Justification Proved I

We all want to be accepted and we have two ways to get that acceptance. We can either earn our acceptance through our works or it can be given to us. Here Paul shows us that our way has always been to choose to justify ourselves while God's way has always been credit faith as righteousness. David tried to cover his sin on his own, but he says that he wasted away under the burden of keeping his unrighteousness secret. Abraham was given a covenant from God that God Himself would bear the curse of His unrighteousness and he chose to live in that.