Hello Everyone,

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE JUSTIFIED?

Justification – Easton’s Bible Dictionary - "...it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all the sins of those who believe in Christ and accounts, accepts, and treats them as righteous in the eye of the law."

1st implication of just: – REMISSION OF PUNISHMENT

REMISSION is the cancelation of a debt.

Some think we are punished for our sins – impossible. Christ took the full wrath of God.

There is no way we can "make up" for our sins

– No purgatory, penance, reincarnation, human efforts.

We may be disciplined but not punished.

We are forgiven for our sins – past, present, or future.

The remission of punishment is defined in 3 terms :

PERSONAL TERMS: We are released from the CONDEMNATION that sin deserves.

God is no longer angry with us.

Ro 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ

We are reconciled to God and have relationship with Him.

ETHICAL TERMS: a release from the GUILT of sin.

When the Father looks at us He sees only Christ’s righteousness.

Positionally we are as righteous as He is.

We still live as moral of a life as possible.

Ro 3:8 Paul was accused of preaching– Let us do evil

Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved.

LEGAL TERMS: We are released from the PUNISHMENT of sin due to the LAW.

The requirements of the law are not set aside but fulfilled.

Rom 10:4 (NAS) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

God doesn’t declare us innocent, He declares us Just.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil