Lesson 62
Romans Chapter 5 -
Results of Justification by faith.
Review:
5:9 Provision for the life that flows from salvation
- Notice that each of these next 2 verses have "much
more"; these
deal with the aspect of our salvation that is future.
Overview:
5:9
having now been justified we were reconciled
point of faith - (past) same
by His blood through
the death of His Son
sacrificial death
same
much more
much more
shall be saved from wrath having been reconciled we
shall be saved
future aspect
same future aspect
through Him by His life
** Logic, Premise here is this in these 2 verses:
If God has already accomplished the difficult thing; that is to
justify the ungodly, and to reconcile the sinner to Himself.
How much
more can He be depended on to accomplish the "easier" or the lesser things;
That is
He died for you when you were His enemy, a sinner and ungodly; totally
alienated from Him [v.6,8]
Now that your justified, declared
righteous, and therefore acquitted from all charges against you how much more
will He do for you now? Your in Christ, your children of God, Your His heirs;
Question is just what is the wrath refer to here?
- His
judgment to come on those who reject Him; Who fail to believe God!
- or is this wrath related to the present
experience of believers, a concept Paul
strengthens by his graphic description of God's love (v.5-8) to motivate
believers?
This
aspect of God's wrath was common in the OT in His dealing with believers. Psa 6:1 (see the discipline in the following verses;) Jer 44:5-6
- One of the keys to grasping this is that in both verses
we have the future tense of "saved" which is not talking about
salvation as we understand it at all.
It's another passage where our deliverance from something is in view.
- Here the 2nd one I believe is the correct use
here, because the immediate context has constantly referred to the
present experience of the believers, a concept Paul strengthens by his vivid
description of God's love (v.5-8) to motivate believers in this life.
- In chapters 5-8, twenty-three future verbs
appear. Out of these, fifteen passages (including 5:9-10) use an
immediate-future tense that states what is naturally expected now.
(also 5:17; 5:19; 6:2, 4, 8, 13; 7:1-3; 7:9; 8:11-13).
Therefore, because He has done the greater,
that is provided the basis of being justified and of being reconciled to Him,
(all going to the cross) we now have deliverance from the
power and experience of sin comes "through Him ... by His life"
(i.e., living the resurrection-life of Christ found in the next section dealing with
sanctification, Rom 6-8).
- Since He has paid the greatest cost on the cross to
provide us our salvation;
Is it
likely that He would not provide us what is necessary to live a life that will
glorify Him? Point of both vs:9 & 10.
- First His death; For
if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His
Son,
Justification
looks at salvation from a legal standpoint; our standing before God. There has been a legal acquittal of all
charges against us as those who have believed in Christ.
While reconciliation views salvation from the standpoint
of a personal relationship.
The words
used in verse 10 stress this personal relationship focus;
1st
pre-salvation status;
that of being enemies of God;
2nd what God
did to change that;
with were reconciled.
- I believe the primary focus is the latter, the passive
idea here; its judicial; we were His enemies because we all under sin! because of our
state before salvation!
Reconcile = katalla,ssw refers to bringing 2 parties together; making peace between 2 estranged or hostile
parties.
"much more, having
been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life."
He has
done the difficult thing, that is to reconcile man to
God. Remove the barrier that stands
between us and Him!
How much
more than shall He do the lesser, save/deliver us by His life!
The
emphasis at this point is on the provision for life, what is needed to live
daily with the ultimate objective being for each of us to be conformed to His
image and to bring glory to Him in eternity, on the day of Christ Jesus.
His death
procures our justification, our reconciliation when we believe in Him but it is
His life that gives us assurance of our salvation, and provision for f2.
Christians
who avail themselves of the resurrection-power found in His life (that is
through) Him that is resident in the gospel, (
- Paul closes this section just as he began it by focusing on the blessings that flow to us from salvation, all through Christ.