Praise God—it is almost Sunday! We *get* to go back to church! Here is the great Thomas Watson, from his "A Body of Divinity" book. His teaching on Justification is lovely. . . .
“[Believers] are not justified by their duties or graces, but by the righteous-ness of Christ. Their duties are mixed with sin, but that righteousness which justifies them is a perfect righteousness.“ . . . The world censures the people of God as proud and hypocritical, and [thinks that we are] the 'troublers of Israel'; but even though men censure and condemn the godly, yet God has justified them, and as He has now justified them, so on the Day of Judgment He will openly justify them, and pronounce them righteous before men and angels.
"God is so just and holy a judge, that having once justified His people He will never condemn them. Pilate justified Christ, saying, 'I find no fault in Him'; yet after this he condemned Him—but God having publicly justified His saints, will never condemn them; for 'whom He justified, them He also glorified.' "
