What the Gospel Tells Us, Part 2 (Rom. 3:24-26)
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash What is the gospel? The gospel is the good news that God justifies sinners. What is justification? It is the declaration by God that the believing sinner is now righteous because his sins have been pardoned and the righteousness of God in Christ has been credited to his account. Now this begs a very important question, and the question is this: how can God remain just and righteous in himself while doing all this? How can the Judge of the universe declare the ungodly to be righteous? It is an abomination when a human judge justifies the wicked. But we see that the gospel says that this is exactly what God does to those who put their faith in Christ (cf. Rom. 4:5). This passage, Rom. 3:24-26, tells us how God does this. Note how it ends: “that he [that is, God] might be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.” That statement is a conclusion to the previous verses which show us just ho...
