"justification" Tagged Sermons
1. The Impossibility of ______________________ by “Works of the Law” (Exodus 20:1-2; Romans 3:19-20).
2. The Three ___________ of God’s Moral ________ (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:19).
3. The ____________ of God’s Law in Our Lives!
1. The issue James addresses: _________________________.
2. “_____________________” according to James.
3. _____________ according to James.
1. Christ suffered ______________ for sins (v. 18a)!
2. Christ, the ___________________ one, suffered for the unrighteous (v. 18b).
3. Christ ___________________ that He might bring us to God (v. 18c).
1. Take to heart that there is one, and only one, Gospel (vv. 6-7).
2. Heed the apostolic warning: Anyone who perverts the Gospel of Christ will be eternally condemned (vv. 8-9).
1. The gospel reveals that God the Father effectually called elect sinners to salvation by means of the grace of Christ (v. 6).
2. Turning away from the biblical gospel for a different one is a turning away from God the Father (v. 6).
Israel’s double defeat signifies more than a military loss, and the modern church’s discomfort with naming God’s judgment on his own people does not make that judgment go away. Israel’s fall stands as a real warning to us, not just ancient history. Justification comes only by faith in Christ, exactly as Paul insists in Romans 11.
This review series opens with its purpose stated plainly: reminding the church of Luther’s and Calvin’s rediscovery of justification by faith alone, against the backdrop of the Roman Catholic mass. At its heart is the finality of Christ’s finished work, which alone secures our freedom.
Habakkuk 2:4 gets quoted directly three separate times in the New Testament, a frequency that signals its real theological weight. The Hebrew text repays close attention, exposing pride as a genuine spiritual disease rooted deep in human nature. Christ alone, among all men, is the one man entirely without that pride.
Luther found his own justification by faith in this very verse, and it is God speaking in 2:4, not Habakkuk voicing his own conviction. Judgment falls on Babylon, but also on Judah, and even on Habakkuk himself, no one exempted from the reckoning. What 2:2-3 promises is nothing less than God’s impending revelation of Christ.
Luther found real comfort in this psalm’s own account of justification by faith alone, a debt this sermon traces directly. The Calvinist and Lutheran readings diverge at points worth naming, even while agreeing on the doctrine’s core. Verses 8-11 turn from doctrine to practice: how the justified person is actually meant to live.