WEBVTT 00:00:00.430 --> 00:00:03.690 So we're going to look at Romans again this evening. 00:00:03.790 --> 00:00:10.369 Is that too loud? No? Okay. Just seems loud to 00:00:10.369 --> 00:00:23.129 me then. So we're going to look at I think primarily 00:00:23.129 --> 00:00:27.710 chapter 3 here but I want to just give opportunity 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:35.640 If there are any questions from last week, feel 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:49.600 free to ask those. Okay, well, so chapter 1, 00:00:49.899 --> 00:00:52.320 chapter 2, and then the first part of chapter 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.359 3. What did we talk about? What did we say was 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:01.490 the theme? Of those chapters, or maybe we talked 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:09.530 about a couple things, what were they? All men 00:01:09.530 --> 00:01:12.390 are guilty before God. Okay, that was one thing 00:01:12.390 --> 00:01:14.469 that we talked about. All men were guilty before 00:01:14.469 --> 00:01:21.689 God. We used one word to describe that multiple 00:01:21.689 --> 00:01:29.290 times. What was that other word? Impartial. That 00:01:29.290 --> 00:01:34.109 is true. We did talk about that. Condemnation. 00:01:34.129 --> 00:01:37.629 We said that multiple times. All men are condemned. 00:01:38.349 --> 00:01:43.469 And yes, impartial in the sense that all men, 00:01:43.489 --> 00:01:46.010 right? Jews and Gentiles, because Paul deals 00:01:46.010 --> 00:01:49.810 with both of them. And so all men are under the 00:01:49.810 --> 00:01:53.590 condemnation of God. What was the very first 00:01:53.590 --> 00:01:57.349 thing that we mentioned? Before we talk about 00:01:57.349 --> 00:02:00.609 that, what does Paul say? The gospel. Okay, the 00:02:00.609 --> 00:02:03.950 gospel, right? Paul, we talked about just kind 00:02:03.950 --> 00:02:06.549 of an introduction there in the first 15 verses, 00:02:06.709 --> 00:02:09.830 and then we get to verse 16. Paul says, For I 00:02:09.830 --> 00:02:14.889 am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power 00:02:14.889 --> 00:02:18.150 of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, 00:02:18.430 --> 00:02:22.530 to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in 00:02:22.530 --> 00:02:25.930 it... The righteousness of God is revealed from 00:02:25.930 --> 00:02:29.090 faith to faith, as it is written, the righteous 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:33.389 man shall live by faith. So Paul begins there 00:02:33.389 --> 00:02:36.810 with that, and we talked about that. Why is that 00:02:36.810 --> 00:02:40.449 significant to what he then goes on to say? How 00:02:40.449 --> 00:02:43.330 does that relate to this theme of condemnation 00:02:43.330 --> 00:02:56.159 in these next passages? It shows the need, right? 00:02:56.199 --> 00:03:01.960 It shows why men need this gospel. Paul's point 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.419 here is that there is a way to be right with 00:03:06.419 --> 00:03:09.919 God. That's what he says here. He talks about 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:14.180 the righteousness of God is revealed. A righteousness 00:03:14.180 --> 00:03:19.080 of God has been revealed. And all men need that 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.490 because all men are condemned before God. All 00:03:23.490 --> 00:03:28.949 men stand before God condemned. He goes on. He 00:03:28.949 --> 00:03:32.210 makes that really clear and abundant to us in 00:03:32.210 --> 00:03:38.449 the middle of chapter 3 here where he talks about 00:03:38.449 --> 00:03:42.069 in verse 10 and following there are none righteous, 00:03:42.229 --> 00:03:45.710 not one, none who understands, there's none who 00:03:45.710 --> 00:03:49.629 seeks after God and so on. So all of these verses 00:03:49.629 --> 00:03:52.860 here we didn't We didn't talk about it last week, 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.840 really, but all of these are quotes. So beginning 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.580 here in verse 10 through verse 18, these are 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:03.500 all Old Testament passages that Paul is quoting. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.680 So from the Psalms and from Isaiah is where they 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:13.500 all come from. And so Paul is saying here, this 00:04:13.500 --> 00:04:18.360 has been the case. And he goes on in 19, he says, 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:20.879 now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:22.959 to those who are under the law so that every 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.279 mouth may be closed and all the world may become 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.800 accountable to God. So again, the idea there, 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:32.560 Paul is stressing here, this condemnation before 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:38.160 God. All men stand condemned before God. And 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.279 that is the glory of the gospel is there is a 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.639 way. To no longer be condemned. There is a way 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.939 to be made right. In the sight of God. Okay. 