Dale Partridge - January 08, 2023


Romans 3_25b-26： The Justice and Justification of God


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00:00:00.000 In this episode of Real Christianity, I confront a topic that modern Christians have avoided,
00:00:04.700 the justice of God. However, when Christians understand the justice of God, they can better
00:00:09.040 appreciate the mercy of God. It's here that we find deep gospel theology that'll lead you to
00:00:14.720 reverence and worship. So get ready to talk about all that and more coming up right now.
00:00:30.000 Welcome to Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge. Today's episode is titled Romans 3.25b
00:00:44.500 through 26, the justice and justification of God. Now, as you know, the show is an audio and video
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00:01:19.720 the place for public discussion around truth and theological warfare. I'd love to have you join me
00:01:24.360 on Twitter as well. This is the first episode of 2023. And I wanted to thank you all for the
00:01:29.740 support, all of our donors, all of you who have bought books. We closed this year very strong.
00:01:34.360 It seems that more and more Christians are interested in supporting ministries who refuse 0.66
00:01:37.660 to compromise on the truth. So please keep us in prayer this year as we fight to bring
00:01:42.980 Christians and the church back to the Bible. Okay, let's get started on this episode on Romans.
00:01:54.360 Wow, what a great book we have been able to get through together, and we're not that far
00:02:01.100 to ending chapter three and dive into chapter four. Romans 3, 20 through 26 is really the
00:02:08.760 magnum opus of the Bible. As I said before, the doctrine of these verses is really like the sun
00:02:16.000 of the biblical solar system. Everything really revolves around them. Another way to say it is
00:02:21.720 that the whole Bible really anticipates this section of scripture. And for that reason, I want
00:02:26.220 to give special attention to what's being taught. If you can comprehend and retain what's being
00:02:32.300 taught here in these verses, it's not only going to help you through the maze of theological
00:02:39.200 confusion that can happen out there as a Christian, but it's also going to help you through the
00:02:45.320 spiritual doubt and questioning that's pretty common in the church today. So I hope these
00:02:51.000 verses are peace and hope to your life. Now, over the past three chapters, we've watched Paul
00:02:56.300 eliminate any redemptive hope in righteous works or in the works of the law. He doesn't want
00:03:06.000 anybody to believe that they can justify themselves before God by works of the law. 0.92
00:03:11.080 Now, his aim is really to leave anyone, both Jew and Gentile, with a sense of despair. 0.99
00:03:16.880 He wants them to have this kind of inward view 0.99
00:03:19.960 that they're not possible
00:03:21.900 to make themselves right before God by themselves.
00:03:25.640 And he wants them to search for an outward hope.
00:03:29.640 And that's exactly what he's doing.
00:03:31.320 He's pointing them to Christ
00:03:33.360 after he's absolutely leveled the playing field
00:03:37.760 and really ripped out any false hope
00:03:42.280 that they might've had in justifying themselves
00:03:44.980 by obedience or by works of the law or by spiritual life or whatever it may be.
00:03:52.720 And so Paul did this by talking first about the impartial jurisdiction of the law.
00:03:58.320 He talks about every person on earth will be held accountable to the standard of the law.
00:04:04.200 Every one of us who has broken the Ten Commandments will be found guilty.
00:04:08.960 Even if we've only broken one of them, we will be guilty of all of them.
00:04:12.520 And so he tells us over and over that the demands of the law cannot be met by man's works.
00:04:18.140 And once we've sinned, we've essentially become guilty.
00:04:20.500 And we need at this point, some way to be found righteous again.
00:04:24.960 We need to be forgiven.
00:04:26.280 We need our debt to be paid for.
00:04:28.700 This is all obviously accomplished in the gospel.
00:04:32.340 I think about James 2.10 that says,
00:04:34.680 whoever keeps the whole law but fails in it at one point is guilty of all of it.
00:04:39.960 And this is a passage where you think,
00:04:41.880 if you think you're a good person,
00:04:43.020 you've sinned one time, you're not a good person.
