So I’m Justified…Now What?!?

In 1993, Albert Mohler became president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. The school’s theology had become loose and it had moved away from believing in Biblical inerrancy. In Mohler’s inaugural speech to the student body and faculty, he challenged them to stand for the truth of the Gospel as they saw in Scripture in a sermon entitled Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There.

A decade later, Southern had become known as a seminary with solid doctrine and a reliance on the Scripture as God’s very Word. Mohler again addressed the student body and faculty in a sermon entitled Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something. Southern’s teaching and doctrine had become so solid, that they were at risk of just standing still and enjoying the truth of the Gospel while a world who needed this very Gospel passed them by.

I find Mohler’s sermon titles intriguing, and they remind me of how we, as those made right before God by Christ being exchanged for us, should approach the justification that God has declared over us. Often at times in my life, I will think about having Jesus’ perfect record before the Father , but am not exactly sure what to do with it. I’m justified…now what?!?! Tomorrow we’ll look at the good news of our right standing before God and see how it leads us to say to ourselves “don’t just stand there, do something!”