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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Word count

1,094

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72

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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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00:00:19.680 Jesus said,
00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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00:00:30.000 If anyone is to be justified, it must be done not on the basis of merit in human effort or will,
00:00:35.580 but rather justified by God's grace.
00:00:39.440 It's going to have to be an unmerited favor.
00:00:42.420 It's going to have to be an undeserved love.
00:00:45.840 So we must be, if we are to be justified by God, it must be by grace.
00:00:49.820 Because all of us have fallen short of his standard.
00:00:51.860 It must be done as a gift.
00:00:54.300 Through what?
00:00:55.220 On what basis?
00:00:56.020 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
00:01:00.740 Now, what is it about the personhood and the work of Jesus
00:01:03.200 that makes it possible for you and I who are wicked
00:01:07.280 and deserving of punishment to be justified,
00:01:12.120 that is, declared righteous by grace?
00:01:14.960 Well, Jesus was put forward, verse 25,
00:01:18.500 whom God put forward as a propitiation,
00:01:21.500 means a pleasing sacrifice,
00:01:23.320 as a sacrifice for sin, a payment, an atonement that was satisfying of God's justice.
00:01:31.760 And God put Jesus forward as his propitiation by his blood, meaning by his life.
00:01:37.520 That's what blood is referring to.
00:01:39.240 It's the source of life by his very life.
00:01:41.740 It cost Jesus his life.
00:01:43.320 To be received, how is it that some people are recipients of this grace
00:01:47.600 that is afforded to us by the death of Jesus?
00:01:51.700 How is it that some receive this grace and others do not?
00:01:54.760 Well, justification is by grace alone, the free gift of God,
00:02:00.180 but it is received through faith alone.
00:02:02.880 So we're not saved by faith.
00:02:04.800 We are saved by grace, and there's a difference.
00:02:07.300 We are saved through faith.
00:02:09.460 Faith is the instrument which God gives us.
00:02:11.340 It's not something in and of ourselves that we conjure up,
00:02:13.660 that we muster up, right?
00:02:15.220 You cannot work yourself into this kind of trust.
00:02:20.780 this kind of belief. So faith is a gift, and it's a gift that God gives us to be used as the
00:02:27.480 instrument to lay hold of his gracious gift of justification, which is accomplished on the basis
00:02:34.160 of Jesus's blood, his life, his substitutionary death. Now, all of this, second half of verse 25
00:02:41.400 now, was to do what? It is to show, that is to prove, display God's righteousness, his holiness,
00:02:48.700 the fact that he is uncompromising, he is perfectly moral and good because in his divine
00:02:55.800 forbearance, that is in his patience, his long suffering, his slowness to anger, he passed over.
00:03:03.360 There it is. It's the same word that Nathan speaks. Very similar. The same word that Nathan
00:03:07.840 speaks to David in 2 Samuel chapter 12. The Lord has put away your sin. He has passed over. And
00:03:14.880 what does it say? Back to Romans 3, end of verse 25. In his divine forbearance, in God's patience,
00:03:21.360 he put away former sins. Former to what? Former to the cross, which would be what?
00:03:27.700 Old Testament saints. The sin of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David. David. Now, verse 26. 0.96
00:03:38.600 It was to show his righteousness at the present time.
00:03:44.220 Some translations say the proper time.
00:03:47.100 God had always planned to save a people for himself by grace through faith in Christ.
00:03:55.000 So that he, he being God, might be, and I love this, just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
00:04:03.040 Now, just meaning so that he might be uncompromising.
00:04:07.160 He might be holy and perfect and justifier, meaning the one who graciously declares other
00:04:17.460 people to be perfect, even though they don't deserve it.
00:04:20.900 So what did God desire to do?
00:04:22.380 And what did he desire to prove and show and display about himself?
00:04:25.380 God desired to be both just and justifier.
00:04:29.920 Another way of saying it, justifier, meaning declaring someone else righteous who doesn't
00:04:33.980 deserve to be declared righteous.
00:04:35.240 So it's done on the basis of what?
00:04:37.160 grace. So God desired to be just and gracious. And I've often said, and I'll say it once more now,
00:04:43.900 that the cross of Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the place where both the justice and
00:04:48.500 the mercy of God kiss. The death of Jesus and his atonement, his substitutionary work on the cross
00:04:56.620 for sinners is the way that God is able to deal mercifully with wicked men without compromising
00:05:02.560 his holiness and justice at the very same time. And this is how all people have been saved. So
00:05:09.420 it's kind of a cheat answer, but it is the Bible's answer. How were Old Testament saints saved? The
00:05:15.480 very same way that we are. It's as though the cross of Christ is this fountainhead that flows
00:05:23.400 into two separate streams, one forward and one back. The Old Testament saints were saved by grace
00:05:30.040 through faith in Christ, looking forward through the messianic prophecies. The very first one that
00:05:35.740 we have is all the way back in Genesis 3, that through the woman's seat, speaking of Christ,
00:05:43.380 that he ultimately, his heel would be bruised by the serpent, but he would crush the serpent's head.
00:05:49.100 How were Adam and Eve saved? Certainly wasn't obedience. They failed at that. How were they
00:05:53.920 saved. They had faith in the serpent crusher. Now, see, the difference between us is they looked
00:06:00.920 forward. We're looking back. And as they were looking forward, the mystery of redemption
00:06:06.640 was far more mysterious for them. But they still saw a Redeemer. And they placed faith in that
00:06:14.120 Redeemer. And through their faith in that Redeemer, they received grace and forgiveness.
00:06:20.160 No one has ever been saved any other way.
00:06:22.280 You and I, the difference is we're looking back
00:06:24.200 with more clarity because of the testimony of the apostles,
00:06:28.300 because Jesus has come in the flesh.
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