00:04:45.800 You have failed to meet the righteous demands of the law,
00:04:49.700 means that you're not good,
00:04:51.160 but bad according to God's standard of righteousness.
00:04:54.340 And you will need to have somebody die for your sin.
00:04:59.840 And that's really the gospel, right? 0.98
00:05:01.200 Somebody has to die.
00:05:02.320 That's the wages of sin is death. 0.99
00:05:04.500 And somebody needs to die.
00:05:06.320 and someone needs to pay for that sin
00:05:09.360 in order for God to achieve justice.
00:05:12.900 And so ultimately Paul, like Jesus,
00:05:16.960 he's a law magnifier.
00:05:18.260 We saw that.
00:05:19.340 He doesn't want anyone to have a sense
00:05:22.200 that they're capable of keeping the law.
00:05:24.600 He doesn't want us to have a low view of the law,
00:05:26.320 but a high view of the law,
00:05:27.360 a law that we cannot keep,
00:05:28.500 a law that we cannot conform to
00:05:30.580 because it's not just a law of actions.
00:05:32.480 It's a law of thought as well.
00:05:34.440 If you have evil thoughts, if you lust in your heart, you're still breaking the law, even if you don't actually commit adultery.
00:05:42.560 And so, most importantly, we saw clearly that Paul is conveying man's central need to be found righteous.
00:05:52.400 This is the central reality for all humanity at all times.
00:05:57.760 It's the number one question that should be asked by anyone.
00:06:01.920 How does man find righteousness before God?
00:06:05.820 And he points us to our need to acquire an alien righteousness.
00:06:09.340 We need a righteousness that's not of our own, that comes from Jesus Christ,
00:06:13.240 the only one who did keep the law, who met the righteous requirements of the law,
00:06:17.280 and also died on the cross, paying for the price of our sins,
00:06:21.220 and essentially securing the justice of God in the cross of Christ.
00:06:26.920 And so this is exactly what Paul talks about
00:06:30.940 in Romans 3, 21 through 22.
00:06:32.560 He says, but now the righteousness of God
00:06:34.480 has been manifested apart from the law,
00:06:36.300 although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,
00:06:38.380 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ
00:06:40.580 for all who believe.
00:06:42.100 And so righteousness is obviously found
00:06:43.620 in Jesus Christ alone.
00:06:45.180 Now, in the previous episode on Romans,
00:06:46.580 we talked about Romans 3, 23 through 25a.
00:06:51.380 Again, you can break up a verse by, if it's got a comma,
00:06:54.420 Sometimes a pastor will break up a verse by putting A, B, or C there, but it says, quote,
00:07:00.540 for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by his grace
00:07:05.380 through the redemption, which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as propitiation in
00:07:10.020 his blood through faith. And in this short passage of scripture, if you remember on the previous
00:07:16.140 episode, Paul explained really the grounds of our salvation and how that worked, the mechanics
00:07:21.400 of salvation. He gave us the rationale for why faith in Christ is sufficient to save us. And
00:07:28.700 he argued around those three actions, they are justification, redemption, and propitiation.
00:07:35.500 And he argued that the act almost like a gears and a clock, that all three of them work together
00:07:41.640 to accomplish the goal. And if you lose one of those elements, you're not going to achieve the
00:07:47.460 end result. And so Paul tells us that this is how salvation is accomplished according to scripture.
00:07:56.860 And so essentially, I'm going to give you just a little bit of a breakdown because I broke it down
00:08:00.620 before, but just this is what he was saying. God has justified sinners as guiltless, as a gift,
00:08:07.800 right? Through what? Through the workless means of faith. We know that faith is most
00:08:13.420 most clearly manifested in rest.
00:08:18.500 So God has justified sinners as guiltless as a gift
00:08:22.100 through the workless means of faith,
00:08:23.920 which is our justification.
00:08:25.680 He can do this because Christ,
00:08:28.120 who kept the law perfectly,
00:08:29.960 has redeemed sinners through what?
00:08:32.520 Well, through his own blood, his death, his life.
00:08:36.520 We know in Leviticus,
00:08:37.720 it talks that life is found in the blood.
