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Blessings of Justification: Peace, Reconciliation, Access to Grace

Explore the biblical concept of justification and its blessings, including peace in the present, reconciliation, and access to God's grace. Discover how justification brings cessation of hostilities and a confident expectation of salvation and restoration to glory.

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Blessings of Justification: Peace, Reconciliation, Access to Grace

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  1. Blessings of Justification Romans 5:1-11

  2. Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. • justification = God declaring a person righteous in His sight James 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. • justification = people declaring a person righteous in their sight

  3. Blessings of Justification Romans 5:1-11

  4. Blessings of Justification • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities “helpless” “ungodly” “sinners” “enemies”

  5. Blessings of Justification • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities reconciliation– “to bring together or make peace between two estranged or hostile parties”

  6. Blessings of Justification Colossians 1:21–22 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet [Jesus] has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before [God] holy and blameless and beyond reproach • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities

  7. Blessings of Justification • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities • access to God’s grace

  8. Blessings of Justification Ezekiel 34:25–27 “I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land...”

  9. Blessings of Justification Isaiah 32:17–18 And the work of righteousness will be peace, And the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places; • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities • access to God’s grace

  10. Blessings of Justification Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities • access to God’s grace

  11. Blessings of Justification Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. • Peace in the Present • cessation of hostilities • access to God’s grace

  12. Blessings of Justification 1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ • Peace in the Present • Hope in the Future • Confident expectation... • of salvation from wrath (v9)

  13. Blessings of Justification • Peace in the Present • Hope in the Future • Confident expectation... • of salvation from wrath (v9) • of restoration to glory (v2)

  14. Blessings of Justification Philippians 3:20–21 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. • Peace in the Present • Hope in the Future

  15. Blessings of Justification • Peace in the Present • Hope in the Future Confident expectation... • of salvation from wrath (v9) • of restoration to glory (v2) ...that is: • guaranteed (v5,10) • unconquerable (v3-4)

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