Jesus dying for us set the bar for the minimum amount of love and good that God wants to bring into our lives, through Jesus and the Spirit. When the Father thinks of us, he thinks of us with joy and happiness. He wants to come alongside us, in both the good and hard places, and speak life, hope and peace to us.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. God's love goes beyond willingness to die for a good person. He is supremely willing to demonstrate His love, so much so that He gave His Son for sinners so that all can see it.
Paul tells us here in Romans 5:8 that God has shown us his love in the death of Christ. The One who created the heavens and the earth, the One who rules over all, the One who is in the heavens and does whatever he pleases—this One has shown his love to us in the death of his only Son.
In Romans 5, Paul says that we rejoice not only in the glory of God but also in our sufferings. The message is not that Paul and his readers rejoice because they are suffering but rather that they rejoice in the midst of suffering. Suffering does not produce our rejoicing or boasting; rather, it cannot squash them.
The text for this sermon, the theme of which is, “Reconciled in God's Love”, is Romans 5:8-11 ý God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by His blood, much more shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God.
Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for entering this dark world to save us. Thank you for surrendering your life to redeem sinners such as we all are. Remind us that your salvation is an act of grace, offered to all who acknowledge their sin and turn to you.
In Romans 5:1-8 Paul explains the benefits of his gospel (see 1:16-17) for those who are justified by faith and stand in a new relationship to God. Two verb phrases govern the passage and provide the substance of these benefits: We have peace with God (verse 1) and we boast in our hope (verse 2).
Jesus dying for us set the bar for the minimum amount of love and good that God wants to bring into our lives, through Jesus and the Spirit. When the Father thinks of us, he thinks of us with joy and happiness. He wants to come alongside us, in both the good and hard places, and speak life, hope and peace to us.
God died for unrighteous people. In this verse, Paul begins to contrast the unreasonable, excessive grace of God with what we might consider reasonable behavior. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
Christ came into this world to bring not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. He came not to seek the good, he came for the lost. Christ died for the powerless and ungodly. Our only hope for salvation is in the love of God, shown in the incomparable death of Jesus Christ.
It is authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius, who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22.
Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." King James Version KJV Bible Bronze Bookmark.
Romans 5:8-9 In-Context
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!
On behalf of all humanity, Christ has experienced the results of our sins, so there is no further condemnation waiting for us. If we trust him, if our lives are in him, we do not need to be afraid. Sin has physical penalties in this life, but for those who are in Christ, it has no ultimate penalty for us.
My Prayer...
Holy God, thank you for Jesus, my Savior. No words are adequate to express my love and devotion to you for such an incredible gift! Through him I give and live my thanks to you. Amen.
Through faith in Christ's, we have been justified, and thus saved from the wrath of God that Jesus bore for us on the cross. Here, Paul makes a cause-effect statement. It is unreasonable that the blood of Jesus would justify us, yet we are justified by His blood because of the love of God (verse 8).
Romans 6:8 In-Context
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Now consider again this description of God in his "dealings" with us: "He does NOT deal with us according to our sins" (v. 10a). Our sins do not constitute the rule or standard or plumb line according to which God makes his decisions on how to treat us.
The difference in Romans 5:7 seems to be that the righteous man is only that – righteous in his personal life but perhaps lacking in feeling for others. The good man by contrast goes beyond the other man by also being kind and benevolent.
[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8 is one of the most loved chapters in all of Scripture. Paul begins and ends this passage with statements about the absolute security of those who are in Christ. First, there is no condemnation, at all, for those in Christ. Last, nothing will ever be able to separate us from God's love for us in Christ.
The overall meaning of Romans 8 is to tell us to live through the Holy Spirit, give us encouragement about our present sufferings and future hope, as well as to remind us of God's great love.
Romans 5 beginning in verse 1 this is where we're plunging in, “Therefore having been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand and we exalt in hope of the glory of God.
The promise of Romans 8:28 that God works for our good “in all things” is reassuring. It means that no matter the circumstance, there are only two qualifiers for God to be working all things together for our good.