Answer 15
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15.What do we receive the moment we accept Christ?
Forgiveness.
In addition, we receive the righteousness of Christ applied to our account before God.
God judges us as being righteous even though we have not begun as yet in the processes of redemption that actually transform our deeds, speech, and thinking until we are righteous in behavior.
There are two kinds of righteousness—both of which come to us through Christ.
The first kind of righteousness is termed imputed righteousness.
Imputed (ascribed) righteousness is a legal state in which God judges us as being righteous on the basis that we have received the Righteous One, Christ.
The second kind of righteousness is a developed righteousness, a transformation into the image of Christ.
This also comes from Christ, never from the striving of the flesh of humans.
Developed righteousness comes to us as we receive the Word of God, the body and blood of Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
These three Divine agencies cleanse from us the bondages of sin and self-will so that we grow in grace, that is, grow in the ability to distinguish between good and evil and to embrace the good and resist and reject the evil (Hebrews 5:14).