Justification: By Grace, for Christ’s Sake, Through Faith is the seventh poster in the Ad Crucem doctrine series. It maps the Lutheran doctrine of justification, showing that God declares sinners righteous for the sake of Christ, who made satisfaction for the sins of the world, and that faith receives that verdict in the Gospel. Read it from top to bottom: arrows run from a doctrine to the doctrines that rest on it. Remove a box and everything below it loses its ground.
“Having now been justified by His blood.” Romans 5:9
What the poster maps
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The verdict that was needed: all are under sin, the law demands perfect righteousness, no one is justified by works, God is just, man cannot cooperate, and a righteousness from God is promised.
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The keystone of the series: the vicarious satisfaction, Christ’s active and passive obedience, offered to God and purchased with blood.
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The verdict for the world: objective justification, and justification for Christ’s sake.
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Received by faith: offered in the Word and Sacraments, by faith alone, a judicial declaration, the forgiveness of sins.
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What rests on it: the certainty of salvation, and good works as fruit.
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The diagnosis, where the chain breaks: six errors, from justification without the satisfaction and the denial of objective justification to infused righteousness and uncertainty taught as humility, each shown cutting the chain at the link it removes.
Every box carries its Scripture references and key citations from Pieper, Scaer and the Lutheran Confessions. A study aid for pastors’ studies, classrooms, Bible classes and confirmation rooms.
Size: 12 × 36 inches.
Mix and match the doctrine series: any 2 posters for $72, any 3 for $99, any 4 for $124, or any 5 for $145, the most that fit in one tube. Larger orders are priced the same way, tube by tube. The price drops automatically in your cart, or order posters 1 to 5 as one item with Set 1. The other posters in the series: What Rests on the Vicarious Satisfaction, Holy Scripture: It Testifies of Christ Jesus, The Person of Christ: True God and True Man for Us, Creation and the Fall: Why Christ Had to Die, The Lord’s Supper: Given and Shed for You, The Office of the Ministry: Stewards of the Mysteries of God.