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Welcome to Plodcast episode 22.

Plodcast episode 22. So in our opening segment here, I want to talk a little bit about a theological topic

I want to talk about justification and sanctification and confession of sin justification sanctification and confession of sin.

Justification, sanctification and confession of sin.

So in, for those who understand the reformed doctrine of justification, they understand that at the moment of justification, God imputes the righteousness of Christ to the sinner and this this imputation is

is punctilier it happens at a particular point in time. So the day before the

sinner was not justified at a particular moment on the day of his conversion,

he was justified and the day after he has been justified for a full day now.

So he crosses a border.

He hit, it's like the defendant in a trial is on trial, and then when the jury comes out and

declares, formally, judicially declares, not guilty.

His status changes at that moment. He was an accused criminal on

trial and he's now acquitted. So our acquittal is like that moment. God pronounces the great not guilty sentence

over us, the great not guilty declaration over us.

And what that means is that our status changes.

Our status changes from condemned and guilty

to not

here getting into all the explanations of how God is able to do this

explanations of how God is able to do this and still remain just.

That has to do with the atonement and the imputation of our sins to Christ and so on.

I'm not getting into that.

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