An important analysis on the Christian justification by faith held on April 15, 2024, as a first part of the Q&A session ‘The Process of Justification, Sanctification, Glorification’, was published on the Facebook site IMS SDA GC: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=324864186954933&external_log_id=c798e646-4366-49dc-aa60-8d1316359ed9&q=Q%20%26%20A%20Justification%20by%20Faith%2C%20part%201.
Pastor Douglas Francis was the moderator of the session and Pastor Tzvetan Petkov answered questions on the subject asked by IMS brethren and received via e-mail.
Answering the questions, Pastor Tzvetan Petkov underlined the fact that this subject, the justification by faith as a moment, as accepting Christ as personal Savior, an imputed righteousness, a passport for heaven, outside of us through Christ and the sanctification, as imparted righteousness, as a fitness for heaven, as a process in us through the Holy Spirit, could be really understood only by experience, according to 1 Corinthians 1:30. In addition, Pastor Tzvetan Petkov emphasized the key importance of the justification by faith, whose signs are the repentance and pain for the sins, hate toward the sin, prayer to God, and the lack of exaltation of the self, as a only chance to have an access to God.
Pastor Tzvetan Petkov, General Conference President at the IMS; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Petkov.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
