Tuesday, December 8, 2009

JUSTIFICATION

Justification

The act process, or state of being justified by God.

Sanctification:
1. holiness of life & character - Godliness
2. quality or state of being holy or sacred
3. sacred objects, obligation or rights
Salvation:
salvation is from to save
1. deliverance from the power & effects of sin
2. liberation from ignorance or illusion
3. deliverance from danger or difficulty, preservation from destruction or failure.

As a Christian we want to be clean, purified, & pardoned
Jesus came to take away -
a) penalty of sin
b) power of sin
c) presence of sin

Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart & put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh & give you a heart of flesh.

God knows we cannot change our hearts or cleanse our nature but, He can & He does. He causes us to be born again by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them & said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

It says ALL things are possible with God. It doesn't say somethings it says All things are possible.

God can change our nature & turn us completely around. He turns us to move toward Him. God has given us a Blood Covenant, a promise to us that we become born again, a new person.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

This refers to the spiritual transformation that occurs with the inner man when a person believes in Christ as Savior. The Christian is now a new man as opposed to the old man that he was before he became a Christian.

Ephesians 4:24
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness & true holiness.

Romans 6:4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also shuold walk in newness of life.

This is the motivation of the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
18) Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to HIMSELF through Jesus Christ, & has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19) that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, & has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20) Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us; we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might , become the righteousness of God in Him.

Strong's Concordance Greek 2643 - reconciliation
i.e. restoration to (the divine) favor -- atonement
Webster reconciliation
to restore

Yes I want to be restored in God's atonement.

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