When does God justify a person who believes the gospel?
God justifies the ungodly the moment they believe the Gospel. It is not by joining something or going through a prescribed ritual. The person simply believes that Christ died for them and rose from the dead. At that moment, their faith is accounted for righteousness.
Les teaches that God justifies the ungodly the moment we believe the Gospel. He explains that the person did not join something or go through a prescribed ritual; he simply believed that Christ died for him and rose from the dead. Then his faith is accounted for righteousness. Les also notes that the Apostle Paul, by inspiration, goes back to the Old Testament, even as far as David, who was a man of faith though not perfect, having failures and a downfall, yet God accounted him righteous because of his faith. Paul then picks up Abraham, for faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.