Scripture to Read: Romans 3:26
We finish up today examining why God the Father publicly displayed Christ. So, let’s get to it as we read Romans 3:26, “for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” So, God also displayed Christ publicly to show the fullness of Christ’s righteousness. As we have seen all week, Christ is the only way to be made right in the presence of God the Father. Since we are all born with a sinful nature, we are born dead in our sin and separated from God. God, in Ephesians 2:1–3 and many other Bible passages, tells us what we were like before Christ, and, of course, this is what lost people are still like because they don’t have Christ. Here is what God’s Word says, “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.” So, Christ is the only one who can justify us before God the Father. Christ cleansed us of our sin, so it’s through Christ that we’re justified so we can say it is “just as if I’d never sinned.”
Challenge & Application
What is the other reason God displayed Christ publicly and why is this important to us as Christians?
How does knowing that Christ justified you before God the Father change the way you live for Him each day?
Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!