Trinity for Norman

Justified & Being Saved? (Romans 5:9-11)

For the Justified believer the gospel/good news just keeps getting better and better...Paul emphasizes not that you have been saved, but that you will be saved...we’ll have five points- four doctrinal, one application.

1. For a believer, “saved” is future and parallels justification. 9a
   
2. For a believer, we are “saved” by Him, not by us. 9b
3. For a believer, we are “saved” from the wrath of God.  9c
4. For a believer, “saved” is future & founded upon being reconciled. 10
5. For a believer, the saving is Jesus’ job, our principle “to-do” list is
   summed up as rejoicing in God. 11

 

Justified & Loved with God's Surprising Love (Romans 5:6-8)

The Justified believer knows who how surprising it is that God the Father set His love upon him/her and he/she is one for whom did the Son die...four points:

1. He/she was the Powerless.
2. He/she was the Ungodly
3. He/she was the Unrighteous
4. He/she was the Sinner

 

Justified: Therefore We Have the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:3-5)

Those sinners who are justified by faith may suffer forward (rejoice in hope through it) because they have received the gift of the Holy Spirit.

We’ll see three points from the text:

1. The Holy Spirit Was Poured out on the Church. Acts 2/ John 14-16.
2. The Love of God Has Been Poured into the Hearts of Believers. V5
3. The Believers will rejoice in sufferings given from God. V3-4

Justified: Therefore We Have Peace with God (Romans 5:1-2)

Justification by faith leads to the new status and new life of faith summarized in the biblical concept of “peace/shalom.”

We’ll see three points from the text:

1. Peace with whom and from what? [“therefore” = Romans 1-4]
2. Peace founded in a person and his work, v1b
3. Peace’s Product, v2

Justification and Saving Faith -- not all faith is saving faith (Romans 4:18-25)

Abraham was saved not by works but through faith alone. It’s called saving faith and is the instrument whereby God declares his people righteous and forgiven of their sins -- justified.

We’ll see three points on saving faith in the text:

1. Saving faith trusts God’s word, not our sight. V18
2. Saving faith can grow stronger resulting in worship as we consider our weakness, V19-21
3. Saving faith’s only object must be the risen Jesus. V23-25

The Parable of the Four Sons (Matthew 21:23-32)

Justification and Irresistable Grace (Romans 4:13-17)

After articulating his gospel centering on a righteousness from God through justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone, Paul (in Romans 4) has pointed us to Abraham and David as our forerunners who received the blessed status from God as righteous heirs of the world. How can anyone embrace this God who justifies the ungodly? This can only occur by irresistible grace.

1. Abraham’s and our status as righteous heir came through faith, not law(v12).
2. A status as righteous heir did not (v9-12) and could not come from law (v14-15).
3. Therefore the status as righteous heir and all blessings of life flow from irresistible grace. (v16-17 and Ezekiel 37; 2 Cor 4:4-6)
4. The basis of irresistible grace is The Righteous Heir in whom we place our faith. (v16 and 2 Corinthians 5:21)

Justification & Baptism? (Romans 4:9-12)

After articulating his gospel centering on a righteousness from God through justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone, Paul has pointed us to Abraham and David as those who received the blessed status of justified by faith, apart from works, now he uses Abraham’s circumcision as further proof which will enable us to understand our baptism and how it relates to our justification

1. I.When was Abraham counted righteous?
2. When was Abraham circumcised?
3. How does this demonstrate Paul’s point that justification is not by works, but by faith alone?
4. How does baptism then function as a sign and seal today of righteousness received by faith?

Justified: Someone has to pay for that (Romans 4:4-8)

In Romans 3:21-26, Paul shared that justification by faith alone is received by us freely by God's grace alone, accomplished entirely on account of the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, as God set Jesus forth as a propitiation, God was vindicated: just and a justified, and worthy of our worship! In Romans 3:27-31, Paul follows the world's greatest paragraph by demonstrating how our theology matters to how we consider ourselves, others, and God and his law.

After articulating his gospel centering on righteousness from God through justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone, Paul points us to God's justifying Abraham (Genesis 15:6) as proof that justification is by faith alone (Romans 4:1-3), and David's testimony in Psalm 32 (Romans 4:7-8).

Paul clarifies that God justifies the ungodly through the costly free gift counted to the sinner who believes, not due to any works we do. Only those who are justified in this manner can live happy/blessed.

Justified: Just Like Abraham (Romans 4:1-3)

After articulating his gospel centering on a righteousness from God through justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone, Paul points us to Abraham as proof.

I. Abraham was a sinner like us, yet counted as righteous by God
II. Justification by faith saved Abraham from his past (the flesh).
III. Justification by faith secured Abraham’s future (his works can’t undo God’s declaration).
IV. So should it be for you, only believe God, and be justified.