How Is It Right to Justify the Ungodly? …
We unseat judges with indignation who acquit the guilty. Our moral sensibility is outraged when wrong and guilt are given legal sanction. Yet at the heart of our gospel stands the sentence: God justifies the ungodly who trust in him. God acquits the guilty. That is the gospel! But how can it be right for God to do that?
Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt …
Turn away from all the intellectual, physical, and religious tactics the world uses to evade its guilt, and rest in Jesus.
The Just Shall Live by Faith …
Would I gain my life before a holy God if I died tonight? Am I ready to take my stand in the divine courtroom and hear the Judge pass an eternal sentence on me?
Why Was Timothy Circumcised? …
How could Paul have Timothy circumcised and yet totally refuse it for Titus?
Those Whom He Called He Also Justified, Part 1 …
God flattened the mountain of his wrath that blocked the railroad between my predestination and my glorification. He justified us by the death of his Son.
Those Whom He Called He Also Justified, Part 2 …
Sunday Evening Message
It is faith alone which justifies, but that the faith which justifies never stays alone. It is living and active and bears fruit in obedience.
Why God Is Not an Abomination to Himself …
Meditation on Proverbs 17:15
How does the gospel avoid contradicting God's righteous standards?
The Demonstration of God's Righteousness, Part 1 …
Justification and Mother's Day
Justification by Faith Is the End of Boasting …
Boasting matters to Paul because it is the outward form of the inward moral corruption that lies behind all the evils and miseries of the world.
The Most Important Paragraph in the Bible …
PDI Celebration East Conference
Indiana, PA
Justification by Faith Establishes the Law …
The moral law in the Old Testament is not a ladder for climbing, but a track for riding in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Does James Contradict Paul? …
Even though language can sometimes confuse us--like when the same word carries multiple meanings--the Bible is not contradictory.
The Children of Abraham Are Heirs of the World …
What does it mean to be an heir of the world?
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, Part 2 …
If you are in Christ, all of God's action toward you is almighty mercy and omnipotent assistance.
Justification by Faith …
The Remedy for Paralyzed Sinners, Fallen Saints, and Provincial Christians
The doctrine of justification is immeasurably precious to every area of life.
It Is God Who Justifies! …
God is the one who justifies, so let us fear the accusation of no one and love the good of all.
Counted Righteous in Christ …
Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?
“As I have preached through the first eight chapters of Paul’s letter to the Romans in the last four years, I have found my mind and heart moving toward Luther’s estimation of the doctrine of justification, and particularly the imputation of Christ’s righteousness as the precious foundation of our full acceptance and everlasting inheritance of life and joy” (p. 13).
Boasting in Man Is Doubly Excluded …
There are two reasons (at least) why God hates for man to boast in man.
Crossway Books Interview With John Piper on Counted Righteous in Christ …
John Piper discusses his book Counted Righteous in Christ and the debate concerning what the believer receives from Christ's death.
What God Requires, Christ Provides …
What God expects regarding human law-keeping, Christ accomplishes by becoming our substitute.
What Do You Believe About Justification By Faith Alone? …
Read a summary of this doctrine and listen to John Piper briefly explain it.
This Man Went Down to His House Justified …
This man was morally upright. He believed God had made him so. That is what he looked to and trusted in for his righteousness before God—for his justification. And he was dead wrong.
The Sufficiency of Christ's Obedience in His Life and Death …
If we are made right with God because of Christ’s obedient life, does this mean that the cross itself is not enough to justify us?
Whose Obedience and Death Brings About The Fact that God Is Totally for Us? …
Part of the Conclusion to the New Book, The Future of Justification
An excerpt from the conclusion to the upcoming book, The Future of Justification.
What Is the Gist of the Book, The Justification of God? …
Listen to this excerpt from session 3 of John Piper's lecture series on Romans 9-11.
Do We Earn Salvation By Living a Good Life? …
John Piper clarifies the reason why we should want to live obedient to God.
When Does God Become 100% For Us? …
Answering a Good Question
John Piper explains how God’s disposition towards us changes at the moment of our justification.
The Future of Justification …
A Response to N. T. Wright
“The subject matter of this book—justification by faith apart from works of the law—is serious. There is as much riding on this truth as could ride on any truth in the Bible” (p. 14).
Interview With John Piper About The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright …
John Piper and Bob Allen discuss Piper's thoughts on Justification, the New Perspective on Paul, and his latest book .
Justification and the Diminishing Work of Christ …
Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
Can Even the Worst Sinner Be Saved? …
John Piper explains why every repentant sinner can have hope.
Should We Teach That Good Works Come With Saving Faith? …
John Piper says that we must protect people from turning the gospel into either lechery or legalism.
How Is It That Our Sins Are Forgiven In Christ and Yet We Must Give an Account to God on the Last Day for How We Lived? …
John Piper says that our deeds in this life are evidence of, not grounds for our justification.
Preaching Justification Undiminished …
Basics Conference
Chagrin Falls, OH
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