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*Summation: Peace, Joy, and Hope*
*Introduction W*e take up our study of Romans again.
The apostle Paul has presented God’s case against sinners.
He has presented God’s plan for justifying sinners, that is, making sinners right with God.
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Now Paul prepares to apply these divine doctrines to the individual Christian, and to the Church.
He prepares a summary of what has been said so far.
He introduces his summary with the word, *“Therefore…” *This word links what comes before with what follows.
Now Paul begins to teach the “so what” of being justified.
Doctrinally speaking, he is moving from the teaching of Justification --how a person becomes right with God—to the teaching of what the justified life is all about, Sanctification.
Paul presents a three-fold summation of Justification; Peace, Joy, and Hope.
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Peace and Reconciliation (**Romans 5:1-2a, 6-10) *On January 11, 1990 the Associated Press reported that WWII was over.
Yes, the date is correct.
That’s the day two Japanese soldiers, both in their 70s, left the jungle to end their military careers.
They did not know that the war had ended some 40 years before.
They didn’t know there was peace.
There is similarity between this and the Church.
Consider those people who do not know God.
They live in the jungles of life not knowing the peace that exists between God and themselves.
They think God is still the enemy.
Others come to faith in Jesus Christ believing God’s promise that the war is over.
And like those two Japanese soldiers they come out of the jungles of human existence and into God’s peace.
Everyone experiences the war with God because as Scripture says, /“The wrath of God is being revealed against all the godlessness and wickedness of men”.
/Beginning with Adam and Eve, our actions, hostility, and estrangement made reconciliation with God necessary.
Sadly, no one in the war could ever make reconciliation a reality.
But through Jesus Christ and the Cross, God did what no man could.
Just listen again to the witness of Paul.
*8*/God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”/
How wonderful!
God did this by not counting our sins against us.
Isn’t that neat?
Now everyone can enjoy God’s Peace.
So why do so many not enjoy the peace God wants all people to have?
Are there still some who don’t know the war is over?
Yes.
Are there some who simply reject the truth that the body and blood of Jesus Christ has brought about this peace?
Yes.
Are there some among us who still find it difficult to trust that this peace really exists?
The troubles of life, sickness, disease, murders, and strife all seem to be saying, “Where is God’s Peace?”
But out of love Jesus says, /“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.”/
In other words, nothing we experience in this life can destroy that love.
Therefore, nothing can destroy the peace.
And that is why the soul can experience God’s Peace, even when things look and feel completely contrary.
This is what it means to be reconciled with God.
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Joy (Romans 5:2b 3a, 11) *
What a relief!
As we come to realize the truths of reconciliation and justification more and more fully, joy floods the human heart.
It’s rather interesting how Peace and Joy go together, like two sides of the same coin.
One preacher put it this way, /“Peace is joy resting; joy is peace dancing.”/
A common error people make about Christian Joy is equating with Happiness.
The joy Scripture speaks of is not an emotion so it should not be confused with happiness.
Christian Joy is a condition of the soul; the quiet confidence of resting in God’s peace and reconciliation.
Paul mentions three things for such joy.
/“We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.” “We rejoice in our sufferings.”
And “We rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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Everybody falls short of the glory of God and deserves nothing but His terrible wrath.
But the transformation is still going on.
Through our devotion to His Word we are being renewed day-by-day.
In 2 Cor 3:18 Paul speaks of this.
/“We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”/
Get it!
It is the Holy Spirit working through the Word who is restoring God’s image in us.
By the power of God working in us we are little by little becoming more like Jesus.
The process continues until it is brought to completion on the day of Christ’s return.
That day is when all the children of God will be revealed in their utmost Glory in Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile we wait and we suffer with Christ whom people still malign and seek to destroy.
But you know what!
It doesn’t matter what we might suffer at the hands of men.
Suffering as one of Christ’s own builds endurance; brave endurance.
In that we are enabled to stand up under any and all pressures that might be loaded on us.
Witness the first martyrs of Christ.
The Lord Himself gave them what they needed, when they needed it.
Likewise for us.
Trust in this process leads to the building of Christian Character.
This character is built according to the measurement of God.
It is genuine and real.
It is Christ in us.
And therein is our Hope, Christ in us.
So you see, it isn’t emotions or circumstances that Christian Peace and Joy is rooted in.
It is rooted in God Himself through Jesus Christ.
Apart from Him there is Peace, no Joy.
But in Him, we can, as Paul records, /“Rejoice in the Lord always.”/
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Hope (Romans 5:3b-5) “Therefore” *Christian hope is not some vague wishful thinking about the future.
Instead, it is the firm conviction that we will surely receive the things we do not yet see.
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People ask, “What’s the difference between Hope and Faith”.
Faith directed toward what God has done for us.
Hope is directed toward what God has promised to do for us.
* Conclusion* You see, all things depend on God.
Scripture is clear.
God has cancelled our guilty past in the Cross of Jesus Christ.
God has assured our future glory in the return of Christ.
And here and now, today, He is at work taking us from one degree of glory to another in Christ.
What Peace, What Joy, What Hope.
What a summation.
Amen.
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