{"id":8,"date":"2004-12-20T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-20T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T02:59:07","slug":"xii-effective-belief-romans-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/xii-effective-belief-romans-5\/","title":{"rendered":"XII Effective Belief (Romans 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After using case-law<\/a> to establish precedence in defense of
\nGod's righteousness when He declares a sinner justified, Paul now makes the
\nlink to the present discussion. We have a man who is in a position of total
\ndepravity in that specific sense which we have previously established. The man
\nis ruined before God and although God enjoys good works the idea that a person
\ncan use works to make their state righteous before God is completely useless.
\nThis man's solution was illustrated in case-law but how is faith a conduit to
\nrighteousness in actuality? How can faith make the believer  secure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

An oft-used and pale illustration to direct our thinking: A
\nman is at home, bankrupt and up to his eyebrow in debt. Call him Rey. Any
\nsimilarities to my own present financial condition are purely coincidental.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n


At Rey's door there's an official who was sent to tell him
\nthat his debt is paid. In fact, there is new place of grandeur and riches for
\nRey. This has all been accomplished, explains the messenger, by the Master of
\nthe house and his single heir. The beauty of it all is that the Master has
\nfigured out a way to make Po'Man Rey a fellow co-heir with the heir.<\/p>\n

Rey looks at the messenger and asks "what do I have to do?"
\nexpecting some serious hurdles to pass over and perhaps some rigorous training.\n<\/p>\n

"That's the best part," explains the messenger "All this is
\navailable to you if you believe the message I have sent with by signing right
\nhere."<\/p>\n

"Ridiculous." Rey answers, knowing his debt and bankruptcy
\n"That makes no sense. I don't believe you." With that he closes the door
\nleaving the messenger outside to repeatedly knock. "Leave me be!" he calls out
\n"your nuts!" <\/p>\n

Now if Rey had instead believed the man and thrown his lot
\nwith him he would have gained all that the messenger promised. It's not that
\nRey was blind to the call or that he didn't understand the message, or that he
\ncouldn't answer because he was so bankrupt he couldn't even move?he had to
\nbelieve the messenger's words!<\/p>\n

This is why Paul starts off with a "Therefore" as a
\nconclusion from all of the previous evidence. Man is sinful; Man knows it; God
\njudges sinners; God has figured out a way to save sinners apart from law; He
\nhas done similarly in the past; "Therefore we have been declared righteous by
\nfaith" (5:1)<\/p>\n

Immediately the riches of God's righteousness are available
\nto the believer. The [unrighteous sinner who believes] has peace with the [God
\nwho judges] through our Lord Jesus Christ (5:2). End of hostilities…the sinner
\nhas now been translated (Col 1:13) to a position behind the Lord Jesus Christ. \n<\/p>\n

This faith has granted access into this grace, which a
\nbeliever is grounded in and can rejoice in the hope of God's glory (5:2). The
\nidea is not of rejoicing in the sense of a great party, but in the deep-rooted
\nsense, which is that firm confidence in the Lord. It makes more sense in the
\nnext verse where such a person can rejoice (be confident) in sufferings. No one
\nrejoices in that "this-is-a-party" sense during tribulation, but the saved
\nperson is rooted in God and they can know that although tribulation comes it
\nwill not sift them out of the Lord's hands but will instead produce endurance.
\nThis endurance results in character and this character produces hope because
\nthe very love of God has been poured out in the hearts of the believer through
\nthe Holy Spirit that was given. (5:3-5)<\/p>\n

This is tremendous in that God's imputed righteousness
\ndoesn't end at the end of hostilities. His righteousness is so complete that it
\nwill go beyond the peace treaty and mold believers into homes for the very
\nSpirit of God.<\/p>\n

"Wait, wait, wait," someone may clamor, "This doesn't make
\nsense. Simple belief from a sinner resulting in all this? What about a baptism?
\nWhat about understanding the words of Jesus? How is it possible for someone to
\nstart into this thing and get all of this?it makes no sense! And what of
\nafterwards? If it's all that easy, there surely must be some hard action on our
\nparts to live up to the role. Perhaps memorizing some catechisms or baptisms or
\nsomething!"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

"That's the whole point," Paul might answer. It's not that
\nsinners must build themselves up to a level where God can declare sinners
\nrighteous…not at all. In fact, it was while people were still sinners (5:6),
\nstill guilty and against Him, that Christ died right in the nick of time, in
\ntheir place! Such an act done not for righteous people, and not even for nice
\npeople which some people might dare to die for (5:7). God demonstrated His love
\nin that while all people were still sinners, Christ died for them (5:8)! Forgive
\nmy personal application, but it was while we were enemies that Christ performed
\nthe action of the reconciliation via his subsitution…where we sinful people can
\nbe at peace before God (5:10). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As such, an unrighteous sinner who now believes can be
\nconfident that he will be saved from God's wrath (5:9). He can bank on this
\nbecause in his position behind the death of the Son he is also in his position
\nbehind the life of the resurrected Son. A believer can be confident in God
\nthrough the Lord Jesus (the man) Christ (the Son of God), through whom the
\nbeliever and any believer has been reconciled (5:10,11)!<\/p>\n

"Look," Paul points out "Sin entered the world through one
\nman and everyone was ruined. What the Son of God did was so much greater!" Paul
\namplifies on the entire justification process by showing that by this one gift
\nof Christ Jesus many will be saved because what it accomplished. He focuses on
\nthe magnitude of what Christ has done for unrighteous sinners affording for all
\npeople the righteousness which leads to life (5:18)!
\nIt was for all people that this action was done, rippling backwards and
\nforwards through time, making those historical sacrifices effective and opening
\nthe vista of possibility to all (5:12-21)!<\/p>\n

Believing, therefore, winds up being that signature which opens
\nup the vistas of possibilities which God has available by means of Jesus
\nChrist's work and gift for all of mankind. That belief firstly makes available
\nthe payment of God's wrath which has already been poured out on the Son. That
\nbelief subsequently is the access by which the Holy Spirit is poured out and
\nthe reconciliation made sure. That believer doesn't have to worry that this
\nwill not be completed, but can be confident in the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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