June 1 – Gift of Justification Romans 5:1 “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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This truth from our Lord was one of the biggest shocks for me coming out of Mormonism, but it only makes sense!
There’s nothing we could ever do to justify ourselves. We don’t have the monetary means, as if He’d even consider such a thing, nor do we have clean enough hearts to present ourselves worthy.
Simple faith, and a complete adoration, is all we have to offer.
In order to accept salvation as Oswald Chambers pointed out, ‘We must either receive it as a gift or do without it’. For the Mormon it’s a hard pill to swallow after years of believing in ‘self sufficiency’.
With the Lord’s supernatural work, Mormons will see this is truly all that’s needed to be justified! PTL!
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Articles of Faith, p. 432 “The Sectarian Dogma of Justification by Faith Alone has exercised an influence for evil. The idea upon which this pernicious doctrine was founded was at first associated with that of an absolute predestination…” – James Talmage
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