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We begin with a summary of where we’ve been.
The playing field has been leveled.
In chapter one we see that God’s wrath is revealed to be against all those who are ungodly and unrighteous.
We saw the downward spiral of sin that anyone can fall into.
In chapter two we double down on those who would teach against something while they were themselves doing that very thing.
This got especially pointed toward the Jewish teachers who had done this.
Then to all the Jews who are not to be exempt because they are Jewish.
In chapter 3 we find get to know, if Jews are under the same judgement and being Jewish, or Torah observant doesn’t save them then what help was it to be a Jew at all!?
It is because they received God’s word.
Are the Jews then better off?
Nope we’re all under sin.
Rom 3:10-11
We test all of this through the historical narrative we already know about Abraham.
He was given the promise by God that he would be heir of the world.
Abraham believed God even though this promise was impossible from any human understanding of the situation.
God counted Abraham righteous!
Circumcision and even the Law come well after Abraham had faith and was declared righteous.
We also have a promise… Rom 4:24-25
The first four chapters boiled down to once sentence is “Why we need the Gospel”
Chapter Five
We begin our next unit we might call “Results of the Gospel”
Chapter five is a transition from the argument of the first four chapters of what is the default position - sin and death, under the law or under a law of conscience all are condemned - to what is the new position in Christ.
We have two big THEREFOREs that split our chapter up.
Verses 1-11 and 12-21.
We’ll see if we can get through both tonight but they’re big pieces.
They are fundamental, Christianity basics, so we don’t want to skip through this quickly.
Understanding this took a decade to sink in for me… But it was only a couple of years from the time I had a pastor that drilled this in as foundational, over and over again.
In our previous chapters we should have come to the conclusion that God’s wrath was going to be upon us.
- Have you ever asked yourself “when Christians talk about being saved what on earth are they saved from?”
They’re saved FROM GOD’s WRATH.
Now, being Justified by faith we are in peace with God, not under his Wrath.
We have been granted entry to the King by the favor of another.
It is access to Grace - God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense - We also rejoice in hope of the glory of God so with verses 1 and 2 we get past present and future covered.
Being Justified from all we ever do covers our past, entering into God’s Grace in the present and to see the glory of God is our future.
OH, yaaay… everything sounded great why are we going straight to suffering?
One thing we have lost in the western world of Christianity is understanding suffering.
We should embrace suffering as Christians, and as a church.
We rejoice not because we suffer but we are able to rejoice because of Christ’s suffering for us, and our position with God through faith.
We rejoice knowing that suffering produces endurance.
If suffering made you run from God you didn’t have faith… if you endured your character grew, you had a proven character that can stand through suffering with God and that produces hope, hope is not foolishness.
Hope is a tested faith that stands strong in the promise of God.
You can say you have faith all day but if it’s never been tested it might just be a wish.
A faith that suffers, enduringly, builds up a proven character, this results in hope.
There is no shame in hope.
Some say hope is wishful thinking but it is not.
Hope is expectation of something to come that you can trust will come.
Those who trust in God, and have hope in God do not get proven wrong, or disappointed, we don’t get put to shame, God’s love is poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
Here we start a series of ‘For’ statements that continue to build upon each other.
timing = Gal 4.4 “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,”
We saw that God has love for us but this shows us the character of that love.
He would die for us, weaklings and ungodly sinners.
If God was willing to die for us sinners how much more will be saved in the end from His wrath?
Often we tend to focus on the cross and Christ’s death.
Here we see the emphasis on Christ’s resurrected life.
In life He saves us.
He is able and willing to reach into our lives and change us, give us a new heart and make us heirs.
But wait there’s more!…
We have been reconciled to God through Christ and we are now able to rejoice in God
Death in Adam, Life in Christ
Our next section verses 12-21 explain to us how to understand this exchanged life.
There is so so much to unpack here so let’s look at our first section in verses 12-14
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