Purpose Of Justification Essay

What is the basis of or the act of being justified? In other words, why do we need it? The purpose for the need of justification is important and is what should spur anyone into wanting to completely surrender their life to Christ. The reason that people need justification is so that they can have freedom from their human nature, which is the need to want to sin all of the time. Whether a person actually wants to sin or not is not the point, the point is that no matter what a person says they want to do, they don’t always do, and when they don’t want to do something, they still wind up doing it anyways. The reason for this is because as according to the Scriptures, our flesh is weak. Even Paul understood this, that “evil and sin still exist, …show more content…
For the most part, justification is an act, but it’s also an act that continues and stays with us forever. When Jesus died on the cross, when He gave up His spirit, ‘Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit’ . This is when the ‘act’ took place, it was instantaneous. It wasn’t before or after and it wasn’t by something we did. It was all a free gift from God the Father. He offered up His One and Only Son as the perfect sacrificial Lamb for our justification. He did this that we might believe in Him and receive the eternal life that is offered as a gift for our faith. Now since the act of justification happened at the cross, it is up to us to reach out and grab it for ourselves. God is offering it up to anyone who will receive it. Meaning that as a person, we are not justified instantaneously until we reach out and receive it unto ourselves. But once that happens, it is instantaneous for us individually. Once we receive it, we do not have to wait for some switch to be flipped or turned on. It just happens. It does not grow in us, it is not gradual, but it is continuous in that it stays with us wherever we go and no matter how old we get it never