Romans Chapter 5 {Chapter's Emphasis is on 'Imputation'} {Verses 1-5: Results of Justification} 1~~Therefore, having been justified   {imputed with the righteousness of God} by means of faith {singular - once - one occurrence of Faith   and you are eternally saved}, let us have prosperity/security/'state of peace' {eirene} face to face with the God through our Lord Jesus Christ. {Note: Eirene means peace, prosperity and security. Here is it in the 'hortatory subjunctive' where the writer, Paul, is inviting you to join him in this prosperity - 'won't you join me in my prosperity'.} {Note: RBT says that Justification means that 'God is justified'. That means vindicated in His blessing believers. He is free from His righteousness to bless believers because we share His perfect righteousness. God is justified by our faith in Him. He then is 'free'/justified in His blessing us.} {Boast/Glory in Hope - Paul is saying, 'Won't you join me?} 2~~Through Whom {Jesus Christ} also, we have obtained that access by means of faith into this grace in which we stand, and so, let us boast/'glory in'/ 'demonstrate esprit de corps' {kauchaomai} in hope/'absolute confidence' {elpis} . . . the glory of the God {referring to the integrity of God}. {Note: Kauchaomai is in the middle voice and is reflexive. As Royal Priests, we are in the family of God and share the camaraderie/'esprit de corps' of the Godhead to Whom we are related.} {Verses 3-5 Boast/Glory in Adversity and Boast/Glory in God} 3-5~~And, absolutely not {ouk} only this   {idiom: literally 'not only so'}, but let us also boast/'glory in'/ 'demonstrate esprit de corps' {kauchaomai} in pressures/persecutions/'distressing circumstances' {thlipsis}, knowing/'having inherent knowledge' {oida} that {handling} . . . that pressure/persecution/'distressing circumstance {thlipsis} 'equips one with'/'brings about' {katergazomai} 'courage under pressure'/ 'honorable endurance under pressure' {hupomone}.4~~ And 'courage under pressure'/ 'honorable endurance under pressure' {hupomone} . . . {'equips one with'/'brings about'} . . .   {elliptical - verb here is inserted from previous verse} 'proven character'/'demonstrated integrity' {dokime}. And 'proven character'/'demonstrated integrity' {dokime} {'equips one with'/'brings about'} . . .   {elliptical - verb here is inserted from previous verse} 'absolute confidence'/hope {elpis}   {of God providing all He promised He would - blessings from the   Justice of God} .5~~ And 'absolute confidence'/hope {elpis}   {which is both relationship and integrity from the blessings of God} never disappoints because the agape/love for the God in our 'right lobes'/hearts has been poured out   {doctrine has to be poured IN first, then it can be poured out!} 'by means of'/through the Holy Spirit Who was given to us. {Note: Love is maximum concentration. It is a soul function that excludes the object from the masses. It is therefore the most 'separatist' system in the universe. There are three basic categories of the object of love: 1) God 2) People and 3) Things. The love for people is broken into three areas: 1) right man's love for his right woman and vice versa 2) right friends 3) impersonal mental attitude love for all mankind (free of mental attitude sins, no judging, maligning, etc.- impersonal love based on your own integrity, not theirs). In each of these areas, when you genuinely love, you 'set them apart' from all others. NO other Gods. No other women in your thoughts. Your personal friends are 'set apart' from mere associates. Capacity to love comes from doctrine in your soul. The range of levels of love can run from 0 to 1000. As you get closer to 1000, that is where integrity is involved in your love. 1000 would be the perfect love that God has for His own righteousness.} {Note: These verses emphasize the ministry of God the Holy Spirit through Whom all true doctrine in made clear to us. We study doctrine under a prepared man with the gift of pastor-teacher. We accept as Truth what is taught. If it IS Truth, God the Holy Spirit metabolizes it as useable doctrine in our spirit and soul. Once useable, we can then apply 'divine viewpoint' to our experiences in life. God the Holy Spirit causes the doctrine to be real to you AND to 'bring to remembrance' when you need to apply it. This is the function of the 'breathing of the soul' - inhale of doctrine, exhale of divine viewpoint.} {Verses 6-9: The 'Much More' of Justification} 6~~Yet, in fact, Christ . . . while we were 'weak in inherent power', powerless, hopeless, {asthenes} . . . yet {at the right time} He died at the right time 'as a substitute for'/'in behalf of'/'in place of' the godless ones {asebes}. {Note: Asthenes means weak in inherent power - no ability with which to enter into a relationship with the integrity of God.} 7~~For only rarely someone may die in behalf of a righteous person. Indeed in behalf of a good person, someone might even be brave enough to die. 8~~But, the God demonstrates His Own agape/love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died 'as a substitute for' us. {Note: This is 'substitutionary judgment'. Our sins were judged and punished on the Cross - with our Savior Jesus Christ carrying the punishment for us -- see I Peter 2:24}. {A Fortiori logic - If He gave the 'Greater' Surely He will also give the 'Lessor'} 9~~ Much more/'to a greater degree' therefore, having now been justified {dikaio} {imputed with His perfect   righteousness - declared perfect righteousness} by His blood {the 'greater'}, we shall be delivered from punishment/wrath {orge- referring to the Lake of Fire} through Him {in comparison, the 'lesser' - A Fortiori logic}. {Note: This verse is an example of 'A Fortiori' Logic (A Fortiori is Latin meaning 'with stronger reason'). A Fortiori is a system of logic and a principal of debate. Here a movement from the principal of justification to the RESULT of justification. Salvation was the MOST God could do for us. Everything else is LESS than the MOST! So, if He would do the most, of course He will do the lesser! It is like God gave us by grace the most beautiful ring from Tiffany. Do you want a paper bag to put it in?} {Note: Justification is a judicial function of God. Without compromising the principal of fairness in His justice, God is able to impute His righteousness into those who put their personal faith in Christ. Forgiveness subtracts sin. Justification adds righteousness.} {Verses 10-12: The 'Much More' of Reconciliation} {The 'Much More' For Eternity Future (Phase III)} 5:10~~For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to the God by means of the death of His Son - and we were {1st class conditional if} - 'much more/'to a greater degree', having been reconciled, shall we be delivered 'in His life'?   {zoe - referring to His resurrection body here} {Note: If God can do the 'greater' while we were unsaved 'enemies', then how much more will He do for us after we have been saved? The 'much more' will be for eternity - a resurrection body similar to that of Jesus Christ. If He can do the greater, it follows, using 'A Fortiori' logic, that He can and will do the less.} {The 'Much More' In Time After Salvation (Phase II)} 11~~And not only this but also {in time}   {idiom: words literally are 'not only but'- means that some that   precedes has been stated as a perfect blessing, but it is not the   only one - our resurrection body will be fantastic, but there are   also blessings in time}, we boast/'glory'/'demonstrate esprit de corps' {kauchaomai} in the God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received the reconciliation. {Necessity for Reconciliation} {And, the Origin of Sin - Adam} 12~~ Therefore/'for this reason', just as through one man {Adam} the sin/'sin nature' {singular - the original sin of Adam   and the 'nature to sin'/'Old Sin Nature'} entered into the world, 'and so'/consequently the {spiritual} death through sin   {through sin and through the trend we call the 'Old Sin Nature'}, consequently, death spreads {dierchomai} to all men, because all have sinned {when Adam sinned}. {Note: Sometimes our leaders make decisions that affect all of us. When Adam sinned, this affected all of us. We all then were born with the 'sin of the father' and an old sin nature - except for the second Adam Who was born without a human father - Jesus Christ.} {Verses 13-17: The Parenthetical 'Much Mores'} 13~~(For until the {Mosaic} law {was made clear to man by God}, the sin/'the sin nature' {singular - referring to the sin nature and the   imputed sin of Adam} kept on being in the world, but {personal} sin was absolutely not {ouk} imputed/'credited to your account' {ellogeo} when the law did not exist. {Note: All the human race sinned when Adam sinned. The basis of condemnation from God is the imputation of Adam's sin at birth (and can then be forgiven if we die before the age of accountability). Our own personal sins were never imputed to us. Instead they were all imputed to Christ on the cross and judged.} 5:14~~Nevertheless, the {spiritual} death ruled/reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who had not sinned in 'the likeness'/'in the same way' of Adam's transgression {Adam's original sin) - who {Adam} keeps on being a 'type' of Him {Jesus Christ} Who was destined to come {Jesus' 1st Advent}. {Note: Adam was created perfect. The 'Last Adam' - Jesus - was born perfect. For the likenesses of Adam and Christ could only be carried so far, then they become the antithesis of each other. So in the next verse, Adam is the 'type' and Jesus was the 'anti-type'. The first Adam put us into the jam and the Second Adam got us out of the jam.} {Type and Anti-Type} {A Fortiori of the Temporal Blessings from the Justice of God} 15~~ But not as that transgression   {Adam's original sin in the garden} so also is that gracious gift   {of Christ's substitutionary spiritual death on the cross}. For if by the transgression of the one man {Adam} 'the many' died {born spiritually dead} - and they did - 'much more' the grace from the source of God and the gift by grace through the one Man - Jesus Christ - Who has provided 'super abundance'/ 'over blessings' {beyond imagination} to the many {who believe}! {Note: The 'much more' is by means of the Grace of God and is also by means of the work of the One Man. If the grace/justice of God did the 'greater' on the cross, than 'A Fortiori logic says, the grace/justice of God will not withhold the 'lesser' in blessing us.