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All right, day five. We're going to talk about justification by faith. We'll pick it up in

verse 15. Paul says, we ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners. What he's saying

here is that we had a head start. We had the prophets. We were raised in the synagogue.

We had the Bible. Like we we if anybody should know about putting their

faith in god we should know best he says we ourselves are jews by birth and not gentile sinners yet

we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus

in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law,

no one will be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found

to be sinners.

Is Christ then a servant of sin?

Certainly not.

For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

For though the law, for through the law, I died to the law so that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,

but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God,

who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness

were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

So what does justified by faith mean? Well, here's the deal. You and I were created by God for

God as image bearers of him. The very first man, Adam, receives the breath of God, the rule of God.

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