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Last week were talking about all these benefits that belong to those who are justified by faith.
Since we have been justified through faith, we have....
The Justified Have...
Peace with God.
(v1)
Access into this grace.
(v2)
Hope of the glory of God.
(v2)
Then, even in our suffering, when it does not appear that we are loved, when it appears when we have been forgotten.
God is still doing something, he hasn’t forgot about us, He has not abandoned us, in fact he is doing something in us.
In our suffering God is giving us....
In our suffering God is giving us...
Perseverance.(v3)
Character.
(v4)
Hope.
(v5)
Then, so that we do not think that hope is uncertain, God gives us something else.
We can be sure that we have hope in God because we have God’s love poured out into our hearts-through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Our Hope is Certain because....
God gives us His love through the Holy Spirit.
(v5)
This having the Holy Spirit, and having God’s love in our hearts is a bit subjective.
All Christians, at one time or another certainly may have times where they do not “feel” the Holy Spirit.
They may be temporarily caught in sin, or discouragement, and are just not “feeling” very loved by God.
What do we do in that situation?
If you are not feeling the love of God in your life right now.
At some times, the subjective experience of the love of God is in our hearts.
This can give us assurance, but in other times the pressures of life close in on us.
The outlook is not so certain in our minds, because our subjective experience of God is being taken over by grief or depression, or pain.
Worse yet the enemy seeks to draw us away from God.
The thing is-- God has not changed.
God of course is the same yesterday, today and forever.
But we still sin, so what we think is that God doesn’t love me anymore, because I sinned.
This is exactly the tactic the enemy uses, Satan is referred to as the great accuser.
He is always trying to accuse us of the sins we commit, and attempt to get us thinking that we are no longer in God’s love.
This compounds the problems, and suddenly we no longer “feel” God’s love poured out in our hearts.
But remember how chapter 5 started.
Therefore, since WE HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED-it is a done deal.
The bottom line is we can’t always rely on our subjective experience of God’s love to know that God loves us.
We need more of an objective view of God’s love proof, demonstration, concrete evidence.
What is this love?
What does it look like?
How do we know that is real, that God really love us.
Did you ever notice this with children?
All kids need some sort of assurance from time to time.
For example, sometimes you will be escorting a young child into a new or frightening situation.
You may be right beside them, but when things are uncertain, or a little scary, what is the first thing they do?
They put up there little hand for you grab on, They know you right there, but they want that objective assurance.
Or as one of our moms here is so fond of reminding people make sure the child feels loved, and often that comes with a physical reminder.
On occasion, children will not always follow the rules, and need some correction, and through there sobs, they may even ask do you still love me?
You may reply of course I still love you.
Let’s start by taking a look at verse 5.
God’s love is poured into our hearts, but we like a scared child my be reaching our hand up to say, I need to know more I need to see a concrete example of that love so that I can understand and know for sure.
So Paul writes,
The verse here in the NIV starts with You see.
It is a connecting word, translated here as you see, in other translations as For-F-o-r.
It is there because Paul is going to explain that last thought.
Here is the explanation of the evidence of God’s love.
You see, at just the right time....Now things start to get really interesting.
At just the right time.
Paul writes.
This well started in the beginning, right?
Genesis 1.1, in the beginning, God created everything and of corse man sinned, plunging all of mankind into this predicament of sin, right.
Well that was really long time ago.
Many generations lived captive to sin.
Suffering from the effects of sin in the world, generation after generation, waiting, hoping for a rescue.
The prophets came proclaiming that ONE day-some day- a king would come, yet generation after generation waited and nothing happened.
I wonder if those people wondered if God had abandoned them, Then there was the exile.
Nebuchandezzar invaded, people died, others were carried them off to exile.
Did they wonder about God’s timing?
God when is your promise going to come true.
Just like we wonder about God’s timing.
Time has a tendency to make us question God’s love doesn’t it?
When we don’t see the answer to prayer in our time or even our lifetime we wonder if God still loves us.
We are consumed with the time we live in.
But God is not bound by time.
God is eternal.
Without beginning or end.
All of time is before Him, and he is not constrained by time, yet He intervenes in it.
He steps in from outside of it’s boundaries.
When the earth had made enough revolutions and, when the course of events led to the Roman occupation of Jerusalem, when the Pharisee sect in judaism began to flourish.
When the time had come for Caiaphas to be high priest, and the people wondered, when would God’s promise come true.
When Herod took the throne, at just the right time.
It was just the right time for Cesar Augustus to issue a decree that a census be taken, and it was just the right time for a man and a virgin from Nazareth to have to make their way to Bethlehem.
You see it was just the right time for the baby Jesus to be born, It was just the right time for Simeon to see the baby Jesus, who he waited for for his entire life.
When it was just the right time to send an innocent man from Galilee to the cross.
A few years too soon, Rome was not occupying Jerusalem, a few years later and Jerusalem would fall, and the temple destroyed.
This was at just the right time.
Paul said this in another letter, the letter to the Galatians.
If that isn’t interesting enough...., the phrase here in Romans 5.6, isn’t only referring to that specific moment in history, but instead it also relates to us today.
Our personal timeline.
Your life, my life, our Grandparents lives, our children’s lives.
That time, when WE were still powerless.
The We makes it personal.
The people in this letter that Paul is writing, were not necessarily there at the cross when Jesus died, some were not even born yet, so when he uses we it is all those who are justified by faith.
Not everyone, just those justified by faith.
At just the right time, when we were still powerless.
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