Justified
Dearly beloved of God, God is Just, and in His courtroom He judges according to the standard that He establishes, and He determined that He is the Justifier of the one who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ.
God, by judicial decree, He justifies, He frees that person from the sin of Adam and the condemnation of death that it brought upon mankind.
God absolves that person of guilt and declares him, in Christ and by his accomplishments, as righteous.
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
God, by His grace, freely justifies us through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. This justification was without a cost to us, but it cost Jesus Christ his life.
There was nothing in us that made us worthy to be justified. Quite the opposite; we were dead in sin.
Romans 3:22 WTJ
Yes, the justice of God is by the believing of Jesus Christ to all {+ and upon all} those who believe, for there is no difference.
Jesus was the author and finisher of the right way of believing. He believed God to fulfill all that was necessary to accomplish our redemption and salvation.
By God’s grace, God freely justified us through the ransom price that Jesus Christ paid in our stead. He paid for our justification with his life.
II Corinthians 5:21
For he [God] hath made him [Jesus Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Now we stand before God without any sense of sin, guilt, or shortcoming. We stand before Him in Christ as righteous.
Romans 5:1 ESV
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are no longer God’s enemies; we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Remember that when you go to Him.
Romans 5:2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
In Adam, we all sinned and came short of the glory of God. In Christ we have access into this grace in which we stand, we have been justified, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. That is quite a change.
Romans 5:5 WTJ
and the hope does not disgrace [by disappointed expectations] because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts by means of holy spirit, which has been given to us.
We know how dearly God loves us, because He has given us the gift of holy spirit.
In Adam we have a human nature, but in Christ we are now partakers of the divine nature, and we have all the rights, privileges, and ability associated with it, and we have the hope of eternal life.
Romans 5:8
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
We are now justified before God by the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for us. Furthermore, we shall be saved from the wrath of God by his life since he reconciled us with God.
God determined how we were to be reconciled to Him; it was through Christ.
There was nothing on our part that made us worthy to have a relationship with God, but in Christ we have a relationship with the Father as His beloved child. This is what He wanted.
In Adam we were dead men walking. We had no spirit nature, and our end was pronounced. It has been appointed unto men once to die.
Romans 8:1,2 ESV
1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Adam sold us under sin and death. Christ justified us from sin and because of his accomplishments we have the spirit of life, eternal life. Death is no longer our end; it is only an interlude until Christ returns and gathers us together.
Romans 5:17 ESV
For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
“Receive” is in the present tense. It is the word “lambano” in the Greek, which means to receive in order to use it.
We are continually receiving God’s abundance of grace. Although we receive the new spirit nature at the time of the new birth, we must walk in that reality and utilize it so that we can reign in life through Christ day by day.
There is one gift of holy spirit received in the new birth, and when it is manifested, it produces nine different godly profits for the believer in Christ [See I Corinthians 12:7-11].
Romans 5:15 New English Bible
But God’s grace is out of all proportion to Adam’s wrongdoing. For if the wrongdoing of that one man brought death upon so many, its effect is vastly exceeded by the grace of God and the gift that came to so many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.
Whatever we may face in life, we are “more than conquerors through him [Christ] that loved us.” The grace of God and the gift vastly exceed our previous condition in Adam.
Romans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
In Christ and by his accomplishments, we stand before God absolved of our previous sins. We are justified, and we have received the gift of holy spirit which has been given to us.
In Christ, we now have the hope of eternal life. In Christ, we reign as kings in life today if we choose to walk in the new reality given to us by God.
Romans 6: 7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
“Freed” is “dikaioō,” which means justified. Jesus Christ justified us from the sin of Adam. We died with him. He absolved us of the sin.
Now we are justified. We stand before God without any sense of sin, guilt, or shortcoming. We stand before Him in Christ as righteous.
In Christ we are alive because of our new spirit nature. The new spirit nature is life, and it guarantees us eternal life when the Lord returns.
Rejoice!