DAILY TRUTH - Salvation Before The Cross
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What does it mean to be justified by grace? What does it look like in the Old Testament, and how does it relate to the Gospel of Jesus Christ? In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken continues the discussion of justification by grace and how it relates to God's grace.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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If anyone is to be justified, it must be done not on the basis of merit in human effort or will,
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So we must be, if we are to be justified by God, it must be by grace.
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Because all of us have fallen short of his standard.
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through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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Now, what is it about the personhood and the work of Jesus
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that makes it possible for you and I who are wicked
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as a sacrifice for sin, a payment, an atonement that was satisfying of God's justice.
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And God put Jesus forward as his propitiation by his blood, meaning by his life.
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To be received, how is it that some people are recipients of this grace
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How is it that some receive this grace and others do not?
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Well, justification is by grace alone, the free gift of God,
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We are saved by grace, and there's a difference.
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It's not something in and of ourselves that we conjure up,
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You cannot work yourself into this kind of trust.
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this kind of belief. So faith is a gift, and it's a gift that God gives us to be used as the
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instrument to lay hold of his gracious gift of justification, which is accomplished on the basis
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of Jesus's blood, his life, his substitutionary death. Now, all of this, second half of verse 25
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now, was to do what? It is to show, that is to prove, display God's righteousness, his holiness,
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the fact that he is uncompromising, he is perfectly moral and good because in his divine
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forbearance, that is in his patience, his long suffering, his slowness to anger, he passed over.
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There it is. It's the same word that Nathan speaks. Very similar. The same word that Nathan
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speaks to David in 2 Samuel chapter 12. The Lord has put away your sin. He has passed over. And
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what does it say? Back to Romans 3, end of verse 25. In his divine forbearance, in God's patience,
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he put away former sins. Former to what? Former to the cross, which would be what?
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Old Testament saints. The sin of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David. David. Now, verse 26.
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It was to show his righteousness at the present time.
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God had always planned to save a people for himself by grace through faith in Christ.
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So that he, he being God, might be, and I love this, just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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Now, just meaning so that he might be uncompromising.
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He might be holy and perfect and justifier, meaning the one who graciously declares other
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people to be perfect, even though they don't deserve it.
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And what did he desire to prove and show and display about himself?
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Another way of saying it, justifier, meaning declaring someone else righteous who doesn't
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grace. So God desired to be just and gracious. And I've often said, and I'll say it once more now,
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that the cross of Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the place where both the justice and
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the mercy of God kiss. The death of Jesus and his atonement, his substitutionary work on the cross
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for sinners is the way that God is able to deal mercifully with wicked men without compromising
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his holiness and justice at the very same time. And this is how all people have been saved. So
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it's kind of a cheat answer, but it is the Bible's answer. How were Old Testament saints saved? The
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very same way that we are. It's as though the cross of Christ is this fountainhead that flows
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into two separate streams, one forward and one back. The Old Testament saints were saved by grace
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through faith in Christ, looking forward through the messianic prophecies. The very first one that
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we have is all the way back in Genesis 3, that through the woman's seat, speaking of Christ,
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that he ultimately, his heel would be bruised by the serpent, but he would crush the serpent's head.
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How were Adam and Eve saved? Certainly wasn't obedience. They failed at that. How were they
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saved. They had faith in the serpent crusher. Now, see, the difference between us is they looked
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forward. We're looking back. And as they were looking forward, the mystery of redemption
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was far more mysterious for them. But they still saw a Redeemer. And they placed faith in that
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Redeemer. And through their faith in that Redeemer, they received grace and forgiveness.
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You and I, the difference is we're looking back
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with more clarity because of the testimony of the apostles,
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