WEBVTT 00:00:01.640 --> 00:00:08.900 So this morning I feel absolutely privileged because I get to share with you out of the book of 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:12.250 Romans and the book of Romans. 00:00:12.940 --> 00:00:13.420 I love it. 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:21.940 And the reason is that contains perhaps the clearest vision, the clearest message 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:25.940 of the gospel found in all of scripture. 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:35.600 And the reason for that is the book of Romans is truly a unique letter, a unique epistle, for 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.100 it is the most systematic treaty's of the gospel. 00:00:41.180 --> 00:00:48.550 And the reason for that is all the other books, all the other letters that are written in Scripture, 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:56.700 like Titus or Timothy, that are written to specific individuals or Colossians or Galatians 00:00:56.700 --> 00:00:59.100 or Ephesians that were written to specific churches. 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:04.080 Paul is familiar with them. 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:06.800 He knows them intimately. 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.180 He spends years with Titus and Timothy. 00:01:10.180 --> 00:01:14.600 He spends years in Ephesians, in Ephesus, in Corinth. 00:01:14.980 --> 00:01:22.180 He spends months or weeks with the people of Thessalonica in Philippi and a lot of the other 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:25.040 places that receive letters from Paul. 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:34.300 So when Paul is writing those letters, the letters of Philippians, the letters of Titus, the letters of Timothy, he 00:01:34.300 --> 00:01:41.000 is building on a foundation that he has already laid out, such as? 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:48.060 And what he does is he clarifies doctrine that he's already taught them or he addresses specific 00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:55.640 moral failings that they're having in the church, such as the letter of First Corinthians, or he confronts 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:03.090 bad theology that has corrupt, crept up in the church like the Gnosticism that happens in colossi. 00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:12.530 Or he outs the super apostles or false teachers that you see in Second Corinthians. 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:20.600 But the thing is, when Paul writes the letter of Romans to the people of Rome, the Church of Rome, he has 00:02:20.600 --> 00:02:21.900 never met them. 00:02:22.820 --> 00:02:26.360 He has no idea what they know and what they do not know. 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:32.700 Which because he hadn't spent months or years teaching them. 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:37.870 Therefore, he goes about writing the book of Romans in a completely different way. 00:02:40.060 --> 00:02:43.220 And he builds from the foundation. 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:49.360 And he lays out brick by brick the message of the gospel. 00:02:51.220 --> 00:02:54.020 Why people so desperately need it. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.940 What the gospel is, how you can receive it, and what happens when you receive the gospel. 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:02.620 What's the end? 00:03:03.940 --> 00:03:08.540 And you don't have to take my word for it that this is the reason that Paul is writing this letter. 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:10.500 He tells us. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:17.700 So when I get this working in Romans 114 through 17, this is what he 00:03:17.700 --> 00:03:18.350 says. 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:24.430 I am obligated both to Greeks and non Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:31.940 And that is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome, for I 00:03:31.940 --> 00:03:39.300 am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes first to the Jew, then 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:40.200 to the Gentile. 00:03:40.760 --> 00:03:47.840 For in the Gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith, from first to last, 00:03:48.140 --> 00:03:49.240 just that is written. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:52.570 The righteous will live by faith. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:04:01.480 Paul gives his reason to the people of Rome, of why he's writing this letter to him, and it's because he's compelled to share 00:04:01.480 --> 00:04:08.720 the gospel to everyone, whether they be Jewish like him or Gentile, 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:16.260 unlike him, whether they be wise or whether they be foolish, whether they're learned or whether they 00:04:16.260 --> 00:04:23.660 have never learned, because the gospel alone is 00:04:23.660 --> 00:04:31.060 the power of God that is able to save, no matter who you are, whether Jew 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:35.240 or Gentile, and there is nothing else that can save you. 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:44.420 For in the Gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that only comes by faith and 00:04:44.420 --> 00:04:45.980 is continued in faith. 00:04:47.580 --> 00:04:49.180 And nothing beyond faith. 