Jesus Paid for Your Salvation

So we have been justified by His blood.

Let me try and convey it to you this way. You’re on trial in a court of law for a capital offense. Your life is at stake, and then the verdict comes out, “not guilty.” That’s justification. You’ve been acquitted.

Okay. It means more. You’ve been reckoned righteous with the righteousness of Jesus Christ, not with your own, but with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. But it also means you’ve been made righteous. It has all those meanings: acquitted, “not guilty,” reckoned righteous, made righteous. And then, “I’m justified” means “I’m just as if I’d never sinned.”

Why? Because I’ve been made righteous with the righteousness of Jesus Christ, and He never sinned.