Question 71. How is justification a free act of grace?

 

Question 71. How is justification a free act of grace?

Answer. Christ, by his own obedience and death, has fully, truly, and sufficiently satisfied the justice of God in behalf of those who are justified; but God has required the satisfaction of them from a surety, providing his only begotten Son as a surety, to impute his righteousness to them. And since he has required nothing else for their justification but faith, which is also his gift, their justification is but a free grace.

 

The obedience of Christ is the death of the cross. The death of the cross is the judgment of God's justice and the price for saving the saints. The saints can be justified by God because Jesus Christ, the Son of God, paid the price on behalf of the saints.

The word redemption is the concept of buying a slave by paying a price. From the perspective of the saints, it seems like they received it for free, but since Jesus paid the price and became righteous, the saints become debtors of grace. Romans 1:14-15 "I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome."

In the phrase “salvation by faith,” faith means Jesus Christ. When a believer discovers a reason to believe in Jesus Christ and becomes convinced that this is the one who can lead to salvation, Jesus Christ becomes faith itself. It is not a concept in which a believer believes in Jesus, but when a believer is united with Jesus and becomes one with Jesus, it becomes faith in Christ. Jesus becomes my faith, and the words Jesus spoke are transferred to me through faith in Jesus.

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