00:04:50.580 --> 00:04:57.620 And this is the thesis that Paul lays out the foundation that falls lays out Paul lays 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:04.640 out at the start of the book of Romans and what he will continue to prove and what he will build on throughout the rest of the 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:05.980 book of Romans this. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.340 Romans 114 through 17. 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:13.840 So when we get to the passage, Romans five one through 11. 00:05:13.860 --> 00:05:19.870 And as we go through today, remember why Paul is saying this, because this is so important. 00:05:21.460 --> 00:05:26.640 Romans five one If you guys have your Bibles, you can turn there. 00:05:27.620 --> 00:05:30.450 This is where we'll be for the majority. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.580 But excuse me, we'll hop around a little bit. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:41.640 Romans five one says this Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:44.960 God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:05:46.500 --> 00:05:49.180 Now, that is an amazing verse to start out with. 00:05:50.500 --> 00:05:54.760 But before we move on, we need to understand some things. 00:05:54.760 --> 00:05:59.120 We need to understand the context of Paul writing this. 00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:07.300 For without the context, we won't be able to understand some of these things and what the author is meaning and what 00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:08.600 he's trying to get across. 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:16.200 And the reason why is a he says, therefore, which I highlighted for us, which means that 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:21.320 he is referencing what he wrote prior in the book of Romans. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:30.130 B If we ask a few questions of the text, it becomes apparent that there's some questions that need answering. 00:06:30.440 --> 00:06:34.520 And I don't want to assume that we know what the context is. 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:41.400 Some of those questions could be why is justification or why is being justified necessary? 00:06:42.760 --> 00:06:47.520 Why is peace with God something that we need? 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:54.560 Are we at war with God or why is it through Jesus Christ? 00:06:55.500 --> 00:07:02.620 And by faith, I mean we can't just assume we know those things and see if you are 00:07:02.620 --> 00:07:03.860 reading your Bible. 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:11.740 That is a good hermeneutic You want to read the passage in context of the surrounding passages and 00:07:11.740 --> 00:07:13.520 the book. 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:20.920 And RD If you want to understand the meaning of anything, you're going to have to know the context 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:22.760 in which it is in. 00:07:24.820 --> 00:07:28.030 For example, here is a picture. 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:33.740 Now you guys can understand a few things about this picture, right? 00:07:34.080 --> 00:07:40.100 You can understand that there are a lot of people that it looks like they're in a city. 00:07:41.620 --> 00:07:46.780 And it was a picture that was taken probably before any of us were born. 00:07:47.140 --> 00:07:49.540 It's 70 to 100 years old. 00:07:50.660 --> 00:07:52.000 Maybe some of you guys are here. 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:53.460 Remember that time? 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:54.740 Sorry, I don't want to assume. 00:07:55.860 --> 00:07:56.320 All right. 00:07:56.880 --> 00:07:58.520 But it's an old picture. 00:07:59.660 --> 00:08:00.660 Sorry, guys. 00:08:01.760 --> 00:08:02.780 I apologize. 00:08:04.200 --> 00:08:05.570 But what gives the picture? 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.060 This picture meaning is when it was taken. 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:12.420 Right. 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:20.240 I could tell you that this picture was a protest that was organized by labor unions that wanted better 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:25.220 living conditions and better wages for their workers. 00:08:26.380 --> 00:08:33.460 But that would give this picture a completely different meaning from the truth of it, because the truth about this picture is that this 00:08:33.460 --> 00:08:40.080 was taken the moment that they learned there was peace. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:42.460 Right. 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:49.820 They lived through and were alive during the most bloody war 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:56.240 in history that ever happened up to this time, where more than likely they lost a relative. 00:08:57.800 --> 00:09:05.060 See when they're when they get the news of the German empire surrendering in World War One. 00:09:06.540 --> 00:09:13.720 They are out to celebrate because after four years of horrible 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:20.740 industrialised warfare that saw the death of 20 million people and saw the wounding 00:09:20.740 --> 00:09:27.990 of 20 million more people, that would leave families all over the world never whole again. 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:30.740 It is finally over. 00:09:33.300 --> 00:09:35.860 And they are, of course, celebrating. 00:09:35.860 --> 00:09:37.910 They're out to celebrate with one another. 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:38.520 Why? 00:09:38.520 --> 00:09:39.850 Because there is peace. 