Justification by faith alone in jesus christ

Justification by faith
alone in Jesus Christ
2nd Quarter 2016
lesson 3
April 17, 2016

"He staggered not at the promise of
God through unbelief, but was
strengthened in faith, giving glory
to God." (Romans 4:20)
GOLDEN TEXT
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justification of sin before
God is by faith alone.
PRACTICE TRUTH
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GENERAL OBJECTIVE
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Explain that we are justified before
God by faith and not by works of the
flesh.

I. Abalizar that justification manifested in Jesus
Christ came to save Jews and Gentiles;
II. Show that Paul sought to answer, biblical way,
disputes that his interlocutors were of
justification;
III. Explain how Paul used the example of Abraham to
treat about justification by faith.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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17 (As it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee)
before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the
dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
18 Who in hope believed against hope, that he might become
the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So
shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body
now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither
yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.
BIBLICAL READING IN CLASS
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Romans 4-17-22

20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief,
but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he
was also able to do.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
BIBLICAL READING IN CLASS
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Romans 4-17-22

The
justification
before God is
by faith
alone.
CENTRAL POINT
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INTRODUCTION
In today's lesson, we will study the biblical
doctrine of justification by faith, as the
Letter to the Romans in chapter 3.1- 4.25.
These texts contain one of the strongest
defenses of Paul in favor of justification by
faith apart from works. For a better
understanding of this subject as relevant,
the apostle's argument will be divided into
three parts: the stated justification, the
contested justification and exemplified
justification.
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INTRODUCTION
The call of Abraham, the great patriarch of
Israel, will be the basis of Paul's argument
to prove the doctrine of justification by
faith. Paul's point is that all the blessings of
God and all his promises are fruits of his
grace to us.
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• 1. A fault is cleared
I - JUSTIFICATIONMANIFESTED(Rom3.21-26)
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In Romans 3:21 we read, "But now
manifested without the law, the
righteousness of God, being
witnessed by the Law and the
Prophets." Paul shows us how God
revealed Himself to reach the
Gentiles and Jews. The Gentiles
were under the wrath of God,
because it failed to meet it.
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The Jews were also under the
divine wrath, because they can
not keep the Word of the Lord.
The word appeared in Greek,
comes from a root whose
meaning is to make manifest or
visible or known what was hidden
or was unknown.
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God, in the person of Jesus Christ,
made known his great love for
sinners. Find Paul using a figure
extracted from the legal world to
clarify your thinking. The term
justice translates the Greek word
dikaiosyne, very common in the
context of a court.
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The picture is of someone who is
acquitted by a judge, even being
blamed for their actions. We
concluded that, even guilty. God
would justify us and forgive.
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• 2. A prisoner who is released.
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In Romans 3:24, Paul uses the Greek
verb apolytroseo to refer to the
redemption accomplished by Jesus
Christ. That word, as defined lexicons
of the Greek language, has the sense of
redemption, redemption or liberation.
In the context of neo-testamentary has
the sense of release by the price of a
ransom.
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• 2. A prisoner who is released.
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In the ancient world a slave could be
redeemed by paying a price. This is
exactly what God did. He sent Jesus
Christ to rescue the man who was
arrested in trespasses and sins
(Ephesians 2.1,2). Both Jews and
Gentiles should be aware of this
reality. No one can self release.
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• 3. An innocent who is guilty.
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If the judicial system has been useful
in elucidating the thought of the
apostle, as the extracted figure of the
Levitical sacrificial system also
helped. This can be seen in the text:
"Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins
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before committed, through the
forbearance of God "(Romans
3:25). The word propitiation (gr.
hülas- terion), which is related to
the term mercy seat is a very
terminology used in the Old
Testament to refer to the
sacrifices for sin. In the Levitical
system when someone sinned
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He became guilty of something,
and an innocent animal was
sacrificed for the guilt to be
expiated. Paul shows that both
Gentiles and Jews can not come to
God for their efforts or works, but
solely by the blood of Jesus, the
innocent Lamb of God who was
sacrificed for us.
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SYNOPSIS OF THE TOPIC (1)
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Paul shows us how God manifested
his justification to reach the Gentiles
and Jews.

SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
"The Doctrine of Justification
THE study the Doctrine of Sin found that no one can be
justified by human justice. However, it is the doctrine of
justification in the text of 3.1 to 5.21, the sinner is the way of
justification through the atoning work of Christ. In the first
state, the sinner is lost and without any possibility to be
justified before God. In the second state, the sinner is Christ
who justifies.
It is from the chapter 3:21 that the sinner, Jew or Gentile,
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SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
finds a new path through the merits of Jesus Christ. It is here
that he can be forgiven and declared free from the penalty of
your sin before God.
Justification means absolution of guilt whose penalty was
satisfied. It means to be declared free of all guilt having fulfilled
all the requirements of the law.
Justification is a forensic term denoting a judicial act of the
administration of law. This judicial act legalizes the offender's
situation before the law and makes it fair, that is, free from all
condemnation. Christ took the punishment of the sinner and
was
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SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
sentenced the sinner's place. He suffered the penalty against
the sinner. Completion of the sentence, the final verdict of
divine justice is the justification of the sinner. It is understood
then to be justified does not mean that justice has been
delayed, or that it has not been fulfilled " (CABRAL, Elienai.
Romanos: 0 Evangelho da Justiça de Deus. 5.ed. Rio de
Janeiro: CPAD, 2005, p.52).
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LEARN MORE
"Justification
. "[From heber tzadik, the gr daily;. Lat.justification in the].. Act
to declare fair judicial process that is given by the Court of God,
through which the sinner who accepts Christ is declared
righteous (Rom 5.1 ) in other words:. is seen by God as if it had
never sin throughout his life (Rom 5.1).
Justification is more than a mere forgiveness. The criminal
pardoned or amnestied, continue criminal. But if God justifies,
he becomes righteous (Rom 8.1). Justification is obtained solely
by faith in Christ Jesus. "To learn more read Dicionário Teológico,
CPAD, p. 198.
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II-CONTESTEDGROUNDS(Rom3.27-31)
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1. The justification is opposed to meritorious salvation
Paul wanted his teaching was not
misunderstood, then using the method
of the diatribe, stepping forward to
answer the challenges that their
partners could make it. "Where, then, is
boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? Of works? No, but the law of faith"
(Romans 3:27). The law said to do and
the devout Jew was convinced that God
would justify what I did. However,

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grace that taught Paul said do not, but
accept what Jesus has done. What
would be done so the Jewish pride that
boasted of being the chosen people of
God and good works that practiced?
God would not take this into account in
this new doctrine of Paul? In the words
of the apostle, no! It is easy to imagine
that for a devout Jew, the law keeper
and practicing good works, that the
teaching of justification "by faith alone"

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It was very difficult to digest. It is not
easy we let go of our pride and fail to
boast about us by our deeds. However,
the doctrine of justification by faith says
no human merit when the grace of God
is manifested. Paul's conclusion is that
"man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law" (Rom 3:28).

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2. The justification is opposed to nationalist pride.
The second question that Paul seeks to
answer is: "It is God the God of Jews
only and not also of the Gentiles also, of
the Gentiles.?" (Romans 3:29). This is
another point that contrasted with the
belief of Judaism of the first century-
exclusivism. The doctrine of justification
by faith reveals that God is not only the
Jews, who were privileged by legalism
over

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the Torah, but also of the Gentiles. God is
not a nationalist deity, but He is the God of
all the earth. There is no doubt that Paul
had in mind the Jewish shema when argued
on this subject: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God is one Lord" (Dt 6.4). If God is the only
God, as indeed says Jewish monotheism,
then He is the God of Gentiles also. We can
not fall into the mistake of thinking that
God is our exclusive property.
2. The justification is opposed to nationalist pride.

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3. The justification is opposed to antinomianism.
"Do we then nullify the law through
faith? Certainly not! Before we establish
the law" (Romans 3:31). This is the last
question to be answered by Paul in this
section. The legalistic Jews defended
the observance of the precepts of the
law and accused Paul of being
antinomian, that is, teach that the law
no longer has any meaning. Paul was
teaching that justification by faith
become the despicable law? THE

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3. The justification is opposed to antinomianism.
Paul's answer is no! The problem was
not with the law, which had the
function of serving conductive to Christ,
but to the men who were unable to
keep it. Neither Jew nor gentile one was
able to fulfill the law. Only Jesus Christ
has fulfilled for us. Any attempt to
comply with the law is now null, and is
an affront to that which proved to be
the only one able to do it - Jesus Christ
our Lord.

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Justification announced by Paul
opposed the idea that the Jews of
salvation by religious merits.

SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
Teacher, sub topic three shows that antinomianism opposes
justification. Before discoursing on the subject make the
following question: "What is antinomianism?" Listen students
with attention and explain that "literally means against the
law. Doctrine that asserts that there is no more need to
preach or to observe the moral laws of the Old Testament.
Calibrating this assertion, they claim the antimonistas that
saved by faith in Christ Jesus, we are free from Moses
trusteeship. Know however, be the moral ordinances of the
Old Testament belonging to
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SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
Cast natural law that the Creator incrustara the soul of Adam.
How can we disregard the Ten Commandments? Every pious
believer observes, for Christ came not to abolish them; come
meet them and sublimate them. Moreover, modern laws are
rightly grounded in the Decalogue "(ANDRADE, Claudionor
Corrêa de. Dicionário Teológico. 8.ed. Rio de Janeiro: CPAD,
1999, p.44).
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III-JUSTIFICATIONExemplified(Rom4.1-25)
1. Abraham, circumcision and justification (Rom 4.1-8).
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In Romans 4.1-8 section, the apostle Paul
takes the example of the patriarch
Abraham to make a contrast between
justification by faith and works. The
ancient Jewish tradition stated that
Abraham already kept the Torah, even
having lived centuries before it. He would
have saved as "anticipates", because
according to Judaism, relying on Genesis
17:23, Abraham is circumcised as a sign of

