Romans 5:1-11
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Review
Listening to the Book of Romans, it takes less than 15 minutes to get from 1:1 to 5:1; my point there is if we were sitting in a house, listening to Paul speak, we would have fresh in our mind some things:
The depth of the wickedness of sin he spoke about in Chapter 1
That because of the unrepentant stubbornness, both Jew and Gentile were storing up the wrath of God because of the wickedness in chapter 1 (Chapter 2)
That no person, outside of the grace of God neither seeks forgiveness or righteousness but that...
Romans 3:21-31 We get the righteousness of God through faith
Romans 3:21–24 “21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:”
In Romans 4 Paul gave us examples of OT saints that were counted as righteous and justified by their faith:
Abraham: Genesis 15:5–6 “5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.”
David: Psalm 32:1–2 “1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.”
Here in Romans 5 Paul teaches us what we get with Justification
Peace Through Justification
Peace Through Justification
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Verse by Verse
Verse by Verse
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
“Therefore”: Romans 4:23–25 “23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.”
Jesus died to remove the guilt of sin, and was raised to justify us to God
justification:
Justification is an act of God whereby He pronounces a sinner to be righteous because of that sinner’s faith in Christ.
“the root idea in justification is the declaration of God, the righteous judge, that the man who believes in Christ, sinful though he may be, is righteous—is viewed as being righteous, because in Christ he has come into a righteous relationship with God” (Ladd, G. E., A Theology of the New Testament, Eerdmans, 1974, p. 437).
Justification, by itself, does not make anyone holy; it simply declares him to be not guilty before God and therefore treated as holy. The actual change toward holiness in the sinner occurs with sanctification.
we have peace with God…not hope we might have peace but HAVE peace with God
Vs 2: We are standing in grace!
“access”: picture Jesus taking you by the hand and ushering you into the throne room of God the Father and introducing you and presenting you to Him and in that moment God the Father sees you with the same righteousness as Christ.
Sanctification is “the process by which Christians are set apart for God from the rest of the world, or the process by which Christians are made holy.” Progressive, or experiential, sanctification, as it is sometimes called, is the effect of obedience to the Word of God in one’s life. It is the same as growing in the Lord (2 Peter 3:18) or spiritual maturity.
Glorification is “God’s final removal of sin from the life of the saints so that they stand faultless before Him in glory in eternity”
Romans 8:18 “18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
“hope” here in vs 2 isn’t just some wish that something might happen; it’s a confident expectation that because we have been justified, we WILL see and take part in the glory of God
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
glory is boast, every chapter Paul has said don’t brag about your sin, about being, a jew, neither Abraham nor you have a right to brag about any righteousness you have because it’s a gift of God not of yourselves Ephesians 2:8–9 “8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
tribulations are sufferings
First, suffering is the one and only path to glory. It was so for Christ; it is so for Christians. As Paul will soon express it, we are ‘co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory’ (8:17). That is why we are to rejoice in them both.
Secondly, if suffering leads to glory in the end, it leads to maturity meanwhile.
Suffering can be productive, if we respond to it positively, and not with anger or bitterness. We know this, especially from the experience of God’s people in every generation.
Suffering produces perseverance (3, hypomonē, endurance). We could not learn endurance without suffering, because without suffering there would be nothing to endure.
Next, perseverance produces character. Dokimē is the quality of a person who has been tested and has passed the test. It is ‘a mature character’.
Then the last link in the chain is that character produces hope (4), perhaps because the God who is developing our character in the present can be relied on for the future too.
Vs 5a: hope doesn’t disappoint us and never will! What is the ultimate ground on which our Christian hope rests, our hope of glory? It is the steadfast love of God. The reason our hope will never let us down is that God will never let us down. His love will never give us up.
Vs 5b: but how can we be sure of God’s love?
The first is that God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
What’s the second way God proves His love?
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Vs 6: When we had no way or desire to be righteous, still Jesus died for us that are saved!
Vs 8: This is how God shows His love toward us!
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Negatively:
Vs 9: wrath of God, God’s holy hatred of sin. Saved from the wrath of God through His wrath taken out in our place on the human incarnation of God (Jesus)
Vs 10: Paul clarifies who ‘Christ’ is by saying that God reconciled us to himself ‘through the death of his Son’. Formerly God had sent prophets, and sometimes angels. But now he sent his only Son, and in giving his Son he was giving himself. Further, he gave his Son to die for us.
Positively:
Vs 10: reconciliation is to be lived NOW as well as at the end!
Vs 11:
Literally, however, 2:17 reads ‘you boast in God’, and 5:11 reads ‘we boast in God’+
For Christian exulting in God, according to Paul, is quite different from Jewish bragging about him.
The latter was a boast in God as if he were their exclusive property and they had a monopoly interest in him, whereas the former is the opposite.
Christian exultation in God begins with the shamefaced recognition that we have no claim on him at all, continues with wondering worship that while we were still sinners and enemies Christ died for us, and ends with the humble confidence that he will complete the work he has begun. So to exult in God is to rejoice not in our privileges but in his mercies, not in our possession of him but in his of us.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Paul will use the remainder of Chapter 5 to teach us about the righteousness of God given to us with our justification