Romans 3:27-31 | Faith & Law

Preacher: Joel Fair
Romans 3:27-31

1. Justified by faith apart from the law
2. We uphold the Law

John Calvin
Where there is a coming to Christ, there is first found in him the perfect righteousness of the law, which becomes ours by imputation.

Romans 2:11
11 For God shows no partiality.

Romans 3:23
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Deuteronomy 6:4
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

John Piper
Now what does that mean? I think it means that what the moral law of God requires of us, we will do, if we pursue it by faith, as those who are already justified, and not by works, in order to be justified. If we get right with God first by faith alone, and then live in that freedom of love and acceptance and justification, we will be changed from the inside out and will begin to love the very things the moral law requires so that they become established in our lives—not as works of merit, but as the fruit of faith and the fruit of the Spirit.

Romans 1:5–6
5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
6 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,

Romans 16:25–27
25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
26 but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
27 to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.