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                    Justification means "just-as-if-I-never-sinned."
The doctrine of justification is the foundation that supports all of the other
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 30, 2019
                
                
                
                    The early church understood propitiation, the atoning work of Jesus, and justification by faith, not works:
 from The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus, Chapter IX, about 200 A.D.
But when our wickedness had reached its height, and it had been clearly shown that its reward, punishment and death,
                    
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                    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jul 23, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILLUSTRATION - Self Evaluation
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State employment officials in Tucson, Arizona, posted an interesting sign over a full-length mirror. Directed to all job hunters, it read, “Would you hire this person?” In another office a mirror and sign posed this question: “Are you
                    
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                    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on Sep 28, 2009
                
                
                
                    SELF-DESTRUCTION
The same way a lot of people have destroyed what the Lord rightly gave to them with their own hands. The case of a governor of one of the states in Nigeria is a very good example. He jumped bail in England and was removed on coming back home. There was also the case of one boy who
                    
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                    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 2, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ON SELF-CONTROL
When I’m at the pizza buffet and I’ve already had more than enough to eat, and I know there’s a good chance another slice will make me miserable for the next 3-4 hours and I eat it anyway .... I lack self control. 
When I decide to stay up late and play video games or surf the
                    
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                    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 16, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SELF-REMEDIES
Not many people enjoy going to the doctor, but according to Reuters, in 1994, one London accountant to that to an extreme.  The 63 year old man needed bladder surgery, but he couldn't overcome his fear of doctors and hospitals.   So he self-reliantly did what had to be done.  He
                    
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                    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
                
                
                
                    WHO IS THE WORST SINNER YOU KNOW?
"Who is the worse sinner you know? Are you more aware of your own sin or those sins of others? Because of God’s amazingly gracious heart toward those who thoroughly deserve only His wrath, He both planned for and provided this mediator to resolve the divine
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 18, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE UNGODLY
"Who does God justify through faith?  The ungodly!  Who did Christ die for?  The ungodly!  That means those without God.  Ungodly.  Why does God justify the ungodly?  Why did Christ die for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    NO RECORD ANYWHERE
My friend Dr. Roy Gustafson has the finest illustration of justification I have ever heard. It seems that there was a man in England who put his Rolls-Royce on a boat and went across to the continent to go on a holiday. While he was driving around Europe, something happened to
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A security guard worked at Drug Company for fifteen years. At first he was always very alert and watchful for thieves. But as the years passed he became relaxed and lazy. Sure enough one evening the company was robbed of thousands of dollars of drugs while the guard slept. The next day the company
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE FIRE
H. A. Ironside told the story of pioneers who were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. 
One day they were horrified to note a long
                    
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                    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Sep 30, 2008
                
                
                
                    John Flavel: "How dangerous it is to join anything of our own to the righteousness of Christ, in pursuit of justification before God! Jesus Christ will never endure this; it reflects upon His work dishonorably. He will be all, or none, in our justification…. Christ is no half-Savior. It is a hard
                    
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