Things New and Old: The Four Alones of Justification

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Saturday, December 21, 2019

The Four Alones of Justification

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Romans 3:24 KJV — "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."

The ALONE JUSTIFIER

God the Judge is the ALONE JUSTIFIER of the condemned; only the condemned - and all in Adam are in their native state of condemnation, being conceived in sin, and born in sin - are in the need of God's free and gracious act of justifying them, i.e. of declaring them not guilty but righteous by forgiving them all their sins and accounting to them the righteousness of Christ.

The ALONE METHOD

"Freely by his grace" is the ALONE METHOD of God the Judge justifying the condemned. Any other methods WON'T work; justification by faith WON'T work, the condemned are INCAPABLE of faith. It is as basic as that; so many are either misguided and deceived.

The ALONE BASIS

"Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" is the ALONE BASIS of God justifying the condemned. There is no other basis; the justification of the condemned requires righteousness, even the perfect righteousness secured by the sinless and perfect obedience of Christ to all the laws of God, i.e. the righteousness of God's own provision.

The ALONE MEANS

Believing in Jesus Christ - whose righteousness is the sole basis of one's justification - and NOT the observation of ceremonial laws, is the ALONE MEANS for the freely justified by God's grace to EXPERIENCE the blessedness of their justified state. ONLY those whom God has ALREADY FREELY JUSTIFIED by His grace are capable of believing.

Why are these basic elementary biblical truths so very difficult for so many theologians to understand? Why all the obfuscation by the sola fidei that the justification of a condemned man before God is by his faith alone?

Who has bewitched them?