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romans
Chapters 1 - 5.
1.
THE COURT HOUSE OF GOD
…….
Here
we see GOD’S WRATH,
His condemnation and the
miracle of Justification is explained.
romans
CHAPTER FIVE.
PART
I.......PART II
The Court
Room battle is over now.
There has been an armistice, a cease-fire, signed.
Now God wants us to understand these wonderful things:
1. Peace with God;
2. Access to God;
3. Assurance from God;
4. Preserved in God;
5. What condemnation was all about;
6. The power of God’s Grace.
This chapter is of such importance
that we may
have to spend two sessions on it to do justice to it. There are many,
many false
doctrines today, which have a ‘pretence’ at being Justification
by
Faith. Some of these are so subtle that the average churchgoer can
hardly
unravel their deception. If we can
grasp fully what the real justification by faith is, as presented in
the Bible,
then we will be able to spot a counterfeit. Millions go to hell every
year
believing they are saved, because they accepted a false gospel message!
Banks
often train their staff by only letting them encounter real bank notes
by the
hundreds of thousands, then if the staff sees a counterfeit note he/she
can spot
it straight away – they are so used to seeing real currency! I hope
this study
of Roman can do the same for you in regard to the real Gospel message
of God in
the Bible.
PART
ONE….
Romans
Verses 5:1-11.
Read from your Bible.
Peace with God, Romans
5:1.
“Therefore being
justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”
We have peace with God BY FAITH.
There
are seven
results of justification in this passage, 1-11.
In Romans 5:2
“By whom also we
have access
by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of
God.” we see that we can have
access to
God based on our STANDING
before Him, not on our STATE.
There is a vast difference in Scripture between our STAND
and our STATE as Christians. In Christ Jesus and His death for us
a new
standing before God was brought about – for everyone who will come by
faith in
Him:
Our STANDING in CHRIST
refers to our position in Heaven because of Him,
and it never changes;
Our STATE
refers to
our condition on earth.
This may change from day to day, for better or for
worse.
STATE:
Phil. 2:19;
“But I trust in
the Lord
Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good
comfort,
when I know your state.”
Col. 4:7.
“All my state shall
Tychicus
declare unto you, [who is] a beloved brother, and a faithful minister
and
fellowservant in the Lord:”
Don’t think you are saved by your own STATE;
you are saved only by your STANDING
in Christ Jesus alone. Christians are privileged to have what no Jew or
Gentile
could experience in the Old Testament. We have access to God’s Throne
itself.
In the O.T. even access to the Temple
on earth was limited:
- A Gentile was barred from the
Jewish Temple at the gates;
- A Jewish woman was stopped at the
women’s court;
- A non-Levite Jew could not enter
the inner court;
- Even the high priest himself could
only enter the Holy of Holies once in the year.
Something glorious happened when
Christ died.
The veil separating God’s glory from sinful
mankind was
rent in two!
Thus giving all who would have faith in Christ
access to a
Holy God!
See
Matt. 27:51;
“And, behold, the
veil of the
temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did
quake,
and the rocks rent;”
Heb.
10:19.
“Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,”
IN
CHRIST OUR SINS ARE GONE!
When we realize this we will not be deceived into
imagining
that our STATE can lose us our
salvation!
We are completely justified because our sins are GONE
in Christ Jesus. Christ died UNDER
our sins – 1 Pet. 2:24; 11 Cor. 5:21. But, He has been raised again and
is
seated at the right hand of God, and we are IN HIM
when we accept Him as Saviour and Lord.
ASSURANCE
FROM GOD –
Romans
5:3,4.
3
“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing
that tribulation worketh patience;”
4
“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”
Romans verses 3 and 4
give us such assurance that we can know that even trouble, strife,
persecution
and extreme suffering works together for us in God’s salvation and
ultimate
plan. We can glory in them because PATIENCE
leads to EXPERIENCE which
leads to HOPE.
What is this about?
All that we go through on earth must
be met with patience
and trust,
See
Heb. 10:36;
“For ye have need of
patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the
promise.”
James 1:3;
“Knowing
[this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
We need to experience God’s provision on earth;
We need to see His hand bringing us through our various
trials.
