Justification and New Creation

GOD justifies all who believe in His Son, and all who believe in His Son are, by God’s power, a new creation in Christ.
“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:24), the believer is accounted by God as a righteous person, and is no longer regarded as a sinner in his guilt; his sins are pardoned, and he is free from every charge, and stands before God a free man. Being in Christ, the believer is by the work of God a new creation. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Cor. 5:17); he is in Christ, who is risen from among the dead, and who lives beyond death; he is in Christ, who has borne the judgment due to sin, and has died because of it, and who now lives beyond judgment. The believer is before God a new creation, having the life of Christ communicated to him in the power of Christ’s resurrection.