Let these sayings sink into your
ears:
You are justified by God alone, freely by His
grace alone, and based on the righteousness of Christ alone; your justification
by your faith alone is lie from the pit of hell.
Your faith in Christ is the only way you will
experience the blessedness of your justification by God's free grace.
Why? Because your justification was on the
basis of Christ's righteousness alone.
Romans 4 KJT
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our
father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he
hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham
believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not
reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth
on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
God already justified the ungodly Abraham
when he was still dead in trespasses and sins way back in Gen 11, before he was
called to leave the Ur of the Chaldeans. In Gen 15, Abraham believed and his
faith ( NOT the righteousness of Christ) was accounted to him for
righteousness; i.e. Abraham experienced the blessedness of his justified state
by faith, not by some work of keeping the ceremonial laws like circumcision.
Apostle Paul demonstrated conclusively that
Abraham experienced the blessedness of his justified state by faith in the
promised seed, NOT by observing some ceremonial laws as the Judaizers insisted.
This is the biblical context of justification by faith - it's in the
experiential aspect of justification.
Take a look here:
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2011/05/three-distinct-sets-of-contrast-in.html
Stop believing a popular lie.
