Faith Alone: Romans 3v27-4v8\r\n\r\nSaved by Faith\r\n‘I hated that word ‘justice of God’ that justice by which God is just and by which he punishes sinners and the unjust...I did not love, no, rather I hated the just God who punishes sinners. In silence, if I did not blaspheme, then certainly I grumbled vehemently and got angry at God.’ Martin Luther\r\n\r\n‘Christ is full of grace, life, and salvation. The soul is full of sins, death and damnation. Now let faith come between them and sins, death and damnation will be Christ’s, while grace, life and salvation will be the souls’ Martin Luther\r\n\r\nJustified by Faith\r\n\r\n- Declared Righteous\r\n‘It’s the exact opposite of condemnation. To condemn is to declare someone guilty, to justify is to declare them righteous. In the bible it refers to God’s act of unmerited favour by which God puts a sinner right with himself, not only acquitting him, but accepting and treating him as righteous.’ John Stott\r\n\r\n‘There is a righteousness God imputes to us apart from works – in other words it is\r\npassive righteousness. So then, have we nothing to do to obtain this righteousness? No, nothing at all! For this righteousness comes by doing nothing, hearing nothing, knowing nothing, but rather in knowing and believing this only – that Christ has gone to the right hand of the Father, not to become our judge, but to become for us our righteousness, our salvation!’ Martin Luther\r\n\r\n- Faith in Jesus\r\n‘Although I still sin, I don’t despair, because Christ lives, who is both my righteousness and my eternal life. In that righteousness I have no sin, no fear, no guilty conscience, no fear of death. I am indeed a sinner in this life of mine and in my own righteousness, but I have another life, another righteousness above this life, which is Christ, the Son of God.’ \r\nMartin Luther\r\n\r\n- Gift of God