This subjects him to the indignation and condemnation of God. Man needs to be saved not only from the wrath of God, but from the irreverence and unrighteousness which call it forth. Gods first provision for this need is justification. This aspect of salvation deals with mans enmity toward God, and his estrangement from God. For if, being enemies, we were conciliated to God through the death of His Son, much rather, being conciliated, we shall be saved in His life.
Justification is glorious, but justification plus reconciliation is even more glorious.
A judge may acquit the accused, but this does not mean that the justified one is received into friendship and fellowship. Enmity and estrangement may well remain. Those whom God justifies and reconciles to Him self are, positionally speaking, freed from the lord ship of Sin, and are enslaved to God and to Righteousness. That is, we need to realize, and intensely and actively believe that since, in the accounting of God, our old humanity was crucified together with Christ, in Gods appointed time, God will rouse us from death and vivify us in glory. This practical salvation is the fruit of active faith in the evangel.