1. In Messiah Jesus Romans 3:21-26

2. “...the chief point, and the very central place of the Epistle, and of the whole Bible.” Martin Luther “...is possibly the most important paragraph ever written.” Leon Morris

3. Big Idea of Romans The righteousness of God -right in all He is -right in all He does 1) Righteous in JUDGEMENT (1:18-3:20)

4. Romans 3:21-26 Our Problem: God is righteous & we are not God’s Solution: The faithfulness of Jesus Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens

5. Romans 3:21-26 Our Problem: God is righteous & we are not God’s Solution: The faithfulness of Jesus Philippians 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

6. Romans 3:21-26 Our Problem: God is righteous & we are not God’s Solution: The faithfulness of Jesus What it Provides: – Redemption Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

7. Romans 3:21-26 Our Problem: God is righteous & we are not God’s Solution: The faithfulness of Jesus What it Provides: – Redemption 1 Peter 1:18–19 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

8. Romans 3:21-26 Our Problem: God is righteous & we are not God’s Solution: The faithfulness of Jesus What it Provides: – Redemption – Justification How: Propitiation

9. Romans 3:21-26 Hebrews 9:11–14 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption...

10. Romans 3:21-26 Hebrews 9:11–14...For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

11. Romans 3:21-26 “Just” Righteousness “Justifier” Grace

12. Romans 3:21-26 Our Problem: God is righteous & we are not God’s Solution: The faithfulness of Jesus What it Provides: – Redemption – Justification How: Propitiation To whom: All who believe