Category: Religion

More Reasons to Rejoice Romans 5:6-11 Romans 5:5 spoke of the revelation of God’s love flooded into the believer’s heart by the Holy Spirit. Verses 6-8 explore the objective basis for that subjective experience as Gods love is expressed by the cross of Christ. The apostle’s argument can be summarized as follows: Human love, at…

Lesson 6 Romans 5:1-21 While romans 3:21-4:25 gives us the blessing of justification by faith for both Jews and Gentiles, the first five verses of chapter five begins to treat the fruits of justification. The Fruits of Justification Romans 5:1-5 The first blessing is “peace,” a concept that comes from the Hebrew shalom, a term…