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God Who Justifies the Ungodly (Part 2 of 2) by Martyn McGeown Part 1: God Who Justifies the Ungodly (1) The man who is justified, the man who does not work for his justification, but believes in the God who justifies the ungodly, does not remain ungodly. After he is justified, he is no longer ungod
Not so, says the Reformed faith, quoting the apostle in Romans 4:5. God does not justify the man whom he has made godly; God justifies the ungodly. God justifies the man who does not work—who does not bring his works into justification—but believes in the God who justifies the ungodly, the God who i
God justifies the ungodly. That is the keynote that resounds throughout Lord's Day 23 and which we hear again in this Lord's Day as we are once more placed before the judgment seat of the living God. We hear His verdict pronounced over us: Not guilty! He finds no reason to condemn or to punish us, f
Many contend that this doctrine makes our God unjust, a God who delights in arbitrary and cruel spite. Perhaps we are sometimes inclined to agree with that evaluation. But the scriptures testify that God is just. He punishes the wicked for their wickedness. They deserve their terrible sentence. Acco
And yet, the fourth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans contains this remarkable clause, to wit: "Who justifies the ungodly?" And this is said of God. It is He, says the apostle, who justifies the ungodly. The prophets on the other hand, emphatically affirm that God does not justify the wicked.
Does this, then, make Him unjust? Who will be as big a fool as the Devil to suggest it? But are not the providences of God inscrutable and mysterious? Unquestionably so. But these mysteries reveal not the injustice of the Almighty, but the superficiality of finite understanding. Take comfort in the
In that too he is just. The truth that God is just is simple to understand, but it is hard to confess. Often it seems to us that God isn’t just. We disagree with the way he’s made us, with the gifts that he’s given to us, and with the position in life in which he’s placed us. We wonder if it’s just
In contrast to them, Noah was "a preacher of righteousness." Noah was personally righteous, being forgiven in the promised seed of the woman. And he was righteous because he labored to do the right. During the 120 years that he was preparing the ark, Noah preached righteousness, that is, he preached
His holiness demanded that sinful man pay for his wickedness and His perfection set the standard of that payment. God’s justice demanded that the world be destroyed. God’s righteous judgment of earth is a necessary part of the history of the world, as it displays His holiness, hatred of sin, and per
But more dreadful still it becomes, if we contemplate that even upon the scenes of destruction God does not cease to cause His sun to shine upon the righteous and the unrighteous, and supplies men with the means and power to make and to use their instruments of destruction! Must not an ungodly world