Bible Readings:
Romans 2-3:20
Sermon Outline:
Psalm 130:1–4 (NKJV)
1Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord;
2Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
3If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
4But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.
A man cannot be justified by faith unless he has first recognised and
John Calvin
acknowledged in complete sincerity that he is lost.
Anselm
“You have not yet considered how great the weight of sin is.”
Anselm 1033–1109, Italian Benedictine monk ; archbishop of Canterbury
(1093–1109): one of the founders of scholasticism ; author of Cur Deus
Homo? (Why did God become Man?).
For memorization in regards to the doctrine of justification:
Romans 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q. 33. What is justification?
Justification is an act of God’s free grace,
wherein He pardoneth all our sins,
and accepteth us as righteous in His sight,
only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us,
and received by faith alone.
Psalm 130
3 If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with You,
That You may be feared.