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:46.720 They and their relatives who are at the front line will be able to return home. 00:09:47.740 --> 00:09:49.330 And that this good news. 00:09:51.160 --> 00:09:58.280 Is going to save them from the brutality and hardships of war that they've had to face up to this 00:09:58.280 --> 00:09:58.680 point. 00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:04.240 The death, the suffering, the pain, the fear, it's gone. 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:12.560 And when you understand the why in this picture, you can see and understand the 00:10:12.560 --> 00:10:13.440 celebration. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.940 And believe it or not, the gospel. 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:24.930 And, we hear that and we immediately think, oh, that's a religious term. 00:10:25.800 --> 00:10:27.820 But it wasn't always a religious term. 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:37.380 In fact, it was adopted by the Christians from the Greek language and 00:10:37.380 --> 00:10:39.780 the word is yo and yo. 00:10:40.620 --> 00:10:43.300 And Jillian, I think I pronounce that right. 00:10:44.060 --> 00:10:44.420 Yo. 00:10:44.420 --> 00:10:50.800 And Jillian, where we get the word Evangelion or Evangelical, right. 00:10:51.260 --> 00:10:51.400 Yo. 00:10:51.500 --> 00:10:58.140 And Jillian, in the time of Paul writing Romans literally means good news. 00:10:58.220 --> 00:11:00.510 And it's where we get the English word gospel from. 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:05.300 And it literally means glad tidings are good news. 00:11:05.660 --> 00:11:11.640 But what it was often used for was to proclaim news of a victory on a battlefield. 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:19.460 Which was good news indeed to the people who heard it because they understood. 00:11:20.920 --> 00:11:25.100 The gospel, a gospel as a message of salvation. 00:11:26.800 --> 00:11:27.600 Because. 00:11:28.580 --> 00:11:36.520 Especially back in the day, if you lived in a city or in a country whose army was gone 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:43.710 and fought in combat and they lost, what could happen to you is that you would have nothing, 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.740 no army to defend yourself. 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:53.220 And at any moment the enemy army could be coming over that hill and it could take whatever it wanted, 00:11:53.380 --> 00:11:57.860 whether that be your life, whether that be your children, whether that be your stuff. 00:11:58.920 --> 00:12:01.460 They could take whatever they wanted. 00:12:01.900 --> 00:12:03.840 So when they heard gospel. 00:12:05.680 --> 00:12:07.740 Good news, a victory. 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:15.620 They knew that they were saved, that there was peace, and that they no longer had to 00:12:15.620 --> 00:12:17.160 live in fear. 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:23.380 And this is exactly what Paul is declaring to the people of Romans. 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:31.140 And what he has dedicated his life to is going throughout the ancient world and proclaiming this gospel, this message 00:12:31.140 --> 00:12:32.280 of victory. 00:12:33.420 --> 00:12:40.660 But Paul isn't declaring a victory over enemy armies, a barbarian army that fought with spears or 00:12:40.660 --> 00:12:41.700 shields. 00:12:42.020 --> 00:12:49.240 What he is declaring is a victory against the powers of darkness that have separated mankind 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.160 from their creator since the fall. 00:12:53.880 --> 00:12:58.780 And the problem that has always been in the human heart, the victory over sin. 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:07.320 And Paul is declaring deliverance from both sin and 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.560 the power of sin being death. 00:13:11.300 --> 00:13:18.660 Romans Chapter one Paul begins explaining why the gospel is so necessary, 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:23.860 laying out the problem with mankind, which is their sinful hearts, their depravity. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:29.620 He explains how it how the problem with mankind has never been about ignorance. 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:32.000 That has always been about arrogance. 00:13:32.700 --> 00:13:40.080 Knowing that, thinking that they know better than God, thinking that they are beyond the morality of 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:45.440 God, and that we can somehow make our own morality that is better than his. 00:13:46.760 --> 00:13:50.120 Or that were, in fact, an exception of that fact. 00:13:50.140 --> 00:13:57.640 Romans 132 says this although they knew the ordinances of Ordinances of God, meaning 00:13:57.640 --> 00:14:05.000 they knew what God said was right and wrong, and that those who practice such things are worthy of death, meaning they knew the results 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.920 of doing those things. 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:13.480 Not only do they do the same, but they give hearty approval to those who practice them. 00:14:14.620 --> 00:14:16.500 The problem with mankind. 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:24.080 Is the arrogance of their heart, their sinful tendencies, their depravity, and Romans, too. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:31.700 Paul starts explaining that God is just that God isn't just going to sweep evil 00:14:31.700 --> 00:14:34.910 or wickedness under the rug and not leave it unpunished. 