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God Justifies Those He Called:

Rom.8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

How does a person justify their own actions in our world? In this world we must do so by our name what it stands for in works, lifestyle, thinking, education, and so on. . . This is the standard the world expect from honorable good people.

Luke 16:15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

We simply justify ourselves by our works! But the question for God's anointed, those predestine patterned after the Son of God, who justifies them? Moreover, can they justify themselves and be in Christ? This simple question was the burning issue at the time of Paul's writings here, and still is in our own day?

Romans 3:30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Luke 10:29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"

Actually, the issues has long been established under the law that no man or woman was justified by the law alone, why? Because the law was instituted by blood, not mans works! Without the blood no Jew was justified. Thousand's of years removed from the pass-over and thousand's of rules and laws later by an apostate religion it had become impossible for a Jew not to justify themselves by every word and action just to survive within the Jewish faith!

Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Christianity follows the same pattern, being justified for most Christian's means some sort of good work, attending meeting, helping the poor, giving money, preaching, and so on; earning themselves a justification before fellowman, and hopefully God so they can remove deserved judgments.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

But this is not what Paul speak to here? Paul speaks from the perspective of God Jehovah being King the law giver, God set the price for our transgression, that is, what it cost in terms of breaking the rules not a church or a religious group, and what is that cost? Perfect life, what!

Psalms 49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Sin, the wages of sin is the lost of perfect life, did you know that? In other words, when Adam and Eve sinned they lost perfect lives which had no sin, created and given them freely by God's love. Subsequently, the whole of the human race was sold into death through sin. How does a human justify themselves out of sin if they've sinned? Can they work their way out by good works? Now we are not talking about the desire to be good, and/or to be sinless that the wicked pray upon to enslave us to works of law through false religion. Instead we are speaking truth, can you or I work our way out of sin? No! Never! We must be justified, by God paying the price, so we might have hope, faith, and love, otherwise we live in judgment, we justify ourselves, with the fear of death looming over us in the next judgment to come.

Acts 20:28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God which he purchased with his own blood.

Luke 12:6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.}? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

1 Peter 1:19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

The faith we have is not in ourselves, our works, or our life, but the Christ, his worth the value of his life to completely save us. Those God justifies are set where Adam and Eve should have been, perfect without sin. God than can inhabit his real temple the first place of worship, Adam's own heart teaching Adam his Father loving ways of life. But problem here is the same that we have today, are those justified who are still in a body of flesh with all of its unrighteous desires so they thought punishing the bodied with judgments by the old law would be righteous, however, forgetting they could not justify themselves by law, or any work they could do in their flesh? Their flesh was killed in Christ not accounted against them. But the power of death working in their members of flesh was stronger than the Spirit in its gentle quiet ways, teaching, and comforting them.

Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Rom.7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me?

The flesh overwhelmed them in lust at times killing their even knowing the truth of the Christ spirit indwelling them, but why? This was the pattern Christ suffered to perfect his faith, not in himself, but in God's power, but why? The issue is for all God's people power for eternal life comes from God, not ourselves, we are not gods that can chose good and bad for ourselves, we are to love God with our whole mind, body, and soul, how? By trusting our Father with every thing, in every way. What flows from God is good and perfect adding to our life, it does not take away from us.

James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Satan lie is, God is taking something from us we want? We Deserve! But to enter into life, we must accept undeserved kindness as a free gift of God's love, unearned by anything we do good or bad that is how God has predestine us. We can not live with God by human words or wisdom, we live with God by faith in his every word.

Joshua 1:13 "Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.

Hebrews 9:14 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?

Hebrews 4:10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

John 6:58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

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