PT. 9 (THE END)... UNDERSTANDING GOD THROUGH YOUR POSITION IN CHRIST
YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST
JUSTIFIED
To declare free from guilt or blame (Webster)
Once we have accepted Christ as our personal Saviour, we are justified by His grace, which is His undeserved kindness toward us. In other words, God forgets all that we ever did and we start off with a nice, new, clean slate. It is just as if we had never sinned.
Romans 3: 24 (KJV)
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Redemption - a buying back. (Webster)
Adam was the first man that God ever created. He was perfect and he belonged to God. He is the root from which we all came. He sinned by giving in to temptation. As a result of his sin, the root of our heritage became contaminated and we were all born with his sinful nature.
In order for mankind to get back to the place where he was in God before Adam sinned, we had to be redeemed or bought back by God. The price for our redemption was the sacrifice or death of a human being who had never sinned. In other words, this human being had to be perfect, as the animals sacrificed for the sins of the people in the Old Testament were without any kind of physical defect and therefore perfect. (See Leviticus 4)
There wasn’t one perfect human being on the earth so Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, experienced life as a human being so that He could sacrifice his life for our sins. Even though He was tempted or tested, just like we are tempted— He never sinned. (Hebrews 4:15)
In experiencing life as a human being, He is now able to identify with our needs because He experienced life from our perspective. This is so very important for us to understand because since His death, burial and resurrection, He is now in heaven interceding or talking to God on our behalf. Now when we go to God in prayer, we can go with confidence, knowing that He hears us, He will be merciful to us and we will find grace or undeserved favour from him to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4: 14-16 (KJV)
14) Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus Christ the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15) For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
I pray that you now have a better understanding of your position in Christ, and that you lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. (Eph. 4: 1)
YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST
JUSTIFIED
To declare free from guilt or blame (Webster)
Once we have accepted Christ as our personal Saviour, we are justified by His grace, which is His undeserved kindness toward us. In other words, God forgets all that we ever did and we start off with a nice, new, clean slate. It is just as if we had never sinned.
Romans 3: 24 (KJV)
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Redemption - a buying back. (Webster)
Adam was the first man that God ever created. He was perfect and he belonged to God. He is the root from which we all came. He sinned by giving in to temptation. As a result of his sin, the root of our heritage became contaminated and we were all born with his sinful nature.
In order for mankind to get back to the place where he was in God before Adam sinned, we had to be redeemed or bought back by God. The price for our redemption was the sacrifice or death of a human being who had never sinned. In other words, this human being had to be perfect, as the animals sacrificed for the sins of the people in the Old Testament were without any kind of physical defect and therefore perfect. (See Leviticus 4)
There wasn’t one perfect human being on the earth so Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, experienced life as a human being so that He could sacrifice his life for our sins. Even though He was tempted or tested, just like we are tempted— He never sinned. (Hebrews 4:15)
In experiencing life as a human being, He is now able to identify with our needs because He experienced life from our perspective. This is so very important for us to understand because since His death, burial and resurrection, He is now in heaven interceding or talking to God on our behalf. Now when we go to God in prayer, we can go with confidence, knowing that He hears us, He will be merciful to us and we will find grace or undeserved favour from him to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4: 14-16 (KJV)
14) Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus Christ the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15) For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
I pray that you now have a better understanding of your position in Christ, and that you lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. (Eph. 4: 1)
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