Romans 5:2-5

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 5:5

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 5:5.—The love of God has been poured forth as in a stream (Wordsworth).MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 5:5A hope without shame.—The Christian never finds this world to be his rest. But he has a hope full of immortality. This enlightens his darkness and alleviates his sorrow. Like a helmet, it guards in the day of battle; like an anchor, it secures in the storms of adversity; like a pleasing companion, it travels with him through all the tediousness of the world,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 5:1-2

Romans 5:1-2 The State of Grace. There are some who seem only to fear or to have very little joy in religion. These are in a more hopeful state than those who only joy and do not fear at all; yet they are not altogether in a right state. Let us consider how the persons in question come to have this defective kind of religion. I. In the first place, of course, we must take into account bodily disorder, which is not unfrequently the cause of this perplexity of mind. Many persons have an anxious... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 5:1-11

Romans 5:1-11 Immediate Results of Justification. To be acquitted of guilt through the death of Jesus is the most elementary blessing which the gospel brings to our condemned race, shut up in its prison-house of wrath. But it cannot come alone. It opens a door of hope through which each reconciled sinner may look forward unto a new world of lovely blessings following in its train. Hope is the keyword of this section, therefore exultant hope of future glory; and the three ideas which... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 5:1-5

DISCOURSE: 1840BENEFITS ARISING FROM A JUSTIFYING FAITHRomans 5:1-5. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 5:1-21

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of Romans.Since chapter 3 Paul has been talking about justification by faith. How that God has declared me innocent because of my faith in Jesus Christ. Believing that He took my sin and died in my place; He became my substitute. He took God's judgment for my sin. He bore it for me. By my believing in Him, God declares me innocent of all charges, justified by faith.In chapter 4 he illustrates from the Old Testament, from Abraham, the truth of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 5:1-21

Romans 5:1 . Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Faith in the atonement removes the guilt of sin, and makes us heirs of all the promised righteousness of God; the prodigals are brought home to their Father’s house with joy. Justification is never alone; all the graces follow in clusters, with privileges of the highest order. The apostle, still keeping the jews in his eye, seems to ask the grand question; What need then for christians so justified and ennobled to be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 5:2

Romans 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. Access to GodThere are many locks in my house and all with different keys, but I have one master key which opens all. So the Lord has many treasuries and secrets all shut up from carnal minds with locks which they cannot open; but he who walks in fellowship with Jesus possesses the master key which will admit him to all the blessings of the covenant--yea, to the very heart of God. Through the Well-beloved we have... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 5:3

Romans 5:3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also.The Christian processI. Tribulation gives rise to patience, coming from a verb which signifies “to keep good under” (a burden, blows, etc.) , and might be rendered “endurance.”II. Endurance, in its turn, worketh experience--the state of a force or virtue which has stood trials. This force, issuing victorious from the conflict, is undoubtedly the faith of the Christian, the worth of which he has now proved by experience. It is a weapon... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 5:4

Romans 5:4And patience experience.Patience working experienceThe benefit of trials is lost when we either “despise the chastening of the Lord,” or “faint when we are rebuked of Him.” It is only when they are borne with Christian “patience” that “experience” is their happy fruit. The word signifies properly “proof”: and there are various things proved to us by our trials, endured with patience.I. The love, care, faithfulness, and power of our father. He has assured us that “whom He loves He... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 5:5

Romans 5:5And hope maketh not ashamed. Christian, hopeThere is no word more beautiful than “hope.” It is alight with the radiance of futurity; in it murmurs a prophetic music of good times coming. Its influence upon mankind it is impossible to over-estimate. As it has waxed or waned, society has risen or declined. The sinfulness of the first pair threatened life with a collapse; but in the first promise the day star of humanity arose. A watery deluge rolled around the world; and in the solitary... read more

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