Lesson Outline

1. What does God want from you?

To keep his laws (Lev 18:4-5)

2. If you do what God wants, how will he judge or esteem you?

He will look upon you as just. He will count you among the righteous (Eze 18:9)

3. Is God’s judgment fair?

Yes. It is those who criticise the judgment of God who are unfair (Eze 33:17-20)

4. What is the outcome of God’s judgment?

It is either life or death depending on whether you obey his law or disobey (Eze 33:18-19)

5. What is meant by "life" and "death" in this context?

Eternal life and eternal condemnation (Dan 12:2-3)

6. What responsibility is added to that of keeping God’s law?

One must also convert many others to righteousness. To be regarded as a just person, one must lead other sinners to justification (Dan 12:3)

7. What is the great problem in all of the above?

It sounds simple so far, but there is a very grave difficulty. Nobody does obey God’s law properly. There is not a righteous man (male or female) on earth who does not sin. Thus, death comes to all men and no one is just (Isa 64:4-9 Ecc 7:20)

8. Who can possibly solve this problem?

The one and only exception to the statement that all have sinned. This one truly just man was despised and sent to his death by his fellow men, as a lamb led to the slaughter. But he offered his perfect life as a sin offering for them all, and God accepted that through this one man who died, all men can be justified and live. God saw that this was just: that this one perfect man should make atonement and intercession for all sinful men who come to God through him (Isa 53:3-12)

9. How can you and I personally benefit from this solution?

The same way anyone else down through the ages has ever been justified: we must have faith in this one perfect man, and follow him (Hab 2:4 cf Gen 15:6). Do you have such faith?.