UNDERSTANDING YOUR STANDING

UNDERSTANDING YOUR STANDING


READ ROMANS 5: 1-2
KEY VERSE ROMANS 5:2

THE WORD “JUSTIFY” MEANS TO ACQUIT OR TO DECLARE RIGHTEOUS. SIMPLY STATED, JUSTIFICATION MEANS THE HOSTILITY BETWEEN GOD AND FALLEN MAN IS REMOVED. RECONCILIATION HAS OCCURRED. THIS OCCURS AT SALVATION MEANING YOU HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR LIVING GOD.

GOD’S GRACE THROUGH JUSTIFICATION GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO ACCESS HIM. ROMANS 3: 28 “FOR WE MAINTAIN THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH APART FROM WORKS OF THE LAW.” (NASB) ROMANS 5: 11 “AND NOT ONLY THIS, BUT WE ALSO EXULT IN GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE RECONCILIATION” (NASB)

READ HEBREWS 10: 19-23

JUSTIFICATION AND RECONCILIATION SPEAK TO CHRIST’S WORK ON CALVARY.

APPLICATION: GOD THROUGH HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, HAS COMPLETED HIS WORK. YOUR WORK, BELIEVER, IS TO WORK OUT YOUR SALVATION IN FEAR AND TREMBLING (PHILIPPIANS 2:12). THIS IS PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF GOD’S WORD IN YOUR LIFE.