Uncomfortable with Justification?

[Larry Lyons]

lotrob..
great post thanks

Larry,
Most of the promises are conditional...

Perhaps, but when Jesus told the paralytic, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee" he didn't add, "as soon as you go and get baptized."

[newbie]

Perhaps, but when Jesus told the paralytic, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee" he didn't add, "as soon as you go and get baptized."

That is true and he did not confess all his sins before Jesus cured him either.... must be something in the 'eyes' or the 'look' of Jesus that makes the heart melt and confess all that he has done and is forgiven. 
And, when one is forgiven and healed the baptism was as if by fire from the divine.  And, Jesus never did one baptism....  it must not have been needed.  By His example, and that would apply to the thief on the cross too.

I wonder if those people realize how blessed they were to have Jesus right there before them?

[God is Good]

1 Cor. 6:11   "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

Heb. 2:11   "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren"

Jeremiah 1:5   "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."