Chapter 5

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5:1 • Because we have been made justly innocent out from faith, that is, declared never to have sinned, we have peace towards God through [m] our Lord, Jesus Christ • 2 through whom also we have been brought through faith into this grace in which we stand, the full presence of God with us; and we boast upon expecting the glory of God. • 3 Not only that, but we now even exult boastfully inside the pressures of travail within and without, being fully aware that such pressures bring forth steadfastness, 4 and steadfastness, the proof of approval, and approval, hope. • 5 This hope does not leave us ashamed or confused, because the love of God has already been poured out and shed abroad inside of our hearts through the Devoted Spirit, the One already given freely to us.

6 Indeed, when we were without strength, still, in the opportune moment, Christ died for the sake of the disrespectful, those not giving thanks. 7 Rarely will the just die for the sake of anyone; though on behalf of a good person, perhaps, someone might dare to die. • 8 God, however, establishes Himself with us, as love into us, that when we were still sinners, disconnected from God in rebellion, Christ died for us, for our sakes. • 9 Much more, then, having now been declared justly innocent, as never having sinned, inside of His blood, we are certain to be saved through Him, now far away from any anger [n]. • 10 For if we were hostile, opposing God, when we were reconciled and brought into agreement with God through the death of His Son, much more, now being fully agreed with God, we will be saved and made whole inside of His life. 11 Not only that, but we are also exulting boastfully inside of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation and are completely restored into God inside of favor.

• 12 Consider that, just as through one man, sin and falling short of God entered into the world-cosmos [o], and through falling short, death; after which death spread into all men, for all have disconnected themselves from God. 13 Indeed, disconnecting from God was inside the world-cosmos before the law; but falling short of the target is not put to account where there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death ruled from Adam until Moses, even upon those who did not fall short in the precise way that Adam acted contrary to God. This Adam was a pattern of the One about to act, 15 yet the action of grace is not like the actions contrary to God. Indeed, if many died by the one who acted contrary, how much more the grace that is God and the gift inside of grace, which is the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounds and overflows into the many. 16 The gift of Jesus is not the same as the one disconnected from God, for truly the judgment of that one was into condemnation, but grace is into being declared justly innocent, in spite of many such actions of opposition, 17 Indeed, if by one man’s contrary actions, death ruled through that one, how much more those receiving the abundance and full measure of grace and the gift of being declared justly innocent will rule inside of life through the one, Jesus Christ.

• 18 So then, just as one act contrary to God brought all men into condemnation, so also one act of just approval brings all men into the just innocence that comes out from life. 19 For as indeed through the one man who did not listen, who did not connect with the speaking of God, the many were set forth as sinners disconnected from God, so also through the submission of the One, as He embraced what was spoken, the many will be set forth as justly innocent.

• 20 The law entered so that acting contrary to God might abound, to be shown for what it is, yet far more than that, even where sin and falling short of God abounded, grace hyper-abounded, 21 such that, as disconnection once ruled inside of death, so now grace, God with us, might rule through just approval into age-unfolding life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Ruling Verse 6: Peace is our only relationship with God. That means that Jesus, in union with us, causes our desires and God’s desires to be fully compatible (see Philippians 2:13). • Ruling Verse 6: Carried into God through Jesus, we now live inside of and stand upon Grace, the full giving of God to us, and devotion, the giving of ourselves to Him in return. • Ruling Verse 7: We boast (Speak Christ) that God’s Glory belongs to us (Ruling Verse 1). We speak our confidence with all joy that through all the pressures of our travail, the Lord Jesus proves Himself faithful and True inside our lives. • Ruling Verse 8: The Love that is God Himself has already been poured out and shed abroad inside our hearts, for the Spirit is the Gift and giving of God, and is now our own spirit. • Ruling Verse 9: This travail, this Love, then, is not just for us, but it is now God through us into our world, His knowledge flowing as Love from us to many. • Covenant: The Covenant is the Promise of Spirit. God has given His Spirit to us utterly and completely, as Love poured out. Out from that Promise, we give thanks inside of all, and out from God’s Spirit now ours, we expect God to arise in all. • Definition: God is a God of Life, NOT a God who “judges all by right and wrong.” God ESTABLISHES Himself as Love into us, paying zero attention to our hostility. God alone is, and has always been, our Salvation inside of Love. • Ruling Verse 6: Inside of His Blood, Jesus carries us into the knowledge of God, our Salvation, in whom alone we dwell. We never again falsely accuse God of hostility towards us. • Life: Through His death (Ruling Verse 5), Jesus enters into union with us, joining us with God, yes, but Salvation is much more than just innocence. Salvation is LIFE. Salvation is a Life shared with the Father inside of Jesus, Life unfolding. • Definition: Sin did not begin with the serpent, nor with Eve, both were unfallen until Adam’s teeth pierced the fruit of refusing to be like Jesus in the Tree of Life, hating the way God made him, and seizing power over others through law. • Definition: There are two definitions of “grace,” one of the serpent’s tree of right and wrong, the other of the Tree of Life. False grace says, “Because I punished Jesus, I will judge you ‘right,’ even though it’s not really true.” – Unmerited favor. The Grace that is God says, “Inside of Jesus, I give you all of Myself, that you might live together with Me.”	m. The Greek word dia, typically translated “through,” is literal when referencing the Lord Jesus as are all the little prepositions. n. When Paul uses the word “wrath” or “angry opposition,” we should not assume that this is God against humans, Rather, this “wrath” and “opposition” is also the war of humans againt God, for, as Jesus said, “They hated Me without a cause.” o. Sin and death came into creation ONLY through Adam, not through Eve or the Serpent. The grandiose story of a prior angelic rebellion is without a single Biblical foundation; it comes out from paganism in an attempt to exalt evil.

