FOUNDATIONS Chapter 22: Justification and Adoption 1. What is justification? a. God thinks of our sins as ______________ and ______________ ______________ belonging to us. (2 Corinthians 5:21) b. God ______________ us to be righteous in His sight. 2. Where does the Bible speak of “justification?” (Romans 3:26-28; Romans 5:1; Galatians 2:16) 3. Justification is connected to ______________. (Romans 4:5) 4. Imputation means ______________ or ______________ to the ______________. a. Imputation does/does not make a person morally pure. 5. Triple imputation – the teaching that: a. ______________ sin was imputed to us. b. Our sin was imputed to ______________. c. Christ’s ______________ was imputed to us. (2 Corinthians 5:21) Philippians 3:9 – and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith. 6. Roman Catholicism teaches ______________ righteousness; Protestantism teaches ______________ righteousness. The former connects sanctification with justification. Paul negates that doctrine with Romans 8:1. 7. Faith is the ______________ of our justification; it is not a ______________ work.
8. Why did God choose faith as the instrument for receiving justification? a. It results in ______________ _________ Him, which ______________ Him. (Jeremiah 9:24) b. It ______________ to His glory. (Romans 5:1-2) c.
It is how we ______________ Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
9. What is faith? By definition, it is ______________ and ______________. Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for (future), the conviction of things not seen (unseen). 10. What does James mean when he says that a person is justified by works (James 2:24)? a. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus is the ______________ or ______________ of our salvation. b. ______________ is the condition of our salvation – it is necessary but is not a work and is not ______________. c.
______________ is the evidence of our salvation – the context of what James is saying here.
11. Results of God adopting us: a. We have a ______________ ______________ with the Creator. b. Not only do we have “a”, but we are ______________ with Christ. (Romans 8:14-17) c.
Not only do we have “a” and “b”, but we have a relationship with ______________ ______________ ______________.
d. Not only do we have “a”, “b” and “c”, but the ______________ is ______________ _______ ______________! (Romans 8:23)