Justification by faith alone

doctrine · 22 episodes

245Hope for the Gentiles 28 Sep 2026 32:51¶ 123 “That’s justification by faith, so it is here. “I’ve told you all these things.” He doesn’t wait for Cornelius to say, “Well, men and…” 33:30¶ 124 “Again, there’s not a theological and legal explanation. The words ‘substitutionary atonement’ don’t show up. The words ‘justification by faith’ don’t show up. It’s…” 33:51¶ 125 “Again, there are a lot of ways you can explain the gospel. It doesn’t mean that you have to use all of the technical…”

237Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 2 11 May 2026 43:25¶ 143 “One is justification by faith. We have the righteousness of Christ and we never come under condemnation, so that we can be God’s friends,…” 42:11¶ 139 “I commend to you Galatians 3, where Paul argues pretty much the same thing, that the blessing of Abraham is justification by faith and…” 43:08¶ 142 “We often use the word ‘blessed.’ We throw it around in Christian circles, and I often don’t know what it means. It means to…”

182By Faith Abraham 26 Feb 2024 15:22¶ 41 “The funny thing is you’re often told that Galatians is a book about justification by faith. That’s true, but a lot of people don’t…” 16:04¶ 42 “So from the point of view of the Judaizers it’s not about justification by faith. “We absolutely believe that.” But for Paul it is…” 20:40¶ 57 “So now the question is ‘blessing?’ He just told us in part what the blessing is. The blessing is justification by faith. The blessing…”

166Prayer and Work 26 Jun 2023 7:46¶ 25 “Tangent – this is something I’ve been dealing with in another context, so I want to kind of throw this out there for a…” 8:15¶ 26 “Faith that works by love, Paul says. It’s not just, “Yeah, I believe that. Now, what’s next?” No, it is a lifechanging thing. The…” 8:36¶ 27 “So we’re not adding things to that, but we’re saying when that conviction that this is real, this is true, Jesus is God, Jesus…”

160First Things First 3 Apr 2023 28:58¶ 102 “Over the last few years, all of our teachers in the upper grades keep teaching the doctrine of justification by faith. Last year, or…” 29:28¶ 103 “Then having heard it from me, and we’d been talking about it for a week, I summed up, the group leaders summed up, and…” 29:49¶ 104 “A similar story. When, together with our Headmaster, I was confronting a young man who had been a student at our school for years…”

152A New Law (Part 1) 9 Jan 2023 23:53¶ 97 “The background for all of that is how do you get blessing, and Paul talks about two types of blessing that are interrelated, and…” 24:39¶ 99 “Paul is arguing, no, Jesus died for us and that opens up both justification and sanctification, forgiveness of sins and the gift of the…” 25:47¶ 104 “The law given by Moses, with all the things that wrapped around it – the Levitical priesthood, the tabernacle, the feasts and the fasts…”

151A New Heart 2 Jan 2023 52:42¶ 204 “He sang the Psalms perfectly with a sincere heart, in full integrity and truthfulness, and he did that in our place. So when we…” 53:15¶ 205 “And this of course is not a bunny trail because anytime you want to talk about sanctification there’s always the possibility of going over…” 54:02¶ 208 “Yes, he sang these things for me and I can sing them in him, and it is becoming true. It will not do to…”

145Faith and Despair 21 Nov 2022 10:45¶ 47 “The first is, how are you right with God? As Habakkuk is honest with himself and honest about his people, he can figure out…” 11:47¶ 49 “And again his mind might go back to Job. “How shall a man be just with God?” It’s a good question. If God is…” 13:36¶ 52 “So being in a right relationship with God somehow hinges upon not that I’ve done everything I should have, but that I can trust…”

124No Other Stream 27 Jun 2022 31:21¶ 107 “No. He’s saying, “You’ve asked that God pardon this thing. Go in his peace then.” Being justified by faith, we have peace with God.…” 31:43¶ 108 “He doesn’t understand much. He understands there is one God who saves people who do not deserve it, and that this Naaman is throwing…”

119When Nature Fails 23 May 2022 47:35¶ 197 “Actually, going back as well to the thing you mentioned about the church in the area that turns the gospel into faith + covenant…” 48:05¶ 198 “Yes. You are not going to be faithful. Only as your works are covered by the blood and righteousness of Christ are they pleasing…” 28:45¶ 135 “I know a local church that I have unfortunately some connections with, where the gospel that’s preached is a gospel of faith plus covenant…”

111Repentance 28 Mar 2022 48:49¶ 133 “There’s a lot of really great parts in there, but one of the relevant things that gets touched on, at least as far as…” 51:46¶ 139 “Now, does that imply that the unbelievers had the ability to respond? No, unless God gives it to them through the message you just…” 52:19¶ 140 “We could talk then about what faith looks like, but we have to be careful not to say, “Faith really means faith and…” No,…”

