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… be the greatest transition verse in all of the Bible, Romans 3 21, Paul says, but now a righteousness from God apart from the law has been made known. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There's no difference. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace to the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God has presented him as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood. In other words, men, all men sinful before God, but God has poured out the wrath due sin upon his son so that anyone, anywhere can be saved from their sin and reconciled to God forever. Which then leads to the question how is that possible? How is that a reality? And he answers that question in Romans 4 and 5. He says it's through faith. It's not through work. It's not through you doing a bunch of work for God. work God has done for you in Christ. It says in Romans 5, we're justified through faith. That's how we have peace with God, through faith. Because we believe, Romans 5, 6 through 8, that very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. He died for us. And it's through faith in what he has done that we are reconciled to God. This is the good …
… to which the law and the prophets testify, and this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice because in his forbearance, he left the sins committed beforehand unpunished. He did it to demonstrate his justice in the present time so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. Where then is boasting? It's excluded. On what principle? That of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles? too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there's only one God who will judge the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Not at all. …
… has been made known. And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ through all who believe. There's no difference. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace, the redemption that comes by Christ Jesus. God has presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, a propitiation through faith in his blood. God loves you so much. He has made a way for you to be saved from all your sin. He has sent his son. So don't think, well, what's the list of things I need to do? No, it's all based on what he has done. God has sent his one and only son. He's lived a life you could not live in your own life. Perfect obedience to God. He's died the death you deserve to die. He's died in the place, the punishment for sinners. He's taken it upon himself and he's risen from the dead and conquered the enemy you could not conquer. Death, sin, he's conquered it. …
… chapter 3. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. We come now to this great theme, one of the greatest themes of Scripture, the doctrine of justification. The word, the verb, was used earlier. Look back at chapter 2, verse 13, for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. Though I argue that that is a negative use of the word justified, that he's laying out as he makes his case against the sinfulness of man, that it's the doers who will be justified, and he will reach then the conclusion in chapter 3, verse 20, that by works of the law, by doing, no one will be justified in his sight. So, he is introduced before this topic of justification and hinted at it, certainly, in verses 16 and 17 of chapter 1. …
… I want you to look one more time at chapter 3, verse 22, because there's something of a parallel here. It says, 322, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. John Murray, helpfully, in his commentary says, now why is that? That's strange. It seems redundant. The righteousness of God through faith for all who believe. Why both of those? You already said the righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ. It should be end of sentence. Why say through faith for all who believe? Why do you have to say faith essentially two times there? And he says, well, that's sort of like 117, from faith to faith. So, you look at verse 22, why does it have faith repeated? Because that's what the word all who believe is just the same word. And he makes the argument, which I think is right, that in verse 22 it is to stress not only the righteousness that comes through faith, but that it comes to everyone who has faith. In other words, the righteousness of God not only comes through faith, but when there is faith, it always comes. Do you see the slight difference in meaning? Because it could be that Paul simply says, righteousness comes through faith. That's how it works. And whether that works for you, that's the main way, that's how it works. But then he says, for all who believe, to let us know not only that's not only the way righteousness comes, …
… that if anybody believes in him, they will not perish, but through faith in Jesus, they will receive everlasting life. Come on, anybody believe in the good news today? we're talking about grace and how important it is for us to understand this free gift that all of us receive together. Romans chapter three, but now apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made known. Last week, if you weren't here, we talked about the difference between the law and grace. The law, the old covenant, what we used to be under, The law could tell you how bad you were, point out your sin, but could never give you the power to overcome your sin. In the New Testament, in grace, Jesus doesn't point out our flaws and our weaknesses. He puts our eyes on the cross, puts our eyes on the blood of Jesus, puts our eyes on the empty tomb. I just love this because I said it last week, the first time the law is preached in the Old Testament, 3,000 people die. The first time grace is preached in the New Testament, 3,000 are saved. …
This is going to be an exciting day as we study the most important paragraph in the Bible, which is Romans chapter 3, verses 21 through 28. Let's talk about the product. Whenever you're marketing, you have to have a product. So what's the product here? Jesus. It's a pretty good product, isn't it? That's who Paul is marketing. And the Bible tells us in verse 21, like I told you a second ago, but now apart from the law, apart, what? Apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made known. Again, this is a major sea change. Paul now is talking about God rolling out this different way, this new way to have the righteousness of God through faith in Christ. So whenever you see those transitional phrases in the Bible, pay attention. But now, but now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made known. This word known or the phrase made known is the Greek term. I love this. Fanarou. We get the word fan from this. …
… apart from the law has been made known and this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe there is no difference for all have sinned and fall short of the what? glory of God and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God has presented Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood. What that means is God has chosen to pour out the judgment due sent upon his son in the place of sinners. Truth number five, God has made a way of salvation for the lost. God has made a way. We have all sinned against God. Every single person in this room, at other campuses, every single person in the world. We are all separated from God. If we die in the state of separation from God, we will spend eternity separated from God in judgment for our sin. But yes, God is loving. He loves us and has made a way for us to be saved from our sin. …
… Now, I love, and if you want to put a scripture by this, just put Romans chapter 3, verse 22 by this, where Romans 3, verse 22 says that we are justified freely by His grace. We are justified freely by His grace. The only way that anybody has ever been saved in the history of the world is by grace. Do you agree to that? I hope you will. God only has one plan of salvation from beginning to end, and that is grace. What is grace? What is grace? That means that God just saves us apart from any works of our own by any effort, by any good deeds. You're not saved by keeping the Ten Commandments. You're not saved by giving your money. You're not saved by being a good boy or girl. You're not saved by the sweat of your brow, but by the grace of Almighty God. grace, G-R-A-C-E just simply means God's riches at Christ's expense. It's by grace, folks, that you're saved. By grace. …
… Now, I love, and if you want to put a scripture by this, just put Romans chapter 3 verse 22 by this, where Romans 3 verse 22 says that we are justified freely by His grace. We are justified freely by His grace. The only way that anybody has ever been saved in the history of the world is by grace. Do you agree to that? I hope you will. God only has one plan of salvation from beginning to end, and that is grace. What is grace? That means that God just saves us apart from any works of our own by any effort, by any good deeds. You're not saved by keeping the Ten Commandments. You're not saved by giving your money. You're not saved by being a good boy or girl. You're not saved by the sweat of your brow, but by the grace of Almighty God. Grace, G-R-A-C-E, just simply means God's riches at Christ's expense. It's by grace, folks, that you're saved. By grace. By grace. But now wait a minute. By grace through faith. …