NEW TESTAMENT 5
lecture 18
Romans 5: 1 – 21
Introduction
•	The “______________” person is at war with God (Rom 5:10, 8:7).  He cannot obey God’s Law or fulfill God’s will. Two verses from Isaiah make the matter clearer (Isa 48: 22 – “The is no peace saith the Lord, unto the wicked.” &  
•	32:17 – “And the work of righteousness shall be peace.”)
Paul describes
•	The new life of the ______________ as justified sinners. Justification brings peace with God i.e., reconciliation with an inner sense of serenity. 
A Translation Question (v 1)
•	Did Paul write, “We have ______________ (______________) with God” or “Let us have peace (______________) with God”?   In Greek the difference is between a short o and a long o. In dictation these would be easily confused. It seems that inference is better here than exhortation. It seems to me better to read it as “We have peace”. 
Condemnation
•	 means that God declares us sinners, which is a just declaration or war. ______________ means that God declares us righteous and means that this is a declaration of peace, made possible by Christ’s death.  “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other (Psa 85:10).  
Nobody condemned
•	 by the Law of God can enjoy ______________ with God.  But when justified by faith, you are declared righteous and the Law cannot condemn you or declare war!
The Jews
•	 were kept from God’s presence by the ______________ in the ______________; and the Gentile was kept out by the wall in the temple with a warning on it that any Gentile that went beyond would be killed. But when Jesus died, He tore the veil (Lk 23:45) and broke down the wall of separation (Eph 2:14).  
In Christ, 
•	believing Jews and Gentiles have access to God.  See Eph 2:18 and Heb 10:19-25).  They can draw upon the inexhaustible riches of the grace of God.  So stand “in ______________” and not “in ______________”.  
Justification
•	 has to do with our standing; sanctification has to do with our state.  The word “access” here means “entrance to the king through the favor of another.” 
•	Access means we are on new footing with God, not of hostility, but of ______________. 
5:4-7 “Hope deferred
•	 maketh the heart sick” (Prov 13:12).  But as we wait for this hope to be fulfilled, the love of God is “poured out into our ______________.”
The hope
•	Can be relied upon because it rests on the ______________ of God– a love which is a present reality and experienced because of the Holy Spirit.   
Notice
•	 that the first three of the fruit of the Spirit are experienced: ______________ (v 5); joy (v 2), and peace (v 1).  Before we were saved, God proved His love by sending Christ to die for us. Now that we are His children, surely He will love us even more. It is the inner experience of love through the Spirit that sustains us as we go through tribulation.    
Faith
•	 (v1); ______________ (v2) and ______________ (v 5) all combine to give the believer patience in the trials of life.  Patience makes it possible for the believer to grow in character and become a mature believer.(James 1:1-4).
Love (v5)
•	Christ died not for just men or just for ______________ men, but for ______________ men. This is the measure of God’s love for us. The love of God here is a subjective genitive meaning that it is God’s love for us and not our love for God. 
Paul argued
•	 from the ______________ to the ______________. If God saved us when we were enemies, surely He will keep on saving us now that we are His children. There is a “wrath to come”, but no true believer will experience it (1 Thess 1:9-10; 5:8-10). 
Paul further argues
•	 that if Christ did so much for us in His death, how much more will He do for us as He intercedes for us in heaven! “______________ by His ______________” in Rom 4:25 means raised again for  (on account of ) our justification. 
Saved By His Life (v10)
•	By the living Christ, by “Christ in us the ______________ of ______________,” It is Paul’s equivalent to “Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19).
Because He lives
•	 we are eternally saved (Heb 7:23-25).  
•	A review of these ______________ blessings of justification shows how certain our salvation in Christ is.  Totally apart from the Law, and purely by Grace, we have a salvation that takes care of the past, the present and the future. Christ died for us; lives for  us and is coming for us. What a Savior!
5:12-21 -- How is it possible
•	 for God to save sinners in the Person of Jesus Christ? We understand that somehow Christ took our place on the ______________, but how was such a substitution possible?
Sometimes people ask
•	if it was fair for God to condemn the whole world just because of one man’s disobedience?  The answer, of course, is not only ______________, but was ______________ and ______________.  To begin with, if God had tested each human individually, the result would have been the same: disobedience.  
But even more important, 
by condemning the human race through one man, Adam, God was able to save the human race through one man (Jesus Christ).  
“The the ______________ crept in…” or “Then the Law came in beside” 
Grace was not
•	 an addition to God’s plan. Grace was part of God’s plan from the beginning. God dealt with ______________ and ______________ in grace; He dealt with the patriarchs in grace; and He dealt with the nation of Israel in grace. 
He gave the Law
•	through Moses, not to replace ______________, but to reveal man’s need for grace. Law was temporary, but grace was eternal.
Adam and Christ
•	Paul is considering the redemption to the Fall by comparing Christ with Adam. It allows Paul to show the universal range of Christ’s saving ______________ and ______________. 
From Adam
•	Came sin and death for his descendents; from Christ comes righteousness and life for all who believe in Him. And always ______________ is mightier than ______________.
AS THROUGH ONE MAN
•	Sin entered the world.  Paul acknowledges the fateful and fatal role played by Adam the first father: the presence of sin in the world is due to Adam’s disobedience to God’s command. It seems Paul is taking the Genesis story as literal history. Adam disobeyed and sin found a foothold in the human race. Along with sin Adam’s disobedience let ______________ lose.
So Death passed
•	Unto men for all men sinned. (______________). 3:23 is literally, “because all ______________”. The meaning is death extended its influence to all men because all men were sinners. Paul sees it that sin is the responsible act of every person and with this sin is the influence of sin and death that Adam’s act let loose in the world, and from which, no man, apart from Christ, can escape.
5:13-14
•	Paul encounters a difficult here. Is not the time before ______________ an exception to the statement that all have sinned?
•	No is Paul’s answer. It is true that if the law does not exist, then sin is not imparted—marked to one’s account. Yet, death held sway over men who lived between Adam and Moses, even if they did not sin as Adam did (by breaking an expressed command of God with a death penalty attached to it.) 
The truth is: 
•	“Where there is a ______________, you must also have the offense.” The time before Moses was no exception.
Who is a figure of him
•	Who was to come…”______________” is literally “______________”. In theological language a person or event in history corresponding another. Paul means that as in the great influence of Adam’s act, so Christ’s act would have such great effects.
5:15-17
•	The three verses show the difference between the Fall and Redemption. First: the free ______________ was not like the trespass. The trespass brought destruction and death to many, while the gift brings blessings. The Fall, beginning with one sin, resulted in condemnation. Redemption, acknowledging many sins of men, results in ______________. 
The Passage Teaches
•	The ______________ of men in ______________—a fact that can be seen by a mere glance of human history. Paul says, since we are bound together for evil, we can be bound together for ______________. Christ can altar the character of every person and can transform the nature of men’s hearts.
5:18ff
•	Paul compares Adam and Christ. One man did ______________—all men were condemned for it. One man did ______________—all men may be saved by what he did. On man’s disobedience made all men sinners—one man’s ______________ will make many righteous.
The Comparison
•	Is done. But what stood in the middle of Adam and Christ? The ______________. What was its place in the plan of God? 
See 5:20
•	It was a parenthesis in the ______________ ______________. Its purpose was to increase sin by making transgressions obvious and flagrant. God designed that sin would come to its full height before He dealt with it. Where sin and death are without check, ______________ and ______________ will take the throne.