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Illus: Overhyped Italian in the Philippines
Do we really understand the hope that we have as believers and is our knowledge of our salvation affecting how we live daily.
Background
1-3 The Need for Justification.
Gospel
Wrath of God
Everyone has fallen short.
4 The way to get justification: Faith
5:1-11 The Results of Justification
We have peace with God.
v1—we pursue peace in multiple ways but none is more important than with God.
And this peace becomes ours through our Lord Jesus Christ (1), who was both delivered to death and raised from death (4:25), in order to make it possible.
This is the heart of the peace which the prophets foretold as the supreme blessing of the messianic age, the shalom of the kingdom of God, inaugurated by Jesus Christ, the prince of peace.
2. We are standing in Grace—v2 children of wrath.
Now children of God.
Adoption
From the bottom of the mountain unto the top.
Outside of the temple.
into the Holy of Holies
3. We rejoice because of the hope of the glory of God.
v2
The object of our hope is the glory of God.
Glory is revealed in creation and has been revealed through Jesus.
BUT oneday it will be completely revealed.
The fruits of justification relate to the past, present and future.
‘We have peace with God’ (as a result of our past forgiveness).
‘We are standing in grace’ (our present privilege).
‘We rejoice in the hope of glory’ (our future inheritance).
Peace, grace, joy, hope and glory.
It sounds idyllic.
It is—except for Paul’s fourth affirmation.
4. We also rejoice in our sufferings v3-8
Christ suffered for us.
We follow him.
That’s why we rejoice.
While trials and sufferings may be used by the enemy to try to bring about defeat, they instead should bring about growth.
We must not respond to sufferings with bitterness or anger.
But with faith.
Illus: Running a 5k
The reason our hope will never let us down is that God will never let us down.
His love will never give us up
How can be sure?
God has given us the HS
5. We shall be saved through Christ 9-10
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We also rejoice in God v11
It seems clear from this paragraph, then, that the major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself.
We should be the most positive people in the world.
For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centred triumphalism but by a God-centred worship.
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