False Religions and Justification

I am reading “Justification and Regeneration” By Charles Leiter

I am so amazed of what Justification really is!!!!!

What a wonderful gift of assurance from The Lord!! Justification is in the words of Charles Leiter, a supernatural event that takes place in Heaven. Where God makes a declaration on behalf of wicked sinful man and legally declares him right before His eyes on behalf of what Christ has done. We broke God's law. We deserve hell. So He imputes (on behalf of another) Christ’s' righteousness on the one HE justifies. As I pondered these wonderful truths, a thought that only can come from the Lord downloaded in my brain. All false religions have a common denominator. They are all asking themselves "I know I have sinned, so "How can I be right in God's eyes?" Which is a GREAT and CONCERNING question that we will or have all asked our self. But the question in itself is not the heresy. It is, what can I do to make myself right that is the "Great Heresy" that dooms so many to an everlasting place in hell. False Religions' do not and can not understand Justification. Why? Because justification is a work that takes place in heaven; in the court room of God; done by the One True God. Ok let's identify the common denominator in these false religions':
Mormons- “good” works
Muslims - “good” works following what the Quran says.
Christ of Christ- “good” works or loss of their salvation.
Jehovah Witness - “good” works
Seventh Day- “good” works
Some Baptist- “good” works
Some Methodist- “good” works
Buddhist- works
Pentecostalism- works
Hinduism- works
Catholic- good works
Amish The list goes on and on. A Religion + THEIR works= False belief. One of the reasons these false religions and the world can not reconciled that God does the work of Justification is because man thinks he has to earn something or even have the thought that they deserve better. This is called works righteousness, thinking that some how if they can have a “good morality check list or certain actions will deem them ok.” They do not recognize they are dead in their sins. It is the pride of sinful men with the attitude of; “Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll do it myself.” So you see people of the world who recognize that real people of the faith do change, they once were as Tts 3:3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. Now they are really New People! Sin no longer has dominion over the believer, not to say a believer will sin, but there will be discipline of the Lord, as said in Hebrews 12. The world sees the work of regeneration, where a man is now a New Creature that is being sanctified through Christ. Justification is God taking care of the bad record, we broke His commands, HIS Law, we deserve hell, He declares us legally right before His eyes. God imputes (charge to the account)Christ’s righteousness upon a sinful man(Christ stood in our law place) . Regeneration happens here on earth. This is where God takes care of the bad heart changing us more and more into the image of His Son. The world sees this and says, “Ah, look at that, they are very different they do not do the things they use to do.” It actually pains them with the thought of doing what they once did, it is the law written on their hearts and He will put the fear of Him on their hearts found in Jer. 31 and Jer 32 Luk 15:7 "I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner (he has eyes to see that he can’t do anything, he is solely dependant on Christ) who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons (this one is dependant on his works, ie. I can do it myself) who need no repentance. Do you see the difference? One is humble before the Lord and the other is prideful.

For example, the world sees true Christians that “they no longer are drunks, liars, hateful etc….. They no longer make a habitual practice of the deeds of the flesh. So the world tries to condition themselves by “cleaning” there own lives up, only to fail over and over again. Because they can’t understand what happens when a man is justified. They have to make up rules to try to keep up with; changing a little doctrine here and there. All the while sinking lower and lower into legalism and pride that sears their conscience, henceforth, leaving them with the fate of destruction. We can’t do anything out side of the hand work of God. We can’t work for our salvation. We are spiritually dead, unless God does the work of salvation giving us life through His Son.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Eph 2:9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Rom 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

God says in Isa 66:2 "For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

Has God justified you?