Romans by Chuck Missler Lesson 7

We stand accused, and are guilty~
every single one.
Each chapter of Paul's Romans gets better, and better, and better (for us).
Sanctification after justification.

Chuck's PDF notes and study workbook below.

Review
In Chapter 3 we learned about God’s Greatest Problem. In Chapter 4
Abraham and David speak to Israel about God’s Greatest Gift. Chapter
4 also demonstrated the unity of the Old and New Testament together
(How Abraham was saved (before the Law)? How David was saved
(under the Law)?
In Chapter 4, Paul presented several irrefutable reasons why justification
is by faith: 1) Since justification is a gift, it cannot be earned by works
(vv. 1-8); 2) Since Abraham was justified before he was circumcised,
circumcision has no relationship to justification (vv. 9-12); 3) Abraham
was justified centuries before the Law, so justification is not based on
the Law (vv. 13-17); and 4) Abraham was justified because of faith in
God, not because of his works (vv. 18-25).

Whence now, Pilgrim? Romans 5
An eternal home is waiting for those who have trusted Christ. Now the
question Paul will answer is: What about the here and now?

Peace With God
Verse 1]
Therefore being justified by faith, [let us to go on so that] we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

“Therefore” = concluding from the foregoing.
“With” , face-to-face; intimate relationship, understanding.

A believer is not responsible for having peace in the sense of making
it but in the sense of enjoying it. Many don’t have peace with God
because they don’t claim it through faith. “...My peace I give to you,
not as the world giveth... (Jn 14:27)

Three Kinds of Peace
•World Peace
•Tranquility of the soul: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you (Jn 14:27).”
•Peace with God: “the peace that passeth all understanding (Phil
4:7).”

Verse 2]
By [through] whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we
stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

“Through whom?” Who is the agent here?

“in grace” => exciting! In a condition [position], before God that we
can never earn or merit. (Attempting to earn it is a form of rejection of
the intent of the giver. Cf. Rom 11:6.)

Col 2:6: As you have therefore received (aorist: once and for all) so
walk [continue on walking] in Him (present tense, continuously) so
keep on walking in Him.

How have you received Him: Eph 2:8, 9! Why? Eph 2:7!

How do you continue? Galatians = how then we shall then live: by
faith (Hab 2:4).

He is always the key; He is “the hope of glory” (Col 1:27; cf. Rom
8:17-30; 2 Cor 4:17; Col 3:4; 2 Thess 2:14; Heb 2:10; 1 Pet 5:1, 10).
Even rejoice in sufferings? (Cf. James 1:2).

Verse 3]
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation
worketh patience;

“glory”: exalt; “leaping for joy” (present, continuing, tense).

“tribulation”: qli/yij thlipsis, a pressing, pressing together, pressure;
thus, oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits; distress that is
brought about difficult circumstances. [How can we rejoice in that?
Feeling that you are no longer close to God? Who moved?

“Knowing”: ei;dw eido, perceive, notice, discern, discover... that which
produces patience [perseverance.] (Cf. Rom 15:5-6; James 1:3-4.)

The Process of Maturity (a sequence)
Verse 4]
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

“experience”: Greek word "dokimh, dokime," proven character; a proof, a specimen of tried worth.

...[keeps on] producing character, and character keeps on producing
hope. This is more than mere stoic endurance of troubles, even though
endurance or steadfastness is the first result in a chain-reaction outgrowth
from distress. This is spiritual glorying in afflictions because of having
come to know (from oida, “to know by perception”) that the end product
of this chain reaction (that begins with distress) is hope.

Flabby Christians... “No pain, no gain!” (Cf. 2 Cor 6:1-10): by much
endurance (= perseverance, to persist in spite of difficulties; to keep on
in keeping on) we are looking forward like distance runners.

Proven character: (root = something engraved); permanent; etched
qualities of moral commitment, dependability; permanent qualities.
Self-discipline; fortitude; trustworthy. Moral fiber... Proven character;
=> highest form of maturity = hope! (!) Confidence in the future over
the present; Faith aimed at future things!

