JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH—ROMANS 3:21-31

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. KJVs

Is a divine act whereby an infinitely Holy God judicially declares a believing sinner to be righteous and acceptable before Him because Christ has borne the sinner's sin on the cross and has become "to us . . . righteousness" (1 Cor 1:30; But it is from Him(God) that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin]. AMP Rom 3:24). Justification springs from the fountain of God's grace (Titus 3:4-5)

Faith is putting your trust in the Lord, is depending upon the Lord. We have forms or kinds of faith, but I am talking about the saving faith. Saving faith is believing the works Christ did on the cross as sufficient to forgive you your sin.

Justification springs from the fountain of God's grace (Titus 3:4-5).

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

It was not Christ who saved us but it was God. He did it through Christ His son.

Justification by the grace of God can first be seen in the life of Joshua the high priest in Zech. 3:1-9

Titus 3:4 “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit”. NIV

Grace is God giving what man is not worthy of. God’s Love and His Mercy work through Grace. Without Grace the love of God and His mercy would have been void.

We have been justified from sin of any form or any kind. The sins of the past and our present sin. Intentional and unintentional sin, and the sin we inherited form Adam.

Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. KJV

Rom 5:9-10 “…how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! NIV”

Rom 4:5

5 However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. NIV

Rom 8:33

33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. NIV

Rom 5:9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, NIV

Justification makes no one righteous, neither is it the bestowment of righteousness as such, but rather it declares one to be justified whom God sees as perfected once and forever in His beloved Son. "Therefore, this may be stated as the correct formula of justification: The sinner becomes righteous in God's sight when he is in Christ: he is justified by God freely, all without a cause, because thereby he is righteous in His sight"

Justification does not depend on anything and we must not look on the person’s appearance to judge him/her. The fact is, if God is going to justified a person base on tradition and culture God will have problem. One culture allows a woman to wear trousers another culture forbids a woman of wearing those same trousers. One tradition says a man cannot wear skirt another tradition allows the man to wear skirt to gathering. So which is which? “The truth is God is not going to justified a person according to culture or tradition He justified a person by his faith in Jesus Christ”

There is no where in the Bible, which says a woman should not wear trousers. Where the bible talks about attire and other things it will be for culture reason.

We must separate what is culture and tradition from the Bible. Justification does not depend on the attire the person wears to church

Our problem in Africa Christianity is that we place much emphasis on the outside rather the inside (the heart).