00:08:41.040 And when blood spills, life spills.
00:08:43.420 And so he's redeemed sinners.
00:08:45.500 He's purchased us back through the blood payment
00:08:49.140 that was accomplished as on the cross, which is redemption.
00:08:53.960 So we had justification, we have redemption.
00:08:55.820 And then this blood payment and death of Christ
00:08:59.040 has satisfied the wrath of God against sinners
00:09:03.400 and his need for justice.
00:09:05.980 And that is propitiation,
00:09:08.040 which is appeasing the wrath of God through blood sacrifice.
00:09:11.780 And so justification by faith, redemption by blood, and propitiation by death.
00:09:17.140 That's essentially the three things that really grounds us of why we can be saved in the gospel.
00:09:24.080 1 Peter 3.18 says,
00:09:25.840 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous,
00:09:30.140 that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit.
00:09:36.520 So essentially Christ operates as our substitute.
00:09:39.340 He dies the death that we deserve, and he gives us the righteousness that we did not earn, but that he earned as a result through our faith.
00:09:46.540 And so today's section, which is quite theological, we're going to learn the reason God has structured the plan of salvation in the particular way that he did.
00:09:56.920 You're going to find out that this reason is at the center of God's work.
00:10:01.160 It's really a defense of his righteousness.
00:10:04.600 It's the ultimate driver behind everything that he does.
00:10:07.740 we have to understand how God's righteousness is connected to his glory because he does everything
00:10:13.040 to protect his glory and to serve his glory. And his righteousness really is anchored together
00:10:19.080 or handcuffed together to his glory. If God is not righteous, he is not glorious.
00:10:24.480 And so we're going to read our text today, which is Romans 3, 21 through 20. Sorry,
00:10:29.340 it's not, we're going to, we're going to read the whole text. It's not just
00:10:31.560 the passage we're discussing, but just to give you the context, Romans 3, 21 through 26,
00:10:35.500 it says, but now apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested being
00:10:41.160 witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ
00:10:46.080 for all who believe. For there is no distinction for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory
00:10:50.900 of God being justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption, which is in Christ Jesus,
00:10:56.480 whom God displayed publicly as propitiation in his blood through faith. And here's our text.
00:11:02.180 This was to demonstrate his righteousness
00:11:03.880 because in the forbearance of God,
00:11:06.520 he passed over the sins previously committed
00:11:08.420 for the demonstration, I say,
00:11:10.240 of his righteousness at the present time
00:11:12.200 so that he would be just and the justifier
00:11:15.480 of the one who has faith in Jesus.
00:11:18.440 Okay, so the first and primary reason
00:11:20.540 that we see in this text,
00:11:22.720 God has structured the plan of salvation in this way
00:11:24.920 is to demonstrate his righteousness
00:11:27.820 to all who may have doubted God's integrity
00:11:31.000 regarding justice. Okay. We know that God is a God of integrity because he punished sin on the
00:11:40.400 cross. Now we're going to get there, but righteousness is a term that has to do with
00:11:44.820 moral purity. It's a term in the Greek, it's dikaiosune. It's a great word with rich meaning.
00:11:53.820 It's a term that asserts straightness or something that's upright. God is holy and completely
00:11:59.900 righteous. Part of being righteous is also being just. Part of being righteous is also being just.
00:12:08.560 God cannot simply overlook sin. So God doesn't just forgive people because he loves them. No,
00:12:14.660 he can't do that because he would not be fulfilling his righteous requirement for
00:12:18.860 justice. You can't have a good judge essentially that he would overlook a crime. Because if he
00:12:27.060 did that, he wouldn't be morally upright and straight. He would essentially be a crooked 0.88
00:12:31.820 judge. And so God is straight. He has integrity. He is righteous. He's not going to compromise on
00:12:38.640 his justice to accomplish his mercy. And so the same is true here in this passage of scripture
00:12:46.420 that God's not going to simply pronounce the unrighteous righteous because of love. No,
00:12:53.340 he must punish sin to maintain his justice. And this is, again, what we talked about, the grounds
00:13:00.640 of faith that creates justification and blood and redemption and death and propitiation. He's doing
00:13:07.540 all these things to protect his justice, that those things are required, which again, protects
00:13:13.360 his glory. And so what Paul's saying here is that to demonstrate God's perfect righteousness,
00:13:19.240 God provided a way essentially to save believers in Christ
00:13:26.880 while also demonstrating his justice at the same time.
