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Romans 5:1a ESV
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith…
Justification is the act of God whereby He forgives the unsaved person’s sin and assigns to them the righteousness of Christ when through faith they believe.
Romans 5:1-2 ESV
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
1st Result of Justification: Peace with God!
2nd Result of Justification: Access to Grace
3rd Result of Justification: Hope of Glory
Romans 5:2 ESV
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:3a ESV
More than that…
Romans 5:3a ESV
More than that, we rejoice…
Romans 5:3a ESV
More than that, we rejoice in sufferings…
Romans 5:3a ESV
More than that, we rejoice in sufferings knowing…
1st We know: Suffering produces endurance
Romans 5:3 ESV
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
James 1:2-3 NIV
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
2nd We know: Endurance produces character
Romans 5:3-4a ESV
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character,
James 1:2-4 NIV
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
1 Peter 1:6-7 NIV
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
3rd We know: Character produces hope
Romans 5:3-4 ESV
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
2 Corinthians 4:16-17 NIV
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Timothy 4:7-8 NIV
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
4th We know: Hope produces rejoicing in God
Romans 5:5a ESV
and hope does not put us to shame…
Isaiah 49:23b NIV
“…those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
Isaiah 49:23b ESV
“those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”
Romans 9:33b NIV
“…and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
Romans 10:11 NIV
As Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
Romans 8:35 NIV
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:37-39 NIV
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:5a ESV
and hope does not put us to shame…
5th We know: God pours His love into our hearts
Romans 5:5 ESV
and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
