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CAREFULLY STUDY THE FOLLOWING TEXT SHOWING JUSTIFICATION IS AN INTERNAL WORK NOT A CREDITING TO AN ACCOUNT IN HEAVEN

CAREFULLY STUDY THE FOLLOWING TEXT SHOWING JUSTIFICATION IS AN INTERNAL WORK NOT A CREDITING TO AN ACCOUNT IN HEAVEN
Rom.6:6-7
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is justified (Gk - diakioo) from sin.

Eph.4:22-24 
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;7
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Rom.6:6-7 the old man is crucufied causing cessation of sin. Because he that is dead (or he that had crucified the old man) is justified (Gk - diakioo) from sin. Eph.4:22-24 -The old man is replaced by by a new spiritual experience, the new man, which is created in Righteousness and true holiness. We see here justification is the replacement of the old man with the new man in which is Righteousness.
Now examine Gal.2:17-18
"17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor."

Gal.2:17-18 shows when we are justified with Christ within the works that we do are considered to be ministered by Christ. However when we sin and loose justification with the old man built back within and Christ then without, it is the old man that is responsible for the works not Christ.
Thus since being justified determines our immediate sinfree experience or absents thereof causes our immediate sinful experience, justification is an internal work of God in making a person sinfree.

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