As marvelous, beautiful, life changing, essential, God exalting and foundational as justification by faith is, it is merely our introduction into the grace of God.
Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.
Wow! No wonder Paul prays for the Ephesians “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him” (Eph 1:17).
Since justification is the introduction it behooves us to not stop at the foot of the cross but to press on into Romans 6, & 8 and sanctification and life in the Spirit.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones in his book The New Man (an Exposition of Romans chapter 6) states, “There is nothing, perhaps, in the whole range and realm of doctrine which, if properly understood, give greater assurance, greater comfort, and greater hope that this doctrine of our union with Christ. P30
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