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.459 That's the theme then. That we pick up here. 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:03.180 In the middle of chapter 3. Paul says. Verse 00:05:03.180 --> 00:05:07.259 21. But now. Apart from the law. A righteousness 00:05:07.259 --> 00:05:10.300 of God has been manifested. Being witnessed by 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:13.889 the law and the prophets. even a righteousness 00:05:13.889 --> 00:05:16.709 of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all 00:05:16.709 --> 00:05:19.290 those who believe, for there is no distinction, 00:05:19.449 --> 00:05:21.529 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory 00:05:21.529 --> 00:05:25.470 of God, being justified as a gift by His grace 00:05:25.470 --> 00:05:27.550 through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, 00:05:27.689 --> 00:05:30.490 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation 00:05:30.490 --> 00:05:33.810 in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate 00:05:33.810 --> 00:05:37.189 His righteousness, because in the forbearance 00:05:37.189 --> 00:05:39.850 of God He passed over the sins previously committed. 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.279 for the demonstration, I say, of his righteousness 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:45.879 at the present time, so that he would be just 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.819 and the justifier of the one who has faith in 00:05:48.819 --> 00:05:52.779 Jesus. That's the gospel. That's what Paul is 00:05:52.779 --> 00:05:56.600 talking about there. This is the good news. This 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.220 is the good news that he's not ashamed of in 00:05:59.220 --> 00:06:03.120 chapter 1, verses 16 and 17. He lays it out for 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.339 us right here in verse 21 and following. This 00:06:07.339 --> 00:06:09.660 is the good news of the gospel. What is the good 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:14.100 news? How does Paul phrase it? What is the good 00:06:14.100 --> 00:06:17.279 news? If we don't say gospel, what does he say 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:27.699 that is good? What is the word that he uses? 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.319 In verse 21 is the first mention. There is a 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:47.459 righteousness. Revealed. Apart from the law, 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.980 a righteousness of God has been manifested. What 00:06:51.980 --> 00:06:54.740 is that righteousness? What's Paul talking about 00:06:54.740 --> 00:06:56.860 there? What's this righteousness that he's mentioning 00:06:56.860 --> 00:07:06.870 here? What is this? And how does that relate 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:15.209 to us? Okay. We receive his righteousness through 00:07:15.209 --> 00:07:22.209 faith. Okay. What else could we say? What does 00:07:22.209 --> 00:07:29.769 this mean? In particular, what does it mean for 00:07:29.769 --> 00:07:42.259 us? What good is it to us? We can be saved, but 00:07:42.259 --> 00:07:45.139 we can be what? Clothed in the righteousness 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:48.360 of Christ. That's the righteousness that he's 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.480 talking about here. He's talking about a righteousness 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:58.860 that is ours in Christ Jesus. He's talking about 00:07:58.860 --> 00:08:01.220 another word that we could use, that he goes 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:03.779 on to use later. What is another word that we 00:08:03.779 --> 00:08:06.759 could? We could use that Paul uses later on. 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:13.540 OK, justification. All right. That's what he's 00:08:13.540 --> 00:08:16.240 speaking of there. This righteousness that is 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:19.680 ours through Christ is justification. We are 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:27.620 justified. In Christ, because of Christ, through 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:31.819 faith. OK, so I want to point that out. That's 00:08:31.819 --> 00:08:34.820 what he's talking about here. And he says, what 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:39.139 is different here? He says, or maybe not different, 00:08:39.220 --> 00:08:43.080 but what's his emphasis there? He says it's apart 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:47.159 from the law, right? So apart from the law, a 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.240 righteousness of God has been revealed or manifested. 00:08:50.779 --> 00:08:54.019 What does that mean that it's apart from the 00:08:54.019 --> 00:08:59.080 law? That it cannot be attained through the law? 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:01.320 Okay, it cannot be attained through the law. 00:09:01.700 --> 00:09:05.470 Okay. Another way we can say that is what he 00:09:05.470 --> 00:09:08.850 just said before. No flesh shall be justified 00:09:08.850 --> 00:09:12.909 in his sight through the works of the law, right? 