JUSTIFICATION NOT SALVATION
Sunday Morning:
October 20, 2002
Text: Galatians 2:16-17 " Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid."
Faith
is a lifestyle – It can be stopped.
Law
is a lifestyle – It can be stopped.
Moral Law – The 10 commandments plus Christ commandments.
Ceremonial law
– The ordnances.
Salvation
is an event – It happens or it doesn't.
Justification is by faith, a lifestyle – It is not an event, it is a process.
Galatians 3:23 "But
before faith
came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith
which should afterwards be
revealed."
Galatians 4:21 "Tell me, ye that desire to
be under the law, do ye not hear the law?"
Galatians 4:30-31
"Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her
son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the
freewoman. 31. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of
the free."
Romans 8:33 "Who shall lay any thing to
the charge
of God's elect? It is God that
justifieth [present active participle]."
1 John 1:9 "If
we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just
to forgive
us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Galatians 2:16-17
" Knowing that a man is not
justified [present
passive indicative, process] by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, even we have
believed [aorist active
indicative, an event, salvation] in Jesus Christ, that we
might
(after salvation) be
justified
[aorist active subjunctive,
not chargeable] by the faith (pleasing lifestyle that does not fail) of Christ, and not by the
works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17.
But if, while we seek
[present active participle] to be
justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the
minister of sin? God forbid."
Hebrews 11:6 "But
without faith
it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Hebrews 11:1
"Now
faith (that which pleases God, v.6) is the (gives)
substance of things
(good things to come, Heb 9:11) hoped for, the (faith produces)
evidence
(obedience) of
things not seen (yet hoped for)."
Galatians 3:8 "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify [present active indicative, process, not an event] the heathen [Gentiles] through faith (a lifestyle, not an event), preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations [Jews and Gentiles] be blessed."
Acts 13:39 "And by him all that believe [present active participle (lifestyle of faith)] are justified [present passive indicative, not an event] from all things, from which ye could not be justified [aorist passive indicative] by the law of Moses."
Galatians 3:11-13
"But that no man is
justified [present
passive indicative, process] by the
law (ceremonial) in
the sight
(God sees our lifestyle) of God, it is evident: for, The
just
(saved and obedient) shall live (lifestyle) by
faith
(pleasing God, Heb 11:6).
12. And the
law (ceremonial) is
not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13. Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law
(ceremonial), being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree:"
Colossians
2:14 "Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to his cross;"
Romans 3:20 "Therefore by the
deeds (alone) of the law
(moral) there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law (moral, see verses 11-18) is the
knowledge [deeper knowledge] of
sin."
Romans 3:31 "Do we then make void the
law (moral) through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the
law (moral)."
1 Timothy 1:8-9
"But we know that the
law is good, if a man use it
lawfully; 9. Knowing this, that
the law is not made for a
righteous [just] man, but
for the lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers,"
Galatians 3:24 "Wherefore the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we
might
be justified
by
(finished) faith."
Romans 3:24 "Being
justified [present passive participle] freely by his
grace through the redemption
(from the ceremonial law) that is in Christ Jesus:"
Romans 3:26 "To declare, I say, at this
time his righteousness: that he might be
just, and the
justifier [present active participle] of him which
believeth [faith] in Jesus."
Romans 3:27 "Where is boasting then? It
is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by
the law of faith."
Romans 3:28 "Therefore we conclude that
a man is justified
[present passive infinitive] by
faith without
[in addition to, 2 Cor 11:28],
the deeds of the law (moral law)."
Hebrews 10:38-39 "Now the
just (obedient to the moral law) shall live by faith (lifestyle of
pleasing God): but if any man
draw
back
(from faith and pleasing God), my soul shall have
no
pleasure
in him. 39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them
that believe [of faith] to
the saving of the soul."
1 Peter 1:8-9 "Whom having not seen, ye
love [present active]; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet
believing [present active], ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of
glory: 9. Receiving the end of
your faith, even the
salvation of your souls
[life in the kingdom age]."
Colossians 2:20-23 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21. (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22. Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23. Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh."