God's amazing justification
Justification is more than forgiveness.
Before that first disobedience by Adam and Eve, they enjoyed perfect loyalty to an infinitely pure and holy Creator. They were pure and holy, never knowing the slightest taint of sin and rebellion. Self was never a consideration for them. Self-preservation, self-protection, self-justification, self-esteem, self image, self-reliance, self service, self-interest, self-sufficiency, self-confidence, and a host of other self-related aspects of sin, had never dawned on their minds.
Now, joined in the revolt against God and depending on self, they cut themselves off of their Creator. Why should they need Him for anything if they weren’t going to depend on Him for everything? This was God’s point of view. They would be His completely, or not at all. If they chose Satan as their support and his form of government as theirs, they could not own the minutest part of the Divine government.
Adam and Eve came to, as they saw what they had done to God. But now they were outcasts from their first family because they chose to be adopted by a “better” family, one that had promised to give them more than God had.
They could never, ever stand before God again in perfect trust. Never, ever. How could they? What was done was done. The past couldn’t be changed. There can be no undoing something that has already occurred. It’s simply impossible. They had insulted the infinite God. They had offended the angelic hosts. They could never, ever again have the unblemished relationship with God that they had previously thrilled in. It had been based on zero doubt, 100% perfect and pure faith and love. That was gone forever.
They had joined with the terrorists and committed high treason to a government that could never suffer one offense. That government had been built upon the law of complete and utter self-forgetfulness as the only sure promise of enduring forever. Any one disobedience endangered the whole structure of the universe. Every law would be loosed of its eternal purpose if one law could be relaxed. Especially would the moral law be under attack. So, the perfect home and even life itself, which they had been so generously given, could no longer be theirs. It would only be fair.
How could one little failure cause the whole universe to collapse? God knows and sees the end from the beginning. The whole creation would all eventually unravel. The dimented Satan would eventually destroy it all and then destroy himself.
But what about Adam and Eve? They were the apple of God’s eye. Earth was a precious creation to Him. The newly created pair was an amazing object lesson for all of heaven to learn from about the mystery of God and His character. Could anything be done for them? Yes, God had already known about such a contingency. He already had a plan laid out and discussed with His Son that They would use this emergency to its best potential and reveal God’s character anyway, despite the gross presence of sin and selfishness in the realm.
Through the revelation of divine pain and agony because of sin, throughout all time divine love would be demonstrated in a new way than had ever before this been realized. Grace would come to light, an aspect of God’s character that had ever been exercised toward His growing and developing heavenly hosts and unfallen worlds, but which had never been explicitly defined as it would be now that a rebellion was in effect. The wonderful new discovery by the perfect and holy hosts of heaven and loyal worlds was that they needed the infinite Creator’s grace too, and had been receiving it since their creation. Earth and the great controversy thus became a subject the angels intensely desired to look into. 1 Pet. 1:12.
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” (Rom 11:33-36).
Through His grace, even rebel man could be reinstated into the family of heaven. By faith in the love and righteousness of the Son of God, through the renunciation of sin and sorrow for what sin has done to God and his brother, every one of Adam’s children could be restored. Unreserved forgiveness would be granted, full and complete reconciliation with God’s great heart of love. Total renewing and rebuilding of the first trust would begin. Damage was done; scars would persist, not only with God, but with all of heaven; but God would open the once closed door and invite the repentant and humbled human race home again.
Justification is the Biblical term used to describe this gracious provision by the Divinity. To be justified is more than forgiveness. It means to be looked upon and treated as if the rebel had never, ever rebelled; the child had never, ever turned on the Father and left. By looking on the agony of the precious Son of God, our pride could be broken, our hearts won again to self-sacrificing love, fully adopted back into the Divine family, and reinstated as free-born citizens into the government of heaven, which administers and enforces the Law of God.
Grace—an amazing quality and invention deep in the heart and mind of God—God not only forgiving me and bringing me home to His bosom, but making it legal, too. A sinner of the deepest hue, repentant and restored in all respects; justified—Just as if I’d never, ever, ever, ever sinned.
Sin and Satan make us feel abandoned and impossibly incurable. God and His grace make us know we are very curable and were never abandoned. Amen.
The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.
When years of time shall pass away, and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall, When men, who here refuse to pray, on rocks and hills and mountains call, God’s love so sure, shall still endure, all measureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam’s race--the saints’ and angels’ song.
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.
O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure The saints’ and angels’ song.
Before that first disobedience by Adam and Eve, they enjoyed perfect loyalty to an infinitely pure and holy Creator. They were pure and holy, never knowing the slightest taint of sin and rebellion. Self was never a consideration for them. Self-preservation, self-protection, self-justification, self-esteem, self image, self-reliance, self service, self-interest, self-sufficiency, self-confidence, and a host of other self-related aspects of sin, had never dawned on their minds.
Now, joined in the revolt against God and depending on self, they cut themselves off of their Creator. Why should they need Him for anything if they weren’t going to depend on Him for everything? This was God’s point of view. They would be His completely, or not at all. If they chose Satan as their support and his form of government as theirs, they could not own the minutest part of the Divine government.
Adam and Eve came to, as they saw what they had done to God. But now they were outcasts from their first family because they chose to be adopted by a “better” family, one that had promised to give them more than God had.
They could never, ever stand before God again in perfect trust. Never, ever. How could they? What was done was done. The past couldn’t be changed. There can be no undoing something that has already occurred. It’s simply impossible. They had insulted the infinite God. They had offended the angelic hosts. They could never, ever again have the unblemished relationship with God that they had previously thrilled in. It had been based on zero doubt, 100% perfect and pure faith and love. That was gone forever.
They had joined with the terrorists and committed high treason to a government that could never suffer one offense. That government had been built upon the law of complete and utter self-forgetfulness as the only sure promise of enduring forever. Any one disobedience endangered the whole structure of the universe. Every law would be loosed of its eternal purpose if one law could be relaxed. Especially would the moral law be under attack. So, the perfect home and even life itself, which they had been so generously given, could no longer be theirs. It would only be fair.
How could one little failure cause the whole universe to collapse? God knows and sees the end from the beginning. The whole creation would all eventually unravel. The dimented Satan would eventually destroy it all and then destroy himself.
But what about Adam and Eve? They were the apple of God’s eye. Earth was a precious creation to Him. The newly created pair was an amazing object lesson for all of heaven to learn from about the mystery of God and His character. Could anything be done for them? Yes, God had already known about such a contingency. He already had a plan laid out and discussed with His Son that They would use this emergency to its best potential and reveal God’s character anyway, despite the gross presence of sin and selfishness in the realm.
Through the revelation of divine pain and agony because of sin, throughout all time divine love would be demonstrated in a new way than had ever before this been realized. Grace would come to light, an aspect of God’s character that had ever been exercised toward His growing and developing heavenly hosts and unfallen worlds, but which had never been explicitly defined as it would be now that a rebellion was in effect. The wonderful new discovery by the perfect and holy hosts of heaven and loyal worlds was that they needed the infinite Creator’s grace too, and had been receiving it since their creation. Earth and the great controversy thus became a subject the angels intensely desired to look into. 1 Pet. 1:12.
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” (Rom 11:33-36).
Through His grace, even rebel man could be reinstated into the family of heaven. By faith in the love and righteousness of the Son of God, through the renunciation of sin and sorrow for what sin has done to God and his brother, every one of Adam’s children could be restored. Unreserved forgiveness would be granted, full and complete reconciliation with God’s great heart of love. Total renewing and rebuilding of the first trust would begin. Damage was done; scars would persist, not only with God, but with all of heaven; but God would open the once closed door and invite the repentant and humbled human race home again.
Justification is the Biblical term used to describe this gracious provision by the Divinity. To be justified is more than forgiveness. It means to be looked upon and treated as if the rebel had never, ever rebelled; the child had never, ever turned on the Father and left. By looking on the agony of the precious Son of God, our pride could be broken, our hearts won again to self-sacrificing love, fully adopted back into the Divine family, and reinstated as free-born citizens into the government of heaven, which administers and enforces the Law of God.
Grace—an amazing quality and invention deep in the heart and mind of God—God not only forgiving me and bringing me home to His bosom, but making it legal, too. A sinner of the deepest hue, repentant and restored in all respects; justified—Just as if I’d never, ever, ever, ever sinned.
Sin and Satan make us feel abandoned and impossibly incurable. God and His grace make us know we are very curable and were never abandoned. Amen.
The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.
When years of time shall pass away, and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall, When men, who here refuse to pray, on rocks and hills and mountains call, God’s love so sure, shall still endure, all measureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam’s race--the saints’ and angels’ song.
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.
O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure The saints’ and angels’ song.
posted by David | 6:09 AM
2 Comments:
What David has endavoured to write is the gospel, Its too good a piece of News that many may think its not true.
Imgaine this statement, Through His grace, even rebel man could be reinstated into the family of heaven.
To be justfied is to be counted as if you have never sinned. This is very rare among men to forgive like that, so what God did to give us Christ is far beyond our imagination and how my heart thanks God for that gift beyond mine words.
Daniel
Thank you Daniel for your perfect recap. You zeroed right in onto the crux of the whole everlasting gospel. I hope your friends there in Africa can see the same thing and receive the same blessedness.
David
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