00:13:29.700 It's a beautiful paradox that we're going to talk about later in this message
00:13:33.160 that essentially we find the justification of sinners in the punishment of Christ.
00:13:41.400 And so it's just a beautiful expression of the gospel.
00:13:46.080 One theologian wrote,
00:13:47.940 By not allowing the sins of believers from Adam to Christ to be left forever unpunished,
00:13:54.400 but by now placing them upon Christ, God has demonstrated that he was, is, and forevermore, just.
00:14:01.560 Because of the death of Christ and the public spectacle of his wrath towards sin on the cross,
00:14:07.020 God can remain just when he declares righteous the one who believes in Jesus.
00:14:11.960 end quote. And so this quote is a bit of a primer for the upcoming verse that we're going to read
00:14:17.260 here in a section. And here Paul speaks to the grounds of why, why God needed to demonstrate
00:14:24.780 his righteousness. Why did God need to demonstrate his righteousness, which we know was to publicly
00:14:31.580 vindicate himself, that he will not overlook sin forever in the sense that from our perspective
00:14:39.460 as men, we were wondering from Adam to Christ, is God overlooking sin? What's happening there? No,
00:14:47.020 God made it clear that he's not overlooking sin. In fact, sin is so serious that Christ will go
00:14:51.780 and pay for the sins of the world, the sinless for the sinner. And so he says in this next verse
00:14:57.140 that we're going to be here, it says, because in the forbearance of God, he passed over the sins
00:15:01.880 previously committed. So he's talking about the sins that were committed between Adam and Christ.
00:15:06.020 In God's forbearance, he passed over those sins previously committed.
00:15:10.580 And Paul then says, for the demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at the present time,
00:15:14.860 and that is the time of the cross.
00:15:17.040 And so if it had seemed that by God's postponed justice towards sinners from Adam to Christ,
00:15:24.560 that it made God unrighteous or lacking integrity by any means,
00:15:29.280 ultimately God revealed that justice will be served
00:15:32.320 and the way of salvation will be through faith in Jesus Christ.
00:15:35.400 So he demonstrates his righteousness in three ways.
00:15:37.800 And I'll tell you them real quick here.
00:15:39.280 First, he demonstrates that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
00:15:42.380 We know that.
00:15:43.220 We read that in the passage of scripture.
00:15:44.800 And as a result, all will stand before God on judgment day,
00:15:48.160 according to the demands of the law.
00:15:49.460 We know that.
00:15:50.240 So he made that clear in the gospel.
00:15:52.540 The second thing he makes clear is he demonstrates that all
00:15:54.620 who have sinned and received Christ by faith will have their sins justly paid for.
00:16:01.060 So they're not going to just be overlooked.
00:16:02.300 No, they will be paid for by Christ on the cross.
00:16:04.820 as their substitute. And third, he demonstrates that all who have sinned and rejected Christ
00:16:11.720 will pay for their sins themselves. He makes that clear. You reject the gospel, you will pay for
00:16:17.380 your own sins. And this is John 12, 48. Jesus says, quote, the one who rejects me and does not
00:16:22.720 receive my words has a judge. The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. So
00:16:28.360 Ultimately, in the revelation of the gospel, the revelation of Jesus Christ, it's made clear that
00:16:35.600 God is not slack to execute his justice upon sinners according to the law. And he's not
00:16:41.600 unrighteous as to overlook the sins of his people. And he never was. He was forbearing. He was
00:16:46.420 patient as he was waiting for the dispensation of time to reveal the gospel on the cross with the
00:16:53.100 birth, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension of his son. But the demands of the broken law
00:16:59.480 were paid for on the cross. So Acts 22 to 23, it says, quote, men of Israel, listen to these words,
00:17:05.700 Jesus, the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs,
00:17:10.040 which God performed through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know, this man, Jesus
00:17:15.660 Christ, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed him to a
00:17:22.700 cross by the hands of godless men and put him to death, end quote. Okay. What does that mean, 0.67
00:17:28.620 right? Ultimately, on the cross, all the sin of God's people will be paid for. Now, not all the
00:17:34.960 sins of the world, because if someone who wasn't God's person, God's man, God's woman, if their sin
00:17:41.780 was paid for, then they would have no guilt. But no, God's people, their sins will be paid for.
