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0:00So, in the previous [music]
0:01chapter, Paul has given us the kind of
0:04faith
0:05that allows us to appropriate the
0:09salvation that Jesus has wrought for us
0:12on the cross.
0:13And that kind of faith
0:16is exemplified in the life of Abraham.
0:19Abraham believed God or had faith in God
0:23and [music] it, his faith, was credited
0:27as righteousness.
0:29So, Paul defines [music] this faith as
0:32not growing weak when he looks at his
0:34own inability. Paul defines this faith
0:36[music] as steps of faith. Paul defines
0:40this faith as believing in the promise,
0:43in the God who calls life from the dead
0:46and calls [music] those things that are
0:47not as though they are. So, he has told
0:50us that
0:52salvation will not be brokered through
0:54adherence to the external law.
0:57He has showed us instead it will be
0:59brokered through faith. But then he has
1:02defined faith not according to a 21st
1:05century evangelical understanding,
1:06[music]
1:07but according to the life of Abraham.
1:10That's our definition of what Paul
1:12thinks faith is.
1:14Romans chapter 5 verse 1, "Therefore,
1:16having been justified by faith, we have
1:20peace with God through our Lord Jesus
1:23Christ."
1:24Because of what Jesus did,
1:26>> [music]
1:26>> because of how he settled the accounts
1:28at Calvary,
1:30we don't have to worry about the penalty
1:33for our sin so long as we are acting as
1:36the bondslave of the one who paid our
1:38bond, so long as we are living
1:40>> [music]
1:40>> by faith.
1:42"Therefore, having been justified by
1:44faith, we have peace with God through
1:46our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also
1:49we have obtained our introduction by
1:53faith into this grace in which we stand.
1:58And we exalt in hope of the glory of
2:01God.
2:03So, we've had an introduction into
2:05grace. Grace referring to the enabling
2:08power of God in human life.
2:11Not permission from God's
2:13accountability, but ability from God to
2:17be more than we were.
2:19We exalt in hope of the glory of God.
2:21And not only this, but we also exalt
2:25Exalt means rejoice. In tribulations.
2:29Knowing that tribulation brings about
2:32perseverance.
2:34So, Paul has just told us that we have
2:37an introduction into God's grace. I want
2:39you to note that he did not say we have
2:42arrived at the end of grace. We have
2:44arrived instead at the beginning. We
2:46have an introduction. Okay? And now he's
2:49going to show us that whatever we think
2:52we have of grace and faith,
2:54it is not static.
2:57Just like the previous chapter that
2:58showed us the steps of faith of our
3:01father Abraham, Paul is now going to
3:03show us that we've got an introduction,
3:06but that introduction needs to become a
3:08lifestyle. It needs to become a journey
3:10that reaches toward a culmination in
3:13heaven.
3:14Faith is not about a moment in time.
3:18It starts in a moment in time, but it
3:20must carry on through
3:23an ever-increasing relationship of trust
3:26with the Lord Jesus.
3:28So, he says we have an introduction
3:32by faith into this grace, in which we
3:34stand.
3:36And we rejoice in hope of the glory of
3:40God.
3:41Now, he's going to
3:42elucidate the journey. Ready? Verse
3:44three.
3:46And not only this,
3:48God didn't just give us an introduction.
3:50Not only a start,
3:53but we also
3:55exult in our tribulations,
3:59knowing
4:00that tribulation brings about
4:03perseverance.
4:05And perseverance brings about proven
4:08character.
4:10And proven character
4:11hope.
4:14And hope
4:15does not disappoint because
4:19the love of God
4:22has been poured out within our hearts
4:24through the Holy Spirit who was given to
4:27us.
4:29For while we were still helpless
4:32at that time, Christ died for the
4:35ungodly.
4:37Okay.
4:38What is he telling us here?
4:40He's telling us that what we have is a
4:42great start, but it's not good enough to
4:44be complacent.
4:47He's telling us that God wants
4:49perseverance in our life. That means
4:51continuing to persist in the right way.
4:55Isn't that how he defined faith in
4:57chapter two when he says that there's a
5:00way to seek
5:02for glory, honor, and immortality by
5:05patiently continuing to do what is good?