00:09:13.990 --> 00:09:16.169 He says that. I can't remember if he said that 00:09:16.169 --> 00:09:18.710 before or if he says that later. But he makes 00:09:18.710 --> 00:09:23.830 that clear to us. So it's apart from the law. 00:09:23.970 --> 00:09:27.210 It's not keeping the law. It's not working. It's 00:09:27.210 --> 00:09:30.850 not doing certain things. And then he says it's 00:09:30.850 --> 00:09:33.860 been revealed. What does that mean? Manifested, 00:09:33.940 --> 00:09:48.320 made known. It's become clear, right? When something 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.480 becomes manifest to us or something is revealed, 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:56.419 Paul often uses the word mystery, right? Have 00:09:56.419 --> 00:09:58.480 you ever heard Paul talk about the mystery of 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.679 the gospel? This mystery that has been revealed. 00:10:01.740 --> 00:10:03.860 It's something that was hidden. Something that 00:10:03.860 --> 00:10:07.820 wasn't real clear. And he says it is now. This 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:10.139 mystery has been revealed. It's been made known. 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.320 That's what Paul is saying here. This is made 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.740 clear to us. Now where does he say it came from? 00:10:18.740 --> 00:10:27.100 Manifested where? How? Is it something new? It's 00:10:27.100 --> 00:10:29.559 been made known where? in the law and the prophets. 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.480 So this isn't something new. We talked about 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.399 that last week, and I want to emphasize that 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:40.299 again. This, what Paul is saying, is nothing 00:10:40.299 --> 00:10:44.720 new in the sense of some new way of salvation. 00:10:45.740 --> 00:10:51.080 Okay? This is the same salvation that has always 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:55.620 been. And he says it was in the law and the prophets. 00:10:55.700 --> 00:11:00.080 It was revealed back there. It was witnessed 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.139 to by the law and the prophets. So if we think 00:11:03.139 --> 00:11:06.440 about that, so the law and the prophets, if we 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:10.159 just say the Old Testament scriptures made known 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:19.259 this righteousness that was going to justify 00:11:19.259 --> 00:11:22.919 us. Where does the Old Testament speak of that? 00:11:24.740 --> 00:11:27.179 Where is this righteousness revealed in the Old 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:30.629 Testament? Does anybody know? Can anybody think 00:11:30.629 --> 00:11:36.870 of anything? Isaiah? Okay, Isaiah what? Isaiah 00:11:36.870 --> 00:11:44.870 53. Speaks of what? The Messiah, right? The Messiah's 00:11:44.870 --> 00:11:50.049 death? The Lamb? The sacrifice? Okay, that's 00:11:50.049 --> 00:11:53.070 one. What else does the Old Testament speak of 00:11:53.070 --> 00:12:15.269 this righteousness? Okay. I don't have that one 00:12:15.269 --> 00:12:17.330 written down. I didn't write down all of them. 00:12:18.210 --> 00:12:20.830 There's a lot. I wrote down a few. Does anybody 00:12:20.830 --> 00:12:25.450 think of anything else where it talks about this 00:12:25.450 --> 00:12:31.210 idea of righteousness being ours? Okay, Jeremiah 00:12:31.210 --> 00:12:39.720 what? Well, I have one. I have one in Jeremiah 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.860 30s. There's a couple in Jeremiah. So Jeremiah 00:12:45.860 --> 00:12:51.980 33 is one. I'll just read it to you. So Jeremiah 00:12:51.980 --> 00:12:57.960 33, 14 and 15 says, Behold, days are coming, 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:00.340 declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the good 00:13:00.340 --> 00:13:02.519 news which I have spoken concerning the house 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:05.779 of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days 00:13:05.779 --> 00:13:08.860 and at that time, I will cause a righteous branch 00:13:08.860 --> 00:13:13.000 of David to spring forth. Now, who is that? Who 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.500 is this righteous branch of David? Jesus, right? 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:22.220 Jesus is referred to as the branch. And that 00:13:22.220 --> 00:13:27.580 righteous branch from David. Okay, so there we 00:13:27.580 --> 00:13:29.500 have this righteous branch of David is going 00:13:29.500 --> 00:13:31.879 to spring forth and he shall execute justice 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.529 and righteousness on earth. In those days, Judah 00:13:35.529 --> 00:13:37.909 will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in safety. 00:13:38.009 --> 00:13:40.549 And this is the name by which he shall be called. 00:13:41.330 --> 00:13:44.549 The Lord is our righteousness. All right. So 00:13:44.549 --> 00:13:51.149 there's a pretty clear definition there of who 00:13:51.149 --> 00:13:53.750 Jesus is going to be. He is going to be our righteousness. 