What is justification?

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Simply put to justify is to declare righteous Justification is an act of God whereby he pronounces a sinner to be righteous because of that sinners faith in Christ according to one theologian the root idea in Justification is the declaration of God the righteous judge that the man who believes in Christ Sinful though he may be is righteous is viewed as being righteous because in Christ he has come into a righteous relationship with God properly understood

Justification has to do with God's declaration about the sinner Not any change within the center the actual change toward holiness in the center occurs with sanctification

Which is related to but distinct from justification But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known to which the law and the prophets testify

This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe there is no difference between Jew and Gentile for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and all are

Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus God presented

Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through the shedding of his blood To be received by faith

He did this to demonstrate his righteousness so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus several important facts about justification are to be noted justification cannot be earned through good works is made possible in the sacrificial death of Christ is the free and gracious gift of God given to those who received

Christ's sacrifice by faith and Demonstrates the righteousness of God Related to God's justification of the sinner are several things the remission of the penalty of sin

Which is death the restoration to God's favor becoming a friend of God with full acceptance

Not just an acquittal the imputation of righteousness, which is the reckoning of Christ's righteousness to our account

We are justified declared righteous at the moment of our salvation Jesus Christ finished the work required for our justification on the cross.

The question arises is Justification just if he is holy, how can God forgive a guilty sinner?

The answer is that justification does not excuse ignore or endorse our sin

Rather our sin is fully punished Christ having taken our penalty for us God remains both fair and just and he makes sinners right in his sight when they believe in Jesus Because God justifies us by grace through faith in Christ We now have peace with God like Joshua the priest

We have been stripped of our filthy clothes and like the prodigal son in the parable We are now clothed with the best robe

God The Father sees us as perfect and unblemished and we are to be devoted to doing what is good

So then as one trespass Adam sin there resulted Condemnation for all men even so through one act of righteousness

There results a justification of life to all men for just as through one man's disobedience

His failure to hear his carelessness The many were made sinners so through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous and Acceptable to God and brought into right standing with him that answers the question.

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