Justification of the Sinner Romans 1-5

In early sixteenth-century Europe, a Roman Catholic monk named Martin Luther (1483-1546) struggled night and day with a soul-wrenching dilemma: How might he, a sinner, stand forgiven before a God who is perfectly holy? Or, as the apostle Paul might say, How can God be at once just and the justifier of wicked men? (Rom. 3:26). Clearly, no man can attain God’s perfect standard of righteousness. Th