Justification Only Under the Gospel

Introduction:  There is a difference between the forgiveness received under the law of Moses and the forgiveness available under the gospel. 

In Acts 13:39 we read, "and by Him [Jesus] everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."  (NKJV).  The law of Moses was incapable of justification.  The Hebrew writer wrote in 10:3-4, "But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." Animal sacrifices were incapable of taking away sin.  There is a difference between being forgiven and having ones sin taken away.  

When one is justified, they are made just, or made not guilty.  Forgiven sinners under the law of Moses were still guilty of having sinned.  God remembers their sin (Hebrews 10:3). Under the Gospel, forgiven sinners are declared Just, or not guilty and are able to appear before God as if they had never sinned.  God does not remember the sin, because it's as if it never happened. 

Because of the cross of Christ, I am Justified, or "Just-As-If-I'd" never sinned.  

Hebrews 8:7-12
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah — 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." (NKJV)

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