Sermon Tone Analysis

Background / Context

Each man is culpable:

rom 2:

No difference Jew or Gentile:

Salvation is necessarily of grace

rom 4:16

If then salvation is not by grace thru faith, there is no salvation, but it is and many in Paul’s intended audience and mine today have experienced this grace, and are now standing in it.

Peace with God

Justified by His blood.

Justified by faith.

The nature of biblical faith is that it is always in God, and that it is in fact a gift from God.

If we are believing in God, that necessarily means it is trusting in the finished work of Christ.

Thus, the blood in question is that which was shed at Calvary for the saving of sinners.

Christ Himself and His ministry are the object of the faith that is the conduit, the means God has chosen to justify sinners.

Justification is past tense; Peace is present and ongoing

In both verses 1 and 9, the justification is past tense.

Paul is speaking to Christians; those who have already been born again.

Thus, everything that flows from this justification is applicable to all believers, but ONLY to born again believers.

The peace with God flows out of this justification.

It is now and it is ongoing, in fact it is forever

Status, not experience

Hope of the Glory of God

What is this peace?

it is nothing less than the absence of struggle; the ceasing of a war setting.

rom 5:

This peace is the absence of need to appease God

While God chastens those who are His, He never requires their working for His favor.

Christian obedience is because of righteousness and worship, never meritorious for status

All who have been justified by faith in Christ Jesus have peace with God and will forever!

There is no need to labor for approval; the Father is already pleased!

Hope of the Glory of God

Hope = supernaturally empowered confidence

We have a supernaturally empowered confidence that we will be with the Lord forever in paradise!

There is NO SHAME in this hope

Those with no such confidence, no such hope… do not have the gift of God’s Spirit indwelling their hearts.

Wherein should we be ashamed?

The Spirit empowers this confidence by granting clarity, not by pumping up ego and emotion!

This confidence is most logical, why seek an illogical position?

This confidence is based on evidence; why ignore evidence for blind faith?

This is given by God, why desire a lesser authority?

All who are standing in grace; who have been justified by faith in Christ and have peace with God, have been given a supernaturally empowered confidence that we will enter into, share, and enjoy the glory of God forever; we know that we know that we know!

We Rejoice

Why would we not?

Seeing these benefits all given in grace, it only makes sense that we would worship and rejoice in God’s goodness toward us.

But why would we rejoice in our sufferings?

(v3)

endurance = the ability to bear up under difficult circumstances

character - KVJ says experience = testedness, provenness

suffering brings endurance

Christian endurance is largely reliance on God; we know He is working all things, including suffering to our good

in our enduring, which is largely reliance on God, he proves to us His faithfulness

His faithful presence in our sufferings gives us this confidence.

If He is with us in suffering, He will bring us to be with Him forever.

His faithful presence in our sufferings gives us this confidence

All who have been justified by faith have peace with God and a confidence in God’s plan for our future in paradise.

We rejoice in this and even in suffering, knowing that God has designed our suffering to bring about blessed hope.