Sunday, September 8, 2013

Justify the Righteous


Mo. 9/9/13: Deuteronomy 25:1                  What is ‘justify the righteous’?
“If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked
What is ‘justify the righteous’? A judge declares one righteous: He was already innocent but the judge declares that he is innocent.
Tu. 9/10/13: Exodus 23:7 – 8                  What will God not do?
Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked. And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
What will God not do? God will not justify the wicked. This puts all humanity into condemnation.
We. 9/11/13: Proverbs 17:15                  What is an abomination to God?
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just,
Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
What is an abomination to God? Declaring the guilty innocent or vice versa is an abomination to God.
Th. 9/12/13: Romans 3:23 – 24, 26                  How then can God be just?
… for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
… to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that (God) might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
How then can God be just? If God justifies one who only has faith, but is wicked, isn’t God unjust?
Fr. 9/13/13: Romans 8:3 – 4                  Who was condemned?
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Who was condemned? The perfect one who came in the flesh was condemned for my sin. He paid my penalty and believing that He did so, I am justified. I am declared righteous!

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