5:09That's perseverance. And he says
5:11tribulation brings about perseverance.
5:14How does tribulation bring about
5:16perseverance? Because tribulation tries
5:18to stop you from doing what's right.
5:22And until you encounter that wish, that
5:26instinct to stop,
5:29you don't know what it means to press,
5:33to persevere, to keep going.
5:36So, the temptation to quit is the
5:39opportunity to persevere.
5:42And then he tells us that perseverance
5:44does something very good, too.
5:47Perseverance
5:49brings about proven
5:52character.
5:55We don't have character
5:57until
5:58every nerve
6:00and instinct in our body was saying,
6:03"Give up.
6:04It's not worth it. Quit. This is too
6:07much. You can't do it."
6:10But when we persevere,
6:12we build character.
6:14We finish the task. We keep the faith.
6:18We do what God said to do. We don't lose
6:22heart. We keep walking.
6:25Like Abraham,
6:26failure, failure,
6:29blind curve, misunderstanding,
6:32disappointment, betrayal, keep going.
6:36And when you keep going, when you
6:38persevere against all odds, that's
6:41called proven character. And then he
6:43says, "But proven character's not the
6:45whole goal, either. Proven character
6:48produces
6:50hope."
6:53What he's telling us is that Christians
6:54who have faith
6:58without proven character
7:00don't actually have real hope.
7:02Because if you can't keep that faith in
7:04the face of all the opposition,
7:07that faith is not going to see you
7:08through.
7:10Colossians 1:22
7:12says,
7:14"He has now reconciled you in his
7:16fleshly body through death in order to
7:18present you before him holy and
7:20blameless and beyond reproach, if indeed
7:23you continue in the faith, firmly
7:26established and steadfast, and not moved
7:30away from the hope of the gospel that
7:33you have heard."
7:34So, you're not reconciled if you don't
7:36continue.
7:38But he's reconciled you if you continue.
7:42But if you don't continue, if you don't
7:44persevere, you will be moved away from
7:46the hope.
7:48So, perseverance produces character,
7:50character produces hope. And when when
7:53hope is the product of a character
7:57that obeys what God has said and not
8:00what circumstance dictates,
8:02that hope will not disappoint.
8:06And hope does not disappoint. Why does
8:09hope not disappoint?
8:12Because the love of God has been poured
8:16out within our hearts through the Holy
8:18Spirit who was given to us.
8:22Hope without the love of God in our
8:25lives through the Holy Spirit is a hope
8:28that disappoints.
8:30If you ever feel like your perseverance
8:33might have produced character,
8:36and your character might have produced
8:37hope, but that hope was starting to
8:39disappoint, that the journey wasn't
8:42worth it,
8:43that you're growing weary in well-doing,
8:46that you don't believe you're going to
8:47reap,
8:48that's because the love of God is drying
8:51up in your heart.
8:53But, if as Jesus told the Christians in
8:56the book of Revelations, you've lost
8:58your first love, he also told them,
9:00"Therefore, repent
9:03and get it back. Do again the things you
9:05did at the beginning."
9:07Hope won't disappoint you if you're
9:10living not for yourself, but for love of
9:13others and God. And that love is not
9:16your possession.
9:17It doesn't show how noble you are. It
9:20shows that the Holy Spirit is alive in
9:22your life, pouring out the love of God
9:24in your heart to him, for one another.
9:28And that is a life that cannot be
9:30disappointed.
9:33For while we were still helpless,
9:36at that time,
9:38Christ died for the ungodly.
9:40That's the kind of love that God wants
9:42to pour out.
9:44That word pour means like a waterfall.
9:47It means a cascade of love.
9:50Oh, I want to help somebody. Oh, I want
9:52to serve somebody. Oh, I want to love
9:54somebody. Why?
9:56Because when I was helpless,
9:59he died for me.
10:00And I just want to love as I have been
10:02loved.
10:05For one will hardly die for a righteous
10:08man.
10:09Though perhaps for the good man someone
10:12would dare even to die.
10:15But God
10:16demonstrates his own love toward us
10:21in that while we were yet sinners,
10:25Christ died for us.
10:28He's saying Jesus didn't die for you
10:30when you started to walk in faith.
10:33He didn't die for you when you repented
10:35and acknowledged your sin. He didn't die
10:37for you when you became his servant and
10:39shared his love with others. He died for
10:41you when you were wretched and foolish
10:45and hopeless and helpless. He said, "I
10:48believe love can change them.
10:51I believe love can heal them."
10:53That's when he died for us.
10:55Much more then having now been justified
10:59by his blood,
11:01we shall be saved from the wrath of God
11:03through him.
11:04Now, the New American Standard gets it
11:06wrong here.
11:07The word of God is not in this phrase.
11:11It just means saved from the wrath.
11:14That wrath isn't God being mad at you.
11:16That wrath is just the place of
11:18independence that we walk to of our own
11:21will away from the presence of the Lord.
11:25For if while we were enemies,
11:29we were reconciled to God through the
11:32death of his son, much more having been
11:35reconciled, we shall be saved by his
11:38life.
11:39Now, what does this mean?
11:41What does it mean that while we were
11:42enemies, we were reconciled to God?
11:46That doesn't mean we were saved because
11:48the next word says we will be saved by
11:50his life. What it means is that our sins
11:54prevented us from coming into the courts
11:57of the Father.
11:58He was a great king, but our sin
12:00wouldn't let us get through the door
12:02into his presence. But through the blood
12:05of Jesus, a new and living way was
12:08opened so that we now have confident
12:10access by one spirit to one Father.
12:13So, we were reconciled in the sense that
12:15we could draw near. That's what
12:17reconciled means. We will be saved if we
12:21accept what he's done and live in what
12:23he's done through faith. So, let's read
12:26that again. For if, while we were
12:29enemies, we were reconciled, meaning God
12:32took away the barrier of our judgment,
12:34so that we could enter his presence,
12:37so much more having been reconciled, we
12:40shall be saved by his life.
12:47The resurrection power, the Holy Spirit
12:49coming into our lives, that which raised
12:52him from the dead, is what's going to
12:54keep us in this relationship of
12:56salvation with God.
12:58He removed the barrier, but we have to
13:01choose the life
13:04only this, but we also exalt in God
13:08through our Lord Jesus Christ, through
13:10whom we have now received the
13:13reconciliation.
13:15So, we were reconciled
13:17as if he paid our debt, but we didn't
13:20receive it. It didn't become ours
13:23until we have now received this
13:25reconciliation.
13:27Therefore, just as through just as
13:29through one man sin entered the world.
13:33What one man is he talking about?
13:36Adam.
13:37Through one man sin entered the world
13:40and death
13:42through sin.
13:46Sin is the bridge. Death is the vehicle
13:49that came across the bridge. And it
13:51happened through the choices of one man.
13:55Adam gave the devil reign over this
13:58earth so that he would become the god of
14:00this world, the prince of this age, the
14:02ruler of this world.
14:04And so death spread to all men
14:07because all sinned.
14:09For until the law sin was in the world,
14:12but sin is not imputed when there is no
14:15law.
14:16So he's saying we weren't accountable.
14:20We weren't judged for our transgression
14:21until the law, the the oracle of God
14:23showed us what it was, but it was
14:25already there.
14:27Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam
14:30until Moses
14:32even over those who had not sinned in
14:35the likeness of the offense of Adam, who
14:37is a type of him who was to come.
14:42But the free gift of God is not like the
14:45transgression.
14:47For if by the transgression of the one
14:51many died
14:53much more did the grace of God and the
14:57gift by grace of the one man Jesus
15:00Christ abound to many. So he's saying
15:04that sin is a dynamic that spread like a
15:07virus to everybody. Adam opened the
15:10gate, everybody's been sinning since
15:11then, and so death and condemnation is
15:14on everybody.
15:16From Adam until Moses, it's on
15:18everybody. Moses started a temporary
15:21season of expiation and atonement where
15:25we postpone the penalty to the cross
15:28reckoning it on animals but ultimately
15:30pointing toward Calvary.
15:32But he's saying
15:34that's what happened through the first
15:35Adam. But something very different
15:37happened through the second Adam.
