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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 3:29-31 - Establishing the Law

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Romans in Outline No. 41

1.0  JUSTIFICATION ELIMINATES BOASTING

Romans 3:27-28

1.1  JUSTIFICATION HAS ONLY ONE GOD WITH ONE WAY OF SALVATION

Romans 3:29-30

2.1  Believing Jews and Gentiles share a common God

Romans 3:29

3.1  POLYTHEISM IS REJECTED

3.2  HOLDING TO MONOTHEISM DOES NOT MEAN THAT EVERY JEW OR GENTILE KNOWS THE GOD OF THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES

3.3  THE ONE GOD IS NOT THE GOD OF ‘MANY WAYS’

John 14:6

Hebrews 10:19

1 Timothy 2:5

2.2  The one God is unique in that he justifies by faith

Romans 3:30

1.2  JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ESTABLISHES THE LAW

Romans 3:31

2.1  Christ established the law by fulfilling the law

Matthew 5:17

3.1  CHRIST ESTABLISHED THE LAW BY FULFILLING THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW

Galatians 4:4

Matthew 3:15

3.2  CHRIST ESTABLISHED THE LAW BY FULFILLING ALL THE CRUCIAL PREDICTIONS AND TYPES

Examples:

Genesis 3:15

Genesis 22:15

Compare with Gal 3:13-16

Isaiah 53:4-6

3.3  The big one: CHRIST ESTABLISHED THE LAW BY HIS DEATH SO THAT THE CLAIMS OF THE LAW WERE CANCELLED BY THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN HIM

2.2  When one puts his faith in Jesus Christ, all that Christ did is charged to his account

3.1  WE ARE IN CHRIST SO THE LIFE THAT FULFILLED THE LAW IS CHARGED TO OUR ACCOUNT

1 John 2:1-2

3.2  CHRIST’S DEATH, AS ANTICIPATED BY OLD TESTAMENT TYPES, CANCELS THE CLAIMS OF THE LAW

4.1  The law proved all to be sinners

Romans 3:10-11

4.2  The law pronounced death as the penalty for sin

Genesis 2:17

Ezekiel 18:4b

4.3  Christ was the sinner’s substitute fulfilling the demands of the law

2 Corinthians 5:21

Romans 3:29-31

29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law. (NKJV)

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