00:14:35.780 --> 00:14:37.510 And he is right to be just. 00:14:37.920 --> 00:14:41.480 Therefore, he must judge the wickedness. 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:43.620 He must judge evil. 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:47.440 And he must judge sin. 00:14:48.040 --> 00:14:50.580 And the question that we should ask is what is sin? 00:14:50.920 --> 00:14:51.860 What is evil? 00:14:52.300 --> 00:14:55.040 Well, sin is anything that misses the mark. 00:14:55.160 --> 00:14:58.270 That's what it literally means in Hebrew. 00:14:59.340 --> 00:15:01.740 The word sin means to miss the mark. 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:06.220 And the mark is the character of God who God is. 00:15:06.860 --> 00:15:08.140 God is truth. 00:15:08.140 --> 00:15:10.020 God is just God is love. 00:15:10.020 --> 00:15:10.800 God is gracious. 00:15:11.340 --> 00:15:12.060 Et cetera. 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:20.620 When you lie, you are breaking or missing the mark of God's character by breaking from the truth, which 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:23.750 often leads to doing something that is unloving. 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:25.740 When you slander someone, you do the same thing. 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:31.940 When you murder someone, you are not being loving and you are probably not being just right. 00:15:33.400 --> 00:15:38.080 All those things miss the mark of who God is, and therefore it is sin. 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.900 And God doesn't leave sin unpunished. 00:15:42.520 --> 00:15:49.740 Romans two five says this Because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath 00:15:49.740 --> 00:15:55.520 against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:58.960 Romans two nine through ten. 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:05.230 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil first for the Jew and then for the Gentile. 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:13.270 Romans 216 There will take place on the day when God judges people's secrets through Jesus Christ. 00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:19.520 As my gospel declares, God's wrath is coming. 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:27.720 There will be a judgment day where every human being will be accountable to God for things that they've done in the open and things that they've done in secret. 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:33.700 In every person who has participated in evil. 00:16:34.880 --> 00:16:37.280 Will be in trouble when that day comes. 00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:40.320 Will be in distress. 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:45.180 That's what Romans two says, however uncomfortable that makes us feel. 00:16:47.620 --> 00:16:51.040 And the question from that is what is evil? 00:16:52.140 --> 00:16:52.360 Right. 00:16:52.380 --> 00:16:59.460 Well, it puts me into the category of someone who has done evil or someone who is going to receive the judgment 00:16:59.460 --> 00:17:00.740 of God. 00:17:01.300 --> 00:17:07.240 I mean, does God see those things as either misdemeanors or felonies? 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:07.520 Right. 00:17:07.520 --> 00:17:14.700 As one worthy of capital punishment, as one, just worthy of maybe putting me in jail or something for 00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:16.440 a little bit or paying a fine? 00:17:17.339 --> 00:17:18.920 Well. 00:17:20.460 --> 00:17:27.819 Romans Chapter three makes it clear that every single person who 00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:28.540 has ever lived. 00:17:29.780 --> 00:17:32.080 As in the exact same boat. 00:17:33.060 --> 00:17:36.860 Romans three, nine through 12 says this. 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:37.990 What shall we conclude? 00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:40.360 Do we have any advantage? 00:17:40.820 --> 00:17:46.200 Now, Paul is talking as a Jew and he's talking as a Jew who has received the commandments of God. 00:17:46.760 --> 00:17:52.920 And he's saying, do we have an advantage because we have it explicitly laid out to us what is good and what is bad? 00:17:54.160 --> 00:18:01.600 And he says, No, not at all, for we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the 00:18:01.600 --> 00:18:03.340 power of sin. 00:18:05.840 --> 00:18:11.270 Sin reigns over humanity, whether that be Jew or gentile. 00:18:12.120 --> 00:18:12.850 And it goes on. 00:18:12.900 --> 00:18:15.120 There is no one righteous, not even one. 00:18:15.120 --> 00:18:16.280 There is no one who understands. 00:18:16.620 --> 00:18:18.060 There is no one who seeks God. 00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:19.200 All have turned away. 00:18:19.900 --> 00:18:21.270 They have become worthless. 00:18:21.660 --> 00:18:23.960 And there is no one who does good. 00:18:24.340 --> 00:18:25.940 Not even one. 00:18:27.740 --> 00:18:29.620 In Romans 319 through 20. 00:18:29.620 --> 00:18:30.700 It's further clarified. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:39.020 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law so that every mouth may be silenced 00:18:39.020 --> 00:18:44.140 in the whole world, held accountable to God. 00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:49.700 Therefore, no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law. 00:18:50.380 --> 00:18:55.360 Rather, through the law, we become conscious of sin. 00:18:56.580 --> 00:19:04.100 What Romans three clearly demonstrates is that every single person is in the same boat, that there is no one who does good continually. 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:11.820 As Solomon said back in the book of Ecclesiastes, we have all sinned and fallen 00:19:11.820 --> 00:19:16.580 short of that glory, of God, of God's character. 00:19:17.260 --> 00:19:18.540 We've missed the mark. 00:19:21.820 --> 00:19:24.440 And we are all under the power of sin. 00:19:24.980 --> 00:19:32.480 Romans three says Therefore, the law is unable to give us a right standing before 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:32.980 God. 00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:34.760 That's what righteousness means. 00:19:34.860 --> 00:19:41.720 Righteousness means a right standing or in right relationship with someone. 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:49.020 And because we are under the power of sin, because of our depravity and the sinfulness of our human heart, we are 00:19:49.020 --> 00:19:56.160 in a wrong standing with God and no amount of living by the 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:56.660 law. 00:19:58.460 --> 00:20:02.780 Can put us in a right standing with God. 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.000 That's what Romans three, 19 through 20 says. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.580 And then you ask, what's the purpose of the law? 00:20:10.580 --> 00:20:17.200 And he tells us right here, it's he says that the law illuminates our brokenness. 00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:21.260 It lays evident our inability. 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:26.740 And it shows us our need. 00:20:28.620 --> 00:20:35.040 The law is meant to humble us before a holy God. 00:20:36.700 --> 00:20:39.580 And if you remember what we are talking about in the book of Romans. 00:20:41.280 --> 00:20:42.780 Which is wholly about the gospel. 00:20:43.320 --> 00:20:46.900 The good news of victory, which leads to salvation. 00:20:48.020 --> 00:20:52.540 You might be a little lost because it doesn't sound like salvation and it doesn't sound like victory. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:54.420 What? 00:20:54.620 --> 00:20:58.980 Romans One through three sounds like a lot of is defeat. 00:21:00.280 --> 00:21:04.240 And a defeat that leads to death, destruction and even damnation. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:07.040 Yet. 00:21:07.700 --> 00:21:12.460 Romans 321 through 25 says this. 00:21:13.820 --> 00:21:21.040 But now, apart from the law, meaning apart from the good things you do, apart from not doing bad things and apart from 00:21:21.040 --> 00:21:25.480 doing good things, the righteousness of God are right. 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:32.680 Standing with God has been made known, has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.260 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ. 00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:44.160 For all those who believe, for there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God being justified as 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:51.500 a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ, whom God displayed 00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:56.900 publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:05.100 This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God, he passed over the sins previously committed. 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:08.480 This is the good news. 00:22:09.860 --> 00:22:17.200 That although we had no chance of overcoming sin, overcoming the powers of darkness which separates us 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:24.220 from God and the penalty of sin death, Christ has won the victory on our behalf by taking the 00:22:24.220 --> 00:22:27.900 punishment that we deserved for rebelling against God. 00:22:29.780 --> 00:22:36.100 He took upon himself, even though he never rebelled, he never sinned. 00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:43.620 And what we were powerless to do, we were powerless to satisfy the wrath of God. 00:22:44.080 --> 00:22:49.080 But he did it on the cross, being a propitiation for our sin. 00:22:49.800 --> 00:22:52.560 And propitiation is maybe a word that you've never heard of. 00:22:52.760 --> 00:22:57.260 Maybe you're used to reading from the KJV or SB, But it is one of my favorite words. 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:04.840 And what it means is the complete satisfaction of God's wrath and is only found a couple of times 00:23:04.860 --> 00:23:05.520 in Scripture. 00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:13.240 But that is what Paul is saying here, is that Jesus Christ on the cross completely satisfies the wrath and justice of 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:13.640 God. 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:23.980 And by his resurrection, he proves his triumph over the powers of darkness, over sin, over death, 00:23:24.080 --> 00:23:24.820 over Satan. 00:23:26.840 --> 00:23:33.540 That has held mankind prisoner for so long, that power of sin which has ruled over him. 00:23:35.840 --> 00:23:38.500 And he demonstrates his victory over sin and death. 00:23:39.380 --> 00:23:46.410 And now he offers us justification to those who believe by grace. 00:23:47.760 --> 00:23:48.860 Romans for. 00:23:50.140 --> 00:23:51.600 Details for us. 00:23:52.900 --> 00:23:56.480 How salvation has always come. 00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:59.140 By grace through faith. 