Romans
3:20 NLT
(20)
For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law
commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.
If
we judge others by the law then it is clear we do not know the law,
thereby voiding our own prosecution. No the law is there first to
point us to our own need for Jesus. After coming to Jesus as Lord and
in humility laying down our lives and the control we believe we have
over it to His Lordship then those we were so quick to judge before
are seen differently because we see them through the eyes of our
Savior; no longer wanting to condemn but instead wanting to share the
life we have found in Christ. Condemnation turns to compassion and
contempt turns to serving and stonewalling turns into walking with
that person until we are able to see where they are coming from, no
longer do we take secondhand knowledge about a person in order to
cast them out of the gates but instead we grow relationship and trust
by speaking life into their very souls. In this way we become
Christ-like, followers of Christ Jesus faithfully representing the
love we have been shown, a love we could not earn to pay a price we
could not pay.
Romans
3:25-26 NLT
(25)
For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made
right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life,
shedding His blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when
He held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,
(26)
for He was looking ahead and including them in what He would do in
this present time. God did this to demonstrate His righteousness, for
He Himself is fair and just, and He declares sinners to be right in
His sight when they believe in Jesus.
