The Death of Christ: Part 10 - Justification

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Justification means to be pronounced righteous.  It is the legal and judicial act by which God declares believers to be righteous in Jesus Christ.  Justification is the removal of sin and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.  

Justification is necessary because of the universality of sin.  

•  all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, - Romans 3:23

Therefore everyone needs to have their sin removed.  Justification cannot be obtained without the finished work and shed blood of Jesus Christ.  Therefore, Jesus died for the sins of humanity.

• For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. […] But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.               - Romans 5:6, 8
• For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, - 1 Corinthians 15:3  

Only the shed blood of Jesus can appease the wrath of God and justify the sinner in His sight.  

• Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. - Romans 5:9

When God removes sin, He removes if as far as the East is from the West and remembers it no more.

• As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.                    - Psalm 13:12
• I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. - Isaiah 43:25

That something is removed necessitates that it be replaced with something else.  Thus, when God removes sin from a person’s life, He replaces it the righteousness of Christ.

• He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. - 2 Corinthians 5:21