justification by faith alone in jesus christ

Justification by faith alone in Jesus Christ

2nd Quarter 2016lesson 3April 17, 2016

"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God." (Romans 4:20)

GOLDEN TEXT

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justification of sin before God is by faith alone.

PRACTICE TRUTH

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GENERAL OBJECTIVE

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Explain that we are justified before God by faith and not by works of the flesh.

I. Abalizar that justification manifested in Jesus Christ came to save Jews and Gentiles;

II. Show that Paul sought to answer, biblical way, disputes that his interlocutors were of justification;

III. Explain how Paul used the example of Abraham to treat about justification by faith.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

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17 (As it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.18 Who in hope believed against hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So shall thy seed be.19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.

BIBLICAL READING IN CLASS

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Romans 4-17-22

20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,21 And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was also able to do.22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

BIBLICAL READING IN CLASS

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Romans 4-17-22

The justification

before God is by faith alone.

CENTRAL POINT

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INTRODUCTIONIn today's lesson, we will study the biblical doctrine of justification by faith, as the Letter to the Romans in chapter 3.1- 4.25. These texts contain one of the strongest defenses of Paul in favor of justification by faith apart from works. For a better understanding of this subject as relevant, the apostle's argument will be divided into three parts: the stated justification, the contested justification and exemplified justification.

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INTRODUCTIONThe call of Abraham, the great patriarch of Israel, will be the basis of Paul's argument to prove the doctrine of justification by faith. Paul's point is that all the blessings of God and all his promises are fruits of his grace to us.

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• 1. A fault is cleared

I - JUSTIFICATION MANIFESTED (Rom 3.21-26)

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In Romans 3:21 we read, "But now manifested without the law, the righteousness of God, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets." Paul shows us how God revealed Himself to reach the Gentiles and Jews. The Gentiles were under the wrath of God, because it failed to meet it.

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The Jews were also under the divine wrath, because they can not keep the Word of the Lord. The word appeared in Greek, comes from a root whose meaning is to make manifest or visible or known what was hidden or was unknown.

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God, in the person of Jesus Christ, made known his great love for sinners. Find Paul using a figure extracted from the legal world to clarify your thinking. The term justice translates the Greek word dikaiosyne, very common in the context of a court.

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The picture is of someone who is acquitted by a judge, even being blamed for their actions. We concluded that, even guilty. God would justify us and forgive.

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• 2. A prisoner who is released.I - JUSTIFICATION MANIFESTED (Rom 3.21-26)

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In Romans 3:24, Paul uses the Greek verb apolytroseo to refer to the redemption accomplished by Jesus Christ. That word, as defined lexicons of the Greek language, has the sense of redemption, redemption or liberation. In the context of neo-testamentary has the sense of release by the price of a ransom.

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• 2. A prisoner who is released.I - JUSTIFICATION MANIFESTED (Rom 3.21-26)

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In the ancient world a slave could be redeemed by paying a price. This is exactly what God did. He sent Jesus Christ to rescue the man who was arrested in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2.1,2). Both Jews and Gentiles should be aware of this reality. No one can self release.

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• 3. An innocent who is guilty.I - JUSTIFICATION MANIFESTED (Rom 3.21-26)

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If the judicial system has been useful in elucidating the thought of the apostle, as the extracted figure of the Levitical sacrificial system also helped. This can be seen in the text: "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins

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before committed, through the forbearance of God "(Romans 3:25). The word propitiation (gr. hülas- terion), which is related to the term mercy seat is a very terminology used in the Old Testament to refer to the sacrifices for sin. In the Levitical system when someone sinned

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He became guilty of something, and an innocent animal was sacrificed for the guilt to be expiated. Paul shows that both Gentiles and Jews can not come to God for their efforts or works, but solely by the blood of Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God who was sacrificed for us.

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SYNOPSIS OF THE TOPIC (1)

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Paul shows us how God manifested his justification to reach the Gentiles and Jews.

