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October 28, 2007
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by His life.
Romans 5:10
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ro+5:10&sr=1
I am not saved by believing; I realize I am saved by believing. It is
not repentance that saves me, repentance is the sign that I realize
what God has done in Christ Jesus. The danger is to put the emphasis
on the effect instead of on the cause. It is my obedience that puts
me right with God, my consecration. Never! I am put right with God
because prior to all, Christ died. When I turn to God and by belief
accept what God reveals I can accept, instantly the stupendous
Atonement of Jesus Christ rushes me into a right relationship with
God; and by the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand
justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have
repented, but because of what Jesus has done. The Spirit of God
brings it with a breaking, all-over light, and I know, though I do
not know how, that I am saved.
The salvation of God does not stand on human logic, it stands on the
sacrificial Death of Jesus. We can be born again because of the
Atonement of Our Lord. Sinful men and women can be changed into new
creatures, not by their repentance or their belief, but by the
marvellous work of God in Christ Jesus which is prior to all
experience. The impregnable safety of justification and
sanctification is God Himself. We have not to work out these things
ourselves; they have been worked out by the Atonement. The
supernatural becomes natural by the miracle of God; there is the
realization of what Jesus Christ has already done - "It is finished."
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