We move now from the objective ground of justification in the God-glorifying death of Jesus

and from the objective nature of justification in the forgiveness of sins and the

imputation of Christ's righteousness to us to the subjective means.

Those are the three words for these three lectures, the ground, the nature, meaning now we're talking about what's happening

inside of me in order to receive the gift of justification.

And the historic reformed biblical answer

has always been that we receive justification by faith in Christ.

And just to refresh our memory, let me read several texts from Romans.

Chapter 3, verse 26.

He died to prove at the present time

that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.

Verse 28, we hold that a man is justified by faith, apart from works of the law.

Verse 30, God will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumsized

through their faith.

Chapter 4, versus 4 and 5.

Now to one who works, his wages are reckoned

as not as a gift, but as his due.

And to one who does not work,

but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

Chapter 5, verse 1. Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And finally, chapter 10, verse 4,

for Christ is the end of the law that everyone who has faith may be justified.

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