It is not simply the certitude of being saved from damnation, but a walking in newness of life and where discipleship has precedence over the concern for experience. It is not only deliverance from sin and freedom from guilt and the restoration of fellowship with God, but also a commission to fulfill a task affecting a horizontal as well as a vertical relationship. It was considered by the biblicist as not merely God's unmerited favor to man in regards to his salvation, but grace is the enabling power of God to do what we ought to and what is right. It is not only the enjoyment of knowing a right standing with God through faith in Christ, but also an acute awareness that justification cannot be separated form sanctification or holiness. Faith is not complete without works.
Justification is the initiation to discipleship.
In literature and in expression the emphasis was not so much on this knowledge as it was on the necessity of living and doing right according to the Word of God. This confidence of right relationship with God would be a result. It is not merely an emotional feeling of affection, which overlooks sin and tolerates carnality. It cannot only be a devotional gathering where each one feels himself distinct from the other due to diverse experience. Rather it is the disappearance of all things personal and selfish in the practice of brotherly reception, to be built up mutually for the building of the kingdom.