This is Pastor Justin Westmoreland from the Fully Alive Athlete Pastor Channel, and this is a recording of the worship service for Trinity Presbyterian Church of Norman. You can find us online at trinitynorman.com

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In Romans 3:21-26, Paul shares that justification by faith alone is received by us freely by God's grace alone, accomplished entirely on account of the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, and this week we see that because God set Jesus forth as a propitiation, God is vindicated: just and a justified, and worthy of our worship!

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You might find the PowerPoint slides helpful to follow along with the liturgy, sermon, and check out the announcements you missed. Link is here:
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We sang:
Holy Holy Holy!
The Church's One Foundation
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Gloria Patri
and the Doxology
We observed the celebration of Communion.
We prayed the Lord's Prayer and confessed the Apostles' Creed.

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The sermon text was :

21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.


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“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” – 1 John 4:10

“He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.” – 1 John 2:2

17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. - Hebrews 2:17
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“Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of it and any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards.”
- J.I. Packer, Concise Theology

“When Paul explains the gospel in Romans, he states that God, in providing redemption through the cross of Christ, demonstrates both that He is just and the justifier of those who have faith (Rom 3:26). The cross is the clearest expression of God’s grace and mercy that we find anywhere in Scripture. There are those who say they prefer the God of the New Testament because he is a God of love, grace, and mercy, while the Old Testament God is vengeful, angry, and concerned about law and justice. It is important to note in response that the most vivid demonstration of the wrath and justice of god we find in Scripture is found in the New Testament, at the cross. In the violence of that act, the wrath of God was poured out on One who, in and of Himself, was completely innocent but who took upon Himself our transgressions and our guilt.”
– R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess