King's Church Hastings

In Romans 5:1-11, Paul begins to talk about the outworkings of being justified by faith which guarantee our future salvation. As he does so he talks about two foundations which are vital for Christian living: The first foundation is knowing that we are fully accepted by God. As those who have been justified there is peace between us and God and we stand in the sphere of God’s grace, meaning we always experience his favour and goodness, even though we are undeserving (5:1-2a) The second foundation is hope in the glory of God, i.e. certain hope in the coming new creation where we will spend eternity with God in perfection (5:2b) and which is strengthened by facing suffering (5:3-4). How can we be confident in this hope? Because of God’s love which is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit as we reflect on the death of Christ (5:5-8). Because of God’s actions for us. If he has already done the huge things of justifying us and reconciling us while we were enemies, he will certainly do the comparably small t