SUBSIDY BIBLICAL"The Doctrine of JustificationTHE study the Doctrine of Sin found that no one can be justified by human justice. However, it is the doctrine of justification in the text of 3.1 to 5.21, the sinner is the way of justification through the atoning work of Christ. In the first state, the sinner is lost and without any possibility to be justified before God. In the second state, the sinner is Christ who justifies.It is from the chapter 3:21 that the sinner, Jew or Gentile,

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SUBSIDY BIBLICALfinds a new path through the merits of Jesus Christ. It is here that he can be forgiven and declared free from the penalty of your sin before God.Justification means absolution of guilt whose penalty was satisfied. It means to be declared free of all guilt having fulfilled all the requirements of the law.Justification is a forensic term denoting a judicial act of the administration of law. This judicial act legalizes the offender's situation before the law and makes it fair, that is, free from all condemnation. Christ took the punishment of the sinner and was

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SUBSIDY BIBLICALsentenced the sinner's place. He suffered the penalty against the sinner. Completion of the sentence, the final verdict of divine justice is the justification of the sinner. It is understood then to be justified does not mean that justice has been delayed, or that it has not been fulfilled " (CABRAL, Elienai. Romanos: 0 Evangelho da Justiça de Deus. 5.ed. Rio de Janeiro: CPAD, 2005, p.52).

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LEARN MORE"Justification. "[From heber tzadik, the gr daily;. Lat.justification in the].. Act to declare fair judicial process that is given by the Court of God, through which the sinner who accepts Christ is declared righteous (Rom 5.1 ) in other words:. is seen by God as if it had never sin throughout his life (Rom 5.1).Justification is more than a mere forgiveness. The criminal pardoned or amnestied, continue criminal. But if God justifies, he becomes righteous (Rom 8.1). Justification is obtained solely by faith in Christ Jesus. "To learn more read Dicionário Teológico, CPAD, p. 198.

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II - CONTESTED GROUNDS (Rom 3.27-31)

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1. The justification is opposed to meritorious salvationPaul wanted his teaching was not misunderstood, then using the method of the diatribe, stepping forward to answer the challenges that their partners could make it. "Where, then, is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but the law of faith" (Romans 3:27). The law said to do and the devout Jew was convinced that God would justify what I did. However,


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grace that taught Paul said do not, but accept what Jesus has done. What would be done so the Jewish pride that boasted of being the chosen people of God and good works that practiced? God would not take this into account in this new doctrine of Paul? In the words of the apostle, no! It is easy to imagine that for a devout Jew, the law keeper and practicing good works, that the teaching of justification "by faith alone"

1. The justification is opposed to meritorious salvation


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It was very difficult to digest. It is not easy we let go of our pride and fail to boast about us by our deeds. However, the doctrine of justification by faith says no human merit when the grace of God is manifested. Paul's conclusion is that "man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law" (Rom 3:28).

1. The justification is opposed to meritorious salvation


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2. The justification is opposed to nationalist pride.The second question that Paul seeks to answer is: "It is God the God of Jews only and not also of the Gentiles also, of the Gentiles.?" (Romans 3:29). This is another point that contrasted with the belief of Judaism of the first century-exclusivism. The doctrine of justification by faith reveals that God is not only the Jews, who were privileged by legalism over


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the Torah, but also of the Gentiles. God is not a nationalist deity, but He is the God of all the earth. There is no doubt that Paul had in mind the Jewish shema when argued on this subject: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord" (Dt 6.4). If God is the only God, as indeed says Jewish monotheism, then He is the God of Gentiles also. We can not fall into the mistake of thinking that God is our exclusive property.

2. The justification is opposed to nationalist pride.


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3. The justification is opposed to antinomianism."Do we then nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! Before we establish the law" (Romans 3:31). This is the last question to be answered by Paul in this section. The legalistic Jews defended the observance of the precepts of the law and accused Paul of being antinomian, that is, teach that the law no longer has any meaning. Paul was teaching that justification by faith become the despicable law? THE


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3. The justification is opposed to antinomianism.Paul's answer is no! The problem was not with the law, which had the function of serving conductive to Christ, but to the men who were unable to keep it. Neither Jew nor gentile one was able to fulfill the law. Only Jesus Christ has fulfilled for us. Any attempt to comply with the law is now null, and is an affront to that which proved to be the only one able to do it - Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Justification announced by Paul opposed the idea that the Jews of salvation by religious merits.

SUBSIDY BIBLICALTeacher, sub topic three shows that antinomianism opposes justification. Before discoursing on the subject make the following question: "What is antinomianism?" Listen students with attention and explain that "literally means against the law. Doctrine that asserts that there is no more need to preach or to observe the moral laws of the Old Testament. Calibrating this assertion, they claim the antimonistas that saved by faith in Christ Jesus, we are free from Moses trusteeship. Know however, be the moral ordinances of the Old Testament belonging to

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SUBSIDY BIBLICALCast natural law that the Creator incrustara the soul of Adam. How can we disregard the Ten Commandments? Every pious believer observes, for Christ came not to abolish them; come meet them and sublimate them. Moreover, modern laws are rightly grounded in the Decalogue "(ANDRADE, Claudionor Corrêa de. Dicionário Teológico. 8.ed. Rio de Janeiro: CPAD, 1999, p.44).

