The battle has been waged, the verdict issued, and the issue settled once and for all. It is final, unchangeable, and irrevocable. God was reconciled to man in the person of Christ. But the stain of sin, the effect of sin, and the root of sin were blotted out by the Blood of His Son that day. Now God could make His abode in men's hearts and adopt them as His sons.
Justification is one of the great words of our redemption.
Simply, it means that all the charges against us for violating God's law have been cleared and that we stand acquitted before a holy God. Our sin was against God, but because of Christ's blood He has declared us to be just and has written our names in the Lamb's Book of Life. We were under the bondage of our old nature and under the chains of sin. Yet Christ, in His victorious death, produced total, complete, and eternal deliverance. The word used for salvation in the New Testament means full salvation, total deliverance.