{"id":153,"date":"2005-01-29T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-30T00:07:40","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T04:07:40","slug":"xiii-justifactions-hole-romans-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/xiii-justifactions-hole-romans-5\/","title":{"rendered":"XIII – Justifaction’s Hole? Romans 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Excuse me, sir but there is a gaping hole in God's righteousness."<\/strong>
\nWe're back in the courtroom where Paul is defense lawyer for God. The
\nprosecution is Man and he's trying to prove how God is unrighteous.
\n"You say that God is righteous in that he justifies the sinner…but he
\ndid nothing to the sinner's mind!"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In our discussion of Romans, I haves submitted to you that the book
\nis divided in four major defense points?or movements if you like the
\nterm. Something stunning in the beginning of this movement (which I
\nbelieve starts in 5:12) is that we're back to the problem of sin…but
\nfrom a very different angle. We see a pattern then: the first line of
\ndefense dealt with a problem of sin and God's right to judge it and
\nthen offered a solution which still leaves God righteous in it's
\nimplementation. The second line of defense deals with a problem of sin
\nin the person's mind and God's justice standing in these sinful
\ncreatures. This movement will culminate in a solution of God's
\nenablement of the justified sinner. Both of these first two lines of
\ndefense conclude with statements on the love of God.\n<\/p>\n

And yet, practically speaking we know that a person saved on a
\nWednesday wakes up on Thursday realizing that he still wants to do all
\nthose sinful things he did yesterday. He knows he's saved…now what?
\nGod's righteousness in the Law (that is, precept plus punishment) is
\nestablished in that there is a method outside of law by which guilty
\nand sinful men can be declared righteous…but how do you fix their
\nsinful nature? <\/p>\n

\nIs this section then dealing with how all of mankind is condemned? I
\nwill submit that it's dealing with how all of mankind is ruined. The
\nfirst section dealt with the blameworthy condemnation this section
\ndeals with the thing in man's nature that makes him lean towards that
\ndepravity. This section is not dealing with the basis of men's
\ncondemnation and subsequent justification but rather the basis of men's
\nruination and subsequent sanctification culminating in glorification. <\/p>\n

\nDeath, Paul begins, came into the world through the sin of one man and
\nthis is evident in the fact that all men presently sin. Before the law
\nwas given there was no accounting of sin. This isn't to say that there
\nwas no sin before the giving of the Mosaic Law?men still died and
\nsuffered the consequences of sin. Rather that there is no reckoning or
\naccounting of sin without the Law. <\/p>\n

\nFor example: A man, not realizing it, is in a room full and decides to
\nsmoke a cigarette. The building explodes and many are injured or die
\nand all agree that it was the man's fault but he wasn't blameworthy. If
\non the other hand, the man knew there was gas in the building and
\ntossed a lit cigarette into it he would be found culpable and that can
\nbe reckoned against him.\n<\/p>\n

Adam, a type of Christ Jesus, was the one who transgressed and
\nplunged the human race into ruin…but how much different is Christ's
\ngift! It's almost parallelism, because the result of Adam's sin wasn't
\na gift at all?rather a curse. Yet Christ's gift is over and above the
\npower of Adam's curse?not less potent in the least.
\nIf the many died through the one sin, how much more will live by the
\nfreely given gift by the grace of God and the Man-God Jesus-Christ
\noffered to the many. Judgment came from one sin and led to condemnation
\nbut God's gift given after mankind's constant failures led to
\njustification. If the entire human race was ruined by that one sin of
\none man, how much more will those people who receive God's grace reign
\nin life! Then, to make matters worse, the law came in so that that
\nsinful propensity may be multiplied so that men may realize that it is
\nhopeless of their own accord and God's grace will reign all the more.\n<\/p>\n

So Paul sets up the groundwork for God's multiplicitous grace,
\nwhich began on the cross by removing the condemnation, opens up a
\ntremendous flood-gate of God's outpoured grace, love and enablement. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n-r-<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great
\nlove with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made
\nus alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and
\nraised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places
\nin Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding
\nriches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Eph 2:4-7<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Other articles in this series?specifically the first movement: God's Righteousness Defended in His Right To Judge Sin<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

    \n

  1. \nIntroduction: Romans, where God, the Defendant, is Justified. Overview of the main theme of the book.<\/a><\/li>\n

  2. \nSlave of Christ (pt 2) A bit about the Author, the mouth of the Defense.<\/a><\/li>\n

  3. \nSon of God with Power: The Defense's Pre-amble. Reading the text with understanding.<\/a><\/li>\n

  4. \nLiving by Faith: The Defense's Main Point in justifying God introduced
    \nand reading the text by looking at the historical reference of the
    \npassage.<\/a><\/li>\n

  5. \nProgression of Rejection: God's wrath on the unrighteous heathen
    \ndefended and reading the text by looking at the progression of thought.<\/a><\/li>\n

  6. \nBeing a Good Person: God's wrath on the moralist defended while examining the progressive nature of the argument<\/a><\/li>\n

  7. \nThe Jews' Treachery: God's wrath on the Jew and looking at how a text can be misappropriated<\/a><\/li>\n

  8. \nCrime and Poetry: God's right to judge defended and an introduction to the exegesis of poetic passages.<\/a><\/li>\n

  9. \nTo Rhyme or Not To Rhyme: Poetic passages and the danger of
    \ninterpreting them as not being poetry simultaneously damning infants to
    \nhell and God being glorified for it.<\/a><\/li>\n

  10. \nMan's Doom and God's Answer: The Defense's summation of God's right to
    \njudge sinful man and the introduction to the working power of salvation
    \nfor men reflecting God's righteousness defended when he justifies
    \nsinners.<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Case Law: Established case of God declaring righteous through faith instead of by works<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  12. Effective
    \nBelief: The Defense's culmination of the first line of defense. God's
    \nright to judge stands as does his love in declaring a sinner
    \nrighteous.(Romans 5:1-11)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can also do a personal study<\/a>…check
    \nsome of David's notes (in the comments) for this chapter. Although my
    \nbreakdown is slightly different than his, I belief they are both
    \neffective.<\/p>\n

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