Justified to Receive All Things by Grace

Yesterday, you read about the justification we have received in Christ -- from all things.

This justification spreads into our receiving all things too:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? " (Romans 8: 31-32)

We will not be able to receive all things from Him until we believe that He has justified us from all things:

"Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." (Acts 13: 38-39)

This announcement of the Gospel is crucial, because Paul makes it clear that we have been justified from all things -- all -- which the Law of Moses cannot grant to us.

When Jesus died on the Cross, He not only carried all our sins, but He fulfilled the law for us, too:

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matthew 5: 17)

Jesus declared on the Cross:

"It is Finished" (John 19: 30)

He wasn't just talking about all our sins, but the law which revealed our sin, too:

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." (Romans 3: 31)

and then

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;" (Colossians 2: 13)

What happens when we receive this grace, which has freed us from the law?

"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5: 17)

In the first letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes:

"4I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 5That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;" (1 Corinthians 1: 4-5)

When we accept that we have been justified from all things, we will not spend our time trying to make ourselves feel better or justify ourselves in what we do, but we can receive all things freely from Him as gifts, because every good and perfect gift comes from above by His grace (James 1: 17)