How are good works to be considered | Sermons points | outlines

 51. What is the basis of our justification ? 

“We conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law” (Romans 3:28). 

52. Who are justified? 

“All that believe are justified” (Acts 13:39). 

53. Is a man justified by the law? 

“A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 2:16). 

54. How are good works to be considered in justification? 

They are to be taken as an evidence of faith. “And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I 

say” (Luke 6:46)? “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:20). “Ye see then how that by works a man is jus-

tified, and not by faith only” (James 2:24). 

55. To whom shall we look for justification? 

“It is God that justifieth” (Romans 8:33). “Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath 

through him” (Romans 5:9). 

56. What of those who seek to justify themselves? 

It will not stand the test. (See Luke 10:29; 16:15; 18:9-14). 

57. How does Paul describe the state of the justified? 

Their faith is imputed to them for righteousness. Read Romans 4:5-8; 8:28-30. 

58. Can man in his own strength and goodness attain justification? 

No. Read Romans 9:31, 32. 

59. How then may he be justified? 

Alone through grace (Romans 3:24; 4:16; 5:17-21).

60. What does justification mean for us? 

“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth” (Romans 8:33). “Whom he 

called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified” (Romans 8:30).