How can God be just and still justify sinners who believe?
God remains just because Christ is just, fair, and honest as the justifier of them that believe. Sinners are justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, by faith in His shed blood, not by church membership, baptism, or other works.
Les teaches from Romans 3 that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God—the immoral, the moral, and the religious. The following verse declares that believers are justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus. Then it says we are justified by faith in His shed blood, and that Christ is just, fair, and honest in being the justifier of them that believe. Les emphasizes this is not about joining the church, getting baptized, or doing this and that; it is simply for those who believe. He adds that this simplicity throws people a curve. He then uses Abraham in chapter 4 as the epitome of faith, who believed God, and moves into chapter 5.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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