100The Lost Ark 10 Jan 2022 59:15¶ 229 “How long does it take to actually say, “Look, this is it. I’ve got nothing but sin. Jesus has righteousness. He gives it to…” 1:00:46¶ 233 “The rest is fun and interesting and maybe we’ll streamline some thought and speculation that sometime in the future maybe people will profit from…” 55:08¶ 213 “No, it’s this constant lust for something other than Jesus, because we want the outward external benefits of the covenant, which are secondary at…”

93Jephthah 22 Nov 2021 34:24¶ 141 “This is one of the practicalities of the doctrine of justification by faith. When God says we’re righteous before him, he actually means it.…” 35:04¶ 143 “That reminds me, Greg, of a quote, and I want to say it’s from Sinclair Ferguson, who I absolutely also respect as a biblical…” 35:34¶ 144 “That is such a precious and marvelous thing, and a lot of people really don’t get that. They don’t understand the full extent of…”

79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 5:44¶ 17 “If you read through Galatians 3, there are two things that Paul brings to light, a great emphasis he brings. First of all, justification…” 6:22¶ 19 “That’s what Abraham was most concerned with, that blessing, because compared with that, inheriting some real estate really doesn’t amount to a whole lot.…” 8:06¶ 23 “The blessing wasn’t having political power. It wasn’t having mineral resources, oil or gold or any such thing. It wasn’t even peace on earth.…”

72The Just Shall Live By Faith 20 Jun 2021 3:53¶ 16 “So there is an ongoing application of the blood of Christ to the life of the believer, so in that sense we continue to…” 4:27¶ 17 “I think those who champion justification by faith would all agree with that. There’s never a point where we go beyond Christ or outside…” 18:08¶ 53 “We want God to be pleased with us. He’s pleased with holiness and righteousness, and the only holiness and righteousness available to us is…”

71What Is Faith? 6 Jun 2021 26:06¶ 95 “That is, not by faith alone. The kind of faith that is alone that does not produce works doesn’t justify anybody, because again even…” 26:22¶ 97 “We are justified by faith alone, but faith is never alone.” 25:15¶ 92 “The word here ‘fulfill,’ this wasn’t a prophecy to fulfill as we normally think of this. This was a statement, a verdict God had…”

55The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 1) 17 Jan 2021 40:28¶ 134 “Peter Leithart is a very knowledgeable perceptive theologian, but he does have some weak spots. At this point we’re not going to be shy…” 40:48¶ 135 “I’ve read A House for My Name. I’ve profited from it greatly, but I do remember specifically one section having to do with a…” 23:03¶ 71 “There’s a different emphasis here, but one thing that these sacrifices do show us is that our whole life with God is caught up…”

50Bonus - Panel Discussion on Christian Education 13 Dec 2020 14:43¶ 48 “In that, we receive two things. We receive the forgiveness of sins – that is a legal transaction; we talk about justification by faith…” 15:01¶ 49 “So at any point and every point through the years I’ve tried to assume in my work with young people and in my classes…”

46Faithful Witness 15 Nov 2020 29:28¶ 114 “A story and caring about people – you didn’t have to master theology. I most certainly believe in the doctrine of justification by faith,…” 41:35¶ 170 “A few of them said some good things, but a lot of them just came away so confused, and I would like to believe…” 41:53¶ 172 “Literally. I got one that was almost identical to that, and others that were in the same camp. “You do not seem to know…”

35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1) 30 Aug 2020 41:16¶ 137 “It’s also really important to note that we have to get this order correct. There’s another error, which is countermanded by acknowledging that an…” 39:50¶ 134 “It’s not just justification by faith. It’s also sanctification by faith. It’s the transformation of us and, in transforming us, the transforming of all…” 34:00¶ 115 “We need a couple things here. We need to have our sins forgiven because we’re at odds with God and deserve hell, but we…”

20A Bond in Blood 17 May 2020 38:51¶ 138 “Most people look at it as a defense of justification by faith, which it is, but that’s only part of it. The Judaizers were…” 16:20¶ 54 “So where is Jesus? Woven in and out of this whole passage. So as we look back and remember that first of all we…” 37:44¶ 135 “So sure, God wants faithfulness. He wants a fullness of faith that outpours itself in the fruit of the Spirit in practical obedience to…”

18Faith, Community, and Justification 3 May 2020 37:22¶ 132 “If there are those who have never really heard the gospel or don’t understand what we’re talking about because they’ve never heard the gospel…” 37:46¶ 133 “When we come to Christ in faith, he credits to us Jesus’ perfect law-keeping, his obedience, his righteousness, his full obedience to the father,…” 38:01¶ 134 “We receive this by faith, and faith alone. There’s nothing we can add to that – not our tears, not our yearnings, not our…”