Stand In His Grace

Romans 5:1-5

1. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2. through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. 3. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4. and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5. and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

Illustrations

Main Propositional Statement

To trust God above everything and everyone, because of the freely given faith, grace and hope only found in Jesus, in whom we exult through our tribulations and to His glory.

Justification is God’s act of remitting the sins of guilty men, and accounting them righteous, freely, by his grace, through faith in Christ, on the ground, not of their own works, but of the representative lawkeeping and redemptive blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus Christ on their behalf.

J. I. Packer

Justification never results from good works; justification always results in good works.

John Blanchard

Any man who thinks that he is a Christian, and that he has accepted Christ for justification, When he did not at the same time accept him for sanctification, is miserably deluded in that very experience.

Archibald Alexander Hodge