} {Justification as the Basis for the A Fortiori Logic} 16~~In fact, the gift {of His Son - Jesus Christ}. . . {is} absolutely not {ouk} like what occurred through the one {Adam} who sinned. For, on the one hand, the judicial verdict came from the one transgression resulting in {universal} condemnation. But, on the other hand, that gracious gift {incarnation and work of Jesus on the Cross} . . . {was given} because of many transgressions resulting in {one} 'judicial act of justification' {dikaioma}. {A Fortiori of the Eternal Blessings from the Justice of God} 17~~For if, by means of the transgression of the one man {Adam}, the death {spiritual death} ruled {the human race} through the one {first Adam and his sin} - and it did - much more they {mature believers} who receive in life {zoe} the surplus/abundance of grace {blessings from the justice of God   for those who crack the maturity barrier 'in time'} and of the gift {dorea} of {experiential} righteousness {dikaiosune} shall rule/reign through the One - Jesus Christ!) {Verses 18-21: The 'Much More' of Grace} 18~~So therefore, as through one transgression   {Adams original sin in the garden imputed to all mankind} resulted in condemnation toward all mankind; so also {through one sentence of condemnation, the judicial act of   God imputing all the sins of the world to Jesus on the Cross} the one sentence of condemnation {after Christ was judged for our   sins God's righteousness was imputed} to all mankind . . . resulting in justification {dikaiosis} in this life {zoe}. {Note: This verse is an example of apodosis -the rapidity of thought excluding verbs etc. Which is a system where a genius mentality in an excited state, gives just enough of the sentence that you can piece together the rest of the meaning of the sentence from previous words in the message. This is very elliptical in nature because Paul is very excited himself.} 19~~For as through one man's {Adam's} disobedience, the many were appointed {kathistemi} sinful . . . so also through one Man's obedience   {Jesus submitting to the spiritual death on the cross} the many {saved members of the human race} will be appointed {kathistemi} righteous ones {dikaios}   {from imputation of divine righteousness at salvation}. {Note: RBT says there are two types of imputations: 1) Actual imputations, and 2) Judicial imputations. In our actual imputation of the 'sin of the father' (Adam's sin in the garden), the imputation already has a home - the genetically prepared Old Sin Nature. On the other hand, Jesus' imputation was a judicial imputation of all the sins of the world. It had nothing to do with His deserving this imputation - as perfection, He did not deserve this imputation. The similar thing is true with the imputation of God's righteousness in us. We did not deserve this imputation, but by the grace of God, we are imputed with His righteousness and are therefore saved.} 20~~ Now the law {Mosaic Law} 'came in as a side issue'/ 'entered the stage as a minor actor in a minor role' {pareiserchomai} so that the transgression/'original sin' {of Adam} {paraptoma} might be augmented. But 'in the circumstance where' {hou} 'personal sin' {hamartia} increased/abounded {pleonazo}   {as history continues, personal sins increase more and more}, grace 'super abounded'/'abounded the much more' {huperperisseuo}   {there will never be a personal sin that was not imputed and   judged at the cross. Grace is always ahead of personal sin and   always will be.}. {Note: To differentiate between Adam's original sin and all future sins, paraptoma is used for Adam's original sin and hamartia is used for the personal sins of all mankind. Paraptoma means we are born spiritually dead not hamartia. All hamartia was imputed to Christ on the cross and judged.} 21~~Just as 'personal sin'/'the sin nature' {hamartia} has ruled in the sphere of {spiritual} death, so also the grace {of God} might rule through {imputed} righteousness because of everlasting life {aionios zoe}   {eis plus the accusative should be translated - 'because of eternal   life' - this means that when God gives us something in time He   expects it to carry over into eternity future} through Jesus Christ our Lord. {Note: All humans are sustained by logistical grace from God. But for those believers who grow to spiritual maturity, grace not only sustains you, but 'rules' in your life - thereby allowing for maximum blessings in time and for eternity - through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - this is only a potential and it depends on your attitude toward doctrine.} ************************************************** This page is sponsored by Kenneth Sidley, CPA, an Orange County California CPA (949) 706-3133. 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