f.
Sinners Made Righteous. When God's children are born of
his spirit and justified, they receive from the Lord double for their
sins. The double receipt occurs because the sins of the Lord's children
are imputed or accounted to Christ and charged against him, and for which
he died on the cross; and the righteousness of Christ and his sinlessness
are imputed to the chosen and accounted to them. The consequence of this
is that God's children are justified and made righteous:
Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,
that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned:
for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed.
Romans 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon
all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the
free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Isaiah 54:17 ...this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
g.
Result of Justification. The result of the justification
of God's children is that they are made as perfect as his Son Jesus Christ
in their judicial standing before God:
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them
that are sanctified.
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us.
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one
that hangeth on a tree:
Romans 8:30-33 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared
not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything
to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
h.
Justification Before Man. The Bible teaches justification
before God, as described above, and which pertains to eternal salvation.
It also teaches that there is a form of justification during this present
life which is before men and to ourselves:
i. Justification
before other men is by works; and is an evidence of our having been
justified before God and being one of his children saved for eternity:
James 2:24-25 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot
justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and
had sent them out another way?
Romans 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath
whereof to glory; but not before God.
ii. Justification
to ourselves is by faith; and this too is an evidence of our having
been justified before God and having eternal life. Justification to
ourselves gives us peace of spirit in our hope of eternal life. Some
of the scritures teaching these principles are the following:
Romans 5:1-2 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have
access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice
in hope of the glory of God.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.
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