StayCo Night 2: "Getting Right and Living Right" (Romans 3)

The message from Saturday night of our first ever "StayCo" stay-at-home conference, where we studied the idea of justification from Romans 3. Our final message is about receiving and responding to our justification. Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 60, 61, 64. Q.60. How are you right with God? A. Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God’s commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it al all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me. All I need to do is to accept the gift of God with a believing heart. Q.61. Why do you say that by faith alone you are right with God? A. It is not because of any value my faith has that God is pleased with me.  Only Christ’s satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness make me right with God.  And I can receive this righteousness and make it mine in no other way than by faith alone. Q 64 .But doesn’t this teaching make people indifferent and wicked? A. No. It is impossible for those grafted into Christ through true faith not to produce fruits of gratitude