00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:09.200 That Paul writing Romans 114 through 17 wasn't anything new, but in fact was demonstrated 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:13.020 in the Old Testament time and time again. 00:24:13.280 --> 00:24:17.220 And he uses examples from both Abraham and David. 00:24:18.060 --> 00:24:25.760 Romans 416 says this for this reason it is by faith in order that it may be in accordance with 00:24:25.760 --> 00:24:32.800 grace so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the law, but also to 00:24:32.800 --> 00:24:38.160 those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:43.540 And I know it's been a long journey and I appreciate you staying with me. 00:24:44.560 --> 00:24:47.820 But it is incredibly important to know why. 00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:52.680 Romans five one says they're for. 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.260 Because that is what Paul is saying right there. 00:24:57.300 --> 00:25:00.580 Therefore, all these things from Romans one through four. 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:07.160 Says therefore. 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:08.920 Having been justified by faith. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:16.120 We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, justified, meaning counted 00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:17.840 as just. 00:25:18.840 --> 00:25:26.440 This is a legal term that Paul uses that doesn't just mean being proclaimed innocent or pardon, 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:28.880 but actually in the right. 00:25:30.280 --> 00:25:33.960 We are declared in the right or righteous in a right. 00:25:34.260 --> 00:25:39.580 Standing with God no longer condemn by our sin before God. 00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:39.980 How? 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:42.620 Only by faith. 00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:51.580 Exactly what he said in Romans chapter one, verse 17, exactly what he 00:25:51.580 --> 00:25:57.280 said in Romans 322, exactly what he said in Romans 416. 00:25:58.500 --> 00:25:59.800 Faith in what? 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:04.240 The person and work of Jesus Christ. 00:26:06.260 --> 00:26:13.440 What he has done on the cross, that he has made it possible to for us to have peace with God, and that his 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:17.330 death, his work, his victory is sufficient. 00:26:18.500 --> 00:26:20.060 This is the good news. 00:26:20.220 --> 00:26:21.840 Christ has won the victory. 00:26:21.840 --> 00:26:22.820 He has done it. 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:30.000 Peace has been made and we are saved now from the wrath of God that Romans two talks about. 00:26:31.260 --> 00:26:33.900 Romans five two says this. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:37.760 Though through whom? 00:26:37.860 --> 00:26:45.060 Christ, We have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace and 00:26:45.140 --> 00:26:50.760 which we stand and we exalt in the hope of the glory of God. 00:26:52.800 --> 00:26:56.520 Again, Paul reiterates, It is by faith. 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:00.800 That we enter into the grace of God. 00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:08.120 And this word right here, grace in Greek, it's pronounced carries. 00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:17.040 And it's c h a r is transliterated in is actually where we get the word charity 00:27:17.040 --> 00:27:17.240 from. 00:27:19.600 --> 00:27:26.860 And they are somewhat similar, but a little different because like charity carries means 00:27:26.860 --> 00:27:29.700 un earned favor. 00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:32.740 You don't earn charity. 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.260 Right where we're giving charity. 00:27:37.320 --> 00:27:38.400 We do the food pantry. 00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:42.280 The people who receive those things don't earn it. 00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:45.370 Just like grace. 00:27:45.860 --> 00:27:48.020 It is unearned favor. 00:27:49.620 --> 00:27:56.660 Just as the favor of God rests on those who believe in what Christ has done, not to 00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:58.560 the one who has earned God's favor. 00:27:59.280 --> 00:28:01.960 Therefore, we can exalt. 00:28:03.060 --> 00:28:07.200 In the hope of the glory of God because He did it for us. 00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:12.320 Because I want to clarify something if we had done it. 00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:15.940 If we had to earn God's favor. 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:24.440 Certainly our hope wouldn't be in what God has done on our behalf, but it would be found 00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:25.840 in our own glory. 00:28:26.760 --> 00:28:29.640 Our hope would be found in what we have done. 00:28:31.080 --> 00:28:38.220 For others, for ourselves, we would have to prove to God that in some way that we 00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:43.380 have accomplished enough to earn His favor for us. 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:52.250 And this would certainly not give hope and exaltation to the glory of God, but it would lead to existing. 00:28:55.820 --> 00:29:00.540 And not knowing if you or I had done enough to merit. 00:29:01.520 --> 00:29:04.840 The favor that God has. 00:29:05.740 --> 00:29:12.820 Romans Five through five, three through five says this and not only this, but we 00:29:12.820 --> 00:29:20.080 also exalt in tribulations, knowing that the tribulations brings about perseverance and perseverance, proving 00:29:20.080 --> 00:29:22.060 character and proving character. 