Justification is the end time judgment brought forward into the cross and then we are united to Christ crucified so that our verdict which will be heard at the last day has already been

delivered have you ever felt like your spiritual life is kind of a trial that's

still in session like the jury has been sent out but hasn't come back yet what

struck me here in John Piper's words is his insistence

that in Christ, the verdict, that verdict, has already been delivered. I'm your host, Dan Kroover.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper shows why the cross is not just forgiveness, it's the

final judgment brought decisively forward for our eternal good. This message was originally

delivered at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina on July 8, 2003.

Now, I want to make sure you don't think I'm just

reaching into my reformed Protestant Reformation theology to pull down the righteousness of Christ as the solution here,

as though that's not in the Bible.

I just wrote a book called Counted Righteous in Christ because I'm so concerned right now

that that doctrine of the imputation of the righteousness of Christ is being assaulted.

It's being denied.

It's being run away from by many evangelicals, at least they call themselves evangelicals, and I'm really

burdened by that. So if you want to see my arguments there, you can get that little book. But here

is a few of them. Chapter 5, verse 19, as he comes to the end of talking about how we died in Adam

and will be made alive in Christ and so on.

For as by one man's, Adam's disobedience, the many were constituted or accounted or made sinners.

So by one man's obedience, the many will be made constituted counted righteous the reason

that's so important is because this man is Jesus so we're not just vaguely

talking about the righteousness of God being revealed now.

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