It is God That Justifies!

I was 12 years old when I first came to Christ. Unlike some fortunate souls out there, no one prayed with me the sinners’ prayer. I followed my brother to church, I saw the preachers preached. Nothing really got into my mind. It wasn’t because I was too young to understand, it was because none of them were really good at what they were doing. Or at least, not to my standard. I was certain because 7 months later in the eve of a brand New Year, my brother was playing a sermon by a certain preacher. I overheard it and for the first time in my life I was actually listening to someone preaching. You’d have problem remembering what your pastor preached last week if it wasn’t good. But here I am remembering still bits of what I heard during then, that was 8 years ago.


I am not here to glorify any man but God, however in case you’re wondering who was the preacher that spoke to me. His name is on the picture above. And about my sinner’s prayer? I prayed it over on my own months later. Read the prayer from one of the sermon cassettes I was listening, they usually have it printed on the cover. Before that? Others just assumed I was Christian. I had the look. I also have the look of a rich man's son but that is irrelevant.


When I first became a Christian, I was stricken with a horrible sense of guilt which made my life miserable. No matter how hard I tried, living the so called “Christian life” was way too difficult. But I wanted to stand just in front of God. I do not want to sin like you do. I look at your life and it disgusts me sometimes I wonder why Jesus came to save you at the first place. But I have a problem, and the problem is that I am just like you. I watched the porn you watch, I spoke the language you speak, I have angered, I have lusted and I have fucked my life up just like some of you did to yours. Am I proud of it? No, not a second, I am not. But did I do it, yes, I fucked the world and in return, the world fucked me. So what happened then? Did I die and go to hell? You wished that I did at the first time I say the F word didn’t you? It is not proper for a Christian to speak foul languages, what more one that call his blog the superstarpastor. Pardon me for I had to, my humble nature had forbidden me to find other examples beside myself to demonstrate to you sin. You are too religous and I am too sinful. Which leads me to what I am going to teach today – It Is God That Justifies! It is God that make right! Not you, not your pastor, not your mother, but God.


Oh everything you’ve read until now was just the introduction. So get your cup of coffee. I could have taught this straight forward from the beginning but you will not have the revelation unless you can identify with it. Not everybody has a strong foundation to understand what I have to say. Thus it is important I give examples and share my experiences with you before I dive right into the Word of God.


If a person has greatly injured you. You can forgive him and I hope you will, but no third person can forgive him apart from you. If the wrong has done to you, the pardon must come from you. If we have sinned against God, it is in God's power to forgive, and He did just that.


Only God can justify the ungodly, and only He can do it to perfection. He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out. He says that though they are sought after, they will not be found. With no other reason for it but His own infinite goodness, He has prepared a glorious way by which He can make scarlet sins as white as snow. Scarlet, is red. And then He says "Their sins and iniquities I will remember no more" (Hebrews 10:17)


You must understand that in the New Covenant, justice is not served to men but through Christ. In the old covenant under the law, Jesus had not come and acted as a mediator and a sacrifice for them. So when you read the bible and you see the sufferings of Job and you see God raining down fire from heaven to destroy men who had broken the law, you have to understand that during that time, during that dispensation, Jesus had not come to save. They were in the old covenant. When Moses brought the 10 commandments down from the mountain, the children of Israel made a golden calf of which they could worship. Immediately at the very first second they demanded for the law, they had broken the first one "thou shall hath no other gods beside Me", and 3000 people were strike to death on the spot. That was the old covenant. But do you also remember the day when Jesus ascended to heaven, and the Holy Spirit came to Peter and the disciples. Peter stood up and preached to crowd and at that moment, how many got saved? 3000 people. That number told us that a new dispensation has begun, we are the new covenant generation.


We are not now speaking of justice, nor of God's dealing with men according to what they deserve. If you profess to deal with God on Law terms, everlasting wrath threatens you, for that is what you deserve. Blessed be His name, He has not dealt with us according to our sins. But now He deals with us in terms of free grace and infinite compassion.


Perhaps you may not be able to forgive your fellow-man had he offended you as you have offended God. But you must not measure God's corn with your bushel. His thoughts and ways are much high above yours as I'll put it, it's impossible to teach a dog advance mathematics. We being the dog. God being the teacher. Never limit God with your little wisdom.


Isn't this a splendid thing - that none but God would think of justifying the ungodly, and none but God could do it. You self-righteous idiots might not be happy for a fact that salvation comes by so easily and forgiveness so freely. Let me asked you something, did the prodigals son, whom the father freely forgives all his iniquities had carnal intercourse with prostitutes? Towards the end of the parable in Luke, you would have your answer, the key word is "harlots".


"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth" (Romans 8.33). If God has justified a man, it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.





Special Note: No, I have never used a curse word.......... in church.