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Abundant Life in the Son: A Study of Salvation

It leads a person to rest on Jesus as Savior and the acceptable sacrifice
for sins. This trust in the Lord Jesus gives peace to the conscience as well
as hope of eternal life. Since faith is living and spiritual, it fills a person
with gratitude towards Christ, and it overflows with good works.

The Results of Justification

The results of justification are many. With the problem of sin settled,
a person enters the company of the blessed and partakes of immediate
benefits: “Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins
are covered” (Psalm 32:1). Note the following additional benefits of
justification:

• We are set free from all the sins from which the Law could not
free us (Acts 10:43).
• We have peace with God (Romans 5:1).
• We are saved from God’s anger (Romans 5:9).
• We who were formerly enemies of God have been reconciled to
God (Romans 5:10–11).
• Because we have been justified, we have the assurance of
glorification (Romans 8:30).
• We are free from accusation and condemnation (Romans 8:33–34).
• We become heirs, having the hope of eternal life (Titus 3:7).

Salvation, God’s greatest gift, makes us new creatures in Christ, as
Paul declared in 2 Corinthians 5:18–21:

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through
Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was
reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s
sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of
reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on
Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had
no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.

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