What is justification?

Les teaches that justification is that judicial act of God whereby He declares the sinner just as if he had never sinned. That is how God sees the justified ones, who are called the just. This comes because when Christ died, He so completely fulfilled everything that a holy God could possibly demand. Everything needed has already been accomplished, so when man tries to add his own works by saying he must do this or that, it is an embarrassment to God, who says it is done. The way into the very holiest of holies, the very presence of God, was opened up and made available not just to the high priest on the Day of Atonement but to everybody. The veil was rent from top to bottom, and man could look right into the holy of holies. The righteousness of God has been unveiled, and from faith to faith it is written, the just. Les also notes that the whole sin problem began in Adam, and every one of us, so far as God is concerned, was in Adam; sin has not changed and is still all that it ever was.