Solomon’s Reign
2 Chronicles 8:1-18
Key Verse: 8:16
Date: Nov. 17, 2016
Question
What is justification?
Answer
Justification is the act of God's free grace by which He pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight. He does so only because He counts the righteousness of Christ as ours. Justification is received by faith alone.
Reference Passages
1
Ezekiel 36:27
27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Romans 3:24
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
2
Romans 4:6-8
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
2 Corinthians 5:19
19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
3
2 Corinthians 5:21
4
Romans 4:6
Romans 4:11
Romans 5:19
5
Galatians 2:16
Philippians 3:9