“Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification” – Romans 4:25
LIGHT FOR NOW: Jesus willingly gave himself to redeem man.
Paul has described the amazing faith of Abraham, who believed God would keep His promises as the years made it seem more and more unlikely in human terms. Abraham always remained fully convinced that God was able to keep His promise. The same can happen for us, Paul has written this. Our faith in God can be credited to us as righteousness.
God will justify us and welcome us into His family for believing Him. As well, what does God ask us to believe? In the previous verse, Paul showed that God welcomes those who believe in him as the one who raised Jesus from the dead. Now Paul continues that Jesus was “delivered up” or handed over by God as the sacrifice to pay for our trespasses or sins. In other words, Jesus suffered and died on the cross in our place to receive the penalty of sin, which is death. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). After that, God raised Jesus from the dead for our justification.
The fact that Jesus was raised after he died showed that sin’s wrath had been satisfied. Jesus had paid the full price for our sin and had been released from death. His resurrection also makes it possible for Christ’s righteousness to be credited to our account, as well. It is only through Christ that we can be justified and made right with God. It is our faith in the God who provided for our forgiveness and justification through Christ that allows us to be counted as righteous before God. Glory!
INSTRUCTION: You are redeemed by Jesus’ sacrifice, acknowledge this.
CONFESSION: I decree and declare that I have been made right with God, in Jesus Name, Amen.
QUOTE: Sin consciousness puts you in the cycle of sin bondage.
DAILY READING: MORNING: 1TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2; EVENING: 2TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 