00:29:22.320 --> 00:29:29.380 Hope and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who 00:29:29.380 --> 00:29:30.060 was given to us. 00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:35.600 How can we exalt in tribulations? 00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:37.860 How can we praise God and tribulations? 00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:39.000 I mean. 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:43.880 This is something that I could go way more into. 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:49.190 But if we have received the favor of God, should we then expect suffering? 00:29:51.080 --> 00:29:52.000 Paul says. 00:29:53.060 --> 00:29:53.660 Obviously. 00:29:55.560 --> 00:29:58.990 So don't be surprised when it when it comes. 00:30:00.300 --> 00:30:07.980 What he also tells us as believers is that we are living for something that transcends suffering, that 00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:14.930 it is greater than suffering, that it is building up something that is greater than suffering for. 00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:20.020 No amount of suffering can take away the hope that we have in Christ. 00:30:21.620 --> 00:30:28.740 And in fact, suffering refines our character and molds us into people who rely more and 00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:30.850 more on the hope that Christ gives. 00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:40.700 We believe God is greater than our suffering, and we believe that God is 00:30:40.700 --> 00:30:44.940 able to use our suffering for our good and for His glory. 00:30:46.760 --> 00:30:49.940 And I'm going to tell you guys that takes faith. 00:30:53.480 --> 00:31:01.060 Demonstrated so often in the Old Testament and the new God is able to. 00:31:01.060 --> 00:31:05.080 That popular song right now turn Graves into gardens. 00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:10.500 And that is seen by faith. 00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:19.460 And we know that God won't disappoint us because of the love that He has displayed 00:31:19.460 --> 00:31:26.530 for us on the cross and that he has now given us by His Holy Spirit. 00:31:27.840 --> 00:31:34.940 Now we have been talking mostly about being delivered from the penalty of sin, 00:31:35.300 --> 00:31:37.080 which is death and separation of God. 00:31:38.600 --> 00:31:45.700 But what the Bible also tells us is not only when you believe, not only when you have faith in Christ, are you delivered from the penalty of 00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.040 sin. 00:31:46.060 --> 00:31:53.380 You are now delivered from the power of sin in your life that Romans three talked 00:31:53.380 --> 00:31:53.800 about. 00:31:56.520 --> 00:32:04.780 The Bible tells us that when you put your faith in Christ, we are given the Holy Spirit and 00:32:04.780 --> 00:32:12.040 we are no longer just bound to the flesh in its desires, but we now are able to live to God no longer. 00:32:13.460 --> 00:32:15.180 Under the dominion of sin. 00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:19.340 Ephesians 430 says. 00:32:20.460 --> 00:32:21.640 I must have not put that on. 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:24.880 If you have your Bibles, please, please slip there. 00:32:24.900 --> 00:32:30.020 But Ephesians 430 says the believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit. 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:33.860 Meaning that it cannot be taken away. 00:32:36.300 --> 00:32:40.660 Second Corinthians five five says the Holy Spirit is a deposit. 00:32:42.120 --> 00:32:47.960 Meaning the Holy Spirit that God gives to the believer is proof of purchase. 00:32:49.120 --> 00:32:55.540 That God is going to continue and finish the good work that he has started. 00:32:57.420 --> 00:33:04.560 Galatians 522 through 23 gives us the list of the fruit of the spirit of what happens when a believer 00:33:04.560 --> 00:33:09.200 receives the Holy Spirit, that the fruit comes with it. 00:33:11.060 --> 00:33:16.040 Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self control, etc. 00:33:16.040 --> 00:33:17.030 I think I missed one. 00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:18.740 But anyways. 00:33:18.800 --> 00:33:19.360 Obviously. 00:33:21.520 --> 00:33:27.860 If it is the good works, the fruit of the Spirit comes by God giving us the Holy Spirit. 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:31.020 The glory belongs to God alone. 00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:31.960 Because it is. 00:33:32.280 --> 00:33:33.760 Because it is Him doing it. 00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:39.560 Our salvation as well as our sanctification. 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:48.400 And sanctification is the process of being set apart for the purposes of God. 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.220 Becoming more Christlike. 00:33:53.820 --> 00:33:53.980 Right. 00:33:54.280 --> 00:33:55.140 Every believer. 00:33:57.260 --> 00:34:04.300 Receive salvation and is now in the process of sanctification, which is only accomplished by the 00:34:04.300 --> 00:34:09.540 power of the Holy Spirit, the Fruit of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. 00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:17.380 And it is nothing that we can take credit for because we were helpless without him. 00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:20.840 And it's something that we've received. 