00:17:46.820 We know that, you know, the angel Gabriel says,
00:17:50.480 you shall name him Jesus.
00:17:51.880 He will save his people from their sins.
00:17:55.280 This idea that God or that Jesus comes and pays
00:17:58.100 for the sins of everyone.
00:18:01.080 Now, when the scripture says that in a particular way,
00:18:04.180 he's talking about, he's not paying just for the sins
00:18:05.820 of the Jews, but sins from people, 0.61
00:18:07.480 from every tribe, nation, and tongue. 0.76
00:18:09.460 And so we know that just logically,
00:18:12.580 he's atoning for the sins of his people.
00:18:15.680 And that's why in the doctrines of grace, the L for the TULIP acronym, which you might know as Calvinism, L is limited atonement.
00:18:26.140 The atonement is limited.
00:18:27.420 It's limited to the people who actually are saved.
00:18:29.600 Because if God atones, or if Jesus Christ atones for everybody, the whole world, then you have a dilemma there.
00:18:37.100 But you have someone who has their sins atoned for, yet is still going to hell.
00:18:41.440 No, he pays for the sins for his people, for those who will believe.
00:18:48.760 And so for the Old Testament saints that came before the cross,
00:18:53.400 who had faith in the coming Messiah,
00:18:55.600 their sins were imputed to Christ on the cross,
00:18:58.460 securing justification, redemption, and propitiation for them.
00:19:01.520 They were saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ,
00:19:03.760 just like we are on the other side of the cross.
00:19:06.380 For those that are in the New Testament saints like us,
00:19:08.480 who have faith in the Messiah who came,
00:19:11.680 our sins were imputed to Christ on the cross,
00:19:14.060 securing justification, redemption, and propitiation.
00:19:16.900 We're saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ,
00:19:19.400 just the same.
00:19:20.500 And so L.S. Schaeffer says,
00:19:22.580 quote, the basis of salvation in every age
00:19:25.200 is the death of Christ
00:19:26.500 and the requirement for salvation in every age is faith.
00:19:30.000 For those living under the old covenant,
00:19:31.680 it was faith in God.
00:19:32.700 For those living under the new covenant,
00:19:34.720 it is faith in Christ.
00:19:36.300 In other words,
00:19:36.760 no matter when a person has lived, their salvation is always dependent on both the work of Christ
00:19:42.140 and faith in God. End quote. Another theologian explains it this way. Quote, it makes no
00:19:47.920 difference with God whether he saved sinners before or after the cross. The cross is an eternal fact
00:19:54.080 in the reckoning of God. Of course, the cross had to come for a righteous God could not pass by sin
00:19:59.180 eternally. It had to be paid for eventually in time. Ultimately, the cross not only exonerated
00:20:05.120 God from the charge that he passed by sin before the crucifixion, but also demonstrated that when
00:20:12.120 he declared a believing sinner righteous, he maintained his righteousness through perfect
00:20:17.080 justice, end quote. Powerful, right? So you're trying to get a little bit of grasp of the context
00:20:22.520 here that God is vindicating himself by the gospel, that he is not passing over sin, but he
00:20:31.600 is upholding and maintaining his justice on the cross. It is absolutely seen that sin is worthy
00:20:37.420 to be punished to the most extreme consent, that he will actually send his only son, God in the
00:20:44.180 flesh, to be punished for it on our behalf. That's the seriousness of sin. So in the gospel, God
00:20:50.300 reveals his plan of salvation to humanity. And in doing so, he essentially demonstrates that
00:20:56.880 no sin will ever go unpunished. It'll either be laid upon the savior or it'll be laid upon the
00:21:03.300 sinner, but no sin will go unpunished. And so Paul says that God does this so that, and I'm
00:21:10.780 reading scripture now, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
00:21:17.720 What a beautiful statement. So in this statement, in theology is often called the glorious paradox.
