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Wednesday Feb 17, 2016
ROMANS 5:6-11 OUR SECURITY IN CHRIST/11 BENEFITS OF TRUSTING CHRIST PART 3
Wednesday Feb 17, 2016
Wednesday Feb 17, 2016
Romans
5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a
good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more
then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through
the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by
His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
1. V-5-8 We have the Love of
God poured out in our hearts:
Eph 2:4 But God, who is
rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we
were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have
been saved
Titus 3:4 But when the
kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us,
through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He
poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
v-6 While we were without
strength (helpless in our sin) Christ died for us( the ungodly)
Isaiah 25:4 For You have
been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge
from the storm, A shade from the heat;
v-7 Scarcely for a
righteous man, perhaps a good man...and we are neither of these.
Kid feeding brother in Africa
John 15:13 "Greater
love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
v-8 God demonstrates his
love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us
1John 4:9 In this the love of God was
manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through Him.
2. We have the Holy Spirit
from God: The evidence that we have been saved
Eph 1:12-14 that we who
first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him you
also trusted, after you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you
were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of
His glory.
It is the Holy Spirit
living in us which gives us the peace of God, the ability to hope, the strength
to carry on during hard times
3. v-9 We have a pardon from wrath by God: Changed
our status(justification- being declared righteous) & our
state(sanctification- being made more and more like Christ)
Eph
2:1-3 And you He made alive, who were
dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course
of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who
now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted
ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
v10
Before we were enemies with God
4. We have Reconciliation
with God: We are saved by his death and atoning work. Jesus paid for our sins
Colossians 1:19-22 For it
pleased the Father that in Him all
the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by
Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the
blood of His cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your
mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh
through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His
sight
Much
more shall we be Saved by Christ's life: His resurrection proved God accepted
His sacrifice and He is a living Christ
Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He
is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since
He always lives to make
intercession for them.
5. V-11 We have Joy in God
and from God:
Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will
rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Joy which of his grace and
goodness, He has provided for us, and not which we have merited and earned for
ourselves:
Psalms 45:7 You love
righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
Illustration:
He is there and He is alive:
Fog
has a way of hiding things. The view from our window may give us a feeling of
security because we can see everything around us. But let a heavy fog roll in
and we tend to feel trapped and isolated. Sometimes this can happen to a
Christian. We fail to see God at work in our lives when troubles and sorrows
come.
In Napoleon's day a great sea battle took place and the British
were waiting to see if their Duke of Wellington would be able to defeat the
great French Commander Napoleon. Men on shore waited to read the message given
by flags. The message came in "Wellington defeated" and then a fog
rolled in. Britain believing the worst fell into despair. Later the fog lifted
and they were able to read the full message "Wellington defeated the
enemy". The same thing happened when Jesus died. The message read Jesus
defeated, but three days later they were able to see the full message was Jesus
defeated the enemy. Are you living today like you are defeated or are you
living in the power and might of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans
8:35-39
Romans 8:37 Yet in all
these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
ROMANS 5:3-5 OUR SECURITY IN CHRIST/11 BENEFITS OF TRUSTING CHRIST PART 2
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Romans
5:3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that
tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and
character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has
been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
1.
V-3
We are able to Glory or rejoice in Tribulations through the Strength of God: We
will have troubles because we are believers. Our troubles in life as believers
allow us to not only endure trials but grow stronger through them
It
is strange that Paul should move from the brightness of our future hope to the
darkness which so often envelopes our present circumstances. But he may have
done this in order to counteract Jewish antagonists who denied that Christians
enjoyed the justified life now since they are still struggling with suffering
and problems. Paul contradicts this thesis by showing that the present in no
way jeopardizes the future (5:5).
Whatever the
particular reason was that Paul decided to talk about our present experience,
one should not fail to see the implied comparison with Abraham in 4:19-21 and
his hope in the midst of hopeless circumstances. Even though we as
Christians are in the midst of enormous trials, and we believe in hope against
hope, as it were, we like Abraham will overcome and we will see the promise of
our glorification realized (Rom 8:30).
John
16:33b In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world.
· Psalms 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my
glory; The rock of my strength, And
my refuge, is in God. 8 Trust in Him
at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Ro
5:4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
2.
V-3-4
We have Perseverance (patience or endurance), Character, and Hope from God:
2corinth
12:9 And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength
is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in
my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
· Our Character is
tested and proven by trials. The word character should be translated proven
character and it is the word that means a metal purified by fire.
Jeremiah
17:7-8 "Blessed is the man who
trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. For he shall be like a tree
planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not
fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in
the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
The
Divine design, in this life, is to fit us for the next by enlarging our present
spiritual capacity for hope!
"Our
English word 'tribulation' comes from a Latin word tribulum. In Paul's
day, a tribulum was a heavy piece of timber with spikes in it, used for
threshing the grain. The tribulum was drawn over the grain and it
separated the wheat from the chaff."
"The newborn child of God is precious in His
sight, but the tested and proven saint means even more to Him because such a
one is a living demonstration of the character developing power of the gospel.
When we stand in the presence of God, all material possessions will have been
left behind, but all that we have gained by way of spiritual advance will be
retained."
Ro
5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
3.
V-5-8
We have the Love of God poured out in our hearts:
Eph
2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He
loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace you have been saved
Titus
3:4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He
saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
God’s
love has been poured out into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Paul is not talking
about the objective love of God shown to us in the cross (3:25; 5:8), but
rather the subjective apprehension (i.e., in our hearts) of God’s love. For
Paul this is primarily an emotional experience with a force greater than the
doubt inflicted through trials (cf. Phil 4:6-7).
This
hope, the focal point of this section, will not suffer disappointment, because
God loves us and enables us to withstand tribulations. He does this by His Holy
Spirit whom He has given to indwell every justified sinner in the church age
(cf. Acts 2:33; Rom. 8:9). Paul developed the Holy Spirit's ministry to the
believer later (ch. 8).
4.
We
have the Holy Spirit from God: The evidence that we have been saved
Eph
1:12-14 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His
glory. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with
the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
It
is the Holy Spirit living in us which gives us the peace of God, the ability to
hope, the strength to carry on during hard times
Note the progression in these verses from
faith (v. 1) to hope (vv. 2-5) to love (v. 5; cf. 1 Cor.
13:13).