He who has no hope in the future frets under the least circumstances...
You should have joy in difficult circumstances and troubles! Difficul-
ties are used by God to develop proven character.

Re: “tribulation”: qli/yij thlipsis, a pressing, pressing together, pressure;
thus, oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits; distress that is
brought about by difficult circumstances.

John Peterson (one of the principal partners of the famed leading design
firm of Koechel-Peterson) expressed it this way: “If you squeeze a
lemon, you get lemon juice. If you squeeze an orange, you get orange
juice. If you squeeze a Christian, you should get Christ.”

Why do Christians Have Trials?
1. To glorify God (Dan 3:16-18, 24-25).
2. Discipline for known sin (Heb 12:5-11; James 4:17; Rom 14:23; 1
Jn 1:9).
3. To prevent us from falling into sin (1 Pet 4:1-2).
4. To keep us from Pride. Paul kept from pride by his “thorn in the
flesh.” (2 Cor 12:7-10). Was it his eyes? (Gal 4:15; 6:11).
5. To build faith (1 Pet 1:6-7).
6. To cause growth (Rom 5:3-5).
7. To teach obedience and discipline (Acts 9:15-16; Phil 4:11-13).
8. To equip us to comfort others (2 Cor 1:3-4).
9. To prove the reality of Christ in us (2 Cor 4:7-11).
10. For testimony to the angels (Job 1:8; Eph 3:8-11; 1 Pet 1:12).
Thus: James 1:2-4
—from Hal Lindsey’s Combat Faith and
Nancy Missler’s Faith in the Night Seasons

The Process of Maturity
•Highest form of maturity = Hope! Confidence in the future over
the present; faith aimed at future things!
•He who lacks hope in the future frets over the least circumstances...
fretting and frustrations demonstrate a lack of perspective!
•You should have joy in difficult circumstances and troubles!
Difficulties are used by God to develop proven character.

The Logic of His Love
Verse 5]
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad [poured out]
in our hearts by [through] the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

“Ashamed”: disappoint; “put to shame because of disappointment” in
unfulfilled promises... (A reflection of Psalm 25:3, 20-21 (cf. Ps 22:5;
Rom 9:33; 1 Pet 2:6).

Love of God = subjective genitive; the ability to comprehend the love
that He has for us.

“poured out”: perfect tense, keep on, continuously;tense: once and for all).

This ministry of the Holy Spirit is related to His presence in believers
as the seal of God (Eph 4:30) and as the earnest or down payment of
their inheritance in glory (2 Cor 1:21-22; Eph 1:13-14). Each believer
has the Spirit of Christ (Rom 8:9) and he is indwelt by the Holy Spirit
(cf. 1 Jn 3:24; 4:13).

[There is a shake up coming; we need to have our priorities straight;
not with our eyes on the world...]

Persecution = catalyst for Christian growth.. Pressures should lead
to exaltation as our character grows. Hope = certainty about God’s
promises of the future.

Verse 6]
“Much For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

“For”: to explain the logic of how great that love is. Substantiated by
the kind of people he died for:

“helpless” = where you can do nothing to help yourself; nothing.

“ungodly” = incompatible;

“in due [the right] time”

How taught: Sacrifices, the passion play of innocent animals: Passages
like Isa 53... (750 years earlier); Psalm 22... Daniel 9:24-25 (over 483
years earlier).

Verse 7]
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man
some would even dare to die.

Contrast with human thinking; to show the highest expression of human
love and God’s love. [Is there someone that you would die for?]

Verse 8]
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.

"Much More"
Verse 9]
Much more then, being [have been] now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.

This is the first of the “much more’s.”

What can be more than this fact [his blood] already? Justified. De-
clared as righteous as God!. (Ties this to v.1) How then can one be
ever, once saved, be lost? “Through Him,” not us. We are secure in His
faithfulness, not ours.

