 Justification. In popular usage this word means showing proper grounds for. In theological context, however, justification is the judicial act of God declaring one to be righteous by imputation of righteousness to him. Author: John F. Walvoord |
| Many people live righteously for selfish or misguided reasons. If you are striving to please God, examine your motives today. Author: Paul Chappell |
| A righteous identity must issue in righteous behavior. Such behavior is the outward manifestation of the inward transformation, and it is the only sure proof that such transformation has taken place. Author: John MacArthur |
| God saves believers by imputing to them the merit of Christ's perfect righteousness - not in any sense because of their own righteousness. God accepts believers in Christ. He declares them perfectly righteous because of Christ. Their sins have been imputed to Christ, who has paid the full penalty. His righteousness is now imputed to them, and they receive the full merit for it. Author: John MacArthur
Source: What Will Heaven be Like taken from The Glory of Heaven |
| The only person who can truly speak and minister for God is one who has been in God's presence; and the only person who can come into God's presence is one who is inwardly as well as outwardly righteous. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Titus, p. 27. |
| Winning against Satan is not a question of claiming some kind of imagined authority over him; we simply need to pursue righteousness, avoid sin, and stand firm in the truth. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Our Sufficiency in Christ, Crossway Books |
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| It is a strange thing that the first principles of religion are so forgotten in these days. Do you know what you imply when you say that you are a Christian? It is that you are as guiltless in God's sight as Christ Himself. Author: G.V. Wigram |
| Because we are united by faith to [Jesus Christ] who is perfectly righteous, God accepts us as perfectly righteous. God does not resort to some kind of legal fiction, calling something righteous that is not. Rather, He declares us righteous on the basis of the real accomplished righteousness of Christ, imputed to us because of our union with Him. Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: The Gospel for Real Life, p. 103. |
| The same Christian activity can be either an expression of our own righteousness that we think earns favor with God, or it can be an expression of love and gratitude because we already have His favor through the righteousness of Christ. Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: The Gospel for Real Life, p. 124. |
| To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us. Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: Transforming Grace, p. 36. |
| God would be unrighteous (just as we would) if He valued anything more than what is supremely valuable. But He Himself is supremely valuable. If He did not take infinite delight in the worth of His own glory He would be unrighteous. For it is right to take delight in a person in proportion to the excellence of that person's glory. Author: John Piper
Source: Desiring God, 1996, p. 43 |
| Obedience is the evidence of faith that alone unites us to Christ who is our justifying righteousness. Author: John Piper
Source: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals. 2002, p. 110. |
