Sep. 24, 2021

Judgment and Justification

Overview: Isaiah 33-34, Galatians 2

Isaiah shows how through God’s sovereign word, the Lord is moving history towards final judgment and salvation. He writes about judgment on the Assyrians, who had been destroying Israel, and God’s saving presence preserving His people. Isaiah then describes God’s final judgment of the world, setting up the justification of His people with eternal life. 

Paul continues his letter to the Galatians by appealing to his gospel as the true gospel. He is warning against an unnecessary return to the law of Moses, arguing that doing so is going against the consensus of the Apostles. 

"Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified." - Galatians 2:16

He shows that the true gospel is concerned with pleasing God over pleasing man. We are "justified," or counted righteous before God, through faith in Jesus Christ alone.