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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans we are in Rom 8:30; at the phrase "also He justified." We noted the adjunctive use of "kai" (also) then the verb, the aorist active indicative of "dikaioo" (justified or made righteous).
The aorist tense is a constantive aorist that refers to the instantaneous act of the imputation of God's righteousness at the moment anyone believes in Jesus Christ.
This is the second of the two judicial imputations that are the predicate for the real imputation of God's blessings to the believer at spiritual maturity, that are also the basis also of an a fortiori.
The a fortiori is that If God's justice accomplished the greater at salvation, (the imputation of God's righteousness), it follows a fortiori that God's justice can accomplish the lesser, (blessings to the spiritually mature believer in time).
The two real imputations of (human life to the soul and Adam's original sin to the genetically-formed old sin nature) at birth begin the whole structure of God's plan for each and every individual believer.
Mankind begins with condemnation because God's justice must condemn Adam's fall and fix the problem of the fall before God's justice can bless the human race.
Being condemned by the imputation of Adam's original sin at birth frees all personal sins in the human race to be judicially imputed to Jesus on the cross. That was God's remedy for the problem. That one sin (Adam's original sin) is what condemns the entire human race.
This is because the entire human race is condemned by the imputation of Adam's sin at biological birth. Then God imputes every personal sin that is committed by each individual person to Jesus Christ on the cross.
So since personal sin is never the basis for condemnation personal sin is not an issue at salvation. Since Jesus Christ was judged for our sins, Jesus Christ is the issue at salvation only Adam's original sin is the issue in condemnation because condemnation precedes salvation.
On the cross all the personal sins of the human race were imputed to Jesus Christ and judged. Since these sins were not antecedently His own this is described as a judicial imputation because it cannot be a real imputation because Jesus never sinned.
At the moment of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ a second judicial imputation occurs, (God's righteousness is imputed to the new believer). This imputation provides the potential as well as the hope for direct blessing from God in time and eventually in eternity. Remember the principle: When hope is replaced with reality God's justice creates a new hope.
God's righteousness is not antecedently our own because we have sinned so this is another judicial imputation. Simultaneously at salvation, there is a real imputation of eternal life to the home or target; the new regenerated human spirit that God restored when we were born again.
This is because there must be life, and life requires a real imputation from God. God imputed human soul life to the biological human body at a birth creating human life.
Human life was imputed to the soul; eternal life is imputed to regenerated human spirit. For there to be life there first must be a birth. That is why Jesus told Nicodemus that everyone must be born again. John 3:3;
The judicial imputation of God's righteousness is the basis for justification, so the only way to receive blessing from God is for there to be an imputation from God. Note the connection between being called/elected and the imputation of God's righteousness for justification.
The imputation of God's righteousness establishes a grace pipeline with God's justice in the source end and the imputed righteousness of God in the believer at the destination end.
This pipeline is encapsulated by God's perfect integrity so it cannot be compromised because God's integrity guards God's attributes to prevent any compromise to God from His blessing of the human race.
Therefore, prosperity and God's blessing is a real imputation from God's justice to its divinely prepared home that is the imputation of God's righteousness at salvation. That means that justification creates qualification for direct blessing and prosperity from God.
After salvation we are left in time in order to receive God's direct blessing and prosperity as the means of glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ. That means that justification is the key to God's plan for the believer.
Justification positionally qualifies believers for blessing. After being justified the only thing believers lack is capacity, and that capacity comes from maximum doctrine resident in the soul.
When the believer attains spiritual maturity from maximum doctrine resident in the soul he possess capacity for blessing from God so God's justice must convey that blessing.
God's righteousness is the guardian of God's justice and God's justice is the guardian of all of God's other attributes, protecting them from compromise. That means that God's justice is the point of reference for mankind.
In the function of God's integrity, righteousness demands righteousness and justice demands justice. So what God's righteousness demands God's justice executes. God's righteousness will demand blessing in your life when you have capacity for it from advancing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ from the metabolization of God's Word of Truth.
God's justice conveys God's blessing to the believer when God's righteousness demands that blessing. There is no demand from God's righteousness until the believer through the filling of the Spirit and the daily function of GASP attains spiritual maturity.
That means that justification or the judicial imputation of God's righteousness at salvation makes it possible for the real imputation of prosperity to God's righteousness that the believer has at spiritual maturity.
That explains why justification is the key to understanding the objectives of the Christian way of life. In Romans justification simply means vindicated as having capacity for blessing. The potential for blessing is already there from God's judicial imputations to the believer at salvation.
Justification relates the believer to God's plan so that God's attributes are never compromised by blessings imputed from God's justice. This defines grace. Grace is the policy of God's justice in blessing the entire human race but especially believers on the basis of Jesus Christ. 1John 2:2;
This also defines the second hope. The first hope of salvation is replaced by the reality of salvation when we believe in Christ. The second hope is provided on the basis of the judicial imputation of God's righteousness at salvation.
Rom 8:30; "whom He justified" is from "de" (and or also) "hos" (these) "dikiaoo" (He justified) "these He also glorified."the accusative plural from the immediate demonstrative pronoun "hos" plus the adjunctive use of the conjunction "kai " (also) these same ones also." Then the aorist active indicative of "doxazo" (He gave praise, honor, glory, magnification, or promotion).
"Doxazo' has many connotations in the Greek. The verb means to have a share in God's glory. When God imputes blessing to the believer at spiritual maturity and at the judgment seat of Christ He is glorified and when God is glorified we share in His glory.
Remember that the imputation of God's blessing also glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and we share in His glory. That is what "doxazo" is referring to. It is also God's seventh imputation.
It is a constantive aorist tense that gathers up into one entirety the imputation of eternal blessing and reward to the resurrection body at the judgment seat of Christ. The aorist tense combines with the a fortiori of Romans five.
The active voice: God's justice produces the action of the verb through the sixth imputation plus the third hope of the seventh imputation at the judgment seat of Christ in eternity after the exit resurrection.
The indicative mood is declarative for the real imputation of blessing at spiritual maturity in time that sets up the third hope that is confident anticipation of blessing and reward at the judgment seat of Christ.
Expanded Translation Rom 8:30; "And whom he (predestined through the decree), the same ones he also called (elected): and whom he called, the same ones he also justified: and whom he justified, the same ones he also glorified."
Blessing in time and in eternity are part of the God's decree for the spiritually mature believer. Therefore God's blessing and glorification existed long before any person ever existed on this earth.
Omniscience knew those who would attain spiritual maturity prior to anyone actually doing it. Therefore God's omniscience regarding reality became the basis for the information His decree would contain.
Since the God's decree alone establishes reality nothing could be foreknown until it was first decreed. Acts 2:23. That means that foreknowledge, election and predestination are predicated on God's decree and the action on the objects in the decree is coincident.
This explains that verse 30 does not express chronological order of events it simply reveals the individuals who are the objects in God's decree so it reveals that spiritually mature believers are God's objects for foreknowledge, election, and predestination because they are in His decree.