Through the death of Christ there is the complete judgment and removal out of the sight of God both of a man’s sins and of the man who has sinned. Through the resurrection of Christ, man has a new Head in whom he lives before God. This work and position applies to a person if and when he trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour.
When a man’s sins are removed from God’s sight, God judges the man to be righteous before His eyes, that is, he is “justified from sin.” When a man by faith accepts this truth from God, he enjoys peace with God and shares with God in the enjoyment of what Christ has done for God and of what God has done for him.
Through the disobedience of one, Adam, death has come upon all men. Through the obedience of one, Christ, righteousness and life are available to all men. God is offering to all this “justification of life.” To receive this life in Christ, man must receive the gift of righteousness offered by God in grace. For all, sin and death once reigned; now, for all who believe in Christ, grace reigns, through righteousness, unto eternal life.
We hope that each will not only enjoy the peace that understanding our righteous place before God gives, but also that each will live like Paul, saying, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal. 2:2020I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)).