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covenant between him and God. Similarly
the sacrifice of Isaac confirm this belief
(Genesis 22). In other words, the works
justified Abraham. Against this argument,
Paul shows that Abraham could not have
been accepted by God because of
circumcision because he believed God,
and it was reckoned as righteousness,
before he was circumcised and at least
four centuries before the advent

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of Law. He justified Abraham was not
what he did, but what God has done for
him. This is the beginning of the Gospel -
are not accepted for what we did, but
because of what Christ did for us.

2. Abraham, promise and justification (Romans 4.9-17).
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In the Abrahamic Covenant, God
promised to Abraham's descendants a
great nation. He also promised the
patriarch who would give you as an
inheritance the land and make his servant
a blessing to all nations (Gen. 12.1-3).
Referring to this divine promise, Paul
argues that justification could not result
from obedience to the law by the fact
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Abraham, this was not even circumcised
(Rom 4.10-15). The very Jewish belief said
that the obedient faith of Abraham in the
promises of God was counted to him as
righteousness (Genesis 15.5,6). For Paul,
that the blessings promised to Abraham
depended upon obedience to the Mosaic
code, then God's promises have failed, as
no one had been able to meet or keep the
law.
2. Abraham, promise and justification (Romans 4.9-17).

3- Abraham, resurrection and justification (Rom 4.18-25).
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In the theology of Paul in Romans 4.18-25
there is a parallel between Abraham's
faith and the Christian faith - both
believed in a God who makes possible the
impossible things. Paul shows that God
has made possible the realization of the
promises to Abraham, even though his
body already "deadened" because of his
advanced age, and thus rewarded his
faith. His faith even

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against external evidence, he assured him
the fulfillment of the promises (Romans
4.16-22). Similarly, the Christian faith in
the death and resurrection of Jesus, the
Son of God is the guarantee that the
promises of God in your life will also be
fulfilled (Rom 4.23,25).
3- Abraham, resurrection and justification (Rom 4.18-25).

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Paul uses the example of the
patriarch Abraham to show
that justification is by faith
alone.

SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
"Paul says that if Abraham, the father of the Jews after the
flesh had been jutgado by works or self-righteousness, would
have to boast before God. But what we learned is that
Abraham was like any other man, sinner and without no
justice. He was declared righteous by faith (Rom 4.3). the Jews
boasted in Abraham and believed that this would ensure
them the justification, just because they are "children of
Abraham according to the flesh." Verses 4 and 5 show two
ways of justification: by merit and grace.
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SUBSIDY BIBLICAL
The justification by merits is based on the works of man for
his salvation. The justification by grace is based on the
principle of faith. God justifies the sinner by faith. He imputes
righteousness to the believer, that is by the grace of God "
(CABRAL, Elienai. Romanos: 0 Evangelho da Justiça de Deus.
5.ed. Rio de Janeiro: CPAD, 2005, p.59).
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CONCLUSION
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We reached the end of an important lesson
about the doctrine of justification by faith. In
this lesson we learn that Paul appealed to the
patriarch Abraham experience to argue against
the Jewish belief that linked the acceptance of
works as justification assurance before God.
For Paul this could not be true since the old
patriarch had no merit when he received God's
promises. The blessings received by him as well
as the New Covenant, are purely the grace of
God in response to faith.

According to the lesson, why the Gentiles were under the wrath of
God?
The Gentiles were under the wrath of God, because it failed to meet it.
The person whom God has made known his great love for sinners?
In the person of Jesus Christ.
There are human merit when God's grace is manifested?
The doctrine of justification by faith says no human merit when the
grace of God is manifested.
TO THINK ABOUT
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RegardingtheLettertotheRomans,answer:

TO THINK ABOUT
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Justification by faith makes despicable law?
Paul's answer is no! But Jew nor gentile one was able to fulfill the Law.
What was the function of the law?
Law had the function of serving conductive to Christ.
RegardingtheLettertotheRomans,answer:

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• CPAD. Lições Bíblicas: Lições do I o trimestre de 2016 , Rio
de Janeiro - RJ .
• Celso Napoleon
Theology from Cicero Canuto de Lima, current FAESP -
Evangelical School of São Paulo. Technical Administration
at State Center for Technological Education Paula Souza.
Administration Graduating in UNESP - Universidade
Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" - Campus
Tupa.
Telefone: (Celular): (14) 99773-8373
e-mail: celsonapoleon@hotmail.com
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