📜Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
1️⃣ we have access by faith into this grace
🩸Ephesians 2:13 (CWSB)
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
🩸Ephesians 2:18-19 (CWSB)
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
1️⃣🅰️ wherein we stand “Jesus paid it all”
I don’t have to prove I am worthy of God’s love.
• God is my friend.
• The door of access is permanently open to Him.
• I am free from the “score sheet” - the account is settled in Jesus.
• I spend more time praising God and less time hating myself.
2️⃣ rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
(POSB NT Cmy) Glory means to possess and to be full of perfect light; to dwell in the perfect splendor and magnificence of God.
🩸Romans 2:7 (CWSB)
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
🩸Romans 8:18 (CWSB)
The Revelation of God’s Glory Through Believers
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
📜Rom 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
1️⃣ but we glory in tribulations:
distress (state) — noun. an oppressive state of physical, mental, social, or economic adversity.
to be distressed — verb. to be or become afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
🛑(POSB NT Cmy) When a man is truly justified, he is no longer defeated by trials and sufferings. Trials and sufferings no longer discourage and swamp him, no longer cast him down into the dungeon of despair and hopelessness. The very opposite is true. Trials and sufferings become purposeful and meaningful. Also⬇️
🛑 (POSB NT Cmy) When trials confront a man who is truly justified, he is stirred to arise and face the trials head on. He immediately sets out to conquer and overcome them. He knows that God is allowing the trials in order to teach him more and more patience (endurance).
🛑Philippians 4:12-13 (CWSB)
12 -- I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
🛑John 16:33 (CWSB)
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
🛑 James 1:2-4 (CWSB)
Patience
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting -- nothing.
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Rev. Alvin Lewis
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