Faith branches out to different aspects in man. We apply faith in other humans who through there special abilities intrigues us. Faith is applied to things that we rely on such as cars and planes. And, faith we apply to ourselves, constantly we hear “Believe in your self”, “you can be all you want too”. But, our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is exceptional, we must believe that he is more then able to do much more then what we could imagine. There are those who chose to only believe in God and that is good, but it is not complete, because Jesus and God are one (Jhn. 10:30). Believing in Jesus deals with a relationship, not just a mental crush. Some people say they believe in God because it is a status qua, they hide in God’s kingdom; the wheat and the weed must grow together (Mt. 13:26-29).
Romans 3:23-26
25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[i]through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in .
For a time God punished the wicked including his children. Many a time the children of Israel sinned against God, and he justly punished them. In Numbers 21 God’s people sinned against him and he sent serpents to bite them; people were dying by the thousands. God in his abundant mercies provided a way out to this epidemic by having Moses put a snake on a pole and whoever looked at it would get healed (V.6). But, then a surprising twist to how God was dealing with man, no more punishment. God stopped punishing people for their earthly sins in exchange for faith. People were doing bad things and it seemed that they were getting away with it; kind of like today. It seems like people today who are not being justly receiving retribution for their wrong doings.
We see this punish-less idea with this women who was caught in the very act of adultery by the religious people in Jesus’ earth days, and when she was about to receive her punishment (Jhn 8:7) God’s righteousness steps in to save the day. God switched the idea of punishment for faith, the idea that if we believe in Him we are justified by faith (Gal. 2:16, Ro. 5:1). This point of justification via faith leads the believer to no longer be chase by the idea of condemnation (Ro. 8:1). This is not to say that God will not punish the wicked ones for their evil deeds, he will.