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III - JUSTIFICATION Exemplified (Rom 4.1-25)

1. Abraham, circumcision and justification (Rom 4.1-8).

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In Romans 4.1-8 section, the apostle Paul takes the example of the patriarch Abraham to make a contrast between justification by faith and works. The ancient Jewish tradition stated that Abraham already kept the Torah, even having lived centuries before it. He would have saved as "anticipates", because according to Judaism, relying on Genesis 17:23, Abraham is circumcised as a sign of


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covenant between him and God. Similarly the sacrifice of Isaac confirm this belief (Genesis 22). In other words, the works justified Abraham. Against this argument, Paul shows that Abraham could not have been accepted by God because of circumcision because he believed God, and it was reckoned as righteousness, before he was circumcised and at least four centuries before the advent



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of Law. He justified Abraham was not what he did, but what God has done for him. This is the beginning of the Gospel - are not accepted for what we did, but because of what Christ did for us.



2. Abraham, promise and justification (Romans 4.9-17).

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In the Abrahamic Covenant, God promised to Abraham's descendants a great nation. He also promised the patriarch who would give you as an inheritance the land and make his servant a blessing to all nations (Gen. 12.1-3). Referring to this divine promise, Paul argues that justification could not result from obedience to the law by the fact that when God made promise to


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Abraham, this was not even circumcised (Rom 4.10-15). The very Jewish belief said that the obedient faith of Abraham in the promises of God was counted to him as righteousness (Genesis 15.5,6). For Paul, that the blessings promised to Abraham depended upon obedience to the Mosaic code, then God's promises have failed, as no one had been able to meet or keep the law.

2. Abraham, promise and justification (Romans 4.9-17).


3- Abraham, resurrection and justification (Rom 4.18-25).

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In the theology of Paul in Romans 4.18-25 there is a parallel between Abraham's faith and the Christian faith - both believed in a God who makes possible the impossible things. Paul shows that God has made possible the realization of the promises to Abraham, even though his body already "deadened" because of his advanced age, and thus rewarded his faith. His faith even


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against external evidence, he assured him the fulfillment of the promises (Romans 4.16-22). Similarly, the Christian faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God is the guarantee that the promises of God in your life will also be fulfilled (Rom 4.23,25).

3- Abraham, resurrection and justification (Rom 4.18-25).


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Paul uses the example of the patriarch Abraham to show that justification is by faith alone.

SUBSIDY BIBLICAL"Paul says that if Abraham, the father of the Jews after the flesh had been jutgado by works or self-righteousness, would have to boast before God. But what we learned is that Abraham was like any other man, sinner and without no justice. He was declared righteous by faith (Rom 4.3). the Jews boasted in Abraham and believed that this would ensure them the justification, just because they are "children of Abraham according to the flesh." Verses 4 and 5 show two ways of justification: by merit and grace.

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SUBSIDY BIBLICALThe justification by merits is based on the works of man for his salvation. The justification by grace is based on the principle of faith. God justifies the sinner by faith. He imputes righteousness to the believer, that is by the grace of God " (CABRAL, Elienai. Romanos: 0 Evangelho da Justiça de Deus. 5.ed. Rio de Janeiro: CPAD, 2005, p.59).

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CONCLUSION

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We reached the end of an important lesson about the doctrine of justification by faith. In this lesson we learn that Paul appealed to the patriarch Abraham experience to argue against the Jewish belief that linked the acceptance of works as justification assurance before God. For Paul this could not be true since the old patriarch had no merit when he received God's promises. The blessings received by him as well as the New Covenant, are purely the grace of God in response to faith.

According to the lesson, why the Gentiles were under the wrath of God?The Gentiles were under the wrath of God, because it failed to meet it.The person whom God has made known his great love for sinners?In the person of Jesus Christ.There are human merit when God's grace is manifested?The doctrine of justification by faith says no human merit when the grace of God is manifested.

TO THINK ABOUT

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Regarding the Letter to the Romans, answer:

TO THINK ABOUT

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Justification by faith makes despicable law?Paul's answer is no! But Jew nor gentile one was able to fulfill the Law.What was the function of the law?Law had the function of serving conductive to Christ.

Regarding the Letter to the Romans, answer:

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• CPAD. Lições Bíblicas: Lições do I o trimestre de 2016 , Rio de Janeiro - RJ .

• Celso NapoleonTheology from Cicero Canuto de Lima, current FAESP -

Evangelical School of São Paulo. Technical Administration at State Center for Technological Education Paula Souza.

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