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justification is the act of God by which he declares us to be just or righteous or perfect because by faith alone we have been united to Jesus Christ who is perfect who is just who is righteous so justification is a legal standing before God owing to a spiritual union with Jesus which is owing to faith alone you don't work yourself into or perform your way into this standing with God he declares you to be perfect because of your union with Christ and that happens by faith alone sanctification is the act of God by which he through his spirit and his word is conforming you little by little or in big steps into the image of his son so we are really becoming in our behavior righteous really overcoming imperfections in our sanctification now here's the key question how do these two relate to each other and the key verse I love this verse Hebrews 10 verse 14 by a single offering Christ has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified think of what that says who has been perfected for all time has been it's done has been perfected for all time those who are being perfected being sanctified being made holy he has made you perfectly holy who who are you the ones who are becoming holy which means that the evidence that you stand holy or perfect or just before God is that you are by faith becoming holy it sounds kind of paradoxical I know but it's the key to the Christian life another way to say it would be this the power by which you daily strive to overcome the imperfections in your life is the confidence that you're already perfect if you get these switched around if you think okay God demands perfection I've got to be calm in my behavior perfect and then God will look at me and say he's doing pretty good we'll let him be perfect or count him to be perfect it's just the opposite because of Christ we believe in him and what he did on the cross and his perfect life we believe in him and by that faith God unites us to Christ his perfection is counted as ours so we have now been perfected in Christ and the evidence that we stand perfected in Christ is that we we hate our sin and we daily by faith in his promises strive to overcome the imperfections that exist so so my my exhortation would simply be please don't get these backward the whole world gets it all backwards other religions get it all backwards where our works and our efforts to overcome our imperfections might make us pleasing to God you never can get there that way God reckons us as acceptable makes us his children counts us as righteous and because of that righteousness we then spend a lifetime becoming what we already are