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Justification is a God-given right for us to be born again, to be called out of darkness into God’s marvelous light, to be engrafted into Christ by faith, and to be able to believe in Him, to be sanctified and to be glorified. That is why Paul says that we must preach Christ crucified. This is our j
Justification, then, is the basis, possibility, and certainty of sanctification, the deliverance from the actual power of sin in our flesh. Justification and sanctification, then, are necessarily and inseparably related; the relationship is that of legal to actual, status to condition, right to rece
We now come to the important subject of justification. And, first of all, I may define justification as that act of God's grace whereby He imputes to the sinner that is in himself guilty and condemned, but elect in Christ, the perfect righteousness of God in Christ, acquits him on the ground of the
Rev. Martyn McGeown, pastor of Providence PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:24 Introduction In the ordo salutis, the logical sequence in which the Holy Spirit applies the benefits of salvation decreed by God i
Justification means that the supreme Judge, who is perfectly righteous, and from whom there is no appeal, declares that we are in perfect harmony with His law. He declares us innocent. It is as if I never had sin in my nature, nor had committed any sin! Indeed, it is as if I had fully accomplished p
Theologians commonly explicate the concept of justification by making various distinctions. Some speak of an eternal justification (think: counsel) whereby God eternally pronounces His elect people righteous in Christ. There is an objective justification (think: cross) which refers to the redemptiv
What justification is When God justifies the guilty, elect sinner by imputing to him the righteousness of Christ, He not only subtracts something from the sinner's account but He also adds to it. The Reformed faith teaches that in the act of justification God executes a kind of legal subtraction in
Justification is one of the blessings of salvation which God gives to us, which Christ has earned for us, and which is applied to us by the Holy Spirit. It is God's act. Psalm 32 verse 2 makes that clear where David says, God imputeth not iniquity. Romans 3 verse 26 says of God that He is the j