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                                                     5:10

 


    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.

 

 

5:10  2nd Much more; Are we saved by His death or by His life? 

 

 

- 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, (1:16) will find deliverance from wrath (vs:9), but this is only realized if they "walk in newness of life" (6:4) which Paul explains and amplifies in chapters 6-8.

 

5:11 Benefits of Reconciliation

- Paul closes this section just as he began it by focusing on the blessings that flow to us from salvation, all through Christ.