Justifed Because of Whose We Are, Not Because of What We Did

As we begin this new year of this new decade of this twenty first century, I would like to reflect on--not the past year. I'd like to reflect on beginning again on this first Sunday of the year of our Lord twenty-ten.

Sunday is a day of beginnings. The beginning of that which celebrates the first day of the "Sabbath Week".  Sunday was the first day after God rested from all His creation week work. Believers in Jesus celebrate this day as the day the Son of God rose from the dead after being crucified three days earlier. The writer of the Roman letter said in chapter 4:25 that Jesus died for our sins and he rose for our justification.

Justification is a very interesting word. Look it up in the dictionary.
Justification may refer to:

• Theory of justification, a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs
• Justification (jurisprudence), defense in a prosecution for a criminal offense
• Justification (theology), God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God
• Justification (typesetting), a type of typographic alignment
• Rationalization (psychology), one of the defense mechanisms proposed by Sigmund Freud   ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,                           It could be used a word of denial or for the exact opposite--making all things "right" or new.  My favorite seen in Mel Gibson's movie "the Passion of the Christ" is when Jesus spots his mother as he is carrying his cross to Calvary's 'hill of the skull" and says to her: "Behold your Son as he makes all things new".

All things new. Wow. ALL things new. Jesus was raised for our justification.  No way we can justify that or ourselves. His grace makes us new.  Sometimes the Bible uses the phrase "we are a new creation" when we are "born of the Spirit:" or "born from above" at the moment we accept Jesus alone as the Creator of  Life.

Just doesn't seem right does it? It's not. We all deserve "justice" which is a "eye for an eye" and a "death for death" for certainly we killed him and yet he cries out from the cross:  "Abba, Father forgive them for they know not what they are doing."  He did not ask the Father to forgive what we were doing, He asked Him to forgive us inspite of what we were doing.

We had a really amazing Bible class at the Barn Church this morning. We talked about the "unforgivable sin".
Well I can tell you one thing that isn't unforgivable: our killing Jesus. He gave his life for us so that we can be forgiven and live.

Now there's a LIFE CONNECTION for you; in fact I believe it is THE LIFE CONNECTION.

So on this first Sunday of the this first full week of the decade twenty-ten, let's begin again to let all things be brand new: JUSTIFIED. Not because of what we do, as my friend Gary Cleavland says, because of what Jesus did and does with every breath that comes out of Mouth of God.

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