In this episode we will look at God's word to better understand what in means to be "Justified" as defined by God.  The word justified [Verb, Strongs 1344 - dikaioo] actually means to be righteous.  It is the verb form of the noun "righteous" [noun, Strongs 1343 - dikaiosune.  As we look at scripture, we will see that first a person must be sanctified or made holy, but receiving the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit gives us a new heart.  Remember the bible teach us that everyone is born with a wicked/evil heart.  Until we receive a new heart with new thoughts, we are defiled before God.  Because sin lives in the heart.  We cannot be righteous or live righteously before God until we have been sanctified and received a new heart.  Until then, the wicked thoughts that pop into our minds when we face trials continues to defile us.  Jesus taught us the one who commits sin is a slave to sin.  The remedy is to be sanctified (event) so that we can live live and be righteous (or justified) by the power of the Holy Spirit and the new heart which we have received when we were born again or spiritually baptized.  See episode we did on "Sanctification is an event not a process", "God requires a New Heart" and "Romans ch 6 Spiritual Baptism".  Many are familiar with the argument of Justified by Faith or Justified by Works of the Law, but do not understand this argument is referring to the process of how someone can get to the point of being righteous or living righteously.  First a person must receive the Holy Spirit which can only come by Faith.  Then once a person has been changed into the new creation, filled with all the fullness/deity of God; now they can live and produce Spiritual fruit or works of the Spirit (fruit of the Spirit).  This will be explained by God's word as we look at different passages.We will look at passages in Mathew, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians. Galatians, Titus, 2 Timothy, James, and Revelation.