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Text: Romans 5:1-6
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Intro: At the root of it all, the Galatians were leaving Jesus to pursue the false and empty teachings of man, in this case legalism.
Simple truths that we can know about hope.
Hope is determine by you
Hope demands patience
Hope focuses the mind and heart
Our theme text I Thessalonians 1:10 gives this working definition of this particular contextual meaning that is “wait for his Son.”
This means that Paul lays out for us who our hope is.
Jesus Christ, more specifically the return of Jesus Christ.
If you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing: When we embrace the law as our rule of walking with God, we must let go of Jesus.
He is no longer our righteousness; we attempt to earn it ourselves.
For the Galatians in this context, to receive circumcision—the ritual that testified that a Gentile was coming under the law—meant that he no longer trusted in Jesus as His righteousness, but trusted in himself instead.
So Paul could say “Christ will profit you nothing.”
“Circumcision is the seal of the law.
He who willingly and deliberately undergoes circumcision, enters upon a compact to fulfill the law.
To fulfill it therefore he is bound, and he cannot plead the grace of Christ; for he has entered on another mode of justification.”
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Every man who becomes circumcised … is a debtor to keep the whole law: When we embrace the law as our rule of walking with God, we must embrace the whole law.
We become debtors to keep the whole law, and that is a heavy debt.
Again, the legalists among the Galatians wanted them to think they could observe some aspects of the law without coming under the entire law.
But when we choose to walk by law, we must walk by the whole law.
If we come to God on the basis of our own law keeping we must keep the whole law and our law-keeping must be perfect.
No amount of obedience makes up for one act of disobedience; if you are pulled over for speeding, it will do no good to protest that you are a faithful husband, a good taxpayer, and have obeyed the speed limit many times.
All of that is irrelevant.
You have still broken the speeding law and are guilty under it.
This does not mean that the mere act of being circumcised means that someone is under a legal relationship with God, and must keep the whole law for salvation.
Paul spoke to the Gentile Christians among the Galatians, who were being drawn to circumcision as adults, as evidence that they had come under the Law of Moses as the “first step” to salvation.
We will later see that Paul didn’t care one way or another about circumcision (Galatians 5:6).
What he detested was the theology of circumcision as presented by the legalists.
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You have fallen from grace: When we embrace the law as our rule of walking with God, we depart from Jesus and His grace.
We are then estranged from Christ, separated from Him and His saving grace.
In these first six verses Paul describes the assets that he gives to the new believer.
He then shows us how hope is used in the process of our growth from new born to serving saint.
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We now have PEACE with God.
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Why do we need peace with God?
Because verses 8 & 10 are going to tell us that we were sinners and enemies with him before we trusted in Jesus as our Christ.
Jesus on the cross took away the sin.
If we are willing … to place our full faith and trust in him, God sees us as though we have never sinned.
When we trust Jesus as our Christ … we find peace with God.
He pursued us in our sin … to save us from ourselves, and from eternal separation from him.
When we surrender our will – quit running … quit resisting – and accept Jesus as our Christ … we have peace with God.
This simply means that we no longer are at odds with God – the battle is over.
There is another level of peace available to us: The peace of God.
Peace with God puts us on his side.
- That’s salvation.
The peace of God equips us with an indestructible joy … regardless of the circumstances of life.
- That’s Spiritual maturity.
It’s a depth and strength of faith that allows us to rest in God … knowing that he is in charge.
Such a peace…opens another door:
2. ACCESS to God. (2)
Just imagine …
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We are never out of his reach.
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We’re just a prayer away.
And since he takes up residence within us … it’s always a local call.
By faith … trusting in the person of … and completed work of … Jesus as our Christ gives us direct access to God the Father.
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No reason to feel left out … or
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No reason to be lonely!
The whole family of God surrounds us.
And, we have him to talk to all the time.
3. GRACE of God.
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Grace is that unmerited favor of God.
We don’t deserve to be in the family of God.
We don’t deserve to be in the Body of Christ, But, God used his grace to transfer our sins to Jesus on the cross.
That same grace transferred his righteousness to us.
This is the grace that God looks through to see us as acceptable to him –
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Worthy to be numbered among his family…
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Worthy to be in the Body of Christ.
It is God’s Grace that keeps us alive.
It is Grace that allows us to recover…
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When we stray.
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When we fail.
GRACE is the greatest motivator that we believers have.
Notice the verse, GRACE is something that we stand in.
And it is an introduction to God’s greater grace that we can grow into.
Greater grace – or spiritual maturity – prepares us for God’s surpassing grace … that carries us through the transition of life … from the temporary … to the eternal.
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And that’s why we can Rejoice in Hope.
Life can become rough … painful … threatening … even terminal.
But, in Christ we can see these as temporary aggravations on the launching pad—interruptions in the countdown to eternity.
The life God designed us to live …
The life He prepared us to live … in Jesus as our Christ … transcends the time we spend on earth.
This is but the beginning … the shaping… the equipping.
It’s a time of testing … of strengthening.
We can joy in the hope that we have in Christ Jesus.
It’s a guarantee that we will live throughout eternity …
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To forever celebrate God for all of his greatness … and
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To fellowship with Jesus for all of his love and sacrifice.
Verse 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
5. Glory (Rejoice) in Adversity
Believe me, it takes a well-grounded and well-tested faith:
To rejoice:
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When the body hurts …
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When worry paralyzes…
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When medicine quits working…
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When strength fades…
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When death becomes a welcome option.
But we can glory – that is rejoice – in such suffering because we have a risen savior:
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Who tells us that we will not be tested beyond what we can withstand
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Who promised to work everything out for our own good if we love the Lord and are called to his purpose.
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