1 Romans 5 complete Outline Charles e. Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher, Rivers of Joy Baptist Church, Minford Ohio ROMANS 5:1 Charles e. Whisnant, January 02, 2010 In this area of Ohio, it seems I have been told, there is the belief that you can be truly converted and then fall from grace. If that is true, I believe all true converted people should leave this part of Ohio. If you can lose your salvation, you had better learn how not to lose it. If you made salvation conditional, then it’s only good as long as you can maintain the conditions of keeping your salvation. o The question is: Is there a works/righteousness perspective in our salvation? PAUL ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE IN ROMANS CHAPTER FIVE Paul has established already in chapters 3 and 4 that salvation is a free gift, by grace alone, received by faith alone, in Christ alone. HOW IS SALVATION MAINTAINED IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIVER? HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE SECURE IN OUR SALVATION? Chapter five will tell us. How does Paul tie in the believer into the Savior for eternity? This knot is so secure IT CAN NOT BE LOOSED. It is tied into six parts. SATAN’S ATTACK ON THE CHRISTIAN IS TO GET HIM TO DOUBT HIS ASSURANCE OF HIS SALVATION. THE FIRST KNOT IN THIS ROPE. The way of securing our salvation is joining the knots in such a way that they are secure in Christ THEREFORE, HAVING BEEN JUSTIFICED 1344 BY FAITH 4102, WE HAVE PEACE 1515 WITH GOD. Vs. 1 1A I AM AT PEACE WITH GOD THEREFORE: Is the thread that pulls us together with the foundation that has been laid in chapter 3 -4. WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD. 1B That which binds together that which has been separated means that I have it today. I will have it tomorrow. I will have it the next day. I will always have it.
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1 Romans 5 complete Outline Charles e. Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher, Rivers of Joy Baptist Church, Minford Ohio
ROMANS 5:1 Charles e. Whisnant, January 02, 2010
In this area of Ohio, it seems I have been told, there is the belief that you can be truly converted and then fall
from grace. If that is true, I believe all true converted people should leave this part of Ohio.
If you can lose your salvation, you had better learn how not to lose it. If you made salvation conditional, then
it’s only good as long as you can maintain the conditions of keeping your salvation.
o The question is: Is there a works/righteousness perspective in our salvation?
PAUL ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE IN ROMANS CHAPTER FIVE
Paul has established already in chapters 3 and 4 that salvation is a free gift, by grace alone, received by faith
alone, in Christ alone.
HOW IS SALVATION MAINTAINED IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIVER? HOW DO WE KNOW WE
ARE SECURE IN OUR SALVATION? Chapter five will tell us.
How does Paul tie in the believer into the Savior for eternity? This knot is so secure IT CAN NOT BE
LOOSED. It is tied into six parts.
SATAN’S ATTACK ON THE CHRISTIAN IS TO GET HIM TO DOUBT HIS ASSURANCE OF HIS
SALVATION.
THE FIRST KNOT IN THIS ROPE. The way of securing our salvation is joining the knots in such a way
that they are secure in Christ
THEREFORE, HAVING BEEN JUSTIFICED 1344 BY FAITH 4102, WE HAVE PEACE 1515
WITH GOD. Vs. 1
1A I AM AT PEACE WITH GOD
THEREFORE: Is the thread that pulls us together with the foundation that has been laid in chapter 3 -4.
WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD.
1B That which binds together that which has been separated means that I have it today. I will have it
tomorrow. I will have it the next day. I will always have it.
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2B Present tense means continuous duration of action. Indicative mood means that is a fact, take it to
the bank. Active voice means the subject is acted upon or doing the acting.
3B There is tranquility of mind; a positive feeling about being secure. Yet it is more than this
4B It is speaking of relationship, feeling or not.
5B It is saying. God is not at war with us anymore. (As before when we were not saved.) Now there is
peace with God. God is angry at men. Psalms 7:11
o God is at war (wrath) with the sinner, God is the enemy of the sinner, and the sin.
o You might not believe you are at war with God. That is not the point, God is at war with you.
(1:18)
o Exodus 22:24; Deuteronomy 32:16-22; Joshua 23:16; II Kings 22:13,17; I Samuel 5:23;
Isaiah 13:9,13.
o “I hope God is on my side.” Well, God is not on the side of the sinner, the Christ rejecters.
6B God is satisfied from His end, not that we did something from our end.
7B God was satisfied in the payment of Christ. The price was paid.
Colossians 1:20-22. The act of Jesus Christ so fully accomplished peace with God, that from
now on, forever, you are holy, blameless in His sight. THE WAR IS OVER.
8B JUSTIFICATION OR RECONCILIATON
o Means you have been intertwined into, closely twisted together or around Christ’s
righteousness.
o God’s wrath has been removed means the condemnation of men and eternal HELL has been
removed.
