{"id":14786,"date":"2018-01-13T18:13:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:12:48","slug":"reflection-on-gal-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/reflection-on-gal-216\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on Gal 2:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>\u201c\u2026knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14788\" src=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Both in the Epistle to the Romans and the Epistle to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul points to the deep truth which concerns our justification from sin. He says that we know that a man is not justified before God by his works but by faith in Jesus Christ. He emphasizes that by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. We who have believed in Christ Jesus have been justified from our sins by faith in Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If we repeat these Bible verses during our prayer stop seven times a day, after calling on the name of God and looking at the five wounds of Christ in our act of repentance, every time we will thus truly put the saving faith into practice. Let us stand in this faith for a while and not doubt that my sins are really forgiven me who have now believed in Christ Jesus, and if relieved of sin I should die now, I would enter eternal glory. Not through my merits, good works or righteousness but by faith through which I believe that Jesus paid for me, for all my sins! I could never make amends for my sins with good works.<!--more--> The purpose of good works is to increase the grace of God, but justification from sin is for free. Justification depends on faith in Jesus, true God and true man, who died for my sins and therefore they are forgiven me. This is the essence of true repentance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Download:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Reflection-on-Gal-2_16.doc\">Reflection on Gal 2:16<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}