Justification Before God

by W.E. Best

The average professing Christian says the word “justify” means to make one righteous before God. If that is true, does a person’s faith or his works make him righteous before God? This study shows what saving faith is not, what saving faith is, and that justification before God is by Christ’s righteousness imputed to Christians. Neither faith nor works make a person righteous before God. Although God, faith, and works all declare the elect to be righteous, the declarations are before different persons and for different reasons. (1) The elect are justified before God on the basis of imputed righteousness. (2) The person justified before God is justified by faith before his own consciousness. (3) The person justified before God and before his own consciousness is justified by works before others.

113 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

Wilbern Elias Best was born on June 18, 1919, in East Texas. He died on June 15, 2007, after being ill for several years. Converted at the age of 20, he began to preach soon after, and pastored several churches, the last being in Houston, Texas. He was an avid reader, spending most of his days in the study of God’s Word, and was well versed in both Greek and Hebrew. Although he began preaching in a Baptist church, the assembly eventually became non-denominational. He wrote 25 books and pamphlets composed of sermons he preached to his congregation. These books were distributed in English and Spanish around the world from 1970 to 2018 at no cost via the W.E. Best Book Missionary Trust.