‘Gentile sinners’ know that a man is not justified by observing the law [3×5 card religion], but by faith in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law [3×5 card religion], because by observing the law [3×5 card religion] no one will be justified….I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law [3×5 card religion], Christ died for nothing!<\/p>\n

Jesus Christ only!\u00a0 Jesus is an exclusive and singular gospel! Liberty! Not Legalism!<\/p>\n

What is “Justification by faith?”\u00a0 First, let’s lay common ground: (1) All of us have sinned and are in need of a Savior.\u00a0 None of us are righteous.\u00a0 Our righteousness is but “filthy rags.”\u00a0 It is not a matter of wandering around some place, we are lost.\u00a0 It is not a matter of being sick, we are dead.\u00a0 The dead are utterly powerless to raise themselves.\u00a0 (2) Justification is not unconditional; otherwise, there would be universal salvation.\u00a0 Biblical faith goes beyond acknowledgment to trust in God’s power to do what He said He would do.\u00a0 We are saved by “grace through faith.” (3) We are all in agreement here and the case does not have to be argued that salvation is by “grace through faith and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Eph.\u00a0 2:8).\u00a0 Faith is the proper response to the cross.\u00a0 Faith never stands alone.\u00a0 Salvation is never based upon our having faith in and of itself.\u00a0 Faith always has an object.\u00a0 It is in Jesus Christ that I place my faith.\u00a0 Faith without Christ is not biblical faith.<\/p>\n

God does all the work in salvation.\u00a0 God sent His Son.\u00a0 God raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand.\u00a0 When one is baptized through faith, God puts to death the old self of sin.\u00a0 God raises that new self to newness of life.\u00a0 God forgives the sin.\u00a0 God sends His Holy Spirit.\u00a0 God is the one who justifies.\u00a0 We put our faith, our confidence, our trust, in God’s action.\u00a0 We are justified by our faith in what God has done. We are justified in what God accomplished at the cross some two thousand years ago.\u00a0 Therefore, we stand in God’s presence as righteous because of our faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 By faith, the cross becomes present reality.<\/p>\n

My prayer life, my Bible study, my evangelism, my service, my worship, my obedience all comes from my response to what God accomplished at the cross.\u00a0 It does not mean that if I give up the rules and regulations that I will somehow be a sinner again.\u00a0 That is what Paul is arguing in verses 17-19.<\/p>\n

If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinner, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! (me genoito)!<\/em> If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker.\u00a0 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.<\/p>\n

Righteous living is not nullified by the nullification of law keeping.<\/p>\n

I do not become a sinner by getting rid of law.\u00a0 To reason like this indicates that one is operating with a wrong definition of sin.\u00a0 The real sin would be to re-assert distinctions in the law that force Gentiles to live like Jews.\u00a0 The real sin would be to insist on law-observance as a condition of being in God’s people.\u00a0 The real sin would be to re-assert that faith in Jesus Christ is not sufficient for acceptance with God.<\/p>\n

Being justified by faith in Jesus Christ both enables us to enter and remain His people, acceptable to Him.\u00a0 Our relationship is restored with God.\u00a0 Paul declares, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.\u00a0 The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved and gave himself up for me.”<\/p>\n

Jesus proclaims in Luke 9:23 the basis for crucified living, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”\u00a0 1 Corinthians 15:31 Paul states this truth for his life by saying, “I die daily.”\u00a0 Paul describes crucified living in Romans 12:1\u20132 as offering our bodies as “living sacrifices.”\u00a0 We climb upon that altar of service and die all because of \u201cGod\u2019s mercy.\u201d\u00a0 Therefore, Paul can confidently profess, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.\u00a0 The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved and gave himself up for me.”<\/p>\n

But crucified living does not justify.\u00a0 We are justified by faith.\u00a0 We live crucified lives by that same faith.\u00a0 As Paul states in Romans 1:16\u201317,<\/p>\n

I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.\u00a0 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that begins with faith and ends with faith, just as it is written: ‘The righteous by faith will live.<\/p>\n

In Romans 3:21\u201328 Paul explains,<\/p>\n

But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.\u00a0 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.\u00a0 There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.\u00a0 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood….he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies the man who has faith in Jesus.\u00a0 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded.\u00a0 On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith.\u00a0 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.<\/p>\n

Paul goes on in Romans 4 and 5 to say,<\/p>\n

…but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness\u2014for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.\u00a0 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.\u00a0 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.<\/p>\n

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.\u00a0 The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved and gave himself up for me.”\u00a0 Christ is our master now.\u00a0 We cannot place ourselves into bondage to another.\u00a0 Being crucified with Christ released us from 3×5 card religion and all other authorities in which we formally subjected ourselves too.<\/p>\n

Liberty not legalism, yes! But also, Liberty not license.\u00a0 “I do not set aside the grace of God…” You see, some become enslaved again to their own emancipation because they do not live as God intended them to live.\u00a0 They turn their liberty into an excuse to do whatever they want to do.\u00a0 They either nullify God’s grace by submitting to 3×5 card mentality or they nullify God’s grace by submitting to sin.\u00a0 Two options: Legalism or License.\u00a0 I either submit myself to law-keeping or on the other hand I sin.\u00a0 Paul proclaims the gospel is opposed to both those extremes.\u00a0 The opposite of those two extremes is faith.\u00a0 Faith will continue to be the guiding principle for my abiding relationship with God.\u00a0 Faith now will control me.\u00a0 Paul deals with the abuse of liberty that turns freedom into license later in the letter.<\/p>\n

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.\u00a0 The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved and gave himself up for me.”\u00a0 Christ now lives in us.\u00a0 We have been united with Christ.\u00a0 We participated with Him in His death.\u00a0 We also participated with Him in His resurrection.\u00a0 Christ now lives in us.\u00a0 Our dying and rising with Christ presents us before the Father justified, blameless, and faultless.\u00a0 That fact controls us as we live each day in the here and now.\u00a0 Because Christ lives in us, we now live in faith.<\/p>\n

Paul wants us to know the liberty we have to live in Christ.\u00a0 We have been given liberty because we have been “justified by faith in Christ Jesus.” We have been given liberty to live the way God intended us to live from the beginning.\u00a0 God created us in His image.\u00a0 We marred that image by our sin.\u00a0 In Jesus Christ, God recreated us through new birth.\u00a0 He restored our relationship with Himself.\u00a0 He justified us by faith, so that we can have the power to live in freedom, to live in liberty, to live in emancipation, to his glory now and forevermore.\u00a0 Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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