The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost. It is Jesus' favorite title of Himself. I chosen this title because Jesus loved this title of Himself. We ought to never forget that Jesus is fully God and fully man: two natures in One Person. He is the God-man, the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. May we mediate on His life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension that we may be conformed to the image of the divine Son of Man! This blog web site will be a Christian defense of the Reformed doctrines of the Incarnate Son of Man. May all glory be to His name!

Monday, September 26, 2011

95-Disputations on the Spiritual Denial of Justification by Faith Alone


  1. Justification means how we right with God.

  1. Eternal life depends on Christ alone.

  1. Justification is a precious doctrine of the Christian faith.

  1. There is no extra merit from other saints in justification.

  1. Everyone justified will be glorified.

  1. John H. Gerstner said, “Eternal life is Christ dwelling in His righteousness in the soul of the justified person.”

  1. Eternal life is union with our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ.

  1. Union with Jesus is faith.

  1. John H. Gerstner said, “The sinner comes to Him, rests in Him, trusts in Him, is one with Him, abides in Him; and this is life because it never, ever, ends. The united soul abides in the Vine eternally. Weakness, sin, proneness to sin never brings separation, but only the Father’s pruning, which cements the union even and ever tighter.  This is the heart of the Bible. This is the heart of the gospel. This is the heart of Christianity. This is the heart of the saint. This is the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those are the reasons it was the heart of the Reformation; and this is the reason the contemporary attempt of some Protestants to unite with those who do not even claim this heart of the life of Jesus Christ is to commit spiritual suicide. No lover of Jesus Christ can consent to this apostasy.”

  1. The ultimate question is, “how shall men be just with God?” (Job 9:2).  There is no greater question then this.  It is the matter of eternal life.

  1. God manifests His grace to apostate creatures.

  1. Justification is not a speculative thought.

  1. Justification is the essence of true religion.

  1. Justification consists of the right view of the character and moral government of God.

  1. Justification is essential to the very heart of the Christian faith.

  1. Justification was once and for all delivered to the saints.

  1. A mistake with justification could prove eternally fatal.

  1. Justification is the cornerstone of the Christian faith.

  1. We call the attention of everyone about the doctrine of justification.

  1. The nature of justification is forensic or legal.

  1. Justification is declaring a person righteous according to the law of God.

  1. Justification is not an infusion of righteousness.

  1. Infusing righteousness is the matter of sanctification.

  1. We ought to distinction between justification and sanctification but never separate them.

  1. God acts as the Judge that acquits sinners of wrongdoing or sin.

  1. We base this on the words just or justify in the Old and New Testaments.

  1. Deuteronomy 25:1 speaks of adjudge righteousness not making someone righteous but to declare him righteous (Proverbs 17:15; Psalm 1423:2; Luke 7:29-35; Romans 2:13; 8:33).

  1. Justification and sanctification are inseparable.

  1. We must not confuse justification and sanctification.

  1. Justification concerns us with a legal sense.

  1. Justification is a change of state.

  1. We have the righteousness of Christ in extra nos.  That is, a righteousness outside of us or without us.

  1. Sanctification is the doctrine of the Spirit’s work within us.

  1. Justification is a change of state in light of the law and the lawgiver.

  1. Justification introduces pardon but it is much more then that.

  1. Those justified are pardoned.

  1. The person in question has a pardoned that is justification, and a justification that is pardoned.

  1. Pardon deals with the transgressor.  That is, the forgiveness of sins.

  1. Justification deals with righteousness.  That is, the righteousness of Another.

  1. Criminals pardoned are free from the punishments of this life.

  1. Someone justified is declared worthy of life as an innocent party.

  1. Pardon concerns pardon of sin and acceptance of us.

  1. Justification concerns a removal of guilt and condemnation.

  1. Justification is a judicial sentence.

  1. Justification is absolving man of his guilt and accepting him as righteous.

  1. God alone justifies the sinner not man in anyway.

  1. We are not justified on the grounds of innocence.

  1. By nature we are guilty and condemned.

  1. Every man in his natural state lies under just condemnation.

  1. The three chapters of Romans deal with the doctrine of justification.

  1. God has provided one way of justification for sinners.

  1. No one is justified by the deeds of the law of God.

  1. It does not matter how sincere is our righteousness only the righteousness of Christ alone stands for the grounds in how we are justified.

  1. Gentiles and Jews are both guilty before God.

  1. Everyone who does not obey the works of the law are cursed.

  1. There is no acceptance with God upon the basis of law whether human or divine.

  1. No human being could possibly keep the whole of God in perfection.

  1. We could not be justified by obedience because we have lost the power to do it.

  1. People should not attempt to justify themselves because they would first be perfect.

  1. We are ignorant and have a hard heart.  That is, we could not obey perfectly.

  1. We have a carnal mind and cannot be subject to law because of our sin.

  1. We must make satisfaction to justice.  That is, Christ satisfied divine justice at the Cross and we cannot do it ourselves.

  1. It is impossible for man to merit his own justification.

  1. We could either be justified by law of by grace.

  1. If by law, we must keep the law perfectly.

  1. If by grace, we must rely on Another’s righteousness.

  1. There can be no compromise or commixture.

  1. A commixture of law and grace is nullified.

  1. All works are excluded in justification except the work of Christ alone.

  1. The righteousness of Christ is imputed to us or placed to our account.

  1. The justice of God has been broken it must be satisfied.

  1. The law of God has been broken is must be fulfilled.

  1. The debt has been contracted and it must be charged.

  1. And heaven has been lost but it must be regained.

  1. Jesus is our kinsmen Redeemer and He has the right to justify.

  1. He assumes our nature to walk as if it was us and to die as if it was us.

  1. Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.

  1. Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law.

  1. Jesus took our place and gave us His unified merit.

  1. Jesus did not merely open heaven but He ransomed us to the Father.

  1. Jesus sinlessly obeyed the requirement of the law.

  1. Jesus procured justification for us by His spotless obedience and His meritorious sufferings.

  1. The Moral Governor has sole respect to His unified merit alone.  Truly the Father said, “This is my Beloved Son; listen to Him!”

  1. In justification the sinner is pronounced just and acquits him in judgment.

  1. Faith is the instrument of justification (Romans 3:21-28).

  1. Faith is union with Christ our Lord and Redeemer.

  1. It is the nature of faith to lead us away from ourselves to Him alone.

  1. God justifies us by faith alone and not by anything else.

  1. No one faith is perfect but simple faith is enough.

  1. We lay hold on Christ by empty hands of faith.

  1. Faith is paramount, irrevocable and compete in the sinner’s justification.

  1. There is no condemnation for the justified sinner.

  1. No justified person ever went to hell.

  1. All justified people are kept by the power of God.

  1. Justification is evidenced by good works in the believer’s life.
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