Romans 3:21-31 ~ Righteousness, Redemption & Propitiation + PDF Teacher's Notes

Righteousness, Redemption & Propitiation

Romans 3:21-26 is the heart of Romans. It concerns God’s costly forgiveness wherein God Himself bears the full cost of forgiving our sin.

The only way to be right with God is as a grace gift through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the redemption he purchased for us through his propitiatory sacrifice.

A system of apartheid exists between righteousness from God and the law. The two are in different apartments. They are apart from each other.

It is evident that Christ saved men from the very real peril of God's judgment (wrath) against sin. The fact of propitiation is a reminder that God is implacably opposed to everything evil, that His opposition may properly be described as “wrath” and that this wrath is put away only by the atoning work of Christ (NBD, p. 986). The NIV renders this as “sacrifice of atonement.” Atonement can be thought of as “at-one-ment” (one with God).