Remember scriptures are the words of God to us from the Son coming to us through the Holy Spirit moving the hands of the prophets writing to us. Every word must be given reverence to understand exactly what is meant! So, when the apostle writes we shall be saved after we are already reconciled, we should sit up and take this in, what Paul is saying to us. What have I to fear? For God is with us!
Think on this, there was no celebration among mankind the night Christ was born but that babe would one day reconcile rebellious man to His father and give His church every reason to celebrate for now “Our God is With Us”.
TEXT: ROMANS 5:6-11
SONGS:
THIS IS AMAZING GRACE, PHIL WICKHAM COVER
LOVE OF GOD, PHIL WICKHAM, BRANDEN LAKE
JESUS PAID IT ALL, RED ROCKS
FOR GOD IS WITH US, for KING AND COUNTRY
Lead pastor of River City Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia.“the gospel turns heavens courtroom from a criminal trial into an adoption ceremony.”
Through Christ's finished work, the verdict is not just an acquittal of charges; it changes the relationship entirely. Believers are brought into God's family as sons and daughters.
In the words of Calvin, The Great Exchange of our mortality for his immortality. Our weakness for his strength. Our poverty for his wealth. Our iniquity for his righteousness. We should pause and consider this for a moment.
In this exchange, the spotless Son took on all of my sin. He absorbed it, and then he was broken under the wrath of God. He drank the filth of the cup of wrath so that I might drink deeply of the cup of living water.
