Tag Archives: Justification
You Are My Righteousness
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Upon a Life I Have Not Lived, Upon a Death I Did Not Die
Upon a Life I have not lived,
Upon a Death I did not die,
Another’s Life; Another’s Death,
I stake my whole eternity.
Not on the tears which I have shed,
Not on the sorrows I have known,
Another’s tears; Another’s griefs,
On these I rest, on these alone.
HT: @ScottAniol
Justification and Sanctification
It is absurd to imagine that God should justify a people and not sanctify them.
HT: @mmattinglyjr
Feeling Beat up by People Lately? There’s Good News!
Though men may accuse you, judge and condemn you, yet know for your support, that you are acquitted before the throne of God. However you may stand in the eyes of men, as full of nothing but faults, persons made up of nothing but sin, yet are you clear in the eyes of God.
God looks upon weak saints in the Son of His love, and sees them all lovely. They are as the tree of Paradise, ‘fair to his eye, and pleasant to his taste,’ (Gen. 3:6).
Ah, poor souls! You are apt to look upon your spots and blots, and to cry out with the leper not only ‘Unclean, unclean!’ but ‘Undone, undone!’
Well, forever remember this, that your persons stand before God in the righteousness of Christ, upon which account you always appear, before the throne of God, without fault. You are all fair, and there is no spot in you.
Thomas Brooks, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,” The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/2001), 70.
Sola Fide: By Faith Alone
This must be our ground and anchor-hold, that Christ is our only perfect righteousness.
HT: @tabletalk
Not by Works of Righteousness Which We Have Done
If Christ is enough, then it is folly to trust our own works or to try to add one atom of righteousness to Christ’s work.
Preach It!
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
HT: @nwbingham
The Offices of Christ
I sin continually, but Christ has died, and forever lives, as my Redeemer, Priest, Advocate, and King.
HT: @crossway
The True Labor Day Rest
Peace is the result of justification by faith. The person who relies on his works for justification can have no peace.
Charles Hodge (1797 – 1878) on Romans 5.1
Life Is Worship 