THROUGH 1223 OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
1B The question is how do we know that this peace will continue? First John 1 “He keeps on
cleansing us from all sin.” The continued cleansing provides for us the maintaining of that
reconciliation.
2B Christ bore our sin and therefore there is nothing to violate our reconciliation.
3B Our Lord made PEACE through the blood of the Cross. Through His sacrifice He binds together
that which separated us from God, so those whose faith is put in Him, are bound again to God in their
new standing with God.
4B THROUGH HIM: John 1:7; 10; John 14:6; Acts 3:16; Acts 10:43, Acts 13:38-39; I
Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 7:25
5B I am at peace with God for how long? As long as Jesus Christ lives. And how long is that? He
lives forever.
6B When a person embraces Christ by faith, the spotless Son of God makes that person one
with God and he is at peace .
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I want to thank my wife Charity for her help in proofreading these Notes.
AM NOW A FRIEND OF GOD and HAVE ACCESS TO GOD AND AM STANDING IN HIS GRACE NOW AND FOREVER.
ROMANS 5:1B January 16, 2011 – Charles e. Whisnant
Therefore as a result of having been justified, that is, having been acquitted of the charges against us and the penalty imposed by law against us, which was due to our being guilty of breaking the law, the penalty has now been removed by faith, and now we have peace with God. We are no longer at war with God, (now God is on our side), through the Lord Jesus Christ, Who made a complete payment of the penalty imposed by God on us, by His sacrifice on the Cross. We now stand a righteous person before God’s law. Thus through whom now we also in addition to peace with God, we have obtained access to Him. That is we as believers have been accepted by God and now have been provided admission or the permission or the ability to enter into the presence of God. God welcomes us as sons and not as strangers, and this right will be forever. All this comes by faith into this grace we have available to us all of God’s favor or empowerment to live supernaturally, in which we stand….
THE STRAINS IN THE ROPE THAT KEEP US SECURE.
THE REASON WE HAVE SECURITY AS A BELEIVER TO KNOW WE WILL ALWAYS BE
SAVED IS DUE TO THE ABOVE FACTS.
1. We have peace with God 2. We have access to God 3. We stand in grace with God
To say a believer could lose their salvation would be to say the work of Christ is not sufficient and/or the
work of Christ as our High Priest is not sufficient. That is impossible.
THROUGH WHOM 1223
The benefits of justification come through Christ. Indicates the channel or conduit.
I
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ALSO
Sets these blessings as distinct from and additional to that of peace with God.
WE HAVE
Perfect tense, we have obtained, past completed actions. Speaks of the permanency of our access to
God, independent of human merit. We are near and dear to god.
ACCESS 4318 prosagoge
It means providing admission or access (freedom, permission and / or the ability to enter) into the
presence of… right of entry
A bringing into the presence of the Divine presence. This is not for an interview, but to remain with
Him, to be of His household, and by faith, to behold His face, and walk in the light of his countenance.
Ephesians 2:18 and 3:12 the only other two times used.
The Jews knew Exodus 19:9-13; 24:1 You don’t go near God, or death was sure to happen. There was
no way anybody could approach God in the O.T. So access was not a word in their dictionary. Access
was not known under the legal covenant; God was hidden, the veil was not yet removed.
Few are giving an introduction to the Divine presence and is a lasting privilege. This is not an
interview, but to remain with Him.
SO HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE THIS ACCESSABILITY TO GOD?
Matthew 27:51 “Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two…” Why? To have an entrance into
God.
After the death of Christ, He led the captivity, the O.T. Saints to Heaven.
Hebrews 4:16 “Let us come boldly unto the throne of God…. To find mercy and grace.”
Jeremiah 32:38-40 and Hebrews 10:19-22
BY FAITH It is only possible by saving faith that we have been granted this privilege.
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God’s undeserved favor was given freely to us. Hebrews 10:19-20
Gives us the empowerment we must have in order to live this supernatural life in Christ.
Bill Gothard: Basic Institute of Youth Conflict I attended 1976 thru 1996
Grace works where there is a need. Romans 6. Where there is sin there is grace.
IN WHICH WE STAND 2476 histemi
Once we get in we STAND in GRACE.
To set, be firm, established, fixed. Jude 1:24.
A perfect tense: a past complete action with a present and continuing result.
The payment of Christ is permanent, and secures the position of the believer to enjoy God’s grace forever.
Stand firm. We are fixed on this spot. No storm can move us from where we stand.
Stand in the sphere of God’s grace.
My standing is always perfect because it is measured by Christ’s acceptance. I John 4:17; Romans 8:5
If the death of Christ could make peace with God, how much more can a living Savior keep you in God’s
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1A ADAM AND THE REIGN OF DEATH: VS. 12-13
Paul is going to give us four steps: WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE IT IS? Why is man like he is?
