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\"07-11-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Howdy!<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 What are you doing?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Just walking and thinking.\u00a0 Some of the things in the bible are confusing.\u00a0 For instance what is justification?<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Well, all that can get confusing.\u00a0 I will let Chuck Swindoll explain it.<\/p>\n

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It is the sovereign act of God whereby He declares righteous the believing sinner while still in his sinning state.\u00a0 It doesn’t mean that the believing sinner stops sinning.\u00a0 It doesn’t’\u00a0 even mean that the believing sinner is made righteous in the sense of suddenly becoming perpetually perfect.\u00a0 The sinner is declared righteous.\u00a0 God sovereignty bestows the gift of eternal life on sinner at the moment he believes and thereby declares him righteous while the sinner still lives a life marked by periodic sinfulness.\u00a0 God takes the guilty, believing sinner who says “I am lost, unworthy, guilty as charged, and undeserving of forgiveness” and extends the gift of eternal life because Christ’s death on the cross satisfied His demands against sin, namely death.\u00a0 And God sees the guilty sinner (who come by faith alone) as righteous as His own Son.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Romans 5:2<\/p>\n

Through Christ we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.\u00a0 And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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