Related commentaries – Justification

What It Means To Be Acceptable to God – Romans 5:1 – 5:11

Grubb - We Need the Holy Spirit to be Witnesses by Lip and Life.

Recently I read the biography of Norman Grubb, a missionary in Africa, and the leader of his mission for 30 years. I was struck by what he wrote: “At conversion we learned that we had not done what we should, but then we soon learn that of ourselves we cannot do what we should.” We need the enabling of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses for Jesus by lip and life on a daily basis. The same point is made in John Wesley’s life-changing experience in Aldersgate Street in May 1738. He acknowledges that he had become a true believer by justification through faith since the previous March, and yet he knew he lacked something and was hungry for it. But at that meeting he said, “I felt my heart strangely warmed...” He said that before this experience he had the faith of a servant, but now it was that of a son. (Owen Bourgaize - Sermon Central)