Why has human history gone the way it has? And why _________ billion people have died.
1B SIN ENTERED THE WORLD THROUGH ONE MAN: VS 12
AS BY5618 or JUST AS
is a conjunction which introduces a comparison.
ONE MAN444 anthropos SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD
Notice it does not say Adam originated sin. Sin had already originated, prior to Adam. How? The
devil has sinned from the beginning. I don’t know when the beginning was, but the beginning of his
sin was then. But it pre-dated Adam.
Adam just merely introduced it to the human race. That is why it says “sin entered into the world, the
cosmos, into the human system, into human kind.
1 John 3:8; Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-6
NOW God gave Adam only one command, just ONE, and that is the only thing that kept Adam in a
point of submission to God. And that one thing keeps things different between Adam and God. If there
were no commands and no probations, then Adam would have had the same right to rule as God had.
And as we have learned when Adam sinned something appalling happen. Romans 5. Sin
entered into the human life. Adam’s sin brought a constitutional change of
ungodliness into his soul
That which before had been pure, holy, good, no guilt, pure happiness, now has been
corrupted.
SIN 266 hamartia
THE SIN.
In the theological sense as used most often in Scripture the word sin describes one's thoughts, words or
deeds which so often miss the ultimate purpose that God would intend them to have (i.e., they "miss"
His will). Stated another way, our thoughts, words and/or deeds fall short of God’s perfect standard of
holiness.
When Adam sinned, the sin principle entered into the human race. So he passed on the
principle of sin. Because God made us a pro-creation race. So what we are is passed to
who we bear.
So every person born of Adam was born sinful. And as time has passed mankind is worse.
Refers to the inherent propensity to sin that entered the human heart, which in turn made Adam a
sinner by nature. Adam then passed the inherent sinful nature he possessed to all his offspring. Yes, it
was only a single act of disobedience, but it opened his heart to the entrance of the sin (nature,
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principle). This same "Adamic" nature is present in every person ever born from the moment of
conception.
The whole of mankind was in the loins of Adam. All of human history is summed up in
Genesis 3
Now the Jews understood this principle. It was called “corporative (all together)
personality.
o Hebrews 7:9-10; Psalms 58:3, I Corinthians 15:22
ENTERED1525 eiserchomai
2B PRINCIPLE NUMBER TWO -- DEATH ENTERED INTO THE WORLD THROUGH SIN.
In the day you eat, you shall surely what? Die! So when the corrupting principle came so did
its penalty CONSEQUENCES. That is why we have Romans 6:23 “Wages of sin” is Death.
Ezekiel 18:14 “soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Genesis 2:17 “you eat, you die.”
INTO 1519 EIS
Conveys the idea of motion into some place or some thing
DEATH: 2288 THANATOS
Death is not natural…. To the constitution of man as created in the image of God.i
God did not create a man who would die! That came as a penal act, a consequence, punishment for
sin.
We were never made for DEATH. That is the reason Hell was never made for us. It was made for the
devil and his angels. Not for us. It was never to be our place.
THIS PRINCPLE OF SIN:
Death does not come because you committed sins, but because you bear in you a sin principle. A
corrupt nature
SO WHAT KIND OF DEATH?
PHYSICAL DEATH. SPIRITUAL DEATH. AND THEN THERE IS ETERNAL DEATH
SPIRITUAL DEATH
That is separation from God.
Ephesians 4:1818Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the
ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Life is lived in the physical realm or, or dominion. Live to the world. Live to the things of man, live to
the things of the devil. BUT DEAD TO GOD.
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3B DEATH SPREAD TO ALL MEN BECAUSE OF SIN
SPREAD 1330 DIERCHOMAI ENTERED 1525
Means literally to go through or to pass throughout. It speaks of complete movement in a particular
direction.
BECAUSE ALL HAVE SINNED
ALL 3956
HAVE SINNED 264 hamartano
All of us have sinned? All? Yes, all. Because we are all in the loins of Adam.
Because all humanity existed in the loins of Adam Hebrews 7:9, 10, and have through procreation
inherited his fallenness and depravity, it can be said that all sinned in him. Therefore, humans are not
sinners because they sin, but sin because they are sinners.
Psalms 51:5; Psalms 58:3; Jeremiah 17:9; Job 14:4
You want to know why Jesus had to be born of a virgin? Why He had to bypass a
human father?
He had to be created in the body of Mary, bypassing the human race. Had Jesus not been born that
way, He would have been born a sinner
HOW CAN I SIN IN ADAM WHEN I WASN’T THERE?
How can I be responsible for something that somebody else did? I wasn’t there!
Let me ask you this question
Have you died in Christ? As a Christian are you willing to accept that wonderful fact? Did you
rise in Christ to walk in the newness of life? How did you do that when you weren’t there?
