Sunday, October 12, 2008
1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
Those who have been reborn by the Spirit, who have repented of their sins, who have put their faith in Jesus, now stand justified before God. Not because of anything we do, but by the faith we hold. We don’t earn it, we don’t achieve, we simply receive it. Jesus says I have a right relationship with God, and through me you will have a right relationship with God. This is the next vital movement of the Christian life- to exercise this faith in our relationship with God.
This is the one thing that is required of us- faith. It is what God desires from us. It is what God requires of us. This is overstating the case, it is the one thing that is really required on our part. It is the start, following our rebirth, of our relationship with God...
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