00:21:25.640 paradox, it's where you don't expect to find something here that you find. And this is just
00:21:35.060 a beautiful thing. God has found a way to execute perfect justice upon sin as seen in his wrath
00:21:41.020 poured out on the cross, while at the same time securing justice for sinners, for the one who has
00:21:47.080 faith in Jesus. It's really a paradox. In one single act, God essentially becomes the executor
00:21:53.140 of justice and the justifier of the executable. It's like accomplishing two opposite things in
00:22:00.560 the same thing, in the same moment. That's really what happens at the cross. It's the very explanation
00:22:05.240 of 2 Corinthians 5.21, which says, quote, for our sake, that's believing sinners, for our sake,
00:22:10.840 God made Christ to be sin who knew no sin so that in Christ sinners might become the righteousness
00:22:15.960 of God, end quote. So ultimately, in the justice of God, we find the salvation of sinners. Let me
00:22:24.840 just like say that for a second. I want you to sit on this statement for a second. In the justice
00:22:29.280 of God at the cross, we find the salvation of sinners. This is like the exact, you would not
00:22:36.320 expect to find the salvation of sinners in the justice of God, but this was accomplished
00:22:43.720 through Christ and only through the gospel. It's essentially like finding light in the darkest
00:22:52.380 cave on earth. It's the last thing that you would expect. And it's absolutely what shows
00:22:56.780 the wonderful, beautiful character of God. And so at the cross, we see perfect justice
00:23:03.540 and perfect love collide. And as I said in the previous message, when we understand the master
00:23:09.680 plan of salvation, when we grasp what God has done on the cross for us, we can finally grasp
00:23:16.220 the force and beauty of verses like Romans 8, 33 through 34 that say, quote, who shall bring any
00:23:21.540 charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies, who is to condemn. I mean, you just
00:23:28.100 think about it. God has put together this incredible plan of salvation to accomplish
00:23:32.360 salvation for his people, nobody can bring a condemnation towards his people. There is no
00:23:40.620 condemnation for those who are now in Christ Jesus. This is a powerful statement. Charles
00:23:47.700 Spurgeon once said of this passage, quote, my hope lives not because I am not a sinner,
00:23:52.620 but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died. My trust is not that I am holy, but that being
00:23:59.900 unholy, he is my righteousness. My faith rests upon not what I am or shall be or feel or know,
00:24:09.460 but in what Christ is, in what he has done and in what he is doing now for me. On the lion of
00:24:17.160 justice, the fair maid of hope rides like a queen." We know Spurgeon is just beautiful with words. He
00:24:25.000 is a master of words. And I love that last line on the lion of justice, the fair maid of hope
00:24:30.580 rides like a queen. So I hope this episode was helpful in you understanding the biblical
00:24:37.140 expositional meaning of this passage of scripture. That's my hope with this podcast.
00:24:44.440 Obviously, we talk about other things besides just verse by verse exposition. But as we go
00:24:49.060 through Romans, I think if Christians can understand Romans, we can understand the gospel. 0.71
00:24:54.780 And unfortunately, the vast majority of Christians don't have a grasp on gospel fluency or theological and biblical literacy. 0.60
00:25:03.300 And so we have many people who live weak, impotent Christian lives because they don't understand the truths that are found here in Romans. 0.55
00:25:11.600 So my hope is that you stick around for this journey and that we can continue to edify you on this experience of getting through Romans,
00:25:19.720 that you would understand the gospel and that your theology as it goes deeper, that your praise would go higher.
00:25:24.720 And so thank you for joining me
00:25:25.660 on this episode of Real Christianity.
00:25:27.600 My name is Dale Partridge,
00:25:28.860 and I'll see you next time.