According to Rom.3:24, we are "justified freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." This justification must be the act of God, being "freely by His Grace," and it is through the "redemption that is in Christ Jesus." It is NOT of works lest any man should boast. Salvation from beginning to end is the work of God’s Grace in Christ Jesus alone. The act of God justifying the sinner cannot be considered as actually passed until the redemption was actually made by the LORD Jesus. Redemption is "through His blood." (Eph.1:7 & Col.1:14) Again, "When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law," (Gal.4:4-5) therefore, as redemption is so manifestly a time act for those who before "were under the law," the act of justification was NOT DONE until Christ was raised again. It is true, that Christ, "…obtained eternal redemption for us," (Heb.9:12) but a moment's reflection on the passage and its connection should convince anyone that the redemption is here called eternal, not because it existed from eternity, but because it shall be, in its effects, of eternal or everlasting duration. The fact that Christ obtained it assures that it is FOREVER because HE finished the work. That is GOOD NEWS indeed!