00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:25.540 As unearned favor from God. 00:34:26.219 --> 00:34:32.199 Romans five, six through eight says this For while, we were still helpless at the right time. 00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:39.420 Christ died for the ungodly, for one will hardly die for a righteous man, though perhaps for a good man, someone 00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:40.820 would even dare to die. 00:34:41.600 --> 00:34:49.199 But God demonstrates his own love towards us in that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:50.159 us. 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:56.239 And if you are listening to me and thinking that I am too far gone. 00:34:57.580 --> 00:35:02.640 There is no way that God could ever forgive me or accept me. 00:35:04.140 --> 00:35:06.680 Or maybe you're thinking I don't deserve. 00:35:08.140 --> 00:35:09.970 Remember what the Book of Romans says. 00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:16.660 The gospel is saying every single person is in the exact same boat. 00:35:17.640 --> 00:35:21.580 Every single person does not deserve salvation. 00:35:22.260 --> 00:35:28.410 There is no one who has received salvation that isn't deserving of it. 00:35:28.700 --> 00:35:31.940 We are we are all helpless in our sin. 00:35:34.200 --> 00:35:41.480 And no one is good enough to approach God but Jesus Christ alone. 00:35:43.080 --> 00:35:50.380 And God proves his love for us that while we were at war with him, while we were helpless, while we were sinners, while 00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:52.260 we could not approach God. 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.540 He died for his enemies. 00:35:58.140 --> 00:36:05.600 He suffered and died so that we might be lived and he was judged so 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:06.980 that we wouldn't have to be. 00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:09.640 His righteousness. 00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:18.500 Becomes our righteousness by grace, through faith in Christ alone, to the glory 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:19.400 of God alone. 00:36:20.600 --> 00:36:25.420 And we know this because the Word of God says this. 00:36:27.520 --> 00:36:34.970 Romans five, nine through 11 says this much more than having now been justified by his blood. 00:36:35.340 --> 00:36:42.380 We shall be saved from the wrath of God through him, for if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his 00:36:42.380 --> 00:36:47.420 son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:58.160 And not only this, but we also exalt in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 00:36:58.860 --> 00:37:05.540 Justified by his blood, reconciled by his death, save by his life. 00:37:06.100 --> 00:37:12.720 Romans five one through 11 demonstrates so clearly that without Christ, we are without hope. 00:37:13.660 --> 00:37:20.910 But through Christ, we have absolute certainty of victory, and we have nothing to fear for the gospel. 00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:23.320 Of his victory. 00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:28.880 Secure salvation to those who have placed their faith in him. 00:37:30.520 --> 00:37:37.560 That is the message that Paul has been elaborating on and building brick by brick throughout the book of 00:37:37.560 --> 00:37:38.320 Romans. 00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.240 And if I think if I could summarize. 00:37:44.160 --> 00:37:47.080 Romans five one through 11 in any way. 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:50.120 I would use the words of Jesus on the cross. 00:37:51.340 --> 00:37:53.140 It is finished. 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:56.940 It is finished. 00:37:58.020 --> 00:37:58.820 Martin Luther. 00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:09.320 The old in great reformer who was one of the starters of the Reformation, says this 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:13.280 quote, That has stuck around with me for a little while. 00:38:13.940 --> 00:38:18.380 And I think it is something that is so important. 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:21.140 For all of us to remember. 00:38:22.020 --> 00:38:22.920 Because it's true. 00:38:24.240 --> 00:38:30.060 He says the sin underneath all sins is to trust the lie of the serpent. 00:38:31.580 --> 00:38:38.660 That we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:40.720 into our own hands. 00:38:43.640 --> 00:38:44.040 That's it. 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.380 That's the lie that we believe. 00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:47.380 Time and time again. 00:38:50.600 --> 00:38:51.600 Don't believe that. 00:38:54.340 --> 00:38:59.200 Don't believe that God will disappoint you or will leave you hanging or is holding out on you. 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:06.760 If you put your faith in Christ, he alone can save you. 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:10.440 Every other idol, every other savior. 00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:12.880 Will disappoint. 00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:16.740 Acts 412. 00:39:18.100 --> 00:39:18.680 Says. 00:39:19.100 --> 00:39:26.200 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given unto men of which we 00:39:26.200 --> 00:39:27.140 must be saved. 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:35.940 And as Jesus said in John 14 six, I am the way the truth in the life and no one 00:39:35.940 --> 00:39:38.760 comes to the father but through me.