00:13:55.409 --> 00:14:00.309 Again, that righteousness was revealed. It's 00:14:00.309 --> 00:14:03.370 the same in Jeremiah 23, 5 and 6. It's a very 00:14:03.370 --> 00:14:05.409 similar passage where it talks about the branch 00:14:05.409 --> 00:14:10.049 and the Lord our righteousness. Some other ones. 00:14:10.090 --> 00:14:17.450 Psalm 32. Psalm 32 speaks of it. I'll read that 00:14:17.450 --> 00:14:29.190 one. Psalm 32, 1 and 2. How blessed is he whose 00:14:29.190 --> 00:14:31.690 transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 00:14:31.830 --> 00:14:34.529 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does 00:14:34.529 --> 00:14:37.690 not impute iniquity and whose spirit there is 00:14:37.690 --> 00:14:43.190 no deceit. All right. Same idea there. Zechariah 00:14:43.190 --> 00:14:47.710 3, 3 through 5 is another one. The story there 00:14:47.710 --> 00:14:52.450 of the vision of Joshua and being clothed, taking 00:14:52.450 --> 00:14:55.049 his filthy garments off and being clothed in 00:14:55.049 --> 00:14:59.519 clean white garments. Same idea. These are just 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:03.240 a few passages in the Old Testament where Jesus 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.720 is witnessed. Right? Of this righteousness that 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:09.799 is to come. The righteousness that will come 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:14.220 to us through faith in Christ. Alright? So, that's 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:16.179 what Paul is talking about. That's what Paul 00:15:16.179 --> 00:15:23.460 is emphasizing here. This righteousness of God. 00:15:24.970 --> 00:15:28.070 Being manifest and witnessed by the law and the 00:15:28.070 --> 00:15:31.529 prophets. And then he goes on. Even the righteousness 00:15:31.529 --> 00:15:34.870 of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all 00:15:34.870 --> 00:15:38.129 those who believe. So this righteousness only 00:15:38.129 --> 00:15:44.769 comes to us by what? Through faith in Jesus Christ. 00:15:45.269 --> 00:15:48.730 That's the only way that we are ever going to 00:15:48.730 --> 00:15:53.350 receive this righteousness and be made right. 00:15:54.139 --> 00:15:59.559 In God's eyes. That's the key. This is it. This 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:02.559 is the only way. This is the only method. That 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:05.980 has been prescribed by God. For us to be made 00:16:05.980 --> 00:16:13.340 righteous. Any questions? Any questions or comments 00:16:13.340 --> 00:16:32.659 there? Okay, I want to skip down here then. Paul 00:16:32.659 --> 00:16:38.120 talks about another righteousness. What righteousness 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:46.120 is this that he talks about? God's righteousness. 00:16:46.379 --> 00:16:49.700 Okay, God's righteousness. In verse 25, at the 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:52.759 end, it says, this was to demonstrate. This, 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.080 the propitiation of Christ, his sacrifice, his 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.379 death, and so on, this was to demonstrate his 00:16:59.379 --> 00:17:03.080 righteousness, God's righteousness, because in 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.440 the forbearance of God he passed over the sins 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:08.099 previously committed. For the demonstration, 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.259 I say, of his righteousness at the present time, 00:17:11.460 --> 00:17:15.400 so that he would be just and the justifier of 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:18.589 the one who has faith in Jesus. So Brian said 00:17:18.589 --> 00:17:20.650 that speaking of God's righteousness, why does 00:17:20.650 --> 00:17:22.690 Paul bring that up? What's Paul's point there? 00:17:22.769 --> 00:17:26.130 Why does he bring up God's righteousness in relation 00:17:26.130 --> 00:17:39.529 to Christ's death? That's not where I'm going. 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:54.180 That's it right there. God is just. God is holy. 00:17:55.099 --> 00:17:59.619 If you think of God as the judge. Can the judge. 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:09.059 How do I say this? Can a judge. Say to a man. 00:18:13.180 --> 00:18:16.099 Go your way. So let's just say a murderer. Is 00:18:16.099 --> 00:18:20.450 standing in the court. And the judge says. not 00:18:20.450 --> 00:18:23.730 guilty, even though he did commit the murder, 00:18:23.849 --> 00:18:26.650 and send him on his way. Is that a just judge? 00:18:28.329 --> 00:18:31.730 What happened there? Or maybe he says, you're 00:18:31.730 --> 00:18:34.410 guilty, but we're going to set you free. What 00:18:34.410 --> 00:18:37.529 is that called? What do we call that? Do we call 00:18:37.529 --> 00:18:42.690 that justice? What do we call that? A pardon. 00:18:43.329 --> 00:18:45.769 That's the word I'm looking for. He is pardoned. 