15:39The very sin that contaminated everybody
15:44Jesus brought a life that's going to
15:46spread like a new virus.
15:49A virus of hope and love and life to
15:52everybody. So, he says, "But the free
15:54gift is not like the transgression. So,
15:56the gift from Jesus is not like the
15:58transgression of Adam. For if by the
16:00transgression of the one, many died,
16:02much more did the grace of God and the
16:05gift by the grace of the one man Jesus
16:07Christ abound to many."
16:10So, he's saying what Jesus did for you
16:13wants to grow in you. It wants to spread
16:16to you. He wants to be a power and
16:19influence of righteousness like Adam's
16:21sin was a power and influence toward
16:24transgression.
16:25The gift is not like that which came
16:28through the one who sinned. For on the
16:30one hand, the judgment arose from one
16:33transgression resulting in condemnation.
16:37But on the other hand, the free gift
16:39arose from many transgressions resulting
16:43in justification.
16:44So, he's saying
16:46all the sin in the world started with
16:47Adam.
16:48But all that sin invited Jesus.
16:52And Jesus' act of love
16:55of atonement is going to spread
16:56righteousness in the other direction.
17:00Look at this one.
17:01Verse 17. Very important verse. Look at
17:04this.
17:05For if by the transgression of the one
17:09death
17:11reigned through the one
17:14much more those who receive the
17:17abundance of grace
17:19and of the gift of righteousness
17:23will reign in life through the one Jesus
17:28Christ.
17:30He is saying that just like sin used to
17:32be your master, now righteousness,
17:35Jesus, is going to be your master. But
17:37what's important is he's told us that
17:41we're going to reign now in this life
17:44through Jesus Christ.
17:46And what is Why is that important?
17:48Because it's Paul telling us what kind
17:50of kingdom we should be expecting.
17:53Not a kingdom of chariots and horses,
17:55not a kingdom of tanks and guns, but a
17:58kingdom of power over sin.
18:01A kingdom of grace to overcome, to do
18:04what is right, taking dominion, not over
18:08the animals, but taking dominion over
18:10our own fallen nature, not by our own
18:12strength, but by the blood of Jesus
18:14Christ.
18:16Through many, through Jesus, life is
18:19going to reign.
18:21Righteousness will reign in life through
18:24Jesus Christ.
18:26Amen.
18:27So then, [music] as through one
18:28transgression there resulted
18:30condemnation to all men, even so through
18:32one act of righteousness there resulted
18:35justification of life to all men.
18:38One act of righteousness,
18:42we are justified.
18:43We are not justified because we did
18:45enough good things. We are justified if
18:48our faith in total trust and surrender
18:51is real.
18:52And thereby he imputes to us
18:55the full credit of what he paid for at
18:58Calvary.
19:00For through one man's disobedience, the
19:02many were made sinners. Even [music] so,
19:04through the obedience of one, the many
19:07will be made righteous.
19:10The law came in so that [music] the
19:12transgression would increase, but where
19:14sin increased, grace abounded all the
19:17more.
19:18He's talking about the grace that Jesus
19:20brought.
19:21So that as sin reigned in death, even so
19:24grace would reign through righteousness
19:29to eternal life through Jesus [music]
19:31Christ our Lord.
19:33Grace is supposed to take up dominion in
19:37our life.
19:39Grace doesn't excuse [music]
19:40us
19:42from obeying God.
19:43The grace of God that brings salvation
19:46teaches us to say no to ungodliness,
19:50yes to righteousness, to live soberly
19:52and godly in this present age. And that
19:55[music] when grace is talking to us like
19:57that, when grace is guiding us like
19:59that, Paul calls that grace
20:01>> [music]
20:01>> reigning
20:03in our lives.
20:04And when grace is reigning, we're part
20:07of the kingdom of God. And until it is
20:09reigning, we're not.
20:11Dominion over sin and the flesh [music]
20:14through the grace of the Holy Spirit.
20:17That's what the kingdom of God is all
20:18about.
20:19And that's a journey. It's a journey
20:22that he described [music] in the early
20:23verses that progresses through
20:25tribulation and perseverance and
20:27character and hope and love.
20:33>> [music]
20:43[music]

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