Justification and Sanctification is Imputed and Imparted Righteousness

When Christ’s righteousness is put into the believer through the agency of faith, this causes the believer to be justified or just-as-if-id-never-sinned. Based on this imputation of righteousness, AND THIS ALONE, the believer walks the streets of gold and lives for all eternity.

Your vegetarian diet doesn't open the gates of the Holy City to you. It only PREPARES you to go into the gates that has ALREADY been opened through the process of imputed righteousness. We gotta get this right family of God.

"I will greatly rejoice in the LORD , my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." (Isaiah 61:10)

Do you see how God shows us in this verse that being covered with righteousness is the same as being clothed with salvation? Anyone who has the righteousness of Christ imputed to them has everlasting salvation.

God imputes righteousness to sinners without works, but by faith alone.

"Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness WITHOUT WORKS." (Romans 4:6)

Imputed righteousness and justification are one and the same thing. When God justifies a sinner, He removes their sins and gives that person righteousness and salvation. This is what it means to be justified and justification is provided by faith alone.

Now that a person has been justified (received righteousness and salvation) that person needs to RETAIN justification and this work is accomplished by sanctification. Sanctification by faith is what gets you PREPARED for heaven.

“The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed. The righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven; the second is our fitness for heaven.” (The Review and Herald, June 4, 1895)

IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS gives you the right (title) to go to heaven. This right to go to heaven is given by faith without works. IMPARTED RIGHTEOUSNESS is what gets you PREPARED or fitted to go to heaven. This is where your devotion life, vegetarian diet, and law keeping comes in. God changes the character and makes it like Jesus' and the holy angels through imparted righteousness.

Have you received imputed and imparted righteousness? Have you confessed and forsaken all your sins? If not, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17)