00:18:46.250 --> 00:18:49.599 He's not innocent. And he hasn't paid for his 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:56.200 sin. Okay? But he's let free. Is that what God 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:05.819 did for us? Did God pardon us? No. Because if 00:19:05.819 --> 00:19:09.339 he just pardoned us, would he be righteous? Would 00:19:09.339 --> 00:19:14.240 he be just in what he did? No. And so that's 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:18.240 Paul's point here. He's saying, God's righteousness 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:23.180 is revealed. God's righteousness is shown. God 00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:27.480 shows himself to be righteous because he dealt 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:32.019 with the sin issue. There was payment made for 00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:36.660 the sin. For all of those who were condemned, 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.140 something occurred. When they placed their faith 00:19:41.140 --> 00:19:48.000 in Jesus Christ, what happened? How is God just 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.960 if he says you're clothed in righteousness now 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:58.240 and you're justified? What happened? The penalty 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:04.740 was paid, right? Jesus bore the penalty. And 00:20:04.740 --> 00:20:09.299 so he bore what the law required. The law required 00:20:09.299 --> 00:20:14.500 a payment. The law required justice. And in order 00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:19.079 for God to be just. Someone had to pay the price. 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:23.779 And that's what Paul is saying. Jesus Christ 00:20:23.779 --> 00:20:30.079 paid the price. Jesus Christ. Fulfilled the requirement 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:35.420 of the law. The requirement of God. For the sins 00:20:35.420 --> 00:20:39.339 of those who put their faith in him. And so because 00:20:39.339 --> 00:20:43.910 of Jesus Christ. God's righteousness is revealed 00:20:43.910 --> 00:20:51.410 there in the punishment of Christ and the forgiveness 00:20:51.410 --> 00:20:54.470 of our sin. Do you see how that relates? Do you 00:20:54.470 --> 00:20:56.869 see how that works out? That's what Paul's talking 00:20:56.869 --> 00:21:02.109 about here. Does that make sense? Does everybody 00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:06.769 see that that's what Paul's talking about? God's 00:21:06.769 --> 00:21:10.609 righteousness is demonstrated. Through the punishment 00:21:10.609 --> 00:21:14.130 of Christ upon the cross. Through Christ bearing 00:21:14.130 --> 00:21:17.849 our sin. Bearing the wrath of God. That word 00:21:17.849 --> 00:21:22.569 propitiation. What is that? What does that mean? 00:21:24.750 --> 00:21:27.970 Taking away the wrath. A wrath bearer. Taking 00:21:27.970 --> 00:21:31.789 away the wrath. Jesus Christ is our propitiation. 00:21:31.789 --> 00:21:38.700 He bore the wrath of God. Because of all that 00:21:38.700 --> 00:21:42.740 occurred there upon the cross. God can now justify 00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:49.400 the sinner. God is able to forgive. Those who 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:54.059 have faith in the work of Christ. Because it 00:21:54.059 --> 00:21:57.099 would not be just. God would not be just if he 00:21:57.099 --> 00:22:00.579 just pardoned us. God would not be just if he 00:22:00.579 --> 00:22:05.119 just said. If he winked at sin. Or if he swept 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:10.359 it under the rug. That's an unjust God. And so 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:13.319 that's what Paul is emphasizing here. The righteousness 00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:16.440 of God. So there's two righteousnesses here that 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:18.500 are being talked about. So I just want us to 00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:22.160 understand both of those righteousnesses. It's 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:25.119 that righteousness of Jesus Christ that justifies 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:28.740 us. And the righteousness of God, the justice 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:34.420 of God, the rightness of God. And it is all demonstrated 00:22:34.420 --> 00:22:37.750 here. In the cross. In the work of Jesus Christ. 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:17.160 It does. So again, I'm no Greek scholar. So Lloyd 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:26.440 -Jones, Moo, Hendrickson, they all translate. 