1. Blessings of Justification
Romans 5:1-11

2. justification = God declaring a person righteous in His sight
Romans 3:28
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
justification = God declaring a person righteous in His sight
James 2:24
You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
justification = people declaring a person righteous in their sight

3. Blessings of Justification
Romans 5:1-11

4. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
“helpless”
“ungodly”
“sinners”
“enemies”

5. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
reconciliation – “to bring together or make peace between two estranged or hostile parties”

6. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
Colossians 1:21–22
And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet [Jesus] has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before [God] holy and blameless and beyond reproach

7. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
access to God’s grace

8. Blessings of Justification
Ezekiel 34:25–27
“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land...”

9. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
access to God’s grace
Isaiah 32:17–18
And the work of righteousness will be peace, And the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;

10. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
access to God’s grace
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

12. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
cessation of hostilities
access to God’s grace
Hebrews 4:16
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

13. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
Hope in the Future
Confident expectation...
of salvation from wrath (v9)
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ

14. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
Hope in the Future
Confident expectation...
of salvation from wrath (v9)
of restoration to glory (v2)

15. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
Hope in the Future
Philippians 3:20–21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

16. Blessings of Justification
Peace in the Present
Hope in the Future
Confident expectation...
of salvation from wrath (v9)
of restoration to glory (v2)
...that is:
guaranteed (v5,10)
unconquerable (v3-4)