The Mercy of God in Justification

Propitiation is the gift and mercy of God that gets us out of hell. But, at this point, we still can't get into heaven, because we still have not fulfilled the righteous requirements of the Law. It is as if we were in massive debt, and someone paid our debt, but gave us no more money than that. That leaves us at zero in our account. Justification is the pouring of riches into our account by Jesus Christ. Christ takes our sin and gives us His perfect righteousness, His perfect obedience of the Law. His righteusness is imputed to us by faith.