When Are God’s People Justified in His Sight?

This booklet addresses the question - When Are God’s People Justified in His Sight? This article concerns the issue of the timing of the justification of sinners before God, and this automatically concerns the timing of the imputation of the sins of God’s elect to Christ as well as the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to God’s elect. God justifies His people upon the ground of Christ’s righteousness which He has imputed to them. Let me make it clear at the outset that I have never considered the issue of the timing of justification to be a Gospel issue unless one’s view of the timing either denies, confuses, or ignores the Gospel truth of the imputed righteousness of Christ being the only ground of salvation and justification before God and the only source and power of spiritual life in the new birth. I have always viewed the matter of justification before God by His grace and based on the merits of Christ’s righteousness imputed as a many-faceted jewel of Gospel truth that forms the ground of salvation, the source of spiritual life, and the motivation for the whole Christian life.