Psalm
94:12;
“Blessed [is] the
man whom
thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;”
Gal. 4:19;
“My little children,
of whom
I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,”
Eph. 4:14,15;
14
“That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro,
and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and]
cunning
craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;”
15
“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
which
is the head, [even] Christ:”
We must learn to have the sure hope in the Lord
which comes
from patience and experience.
What this HOPE
is about we will delve into right now.
HOPE:
When we have “hope” in a situation there are three
things
involved:
- HOPE
can only concern something that hasn’t happened yet,
something up in the future;
- HOPE
is never about a bad thing which might happen,
it is always about the GOOD in the future;
- HOPE
must always concern something that is entirely POSSIBLE in the future,
not impossibility!
When we see the Lord delivering us
from experiences here
and now, we can see that he can deliver us or sustain us in the future.
We then
learn HOPE, not an impossible hope but an expectancy of the GOOD up in
front of
us.
Look back and see the faithfulness of God – and have that
HOPE which cannot be frustrated.
Here are some Bible teachings on
this important subject:
Ephesians 1:17-22;
17 “That the God of
our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of
wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him:”
18 “The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of
his
calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints,”
19 “And what [is]
the
exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to
the
working of his mighty power,”
20 ‘Which he wrought
in
Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own
right hand in
the heavenly [places],”
21 “Far above all
principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that
is named,
not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:”
22 “And hath put all
[things]
under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the
church,”
1 Pet.
1:3,4;
3
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
4 “But [let it be]
the hidden
man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament]
of a
meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
Titus
2:11.
11 “For the grace of
God that
bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,”
GOD has saved you; you are in this life at this
time due to
God’s plan for you.
He will keep you here on earth for now, surrounded
by His
love, and He will give you all the grace you need to live every day
according to
His plan – if you rely on Him and not on yourself. He will allow trials
to
happen to you and me, which we cannot fully understand while on earth,
not all
the time. But, He will make those trials a blessing to you. He has
lessons you
need to learn and grow in. These will cause us all, as believers, to
grow in
Christ Jesus, and produce the fruit in our lives, which are His
gracious
provision.
Andrew Murray says this:
“…in His good time He can bring me out again
[of
trials] – how and when He knows.
Thus: I am
(1)…
here by God’s appointment,
(2)….in His keeping,
(3)….under
His training, and
(4)….here
for His time.”
“And
hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our
hearts by
the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
WE
ARE INDWELT BY THE LORD HIMSELF.
The Holy Spirit came upon the Old
Testament saints, when
God willed it, but He always left them again. In the New Testament the
Holy
Spirit has brought GOD Himself to indwell us forever. His love dwells
within us,
beloved of God! Here we see some deep teaching from the Bible, which
depends
upon the Greek word used in this sentence.
This word is “agapeo.” There are a number
of
words for love in the Greek language, but only three are used in the
Greek New
Testament:
STORGOS ~
a natural
love which is a concern for one’s children, found in animals and people.
PHILEO ~ a
friend’s love and
affection, found in Romans 12:10.
AGAPEO
~ the
Divine love found only in God.
The last word is used in Romans
5:5 – “the love of God is
shed abroad
in our hearts…”
In the Greek New Testament this Divine love word
is found
320 times. This love has nothing to do with the fineness or moral
beauty of the
one loved. It is totally a love, which depends on the Nature of the One
of Love,
God Himself. He loves the unlovely, the ungodly, the despicable and the
spiritually righteous person alike. He loves because he cannot do
anything else,
God is love!
No man or woman who is unsaved can possibly love
with the
God kind of love, it is not in them. Peter could not love Jesus Christ
with
AGAPEO until he received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
(See
John 21:15-17).
15 “So when they had
dined,
Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more
than
these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He
saith
unto him, Feed my lambs.”
16 “He saith to him
again the
second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him,
Yea,
Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.”
17 “He saith unto
him the
third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved
because he
said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him,
Lord, thou
knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto
him, Feed my
sheep.”
In John 11
we are
told that Jesus loved Lazarus with an agapeo love, but Lazarus loved
Jesus with “phileo”.
