PT. 9 (THE END) YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST

PT. 9 (THE END)… UNDERSTANDING GOD THROUGH YOUR POSITION IN CHRIST

 

YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST

 

JUSTIFIED

 

To declare free from guilt or blame (Webster)

 

Once we have accepted Christ as our personal Saviour, we are

justified by His grace, which is His undeserved kindness

toward us. In other words, God forgets all that we ever did and

we start off with a nice, new, clean slate. It is just as if we had

never sinned.

 

Romans 3: 24 (KJV)

Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that

is in Christ Jesus.

 

Redemption – a buying back. (Webster)

 

Adam was the first man that God ever created. He was perfect

and he belonged to God. He is the root from which we all

came. He sinned by giving in to temptation. As a result of his

sin, the root of our heritage became contaminated and we were

all born with his sinful nature.

 

In order for mankind to get back to the place where he was in

God before Adam sinned, we had to be redeemed or bought

back by God. The price for our redemption was the sacrifice or

death of a human being who had never sinned. In other words,

this human being had to be perfect, as the animals sacrificed

for the sins of the people in the Old Testament were without

any kind of physical defect and therefore perfect. (See

Leviticus 4)

 

There wasn’t one perfect human being on the earth so Jesus

Christ, the perfect Son of God, experienced life as a human

being so that He could sacrifice his life for our sins. Even

though He was tempted or tested, just like we are tempted—

He never sinned. (Hebrews 4:15)

 

In experiencing life as a human being, He is now able to

identify with our needs because He experienced life from our

perspective. This is so very important for us to understand

because since His death, burial and resurrection, He is now in

heaven interceding or talking to God on our behalf. Now when

we go to God in prayer, we can go with confidence, knowing

that He hears us, He will be merciful to us and we will find

grace or undeserved favour from him to help us in our time

of need.

 

Hebrews 4: 14-16 (KJV)

14) Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed

into the heavens, Jesus Christ the Son of God, let us hold fast

our profession.

15) For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched

with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points

tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

16) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that

we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

I pray that you now have a better understanding of your

position in Christ, and that you lead a life worthy of your

calling, for you have been called by God. (Eph. 4: 1)

 

I pray that you now have a better understanding of your

position in Christ, and that you lead a life worthy of your

calling, for you have been called by God. (Eph. 4: 1)