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.720 If you read Lloyd -Jones, he says a better way 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:33.579 to translate this is apart from the law, a righteousness 00:23:33.579 --> 00:23:36.930 of God is revealed. It's not the righteousness 00:23:36.930 --> 00:23:42.970 of God. In mine, the the is italicized. Is yours 00:23:42.970 --> 00:23:47.490 italicized where it says the? Okay. So it's not 00:23:47.490 --> 00:23:51.009 the. So again, according to Lloyd -Jones and 00:23:51.009 --> 00:23:54.009 these other guys, a better way to translate it 00:23:54.009 --> 00:23:57.410 is, apart from the law, a righteousness of God. 00:23:57.529 --> 00:23:59.869 So it's not the righteousness of God that is 00:23:59.869 --> 00:24:13.740 being revealed. It's a righteousness. And the 00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:16.640 same there in verse 22. Even the righteousness 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:20.380 of God would be better a righteousness of God 00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:33.740 through faith in Jesus Christ. Yes. You have 00:24:33.740 --> 00:25:17.019 of. Any other questions? Let's just define a 00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:18.980 couple things here too. As we go through here. 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:21.380 Because I wrote these down. I just want to make 00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:24.819 sure that everybody. So we talked about propitiation. 00:25:24.859 --> 00:25:33.440 What that is. Bearing the wrath of God. In verse 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:43.980 24. He says being justified as a gift. By his 00:25:43.980 --> 00:25:46.720 grace. Through the redemption which is in Christ 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:57.400 Jesus. This word redemption. Again, what does 00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:59.819 that mean? What does this word redemption mean? 00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:08.460 Redeem. Going to redeem something. The redemption. 00:26:09.579 --> 00:26:21.519 What is that? Right? So redemption would be deliverance 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:26.079 by means of the payment of a ransom. Okay, so 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:31.160 something being paid there. I think this was 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:33.799 Hendrickson that said this. Deliverance by means 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.740 of the payment of a ransom from the guilt, punishment, 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.819 and power of sin. So that's what has been accomplished 00:26:41.819 --> 00:26:45.380 by Christ when he redeemed us. He paid that price 00:26:45.380 --> 00:26:49.059 to free us from the guilt, power, punishment 00:26:49.059 --> 00:27:00.539 of sin. So, our redemption in Christ. Alright. 00:27:02.900 --> 00:27:05.839 We already, I think, again, let me just emphasize 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:15.259 this. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe I'll just wait. 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:21.240 Don't want to get into all my notes for Sunday. 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:27.839 Alright, so are we good there? No more questions. 00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:35.279 Alright, so going on then, I just want to point 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:39.660 out a few things here. Paul says all of this, 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:42.799 right? He says, This is how we are justified. 00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:47.640 This is how we are made right with God. He says 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:53.140 in verse 28, this is where he says, For we maintain 00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:58.019 that a man is justified by faith apart from the 00:27:58.019 --> 00:28:02.019 works of the law. And then in verse 31 he says, 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:05.700 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May 00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:09.180 it never be. On the contrary, we establish the 00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:13.440 law. So again, Paul is making these statements 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:17.099 about the laws, as we pointed out last week, 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:20.019 that would have been very controversial to the 00:28:20.019 --> 00:28:25.240 Jews. So why does Paul ask this question? Remember 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.599 what we said last week? When Paul asks a question, 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:33.539 he asks that question generally because of what 00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:37.299 he's said before. What he said before is going 00:28:37.299 --> 00:28:40.420 to bring this question to people's minds. So 00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:43.960 here he's talking about justification by faith. 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.859 Being made right with God by faith and not by 00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:50.980 the works of the law. And then he says, do we 00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:55.440 then nullify the law through faith? And he answers 00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:59.220 that. He says, may it never be. So, clearly not. 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:06.519 But why does he ask that question? How would... 