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Justification is a Legal Work
Justification is the process that God uses to be able to have a relationship with fallen humanity. Justification is God's legal decree of man's innocence. He doesn't look at us as though we were guilty and then forgiven, He looks at us as perfect. Jesus died on Calvary to make justification available to mankind. When the believing sinner places his or her faith in who Jesus Christ is and what Jesus’ death on Calvary accomplished for them, God then imputes the righteousness of Christ, His righteous sinless life, into their spiritual account. By this legal means alone man is granted relationship with God. Since no single action can provide for one’s salvation then it must also be true that no single action can cause one to lose that salvation. Since salvation is a legal work offered by God to those who will believe, then the only way to lose this precious gift is to stop believing. No matter how good or bad your day has been, if at days end you still believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died for your sin and rose again, then you win! You win!
Romans 3:28 - Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Good Day,I Love
Justification is a declaration, not a process. Jesus Christ Died on the the Cross to redeem his own.
Nothing was offered to man by Jesus at the Cross... he was made sin, and condemned for our very real redemption. The offer of the atoning work of the Son was made to the Father in order to atone for the sins of His people, and in doing so turn away the just wrath of the Father upon them.
The work of the Cross secured both our Justification and are sanctification:
Heb 10:6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'" When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law), then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
He cleans and washes His church to present her blameless, holy and without blemish... Eph 5. He does that not us it is his responsibility.
1 Co 1:28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
In Him,
Bill
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