You didn’t literally die on the Cross. You didn’t literally go into the Grave. You didn’t literally
come out of the Grave
NO DIFFERENT IS IT?
Somehow we were in Adam when he sinned. Somehow we were in Christ when He died.
QUESTION? IS IT JUST? I NEVER ASKED TO BE BORN.
Question: IS IT FAIR THAT MILLIONS OF SINNERS SHOULD BE SAVED BY THE
GRACE OF GOD?
IS IT FAIR THAT SOMEBODY ELSE HADTO PAY THE PENALTY FOR YOUR SIN
THAT YOU COULD NOT PAY?
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Christ Is Far Greater Than Adam ROMANS 5:13-21 45.67
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In Adam there is death and in Christ there is life. We were ruined by the Fall, but we are saved by a free gift. The text tells us that “the Grace of God, and the gift by Grace, which is by one Man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto many.” “Where sin abounded, Grace did much more abound .” “Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
The main point of the text is that what Christ has done for all who are in him is far greater than what Adam did
for all who were in him.
In Romans 5:12-21, Paul views salvation from the curse of Adam to God’s cure in Christ. Adam’s one act of
disobedience brought both sin and death upon mankind. Christ’s one act of obedience, on the cross of Calvary,
brought about the solution to this curse. The work of Christ offers all men not only the promise of the
forgiveness of their sins, but a new identity and a new beginning, in Christ
Romans 5:13
Sin was still sin during the period from Adam to Moses and people died during that period of time.
Even when there was no LAW man was still accountable for sin. Therefore from Adam to Moses sin
continued to affect all mankind, which was death.
Romans 5:14
1A THE OUTCOME OF EACH MAN’S ACT WAS DIFFERENT: Romans 5:15
Paul continues his analogy of Adam and Christ, showing how the life that was made
possible for all mankind by Christ’s atoning sacrifice is illustrated diametrically
opposed, antithetically by the death that was made unavoidable for all men by
Adam’s sin. (MacArthur)
2A THE RANGE OF EACH MAN’S ACT: Romans 5:16
Adam’s one sin damned everyone, Christ in salvation can forgive all sin. So much greater is
Christ’s one act over Adam’s one act. Christ does more than just remove the curse, but he
forgives all sin
3A THE PROVISION OF EACH MAN’S ACT: Romans 5:17
Adam brought about the reign of death and Christ brought about the reign of life.
Christ gave the abundance of grace which was much more abundant. His act on the Cross was beyond
the ordinary course of what might be expected. His gift of righteousness was He not only forgave but
He put His righteousness to our account. And Christ gave life with Him. Jesus said I come that you
might have life, a truly meaningful life.
2 Timothy 1:1; John 10:10; Romans 8:39; Matthew 23:34; I Corinthians 4:8
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4A THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE OF EACH MAN’S ACT: Romans 5:18-19
Adam’s one act caused condemnation for all men. Christ’s one act of righteousness was
justification for all men that would believe.
Whereas, by Adam’s one act of disobedience all were made sinners and guilty of the act of sin;
through obedience to Christ, many will be made righteousness i.e. come to salvation in Christ.
Hebrews 5:8; 10:5-9 and Philippians 2:5-10
Because of Adam’s disobedience, the many were appointed by God to be sinners. They were put
down in the category of and constituted to be sinners. Because of Christ’s obedience, the many will
be appointed to be righteous. Amazing grace that saved wretches such as we!
5A THE ENERGIZING FORCE: WHAT IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THESE TWO
MEN: Romans 5:20-21
What energizes sin? The Law: What energizes righteousness? Grace
The Mosaic Law is not defective. The Law made men more aware of their own sinfulness and their
inability to keep God’s perfect standard. The Law helps drive the sinner to Christ. Therefore the Law
was good and holy and righteous because it makes obvious to man his need for a Savior.
Okay, if the Law creates in us, shows us our sinfulness, then GRACE that will dwell in the believer
will much more create in us a desire to live more and more to the glory of God inwardly. Christ’s life
is more powerful than Adam’s life. Living the Christ’s life is greater, much more that the old Adam
life.
The Law is a storm that wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but at the same time washes you up
upon the Rock of Ages. Spurgeon
BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND
Where sin reached a high-water mark, grace completely flooded the world.
A MOST OFTEN ASKED QUESTION OVER THE YEARS IS THIS:
Why did God allow sin to enter into the world?
The answer might be, God has received far more glory and man has received far more blessings
through Christ’s sacrifice than if sin had never come into the world. We are far better off in Christ
than we ever could have been in an unfallen Adam.
If Adam had never sinned, he would have enjoyed continued life on earth in the Garden of Eden. But
he had no prospect of becoming a redeemed child of God, an heir of God or a joint-heir with Christ.
He had no promise of a home in heaven or of being with Christ and like Him forever. And all these
could have only come through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ our Lord.
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