00:29:09.009 --> 00:29:11.609 nullify the law? What were they thinking that 00:29:11.609 --> 00:29:14.569 it would nullify the law? And then he goes on, 00:29:14.589 --> 00:29:17.789 he says, on the contrary, we established the 00:29:17.789 --> 00:29:20.150 law. So everything that Paul's been saying, he 00:29:20.150 --> 00:29:23.390 says, what I've been saying doesn't nullify the 00:29:23.390 --> 00:29:26.130 law, it establishes the law. It makes the law, 00:29:26.329 --> 00:29:30.329 shows the law did what it was supposed to do. 00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:36.190 How does all that relate? Have you thought about 00:29:36.190 --> 00:29:42.109 that? Why would they think that faith nullifies 00:29:42.109 --> 00:30:10.190 the law? If you're justified freely in verse 00:30:10.190 --> 00:30:15.529 24, perhaps that could make you think that, you 00:30:15.529 --> 00:30:17.990 know, what's the point of the law? I don't need 00:30:17.990 --> 00:30:24.230 that anymore. You're not boasting because it's 00:30:24.230 --> 00:30:28.630 a free gift. So, again, I think the law is worthless. 00:30:30.569 --> 00:30:32.829 There's nothing to boast of. Why would I do any 00:30:32.829 --> 00:30:41.890 work? Does that make sense to everybody, what 00:30:41.890 --> 00:30:43.750 Jake said there? Does that make sense? Does that 00:30:43.750 --> 00:30:58.390 seem reasonable? I think that's probably what's 00:30:58.390 --> 00:31:00.490 going on here. I think that's probably why Paul 00:31:00.490 --> 00:31:03.190 is saying this, for those very reasons. Why, 00:31:03.230 --> 00:31:07.269 you know, if we're justified by faith, it's not 00:31:07.269 --> 00:31:10.869 some work. Then we don't even need the law, right? 00:31:11.230 --> 00:31:14.109 We'll just discard the law completely and we'll 00:31:14.109 --> 00:31:19.109 just live by faith. And Paul says, no, we're 00:31:19.109 --> 00:31:22.230 not nullifying the law here by faith. We established 00:31:22.230 --> 00:31:38.579 the law. How does it establish the law? Well, 00:31:38.579 --> 00:31:41.299 he talks about faith in chapter 4. What was the 00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:54.420 purpose of the law? Okay. For through the law 00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:58.720 comes the knowledge of sin. Verse 20 of chapter 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:04.420 3. Through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:12.150 And what comes with the knowledge of sin? The 00:32:12.150 --> 00:32:16.309 need for a Savior. You've been condemned, right? 00:32:16.809 --> 00:32:19.309 That's Paul's whole point there in the beginning. 00:32:19.509 --> 00:32:24.589 You're condemned. You have a need. The law establishes 00:32:24.589 --> 00:32:28.049 exactly what Paul is trying to emphasize. You 00:32:28.049 --> 00:32:31.210 are condemned under the law. Your sin is being 00:32:31.210 --> 00:32:36.769 revealed by the law. You need faith. You need 00:32:36.769 --> 00:32:41.740 justification. You need this righteousness. And 00:32:41.740 --> 00:32:44.920 that only comes through faith. It doesn't come 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:49.839 through the law. So, contrary to what they're 00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.119 saying, that this is nullifying the law, Paul 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.079 is saying we establish it here. It's doing exactly 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.299 what it's supposed to do. It's showing you your 00:32:59.299 --> 00:33:03.339 sin, your condemnation, and your need for everything 00:33:03.339 --> 00:33:08.220 he just got done saying. Alright? We're going 00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:09.960 to leave it at that, unless you've got some more 00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:34.839 questions. correlate. I remember when we went 00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.099 through the Old Testament with the covenants 00:33:37.099 --> 00:33:40.400 and establishing also strengthening. It kind 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:44.480 of builds up the law in a way because Christ 00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:47.460 did all the things that he was supposed to do. 00:33:47.660 --> 00:33:51.119 It doesn't make the law more glorious, but he 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:54.640 did the thing. There's a list of rules. I have 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.299 a list of possible rules to follow at work. I 00:33:57.299 --> 00:34:00.400 do them all. Of course, it makes me look good, 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:05.900 sure, but also it... It shows that the law, like, 00:34:05.940 --> 00:34:11.440 it was fulfilled, it was done. It maybe brings 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:13.159 a little bit of glory to it, I guess. I don't 00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.900 know. What you said there in the beginning I 00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:20.880 think is good. The fact that Christ fulfilled 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.900 all of these things. He accomplished everything 00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:27.920 that was required by the law, including his death. 00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:33.139 So yeah, I think you can think of it in that 00:34:33.139 --> 00:34:38.079 way. Can't you also say that this is the standard? 