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02-03-2006, 10:03 AM
Romans 5
Quote:Peace and Joy
1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[1] have peace with God
Being justified to God brings peace with God. The enmity and death that separated us from God is gone.
Quote:through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.
Justification comes through Christ's sacrifice in our place. He took the cause of our enmity and death upon himself, paid for it and defeated it.
We can only gain justification by faith in God's grace.
Quote:And we[2] rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
We put our hope in God via faith in his grace.
Quote:3Not only so, but we[3] also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
But our peace in God brings enmity and hate from the world. We suffer because of the world.
Yet in standing against the world and suffering for it we grow in God because the Holy Spirit within us strengthens us to stand against the world.
And that causes our faith and peace in God to grow. That growth in turn increases our hope in God by faith to make us even more at peace with God.
The more we turn from the world the more we see the precious hope and promise God holds out to us for the future.
Quote:6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
God in his perfect timing knew exactly when Christ's death would carry the greatest benefit to the saints of all times. That when his death occurred at the hands of those who were suppose to love him and had been most blessed that death would carry the greatest sacrifice for those who would truly love him in faith without being born into such blessings.
Quote:7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,
A righteous man is rarely loved by the world or his neighbors. Rarely one who would be seen as worth dying for in the eyes of the world.
Quote:though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But one seen as good by the world might be worth dying for.
Quote:8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God loved us all not for what we were but what we could be.
Quote:9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!
Christ's sacrifice was so great God would never strike those covered by Christ's blood with his anger. He would never part from Christ what he paid so dearly to save.
Quote:10For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Christ paid such a price to make us no longer God's enemies. So having been so united with Christ God will never let us fall away from him and will work to make us more and more like Christ.
Quote:11Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Being brought into union with Christ and the presence of God through Christ we are thankful and dedicated to God and his love in sending us Christ as well as Christ and his love shown in his coming to us. Our joy and hope comes from the sacrifice of God taking on flesh and dying for us, the Father accepting such a great sacrifice and forgiving us and the Holy Spirit for making it all real within us.
Quote:Peace and Joy
1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[1] have peace with God
Being justified to God brings peace with God. The enmity and death that separated us from God is gone.
Quote:through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.
Justification comes through Christ's sacrifice in our place. He took the cause of our enmity and death upon himself, paid for it and defeated it.
We can only gain justification by faith in God's grace.
Quote:And we[2] rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
We put our hope in God via faith in his grace.
Quote:3Not only so, but we[3] also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
But our peace in God brings enmity and hate from the world. We suffer because of the world.
Yet in standing against the world and suffering for it we grow in God because the Holy Spirit within us strengthens us to stand against the world.
And that causes our faith and peace in God to grow. That growth in turn increases our hope in God by faith to make us even more at peace with God.
The more we turn from the world the more we see the precious hope and promise God holds out to us for the future.
Quote:6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
God in his perfect timing knew exactly when Christ's death would carry the greatest benefit to the saints of all times. That when his death occurred at the hands of those who were suppose to love him and had been most blessed that death would carry the greatest sacrifice for those who would truly love him in faith without being born into such blessings.
Quote:7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,
A righteous man is rarely loved by the world or his neighbors. Rarely one who would be seen as worth dying for in the eyes of the world.
Quote:though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But one seen as good by the world might be worth dying for.
Quote:8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God loved us all not for what we were but what we could be.
Quote:9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!
Christ's sacrifice was so great God would never strike those covered by Christ's blood with his anger. He would never part from Christ what he paid so dearly to save.
Quote:10For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Christ paid such a price to make us no longer God's enemies. So having been so united with Christ God will never let us fall away from him and will work to make us more and more like Christ.
Quote:11Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Being brought into union with Christ and the presence of God through Christ we are thankful and dedicated to God and his love in sending us Christ as well as Christ and his love shown in his coming to us. Our joy and hope comes from the sacrifice of God taking on flesh and dying for us, the Father accepting such a great sacrifice and forgiving us and the Holy Spirit for making it all real within us.