RECONCILED BY THE DEATH OF GOD'S SON (14 OF 26)
Scripture: Romans 5:6-11
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Reconciled by the Death of God's Son (14 of 26)
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 5:6-11
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (v. 8).
SAVED FROM WHAT?
Normally when Christians talk about being ''saved,'' they're talking about a past event. (''When were you saved?'') But in Romans 5, the apostle Paul says believers will be saved (future tense).
What do we-those of us who have put our faith in Christ-hope to be saved from? When you're in a swimming pool and you yell ''Help!'' to the lifeguard, you want to be saved from drowning. When you're in a burning building and you yell ''Help!'' to a firefighter, you want to be saved from the fire. The kind of salvation that Paul is talking about is salvation from hell and God's wrath.
There are a lot of people who would like to get rid of hell and God's wrath. (''If God is a God of love, how can he send people to hell?'') But if you get rid of hell and God's wrath, what you end up with is a less loving God. How can that be true?
RECONCILIATION
Notice how Paul describes us: ''weak'' (v. 6), ''ungodly'' (v. 6), ''sinners'' (v. 8), and ''enemies'' (v. 10). In other words, humanity is guilty before God and hostile toward God. We need justification (because of our guilt before God) and reconciliation (because of our hostility toward God).
God longs for people to be reconciled to him. God is like the father in the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). When the son finally comes to his senses and returns home, his father sees him while he's ''still a long way off''-which implies that the father has been waiting for his son to ret ...
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 5:6-11
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (v. 8).
SAVED FROM WHAT?
Normally when Christians talk about being ''saved,'' they're talking about a past event. (''When were you saved?'') But in Romans 5, the apostle Paul says believers will be saved (future tense).
What do we-those of us who have put our faith in Christ-hope to be saved from? When you're in a swimming pool and you yell ''Help!'' to the lifeguard, you want to be saved from drowning. When you're in a burning building and you yell ''Help!'' to a firefighter, you want to be saved from the fire. The kind of salvation that Paul is talking about is salvation from hell and God's wrath.
There are a lot of people who would like to get rid of hell and God's wrath. (''If God is a God of love, how can he send people to hell?'') But if you get rid of hell and God's wrath, what you end up with is a less loving God. How can that be true?
RECONCILIATION
Notice how Paul describes us: ''weak'' (v. 6), ''ungodly'' (v. 6), ''sinners'' (v. 8), and ''enemies'' (v. 10). In other words, humanity is guilty before God and hostile toward God. We need justification (because of our guilt before God) and reconciliation (because of our hostility toward God).
God longs for people to be reconciled to him. God is like the father in the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). When the son finally comes to his senses and returns home, his father sees him while he's ''still a long way off''-which implies that the father has been waiting for his son to ret ...
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