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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today you'll hear a message from Michael Horan, titled The Necessity of Justification.

This talk was originally delivered at TGC's 2021 National Conference.

A privilege to be here. Thank you for coming, especially to talk about the topic that I know you

talk about a lot in your churches. When you come here, you're used to hearing about the doctrine

of justification, and so even the title is justification again. I guess that's part of the point

of what I want to talk about here. Yes, justification again and again and again because we keep needing to

hear it and evidently keep adjusting our own thoughts about this great truth because we just

don't normally believe it. It's not something that we have as our default setting.

I'm Mike Horton. I impersonate a professor at Westminster Seminary, California,

have been there for 25 years or something, and I had the pleasure of being at TGC before,

but my good friend, Julius Kim, invited me and it was a pleasure to be able to accept the

invitation for this time around. Without any further ado, justification again, I want to focus on

first of all, why it was important then and why it is important now, just as important today

as ever. Let's start with a little bit of the historical context, and I know that you know

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