Not guilty!
To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and THE JUSTIFIER of him who believes in Jesus. Romans 3:26
Do you have a Justifier – One who justifies you? One who declares you, Not guilty! ?
No one can justify himself, it would be futile to try that. No one should try that out on God.
Only another can justify us, and there is only one Person who can.
Do you know Him as YOUR JUSTIFIER? Millions, caught up in the “christian religion”, don’t.
Experience the joy of being justified by God, thru faith in His Son – the joy in knowing that it’s He who justifies you, and not you, yourself. Rejoice in your justification by the Cross and the Resurrection.
JUSTIFICATION defeats CONDEMNATION.
If you belong to Jesus, He will convict you, but He won’t condemn you.
He will justify you as a person. He will not necessarily justify all the things you do. He will glorify His name, not our name.
Worship this Justifier! Love and obey Him who justified you by His own Blood.
March 27, 2012 at 3:54 am
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
(Rom 8:28-34)
But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
(2Co 10:17-18)
March 27, 2012 at 11:36 am
Yep. Like this!
April 29, 2012 at 1:34 am
bump
April 29, 2012 at 1:59 am
“Hear this, all ye self-righteous, tremble, and behold your doom! a dreadful doom, more dreadful than words can express, or thought conceive! If you refuse to humble yourselves … I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that God shall visit you with all his storms, and pour all the vials of his wrath upon your rebellious heads; you exalted yourselves here, and God shall abase you hereafter; you are as proud as the devil, and with devils shall you dwell to all eternity. “Be not deceived, God is not mocked;” he sees your hearts, he knows all things. And, notwithstanding you may come up to the temple to pray, your prayers are turned into sin, and you go down to your houses unjustified, if you are self-righteous; and do you know what it is to be unjustified? why, if you are unjustified, the wrath of God abideth upon you; you are in your blood; all the curses of the law belong to you: cursed are you when you go out, cursed are you when you come in; cursed are your thoughts, cursed are your words, cursed are your deeds; every thing you do, say, or think, from morning to night is only one continued series of sin. However highly you may be esteemed in the sight of men, however you may be honored with the uppermost seats in the synagogues, in the church militant, you will have no place in the church triumphant. “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God:” pull down every self-righteous thought, and every proud imagination, that now exalteth itself against the perfect, personal, imputed righteousness of the dear Lord Jesus”.
- Whitefield’s Sermons (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library). Sermon: The Pharisee and Publican.
April 29, 2012 at 2:08 am
So clear and plain. Thanks bro.
The man who justifies himself, who excuses his sin, who justifies his own sinful life, and defends his sin, or tries to pretend he has none, or tries to conceal it : THAT MAN can never be justified by THE JUSTIFIER.
THE JUSTIFIER can only justify those who do not try to justify themselves.
Romans 4:5 But to him that works not, but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
To believe that you are ungodly, and then to believe that there is a JUSTIFIER of the ungodly, and then, that faith is counted as righteousness, and that man is now righteous in the sight of God, and has the fruit of the Spirit.
The “modern gospel” tries to convince people that they are not ungodly.
But only the ungodly can be justified.