Sunday Sermon 6/15/25

Romans 5:1-5 Trinity Sunday 2025

Romans 5:1–5 NIV

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Romans 5:1–2 NIV

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

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The Wesleyan Bible Commentary, Volume 5: Romans–Philemon 1. What the Justified Has (5:1–5)

And peace with God is so nearly identical with the idea of justification that it is hard to conceive of the former as optional in those who possess the latter.

Romans 5:3–4 NIV

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Justification and the saving grace of Jesus Christ doesn’t mean we don’t suffer.

sufferings —> trouble —> pressure

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pereverance —> fortitude —> hiupo-mon-E —>

The Letter to the Romans At Home with God (Romans 5:1–5)

which means more than endurance. It means the spirit which can overcome the world; it means the spirit which does not passively endure but which actively overcomes the trials and tribulations of life.

The Letter to the Romans At Home with God (Romans 5:1–5)

That is hupomonē. Hupomonē is not the spirit which lies down and lets the floods go over it; it is the spirit which meets things head on and overcomes them

Character —> Dokime (do - ki - me) —>

The Letter to the Romans At Home with God (Romans 5:1–5)

Dokimē is used of metal which has been passed through the fire so that everything base has been purged out of it. It is used of coinage as we use the word sterling. When affliction is met with fortitude, out of the battle we emerge stronger, purer, better and nearer to God

Romans 5:5 NIV

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.