But here in Romans 5:5 we see
that the
God kind of love is in our own hearts now, we are new creatures in
Christ. This
is why we can love those who bitterly deal with us, or who are unlovely
and, in
a natural way, unlovable to human beings.
HERE ARE
TWO WONDERFUL VERSES:
These two verses both have the Greek word “agapeo”
in them:
John 3:16;
“For God so loved the
world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have
everlasting life.”
Ephesians 5:25.
“Husbands,
love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
Notice that the Lord wants husbands to love their
wives
with the God kind of love!
Romans 5:6 –
“For when we were
yet without
strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
CHRIST DIED FOR THE
UNGODLY!
This important verse tells us what the
heart of the Gospel
of Christ is. “Christ died for the ungodly.”
God saves the
ungodly, not the holy, self-righteous, pious religious person!
What! Does God save
a sinner who has no God at all?
Yes,
Christ meets the sinner on his own sinful level.
What love is this, to die for the wicked and
helpless?
- Do you have to be good, a
God-worshipper and a fine person to be saved? No,
- Do you have to work hard to be
good enough for Heaven? No,
Christ died for you, and you are a sinner who
needs Him.
“And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood;
and
without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22).
How did Christ save us? BY
HIS BLOOD.
Some will tell you today that we weren’t saved by
the
Blood of Christ but by His death.
Yes, He had to die to shed His Blood.
But e hHeno,
the Bible makes it plain that Christ’s Blood shed for us saved us.
Read
Romans 5:7-9.
7 “For scarcely for
a
righteous man will one die: yet
peradventure for a good man some would even dare to
die.”
8
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners,
Christ died for us.”
9 “Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
him.”
The Bible shows us again and again that the
Perfect Blood of the sacrifice of God’s Son has made the
way to the
Heavenly Father possible.
Let us then do a brief study
on this:
- It was innocent Blood,
Matt. 27:4,
”Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, What [is that] to us? see
thou [to that].”
Matt.19:24;
”And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
- It was precious Blood!
Pet. 1:18,19;
18 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by
tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”
- It was cleansing Blood,
1 John 1:9;
”If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our]
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
- It was condemning Blood,
Matt. 27:25.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on
our children.
A THRILLING REALITY!
This Blood of Christ saves us from God’s WRATH
–
the Greek word “orge”
(or-gay) is often used for God’s wrath in the Bible.
It is a severe punishment, righteously and justly brought
against wickedness.
Here are
mentions of what
the Blood of Christ saves us from:
- The wrath shown by God in the Tribulation
period,
1 Thess. 1:10,
”And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead,
[even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”
1 Thess. 5:9;
”For God hath not appointed us to wrath,
but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
- And eternal wrath,
Rev. 20:15.
”And whosoever was not found written in
the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire.”
How do we know that we will not go through the
Tribulation period,
which is to come upon the whole earth?
Because the word in 1
Thess.
1:10 for wrath is “orge”
which is the indignant vengeance of God which “is to come.” This
can only
be the Tribulation.
The Blood has saved us from this wrath! Praise
the Lord!
THE
“MUCH
MORES.”
Chapter 5 of Romans
is sometimes called the chapter of the “much mores.”
Let us see these in all their glory.
Read them together:
- Romans 5:9,
“Much more then,
being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through him.”
- Romans 5:10,
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of his Son,
much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
- Romans 5:15,
“But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the
offence of one many be dead, much
more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is]
by one man,
Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.”
- Romans 5:17,
“For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one, Jesus Christ)”
- Romans 5:20.
“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace did much
more abound:”
Look at Romans 5:10
again.
“My salvation was
purchased
by His bleeding and is preserved by His interceding.”
Wilmington
has said this:
Hebrews 9:24-26.
24
“For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true;
but into
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:”
25 “Nor yet that he
should
offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place
every year
with blood of others;”
26 “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world:
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin
by the
sacrifice of himself.”
- He need not be offered again and
again on the altar
as Roman Catholicism wrongly supposes.
- He has risen and entered right into
heaven and the presence of God for us!
- He preserves us forever by His LIVING Self.
- He potentially died from the
foundation of the world
~ see
(Rev. 13:8;
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are
not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world.”
Heb. 4:3
“For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world.”),
but
- He appeared in the world only once to
put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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