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Testament VistasRomans 5-8

1. PEACE WITH GOD

Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Romans 5:11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

2. REJOICE IN HOPE

Romans 5:2 … we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.Romans 8:30 … those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. …

2. REJOICE IN HOPE

Romans 5:3-5 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

3. CHRIST COVERS OUR SIN

Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—Romans 5:18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.

4. SET FREE FROM SIN

Romans 6:1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Romans 6:2, 15 By no means!

4. SET FREE FROM SIN

Romans 6:3-4 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.Romans 6:7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

4. SET FREE FROM SIN

Romans 6:11-12 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

5. SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Romans 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

6. FREE FROM THE LAW

Romans 8:1-2 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

6. FREE FROM THE LAW

Romans 7:4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.Romans 7:6 … by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

6. FREE FROM THE LAW

Romans 7:19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.Romans 7:24-25 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

7. ADOPTED INTO GOD’S FAMILY

Romans 8:6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

7. ADOPTED INTO GOD’S FAMILY

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.Romans 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

8. WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN

Romans 8:14-17 … those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

9. GOD IS ON OUR SIDE

Romans 8:31-32 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

9. GOD IS ON OUR SIDE

Romans 8:33-34 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

9. GOD IS ON OUR SIDE

Romans 8:35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

9. GOD IS ON OUR SIDE

Romans 8:38-39 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.

1. We have peace with God2. We rejoice in hope3. Christ covers our sin4. We have been set free from sin5. We are slaves of righteousness6. We are free from the Law7. We’ve been adopted into God’s family 8. We are God’s children9. God is on our side