By faith – Part 2By faith – Part 2

Romans 3:27-4:25

ReviewReviewGod is RIGHTEOUS-Righteous in JUDGEMENT (1:18-3:20)-Righteous in JUSTIFICATION (3:21-c5)

Our part: FAITH“conviction that something is true

and therefore worthy of your trust”

Is Faith Sufficient?Is Faith Sufficient?Roman Catholicism – works required to

earn justification

Arminianism – works required to keep justification

Calvinism – works required to prove justification

AbrahamAbraham

AbrahamAbraham IsaacIsaac JacobJacob

RuebenRueben

LeviLeviSimeonSimeon

GadGad

JudahJudah

ZebulunZebulun

IssacharIssachar

DanDan

AsherAsher

NaphtaliNaphtali

JosephJoseph

BenjaminBenjamin

AbrahamAbrahamGenesis 12:1–3 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

AbrahamAbraham“Abraham was perfect in all his deeds with the Lord, and well-pleasing in righteousness all the days of his life.”

Jubilee 23:10“[Abraham] did not sin against thee.”

Prayer of Manasseh 8“...no one has been found like him in glory.”

Sirach 44:19

God Insists on Faith Alone God Insists on Faith Alone b/c...b/c...

1.Adding works inflames pride– “boast” – a cause for pride– Judges 7:2-4

Acts 4:13 Now as they [the Sanhedrin] observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

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1.Adding works inflames pride2.Adding works divides God’s family– circumcision & Mosaic Law = works

of Judaism– Dealt with in Acts 15

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1.Adding works inflames pride2.Adding works divides God’s family3.Adding works makes faith useless– If justification requires faith + keeping

the Law...– ...and keeping the Law is impossible...– ...then faith is useless!

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1.Adding works inflames pride2.Adding works divides God’s family3.Adding works makes faith useless

1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

ApplicationApplication

• Have you trusted in Jesus alone for justification?• What do you boast in?

Galatians 6:14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

ApplicationApplication

• Have you trusted in Jesus alone for justification?• What do you boast in?

Jeremiah 9:23–24 Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me...”