The NXR Podcast - July 04, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Salvation Before The Cross

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
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6 minutes

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1,094

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88

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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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00:00:19 Jesus said,
00:00:20 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 If anyone is to be justified, it must be done not on the basis of merit in human effort or will,
00:00:35 but rather justified by God's grace.
00:00:39 It's going to have to be an unmerited favor.
00:00:42 It's going to have to be an undeserved love.
00:00:45 So we must be, if we are to be justified by God, it must be by grace.
00:00:49 Because all of us have fallen short of his standard.
00:00:51 It must be done as a gift.
00:00:54 Through what?
00:00:55 On what basis?
00:00:56 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
00:01:00 Now, what is it about the personhood and the work of Jesus
00:01:03 that makes it possible for you and I who are wicked
00:01:07 and deserving of punishment to be justified,
00:01:12 that is, declared righteous by grace?
00:01:14 Well, Jesus was put forward, verse 25,
00:01:18 whom God put forward as a propitiation,
00:01:21 means a pleasing sacrifice,
00:01:23 as a sacrifice for sin, a payment, an atonement that was satisfying of God's justice.
00:01:31 And God put Jesus forward as his propitiation by his blood, meaning by his life.
00:01:37 That's what blood is referring to.
00:01:39 It's the source of life by his very life.
00:01:41 It cost Jesus his life.
00:01:43 To be received, how is it that some people are recipients of this grace
00:01:47 that is afforded to us by the death of Jesus?
00:01:51 How is it that some receive this grace and others do not?
00:01:54 Well, justification is by grace alone, the free gift of God,
00:02:00 but it is received through faith alone.
00:02:02 So we're not saved by faith.
00:02:04 We are saved by grace, and there's a difference.
00:02:07 We are saved through faith.
00:02:09 Faith is the instrument which God gives us.
00:02:11 It's not something in and of ourselves that we conjure up,
00:02:13 that we muster up, right?
00:02:15 You cannot work yourself into this kind of trust.
00:02:20 this kind of belief. So faith is a gift, and it's a gift that God gives us to be used as the
00:02:27 instrument to lay hold of his gracious gift of justification, which is accomplished on the basis
00:02:34 of Jesus's blood, his life, his substitutionary death. Now, all of this, second half of verse 25
00:02:41 now, was to do what? It is to show, that is to prove, display God's righteousness, his holiness,
00:02:48 the fact that he is uncompromising, he is perfectly moral and good because in his divine
00:02:55 forbearance, that is in his patience, his long suffering, his slowness to anger, he passed over.
00:03:03 There it is. It's the same word that Nathan speaks. Very similar. The same word that Nathan
00:03:07 speaks to David in 2 Samuel chapter 12. The Lord has put away your sin. He has passed over. And
00:03:14 what does it say? Back to Romans 3, end of verse 25. In his divine forbearance, in God's patience,
00:03:21 he put away former sins. Former to what? Former to the cross, which would be what?
00:03:27 Old Testament saints. The sin of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David. David. Now, verse 26. 0.96
00:03:38 It was to show his righteousness at the present time.
00:03:44 Some translations say the proper time.
00:03:47 God had always planned to save a people for himself by grace through faith in Christ.
00:03:55 So that he, he being God, might be, and I love this, just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
00:04:03 Now, just meaning so that he might be uncompromising.
00:04:07 He might be holy and perfect and justifier, meaning the one who graciously declares other
00:04:17 people to be perfect, even though they don't deserve it.
00:04:20 So what did God desire to do?
00:04:22 And what did he desire to prove and show and display about himself?
00:04:25 God desired to be both just and justifier.
00:04:29 Another way of saying it, justifier, meaning declaring someone else righteous who doesn't
00:04:33 deserve to be declared righteous.
00:04:35 So it's done on the basis of what?
00:04:37 grace. So God desired to be just and gracious. And I've often said, and I'll say it once more now,
00:04:43 that the cross of Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the place where both the justice and
00:04:48 the mercy of God kiss. The death of Jesus and his atonement, his substitutionary work on the cross
00:04:56 for sinners is the way that God is able to deal mercifully with wicked men without compromising
00:05:02 his holiness and justice at the very same time. And this is how all people have been saved. So
00:05:09 it's kind of a cheat answer, but it is the Bible's answer. How were Old Testament saints saved? The
00:05:15 very same way that we are. It's as though the cross of Christ is this fountainhead that flows
00:05:23 into two separate streams, one forward and one back. The Old Testament saints were saved by grace
00:05:30 through faith in Christ, looking forward through the messianic prophecies. The very first one that
00:05:35 we have is all the way back in Genesis 3, that through the woman's seat, speaking of Christ,
00:05:43 that he ultimately, his heel would be bruised by the serpent, but he would crush the serpent's head.
00:05:49 How were Adam and Eve saved? Certainly wasn't obedience. They failed at that. How were they
00:05:53 saved. They had faith in the serpent crusher. Now, see, the difference between us is they looked
00:06:00 forward. We're looking back. And as they were looking forward, the mystery of redemption
00:06:06 was far more mysterious for them. But they still saw a Redeemer. And they placed faith in that
00:06:14 Redeemer. And through their faith in that Redeemer, they received grace and forgiveness.
00:06:20 No one has ever been saved any other way.
00:06:22 You and I, the difference is we're looking back
00:06:24 with more clarity because of the testimony of the apostles,
00:06:28 because Jesus has come in the flesh.
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