Gospel Comments

Notes

• Ruling Verse 6: Peace is our only relationship with God. That means that Jesus, in union with us, causes our desires and God’s desires to be fully compatible (see Philippians 2:13).

• Ruling Verse 6: Carried into God through Jesus, we now live inside of and stand upon Grace, the full giving of God to us, and devotion, the giving of ourselves to Him in return.

• Ruling Verse 7: We boast (Speak Christ) that God’s Glory belongs to us (Ruling Verse 1). We speak our confidence with all joy that through all the pressures of our travail, the Lord Jesus proves Himself faithful and True inside our lives.

• Ruling Verse 8: The Love that is God Himself has already been poured out and shed abroad inside our hearts, for the Spirit is the Gift and giving of God, and is now our own spirit.

• Ruling Verse 9: This travail, this Love, then, is not just for us, but it is now God through us into our world, His knowledge flowing as Love from us to many.

• Covenant: The Covenant is the Promise of Spirit. God has given His Spirit to us utterly and completely, as Love poured out. Out from that Promise, we give thanks inside of all, and out from God’s Spirit now ours, we expect God to arise in all.

• Definition: God is a God of Life, NOT a God who “judges all by right and wrong.” God ESTABLISHES Himself as Love into us, paying zero attention to our hostility. God alone is, and has always been, our Salvation inside of Love.

• Ruling Verse 6: Inside of His Blood, Jesus carries us into the knowledge of God, our Salvation, in whom alone we dwell. We never again falsely accuse God of hostility towards us.

• Life: Through His death (Ruling Verse 5), Jesus enters into union with us, joining us with God, yes, but Salvation is much more than just innocence. Salvation is LIFE. Salvation is a Life shared with the Father inside of Jesus, Life unfolding.

• Definition: Sin did not begin with the serpent, nor with Eve, both were unfallen until Adam’s teeth pierced the fruit of refusing to be like Jesus in the Tree of Life, hating the way God made him, and seizing power over others through law.

• Definition: There are two definitions of “grace,” one of the serpent’s tree of right and wrong, the other of the Tree of Life. False grace says, “Because I punished Jesus, I will judge you ‘right,’ even though it’s not really true.” – Unmerited favor. The Grace that is God says, “Inside of Jesus, I give you all of Myself, that you might live together with Me.”

m. The Greek word dia, typically translated “through,” is literal when referencing the Lord Jesus as are all the little prepositions.

n. When Paul uses the word “wrath” or “angry opposition,” we should not assume that this is God against humans, Rather, this “wrath” and “opposition” is also the war of humans againt God, for, as Jesus said, “They hated Me without a cause.”

o. Sin and death came into creation ONLY through Adam, not through Eve or the Serpent. The grandiose story of a prior angelic rebellion is without a single Biblical foundation; it comes out from paganism in an attempt to exalt evil.