Justified by Faith and faith alone

This Sunday(October 17,2010), Pr.Juxy Mathew from Dubai(Maranatha Full Gospel Church), was the speaker in Revival Centre AG church, Fathenagar.
He was talking on the very important and basic topic of justification by Faith and its benefits.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ(Romans 5:1)


This verse very clearly tells us how we are sanctified or how we became righteous, its only through faith

This righteousness includes two things
1. Positional righteousness
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(2Cori 5:21)

Its the righteousness of God through Christ, we became justifies

2. Progressive righteousness
Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy.(Revelation 22:11)

What are the benefits we receive after we are justified by faith?

1. Peace with God
....we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ(Romans 5:1)

Peace with God and peace of God are different

Peace with God includes three things
a. Reconciliation with God
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.And by him we cry, "Abba,Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs -heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.(Romans 8:15-17)
When we are reconciled with God then without fear we can approach God's throne.
When we are reconciled with God then we became heirs of God's kingdom

b. Concord - agreement in views with God
c. Fellowship with God
And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ(1 John 1:3)

2. We stand in the grace of God
..through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand(Romans 5:2) This grace gives us the privilege to go before the Holiest of Holy, which was not the case in old testament.
This grace can remove your weakness. As conveyed to Paul "..My Grace is sufficient for you"

3. We rejoice in the hope of glory
...And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God(Romans 5:2)

4. We rejoice in sufferings
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance..(Romans 5:3)

5. We have love of God in our hearts
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us(Romans 5:5)

6. Saved from the wrath
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!(Romans 5:9)

7.Reconciliation by the blood of Jesus
For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!(Romans 5:10)