Romans 3:27-31 | Women's Rightly Divided Bible Study
Romans 3:27-31
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
No one in heaven will ever boast about what they did to get there. Every saved soul is saved because of God's amazing grace. Not everyone is automatically saved though as we do need to believe the gospel in order to be saved, but faith is NOT a work. God has given us all freewill (volition) to choose to believe God or not to. Those who never believe will spend eternity in the lake of fire. Those who choose to believe God and His gospel will spend eternity with Him!
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
This is one of the most important verses in the Bible for us in this dispensation of grace to understand. How it is that most of Christendom doesn't understand this verse is beyond me! How some preachers or priests can preach works for salvation for many years to their congregation and just completely ignore verses like this is simply unbelievable! They are literally sending people straight to hell by preaching law-keeping for salvation!
Here Paul says, "THEREFORE," which is a helping word that helps us to come to understand the next important thing that God wants us to understand... "we CONCLUDE" this means that after learning in Romans chapters 1-3 that Gentiles, Jews and really the whole world is under sin, and that man fails miserably if they even try to keep the law in their own fleshly efforts, we now need to understand the next important concept..."that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Wow! So the only way to be JUSTIFIED is to simply believe the gospel without any works of any kind! Essentially we are saved by grace through faith alone PLUS NOTHING.
What IS Justification? Justification is when God Himself declares us as righteous. These verses are saying that God declares us as righteous from the very moment that we simply believe the gospel of the grace of God! We are NOT declared righteous if we are trying to earn our way to heaven through "good works" and law-keeping but only by FAITH in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as atonement for our sins. We do NOT need to "turn from our sins", say a special prayer, walk an isle, pray a rosary, eat a communion cracker, confess our sins, invite Jesus into our heart, make Jesus the Lord of our life, get water baptized, join a church, try to keep the 10 commandments, speak in tongues or ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS WORK. Just recognize your sin nature, then simply BELIEVE how that Christ Jesus died for your sins, was buried and rose again for your justification.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
God is perfectly just to justify ANYONE, Jew or Gentile, when they simply believe the gospel. He is our Almighty God, and he is the God of all people on earth. God wants for ALL men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth, but they must choose for themselves whether or not to believe the gospel.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
The law in itself is NOT bad or evil. It is holy and good. But, in our flesh we cannot keep the law. The law works with our sin nature to show us that we are sinners. Once we have recognized our sin nature and have believed the gospel of the grace of God, then the law has served its purpose for us and we can now choose to read and study God's word rightly divided as believers so that we will mature spiritually and allow Christ to live in and through us. Christ working in and through us "keeps the law" (walking in the Spirit) but if we, even as believers, try to keep the law in our own efforts we will fail miserably. This will be explained more in further chapters. God is the one who will get ALL of the glory!
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