Verse 10]
For if, when we were enemies, we were [having been] reconciled to God by the
death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved [delivered
daily] by his life.

“Reconciled”: to restore to a relationship by the removal of barriers; it
is man that is reconciled to God. Religion is man’s attempt to reconcile
himself to God. He can’t...remember Gethsemane...He died down here
to save us; He lives up yonder to keep us saved!

This great triumvirate—Redemption (3:24; 1 Cor 1:30; Gal 3:13; Eph
1:7); Propitiation (Rom 3:25; 1 Jn 2:2; 4:10; Reconciliation (Rom
5:10-11; 2 Cor 5:18-20; Col 1:22)—is totally the work of God, ac-
complished through the death of Jesus Christ. Redemption pertains to
sin (Rom 3:24), propitiation (or satisfaction) pertains to God (3:25),
and reconciliation is for us, people.

“Delivered daily” by Christ [Cf. Heb 7:25] How long are we saved?
As long as He lives.

“Enemies!” (Rom 8:7; James 4:4) Four descriptive words: helpless,
ungodly, sinners, enemies. [Would you die for people like that? Would
our society die for anything? That’s our problem...]

If God loved you enough in that condition, what about now that you
are his child (Jn 1:12)? How then can one be lost after having been
saved? The first of five “much more’s.” (Cf. 9, 10, 15, 17, 20). Four
words; five “much mores”! [Much more’s = Anticipatory echoes of
Romans 8.]

Out of this logic comes the only correct motivation for living for God.

vs. Fear, commonly used today; = wood, hay, stubble (a bonfire...).]
vs. Obscure verses out of context... “Yes, but-ers”; i.e., Phil 2:12, 13.

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure."
Philippians 2:12, 13

“Fear”: Ancient term for respect, awe. Work out, katergozemai, to work
to the outside something that is already on the inside! Cf. v.13! For it
is God who is at work in you.

Verse 11]
And not only so, but we also joy [exalt; leap for joy] in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

“Have received”; Finished work.

The remainder of this chapter can be labeled “potential sanctification.”
You may find this difficult to understand and difficult to accept.

Sanctification?
Justification does not make a person righteous. It means that before
God’s holy court, a lost sinner is now declared righteous, but his heart
has not been changed. God also has a plan in salvation whereby He not
only declares a sinner righteous, but He is also going to make a sinner
righteous. That is, God provides a way that a sinner may grow in grace
and become sanctified (set apart) for God.

Two Heads: Adam and Christ
From Romans 5:12 to Chapter 8, what makes that union with Christ
absolutely, irrevocably, ours because of Him. These verses contrast
with our descent from Adam and our present union with Christ.

Imputation through Union. Impute: to ascribe, to account to you some-
thing that was true of another.

Verse 12]
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

[An ostensible rebuttal to “life on other planets,” etc. There were two
exceptions: Enoch and Elijah—one a Gentile and one a Jew. The two
witnesses in Rev 11, I believe, will both be Jewish.]

We Are Sinners Four Ways
1)We are sinners because we commit acts of sin.
2)We are sinners by nature (sin doesn’t make us sinners, but we sin
because we have that nature).
3)We are in the state of sin. God has declared the entire human family
under sin.
4)You and I are also sinners by imputation. That is, Adam acted for
the human race because he was the head of it.

Verse 13]
For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no
law.

Verse 14]
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not
sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him
that was to come.

Why did people die from Adam to Moses? Mankind did not die for their
personal sin; he died because of Adam’s sin being imputed to him.

Adam had rejected God’s warning: “Dying you shall surely die” (2
deaths: Jude 1:12; Rev 2:11; 20:6,14; 21:8).

“In the day...”: At the instant of rejection, he violated God’s word, at the
very center of center of his being: spiritually. It began a process...and
we are after the image of a fallen Adam. Death from Adam to Moses is
undeniable. Cf. 1 Tim 2:13, 14: Adam loved Eve so much that he chose
to join her in her predicament! (Without which there would have been
no issue, no Redeemer!)

