Moving Along in our Faith Adventure: Understanding and Appropriating Justification and Propitiation

 

Understanding and appropriating justification and propitiation are two critical foundations for your faith experience.  Let's lay the groundwork with our understanding of justification and then move on to propitiation.   Two big words but easy to understand and experience when you search out the Scriptures.  Integrate these two words into your spiritual vocabulary so you can depend on them and use them in your walk of faith.

 JUSTIFICATION

Romans 3:24  “being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:1  “Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Romans 5:9  “having now been justified by His blood…”

Romans 8:30 “whom He called, these He also justified…”

Galatians 2:16  “nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ…”

What does it mean?

**  “Just as if I’d” never sinned…

**  Aorist tense and never needs to be repeated.

**  That which enables us to pray and come into the holy of holies.

**  Beginning point for God’s blessings and ministry in our lives.

PROPITIATION (Means our account is paid in full and we are ready to proceed in our victorious walk of faith.)

Romans 3:25  “whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through Faith.  This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed.”

Hebrews 2:17  “Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.”

I John 2:2  “And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.”

I John 4:10  “but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

 What does it mean?

**  Comes from the word Jesus uttered on the cross:  “Tetelestai”  “paid in full”