Justification of Life !
Rom 5:18
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation;
even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Jesus once said as the Head of the Church, Jn 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also.
We know Christ Lives from the Testimony of scripture of His Resurrection, its a Gospel Truth 1 Cor 15:5-4
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and
that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
In fact, if He had not risen, it means that those He died for are yet in their sins 1 Cor 15:17
17 And
if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain;
ye are yet in your sins.
Now Christ being raised from the dead, after having been delivered to death for our sins, He rose again for Our Justification Rom 4:25
25 Who was delivered for our offences,
and was raised again for our justification.
Which resurrection/raising again is Life, Jesus said once again Jn 11:25
Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life
Now the Justification in Rom 5:18 is that which is stated in Rom 4:25, and through and by that Resurrection, Life is communicated to the Justified, which are all men for whom He was delivered for their offences/sins .
This Life is communicated to them, in so much as the Head Lives, the Body Must Live.
Since the Head rose from the Dead with Resurrection Life, the members of His Body must also, or the Heads Resurrection was for nought, fruitless.
Life results from Justification, which is why Jesus rose from the dead, after having been condemned to death for our sins, when Justice for the condemned was satisfied, proof was resurrection from the dead, Life, when Christ was given life from the dead, it was a pledge that all whom He represented shall be given Life from the dead, because they were Justified to Life. Life results from Justification because Justification is Righteousness. The word for Justification in both Rom 5:18;4:25 is dikaiósis and means:
the act of pronouncing righteous, acquittal
God Honors Righteousness with Life Prov 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Gill writes on this verse:
In the way of righteousness is life,.... The life of the soul, or spiritual life, as Aben Ezra; and eternal life, as Gersom. One that is in the true way of righteousness is one that is instilled by the righteousness of Christ, which justification is the justification of life: such an one is made alive, and reckons himself alive in a law sense; and enjoys true spiritual peace and comfort, arising from the love and favour of God, and acceptance with him, in which he sees his interest, and in which is life; and this righteousness, by which he is justified before God, entitles him to eternal life; to which the path of holiness, he is directed and enabled to walk in, leads; though it is a narrow way, and a strait gate, Matthew 7:14. Christ, and righteousness and holiness in and by him, are the way, the truth, and the life, or the true way to eternal life; and all in this way now live spiritually, and shall live eternally, John 14:6;
One cannot be one for whom Christ died, and not receive Justification of Life, that would mean that the Resurrection was a farce, and those Christ died for are yet still in their sins ! 1 Cor 15:17 ! 16