Romans 5:9-15
by:
Dan Hill, PhD
Pastor, Southwood Bible Church
7655 South Sheridan Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74113
E-Mail: hill918@aol.com
Romans 5:9
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved
from the wrath of God through Him.
PRINCIPLE: Jesus Christ did the greatest thing for us when were ungodly
sinners, now he does for us much more . . . we are now His friends.
APPLICATION: Look ahead at all times to the Hope of the Glory of God. Even
in the midst of problems.
HERE PAUL BEGINS TO set up the principle: If God could do the greater for
us He can now do the less.
The greatest thing and most sacrificial thing God accomplished on our behalf
was our Justification.
Now that we are justified by faith in Him and His work, we have much more
. . .
What God can now accomplish for us is less but also greater, He did the
greatest thing in saving us and now that we are part of His family He will
do even more although it requires less.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death
of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His
life.
Here Paul uses the word RECONCILED to look back to our justification.
Words become very important at this point:
Justification: Our salvation, faith in Christ the imputation of God's +R.
Reconciliation: The declaration of peace (v 1) between God and man. A result
of justification.
Saved: (SWDZW), a future tense looking at our deliverance in time, in the
CCL, by our living Lord.
Topic: RECONCILIATION
Romans 5:11
We shout with joy and praise God regarding this present position of peace
and the potential it brings.
HOWEVER: Position and Potential does not bring about reality.
PRINCIPLES:
In v 9 the believer is seen as being justified, this is God's
justice recognizing the imputation of righteousness as a result of man's
faith in Christ. This is the primary potential in our lives. Everything
begins at justification. It is because of justification that we have a relationship
with a Holy God.
Topic: JUSTIFICATION
However, neither production or the realities of the Christian
life can result from potential alone. While potential must precede capacity,
potential does not automatically result in capacity.
All production and realities of the Christian life come from capacity and
are an automatic result of capacity.
POTENTIAL + CAPACITY = REALITY
In v 11 we have the expression of an attitude, a reality. The believer praises
God for reconciliation. He gives God the accolades God rightly deserves.
This is an expression of capacity in the life of the believer. All believers
have the potential to do this but all do not. Because all do not have the
capacity to do this.
Between the potential of v 9 and the reality of v 11 we have the building
of capacity.
This capacity is built through our understanding of RECONCILIATION. As a
result of justification there is peace with God. And God can now do much
more for us now that we are His children.
In this model, then, the capacity includes truth, and faith in that truth,
That in reconciliation there is no condemnation, no guilt, no shame, we
have peace with God because of what He did, imputing to us His righteousness.
And then capacity result is a reality: We can exult in God, praise Him,
glorify Him, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In verses 12-21 Paul, having shown us the model, now gives us a tremendous
amount of doctrine upon which to build capacity.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death
through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--
This verse looks back to Adam, the one man through whom sin entered the
world and as a result of sin, death . . . both spiritual and physical.
Genesis 2:17, "But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it [dying] you shall
surely die."
So with Adam's disobedience there was sin and there was death to all mankind,
because all sinned in Adam. This is inherited sin. Paul uses the verb SINNED
to show that the human race is born into sin because we have the nature
of sin, the OSN, in us.
Romans 5:13
For until the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there
is no law.
FROM ADAM TO MOSES: Sin was in the world, death was in the world. But with
the Law we now have the revelation of personal acts of sin. Once the Law
was given we have the charge of God's +R made against man. These sins, now
defined, have to be imputed. The question is to whom?
The Law defined what sin was and was not and what was charged to man's account
and what would be charged to Christ's account at the Cross.
The OT Law brought to man the reality of personal acts of sin:
Principles:
1. Adam's sin is imputed to the human race. In Adam we all sinned.
2. The Law defines personal acts of sins. Thou shalt and thou shalt not
. . .
3. Personal acts of sin are not imputed to any member of the human race.
You cannot impute something to someone who is already dead and we are dead
because of the imputation of Adam's sin. Born spiritually dead!
4. Personal Acts of sin were covered by God in the OT and then, at the Cross
imputed to Christ.
5. The OT Law describes what would be imputed to Christ at the Cross
6. Prior to the OT Law, personal acts of sin were not specifically defined
7. It took the OT Law to define personal acts of sin so they could be imputed
to Christ at the Cross.
Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who
had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of
Him who was to come.
Not sinned the same way, but we still sinned and we are sinners.
Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
Here Paul uses death as an illustration, and a rather final one, of the
fact that all mankind is in Adam and in Adam all are counted as sinners.
ADAM WAS A TYPE . . .
What Adam did infected the whole human race and what Christ did eaffected
the whole human race.
Principles:
1. The typology between Christ and Adam is limited, as in all
types.
The issue is that only two perfect men have ever existed, Adam and Christ.
2. The first Adam was created perfect but by the exercise of his free will
sinned bringing condemnation upon all mankind.
3. The Last Adam was born perfect, no inherited or imputed sin, He lived
a perfect life, no PAS, and was qualified to be the Saviour.
4. The imputation of Adam's sin brings condemnation. the imputation of sins
to Christ on the Cross brings justification.
5. Therefore, Adam is a type in that one man brought condemnation while
one man brought justification.
Romans 5:15
But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression
of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by
the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
This parallels I Corinthians 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, so also
in Christ all shall be made alive."
Here the typology is dissimilar: Adam brought death, Jesus Christ brings
Life.
NOTICE WHAT PAUL CALLS our justification, the imputation of God +R to us
. . . a free gift.
Relates back to Romans 3:24 Being justified as a gift by His grace through
the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
GIFTS cannot be earned or deserved, if they are they are not gifts.
In Adams transgression many died
In the gift by the grace of the one Man. the grace of God abounds to the
many.
End of Lesson 20
Grace Notes
Warren Doud
1705 Aggie Lane, Austin, Texas 78757
Phone: 512-458-8923
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