Justification is an act of God’s grace and mercy. It originates in the sovereign will of God to save and bless His people; those He has loved, foreknown, called and chosen in the Lord Jesus Christ. Justification is God making and declaring His people righteous. It results from God taking all the sins of all the elect and laying them upon, or imputing them to, the account of the Lord Jesus. Simultaneously, He imputes the righteousness of God in Christ to the account of His elect. God knows who are His Those foreknown of God were loved in the infinite wisdom of God and distinguished in the mind of the Almighty before the world was formed. With sovereign purpose the Father chose and ordained them…

Paul has been speaking of a blessed and privileged people for whom all the works of creation, providence and redemption have been ordered to accomplish their earthly and eternal good. He identifies these individuals as the people foreknown of God, that is, men and women loved before time, called and set apart in union with the Lord Jesus Christ under the terms of the everlasting covenant of grace and peace. God knows who are His Those foreknown of God were loved in the infinite wisdom of God and distinguished in the mind of the Almighty before the world was formed. With sovereign purpose the Father chose and ordained them individually, personally and particularly to be united to His Son and made holy in Him with…