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Romans 5:1-5
Excerpted from: Love's Emotional DimensionLet us expand on verse 1 somewhat. “Having been justified by faith, we have peace. . .” He is not talking about peace in our life. If he were, then he would not say such things as, “through much tribulation you shall enter the Kingdom of God.” He lets us know, and he lets us know well, that our lives are going to be rather tumultuous if we sign aboard with Him.
So what kind of peace is this? It means that the wrath of God is no longer facing us. It is as though God’s wrath has been appeased through the justification process made possible by the blood of Jesus Christ. The law is now satisfied. You see, now we can have entrance into His presence—verse 2, “through whom also we have access.” We have entrance to God.
Think about Adam and Eve. They sinned, and what did God do? He kicked them out of His presence! He put cherubim with flaming swords, symbolically showing that you could not get to where God was anymore. Mankind, personified by Adam and Eve, was no longer in the presence of God. But now through Jesus Christ, we are allowed back. Not into the Garden, but into a fellowship, a relationship with God.
He said, “into this grace.” Do you know what he means? A haven, a place of safety, a place of salvation. And he says that we stand there, which indicates permanence. That is God’s intention—that we are permanently back in His presence.
In verse 3 he says, “Not only that, but we also glory in tribulations.” He does not mean that we glory because we are having trouble, but rather we glory because of them. Nobody likes to go through trials and God understands that. But now we are able to see them for what God intends them to be and that is an asset for the perfecting, for the completion, of God’s love in us. You see, He is leading us through experiences by which the mind of God is being developed in us.
If we are going through these experiences and at the same time carrying on conversations with Him, talking to Him, allowing Him to talk back to us through His Word in study, what begins to develop? Slowly but surely, we begin to take on His characteristics. The image of our God begins to become formed in us. We begin to see, then, the trials for what they are. They are schooling to develop the mind of God in us through fellowship with Him.
So we are experiencing things together. What does that mean in terms of attitude? What does it mean in terms of feelings? It means very much because even as our feelings were developed in our childhood and up through our formative years by the experiences we went through with our parents and with our peers in school and so forth, those things formed the motivations for what we are. And usually our feelings are what motivate us. By the same process—by means of a mystical union with God—His emotions, His attitudes, His feelings about things are added to the obedience quotient so that we are not just learning obedience but what He is emotionally is also being developed within us.
You see, that gives us a perspective on trials that enables us to endure and that is what he says, “knowing that tribulation produces perseverance.” That is what gives us the will to endure. Patience begins to develop. “And perseverance, character; and character, hope.” This word “character” means “a tried and tested integrity, constancy, stability, approvedness.” It indicates someone who is steady, stable, controlled, and not given to extremes of behavior, or emotions, or moods. One who is faithful, loyal, true. That is what develops out of this trust that is being formed between us.
This is very closely related to I John 3:19-21, where it says that our boldness comes because we know things are well with God. Or John 15:9-11 (that we went through just a little earlier), showing that is where our sense of well-being comes from, our sense of confidence, joy, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, even boldness comes from knowing things are right with God, and then, what is the next step? It produces hope. This is the … . . .
Romans 5:1-2
Excerpted from: Growing Into LibertyWhat a power-packed statement that is! Do you rejoice in the hope of the glory of God? Did you see what He said there? He said, "If your hope is right, if you really believe God, if you understand what He is saying, He is saying you are going to be God. You are going to have the glory of God—almost as though it is a mantle put on us. Not only that, we glory in tribulations." "All things work together for good." We see those words; we say them; we believe them, but do we understand what He is talking about here? We would glory in tribulation if we really understood. But, this is the same God who subjected Israel to slavery in Egypt. It is part of His discipline. Did it work out for them? Sure it did.
Fear strips a person of his liberty because fear destroys love. Is that not what happened to Israel in the wilderness? Because they feared, they turned back to Egypt. The answer to this is to grow in God's love. The source of fear is excessive self-consciousness. When a person is focused on himself he is not free to love. He is not free. When person is focused on himself, he sins and he brings himself into the ultimate bondage—death.
Do you realize that when one is focused on helping, serving, giving, being kind, generous, etc, it is almost impossible to sin? It is virtually impossible to sin. Now that is a free person. That person unifies; he does not drive apart.
This does not come easily and it does not come quickly. Forty years God was directly involved in the Israelites' lives, and still they thought like slaves—still unable to respond correctly to God's governance.
We have much growing to do. We are far too much held in bondage to impatience, to fear, impulsiveness. Things drive us to be overly self-concerned and keep us from truly being free. We have a lot of growing to do, but God is faithful. He said His word goes out and it returns to Him having produced what it is that He set it out to do. We have hope that we can be free, but we have something here that we must grow into.
Romans 5:1-5
Excerpted from: Biblical LovesI do not want to go into all the doctrinal nuances there. But I just want to bring out that Paul very clearly delineates that agape, which is used there in verse 5, is God's love that He gives to His elect through the Holy Spirit. It is a separate love. Its source, the agape love's source, is in heaven. This indicates that Paul recognizes the fact that he and other New Testament authors use it in a new sense, use this word agape in a new sense. They took an existing Greek word and gave it new, spiritual, private meaning. They elevated the term, if you will.
Romans 5:1-2
Excerpted from: Self-Examination, Not Self-PreoccupationWhen Paul mentions being justified by faith at the beginning of Romans 5, he mentions it as an obvious fact. He is already of the mindset of being assured of the first step in the process of salvation, that is, the reality of justification for himself and God's church.
Peace with God does not necessarily bring peace with other human beings. The conditions of our lives amid an antagonistic society are not easy or pleasant. Still, the knowledge of acceptance of God and His grace being constantly supplied and the prospect of future glory enables us to rejoice while suffering.
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