The Blessings of Justification

1. The Blessings of Justification Romans 5:1-11

2. Blessings of Justification • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities “helpless” “ungodly” “sinners” “enemies”

3. Blessings of Justification • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities Reconciliation: “to bring together, or make peace between, two estranged or hostile parties”

4. Blessings of Justification Colossians 1:21–22 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death.... • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities

5. Blessings of Justification • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities • enjoyment of blessings “shalom” = blessing, harmony

6. Blessings of Justification “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.” Ezekiel 34:25–26 • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities • enjoyment of blessings “shalom” = blessing, harmony

7. Blessings of Justification • The fruit of righteousness will be peace (shalom); the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever. Isaiah 32:17 • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities • enjoyment of blessings “shalom” = blessing, harmony

8. Blessings of Justification • 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. Hebrews 4:16 • Permanent Peace • cessation of hostilities • enjoyment of blessings “shalom” = blessing, harmony

9. Blessings of Justification • Permanent Peace • Enduring Hope “hope” = confident expectation • hope in future glory

10. Blessings of Justification For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20–21 • Permanent Peace • Enduring Hope “hope” = confident expectation • hope in future glory

11. Blessings of Justification • Permanent Peace • Enduring Hope “hope” = confident expectation • hope in future glory • hope in future deliverance

12. Blessings of Justification • There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations: these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit: immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. CS Lewis • Permanent Peace • Enduring Hope “hope” = confident expectation • hope in future glory • hope in future deliverance

13. Blessings of Justification • I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis, • Permanent Peace • Enduring Hope “hope” = confident expectation • hope in future glory • hope in future deliverance • hope in present suffering