Romans 3:26
He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness.
My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is now doing for me. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen.
Charles Spurgeon
God is both perfectly just and the one who justifies sinners who believe in Christ.
Justification by faith brings peace with God—no more accusing conscience or fear of judgment, because Christ has fully paid the penalty for sin.
‘Just if I’ have never sinned.
God’s justice, once terrifying, becomes our confidence. Since He is truly just, He shall not demand two payments for the same debt. Since Jesus bore the punishment, believers cannot be punished again.
The believer’s hope is not based on their holiness or feelings, but entirely on Christ’s righteousness, death, and resurrection. Triumphant assurance: No one can bring a charge against God’s elect, because God has justified and Christ has died and risen.
Therefore, the Christian can live with bold confidence: even God’s justice, once our fear, now secures our salvation.
Without the protection of Jesus Christ, HIS IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS, it’s a scary thing to fall into the hands of a just sovereign truth all knowing righteous God when we inevitably pass away.
Since Jesus Christ died so that everyone might be saved (John 3:16) why not now, if not already, put your faith upon Him?