Contrast with the Last Adam
“Him that was to come,” whose power is greater. (Much more’s),
and through imputation, is ours. How? Cf. “The Last Adam”: 1 Cor
15:45-49. Also, Eph 5:22-32. Christ is the Last Adam. He is the head
of a new race.

Verse 15]
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one
many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is
by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Two opposing sources and results accordingly.

Verse 16]
Two opposing sources and results accordingly.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by
one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Verse 17]
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which
receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by [through] one, Jesus Christ.)

(Verse 17 closes the parentheses which began at verse 13.)

Our predicament derived from one man; our salvation is the result of
one man, Christ. Our salvation depends on Him, not on anything we
can, or ever could, do...

In the one case people are dying victims under a ruthless ruler; in the
other they themselves become the rulers (cf. Rev 1:6) whose kingdom
is one of life!

The fact that it is “those who receive” God’s grace and gift emphasizes
the provision made for all in Christ’s sacrificial death and offered to all
by God, yet it must be appropriated by an individual by faith to become
effective (cf. “received” in Jn 1:12).

Verse 18]
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemna-
tion; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto
justification of life.

“Cheap grace?” It cost God greatly to make it free to us! [The Gospel
is “not according to man” (Gal 1:11).]

Verse 19]
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

They are not simply declared righteous (the verb for impute is not used
here), but they will “be made righteous” in the process of sanctifica-
tion, culminating in glorification in God’s presence. The word “made,”
kaqi,sthmi kathistemi, means “stand constituted as,” and is the same verb
used in the first half of verse 19 in the words “were made sinners.”

We sin because we are sinners. (“He wasn’t a horse thief because he
stole a horse. He stole a horse because he’s a horse thief!”) Did you
ever have to teach a child to be bad?

By the obedience of One (not many): Christ. New nature (2 Cor 5:17).
[Cf. 1 Cor 5:1-5: turned over “in order that” his spirit may be saved...
Cf. 1 Cor 15:20-22.]

[Chapter 6 will develop this verse in glorious terms! Chapters 6, 7 &
8: all that we have in our union in Christ. All we have to do is to count
them true...]

Verse 20]
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin
abounded, grace did much more abound:

Why did God introduce the law? For sin to abound?! This is the opposite
of Man’s thinking! This is to eliminate any ability of man to rationalize
away his sin nature (this will be explained further in Romans 7.)

It isn’t until man despairs of his self-effort that he can comprehend
God’s grace—which even more abounds!

Verse 21]
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Once again Paul spoke of reigning in connection with life. In verse 17
those who received God’s gift “reign in life” through Christ (this will
be marvelously developed in Romans 8...).

Contrast of Two Unions
One Man (Adam )
[1 5 ] One man’s offence -many died
[1 6 ] One (Adam) -judgment, condemnation
[1 7 ] Through one man -death reigns
[1 8 ] One man’s offence -condemnation to all
[1 9 ] Disobedience of one -many made sinners
[2 1 ] Sin reigned in death !

One Man (Christ)
[15] One Man's free gift -righteousness to many
[16] For many offences -gift of justification
[17] Through one Man -believers reign in life
[18] Righteousness of One -justification offered all
[19] Obedience of One -many made righteous
[21] Grace reigns in eternal life!

Summary
Chapter 5 concludes the arguments for salvation (justification). Why
then should I live? Chapters 6, 7, and 8 will lay that out clearly!

•Chapter 5: Two heads—Adam and Christ
•Chapter 6: Two masters— Sin personified and God as revealed
in Jesus.
•Chapter 7: Two husbands—The Law and Christ Risen.

Next Session
Read Chapters 6, 7 & 8: All that we have in our union in Christ. All
we have to do is to count them true...Outline Chapter 6: Sanctification.
How can He accept us while we still retain our sin nature? How does
He disengage us from that nature?

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