To be justified is simply to be declared just or right. It is a legal term signifying acquittal from any charges or offends that were leveled against someone. Hence to be justified is to be declared righteous in the sight of God.
The Bible makes us understand that, this blessing was bestowed on us through the work of Jesus Christ, “who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.” Romans 4:25 KJV. Now in plain language “Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that he had made us right with God!” Romans 4:25 TPT.
So you see, Jesus’s main work on earth was to make us right with God! He came to break the barrier of sin that separated us from God and to establish a new relationship between us and the father, on his account, not on ours! This this the big deal. And He truly finished it.
“One man’s(Adam’s) disobedience opened the door for all humanity to become sinners. So also one man’s(Jesus’s) obedience opened the door for many to be made perfectly right with God and acceptable to him(by faith in Jesus Christ).” Romans 5:19 TPT( brackets mine).
So you see, it is clear that righteousness or justification doesn’t come by any man’s effort but by faith in Christ alone . “we know that no one receives God’s perfect righteousness as a reward for keeping the law, but only by the faith of Jesus, the Messiah! *His faithfulness has saved us, and we have received God’s perfect righteousness*. Now we know that God accepts no one by the keeping of religious laws!” Galatians 2:16 TPT.
“Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live. [Hab. 2:4.]” Galatians 3:11 AMPC. So now we can conclude that *“[All] (believers) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace* (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,”
Romans 3:24 AMPC (brackets mine).
This means that Jesus' atoning death is critically important in our justification. Similarly we are justified "by his grace" ( Rom 3:24 ), "by his blood" ( Rom5:9 ), "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ" ( 1 Cor 6:11 ), and"in Christ" ( Gal 2:17 ), which are all ways of saying that it is the saving work of Jesus that brings about the justification of sinners.
I call you blessed 😇
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