The inner change, that happens when you are born again is justification, Justification is effected at the moment of salvation. Sanctification is the outward change in the believer's daily walk, Sanctification continues throughout your entire life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is known, revealed or realized and appropriated by faith. You can never have a walk of sanctification without Justification first.
There was a sheep on a farm giving birth and in doing so, the mother died so there was an orphan lamb. They tried to put another mother sheep with orphan, but it didn’t work. She sniffed it, knew it wasn’t hers and butted it away. Then the reverse happened. In giving birth, the mother’s lamb died. So they skinned the dead lamb and made a coat for the orphan lamb. Then they put the orphan with the mother sheep who lost her lamb and she sniffed it, smelled her own and allowed it to milk. This is a great illustration of justification.
Think of it this way. We are the orphan lamb. Jesus is the other lamb. His skin covering us is our justification.
God sent His Lamb and killed His Lamb so that we would be clothed with righteousness and justified. Our unholiness is wiped out by the blood of Jesus, and we are clothed in righteousness. We are welcomed by God the Father as though we are Jesus Himself.
He pardoned us because of the name of Jesus and He has declared us as though we’ve never sinned. He now receives us as if we were the Lord Jesus Himself. When we see it; when that kind of light comes inside of us, then we know we can talk to this God. Psalm 36:8 says: For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
When we understand that we are accepted by God through Jesus, we can go to God in prayer in confidence.
We don’t have to be awkward about our past or wonder if we’ve lived a good enough life today. We can talk freely with God knowing that through what Jesus has done, we are received.
We don’t have to fool God; God initiates so we could be clothed by Jesus’ righteousness.
Justification is the foundation of prayer.
Romans 3: 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. He is the Just and justifier
A young girl breaks a traffic violation. She must pay the fine but can’t pay the traffic violation. Now she has to appear in court and is before the judge. The judge is there to uphold the law. The dilemma for the judge is that she is his daughter. He knows the law is right and should be upheld. It is his job to do so, but he wants to show her mercy because she is his daughter. What the judge does is pronounces her guilty, then comes from behind the bench and take his robe off and pays the bailiff. The penalty has been paid; the law has been upheld and satisfied. We were under the dominion of sin and with a nature that cannot keep the law. Jesus leaves heaven and comes and fulfills the law and pays the price for sin and takes us from the kingdom of darkness of the enemy and places us in the kingdom of dear son.
By Sandra Ann
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