Romans 5:5-8: God’s love – the ground of our hope
How can a Christian be sure that God really loves them, and that this life is not all leading to a cruel disappointment? That’s the question Paul answers in Romans 5:5-8, with both the subjective proof of the Spirit poured into our hearts and the objective proof of Christ dying for us while we were still sinners.
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Romans 5:1: Justified
Justification is like the all-inclusive ticket at a fun park, the one purchase that makes every other ride free, a picture for Romans 5:1 and the opening word of a new section in Paul’s letter. Everything else Paul is about to describe, peace, grace, hope, flows out of the single fact that we have been justified by faith.
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