00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:41.719 This is what God's going to be, it's not ever 00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:45.880 going to change. This is the judgment that men 00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.840 are under is this condemnation of the law. And 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:51.960 the only reason that all men aren't condemned 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.760 is because Christ kept the law for those who 00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.179 believe in him. So the law is established as 00:34:59.179 --> 00:35:11.889 a means of judgment. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? 00:35:26.909 --> 00:35:32.960 So... That's about all I have for tonight. I 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:37.880 did want to, again, just bring up the fact of 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:46.519 chapter 4, where Paul gives us the clear teaching 00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:52.679 there of Abraham's being justified by faith. 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:56.719 Remember, we ran through that last week. How 00:35:56.719 --> 00:36:11.780 and when was Abraham Justified. Okay. Believing 00:36:11.780 --> 00:36:17.619 the promises. What is believing? Faith. Prior 00:36:17.619 --> 00:36:22.480 to circumcision. Not law. Right? Before the law. 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:28.199 Again. Paul there. Who's dealing with circumcision. 00:36:28.219 --> 00:36:31.079 The law came later with Moses. But his point 00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:35.460 there is. This circumcision. This being. This 00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:38.820 outward thing. Is not what saved Abraham. It 00:36:38.820 --> 00:36:42.719 was all faith. Alright. So he's establishing. 00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:46.239 Everything that he just got done saying here. 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:49.480 Regarding faith. Our justification by faith. 00:36:50.340 --> 00:36:54.340 Being the same. Back in the day of Abraham. As 00:36:54.340 --> 00:36:58.409 it is today. In Paul's day. And as it is in our 00:36:58.409 --> 00:37:04.289 day, 2 ,000 years later, it's the same. So justification 00:37:04.289 --> 00:37:11.230 by faith is not a new teaching that Paul came 00:37:11.230 --> 00:37:15.150 up with. Now we're believing because Paul said 00:37:15.150 --> 00:37:20.769 it. It goes way back. Way back. And he demonstrates 00:37:20.769 --> 00:37:24.840 that through Abraham. That Abraham believed and 00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.099 it was counted to him as righteousness. He was 00:37:28.099 --> 00:37:34.099 justified because he believed in the promises 00:37:34.099 --> 00:37:40.019 of God. Abraham, Jesus says, rejoiced to see 00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:44.480 my day. So he knew about Jesus. He was looking 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:49.900 forward to him. Believing the promises of God. 00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:53.480 Believing what God had said. And he was justified. 00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:58.880 And so. That's chapter 4. Obviously there's a 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.579 lot more in chapter 4. Paul deals with a lot. 00:38:01.780 --> 00:38:05.400 But that's the thrust. That's the main point. 00:38:05.539 --> 00:38:07.500 That he's trying to get across there. Is that 00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:10.800 this justification by faith. Is nothing new. 00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:15.079 It's the same then. It's the same today in our 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:26.840 day. Any questions? So Sunday, we're going to 00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:34.639 start chapter 5. And we're going to look at justification 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:40.920 again. Hopefully we'll define it a little bit 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:44.719 more and have some other examples of it, what 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:53.300 it is, what it is not. In our day, Men are quote 00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:56.559 -unquote saved by all sorts of things, all right? 00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:59.380 But they're not truly saved. They're not truly 00:38:59.380 --> 00:39:02.559 justified because that's not how men are saved. 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:05.400 So we'll talk about some of those things and 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.559 what it really means to be justified. So what 00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:11.619 does it mean that we're clothed in the righteousness 00:39:11.619 --> 00:39:20.530 of Christ? And so on. So read ahead. If you have 00:39:20.530 --> 00:39:23.130 other questions about what we've talked about, 00:39:23.210 --> 00:39:28.869 we can answer those also. So feel free. All right, 00:39:28.889 --> 00:39:29.269 that's it.