Romans 5 Questions

Introduction: (WW) Romans 5 is Paul's explanation of the last two words in Romans 4 "our justification." He explained two basic truths:

1. the blessings of our justification (Rom. 5:1-11), and

2. the basis for our justification (Rom. 5:12-21).

The Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:1-11)

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Observation:

What are all the blessings or benefits of being justified by faith?
(List all blessings in this passage Romans 5:1-11)

1. • Through whom we have peace with God?

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   • Why we can glory in tribulations?

   • Why doesn't hope disappoint us?

   • Why Jesus didn't come (show up) earlier?

   • To whom Christ died?

   • What God demonstrated us through His death?

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Interpretation:

What are all the blessings or benefits of being justified by faith?

1. • Through whom we have peace with God?

   • How is Jesus making us to peace with God?

   • Why is Jesus making us to peace with God?

   • Is "peace with God" and "peace of God" in Phil 4:6 are same?

2. 2a through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand,

   • What does "access by faith into this grace" mean?

   • How does the holy God allow us to access Him by faith?

   • Did you justify by faith alone or grace alone?

     • Which one is correct?

   • Is this access to God's throne of grace by faith is temporary?

   • What are all the advantages of standing in the grace of God?

   • What is our part?

   • How to make peace with God and continue to experience the peace of God in Christian life?

     • Where is this peace come from?

     • How to make peace with God?

     • How to continue to experience the peace of God in Christian life?

       • How do you obtain this peace of God?

       • What does this peace of God do to you?

       • Does this mean we need to make peace with everyone and in everything?

       • What are all other ways you can experience the peace of God?

   • Application: What is our part?

     • Are you standing in the grace of God?

     • Are we walking and approaching God in faith?

     • Are you experience this peace of God in your Christian life?

       • Please share how you are experience the peace of God.

3. 2b and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

   • What is glory?

   • What is the glory of God?

   • Where does this glory originate from?

   • Did God share His glory in Heaven?

     • Explain your answers with appropriate scriptures

   • Did God share His glory at present here on the earth?

     • Explain your answers with appropriate scriptures

   • How does God share His glory? or How do you experience God's glory at present?

   • Application: Do you experiencing His glory now?

4. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

   • What is tribulation?

   • Is tribulation, persecution, suffering, trial and temptation all the same?

     • What is persecution?

     • What is suffering?

     • What is trial?

     • What is temptation?

   • What are all the ways believers in Christ may come across tribulation?

     • Does tribulation comes because of physical attack?

     • Does tribulation comes because of mental attack, affliction, or distress?

   • Who causes the tribulation?

     • Does tribulation come through non-believers?

     • Does tribulation come through fellow believers, brothers or sisters?

     • Does tribulation come through God?

       • Does God allow tribulation in believer's lives?

       • Is God's wrath anyway related to tribulation?

       • Does God punish non-believers with His wrath?

         • When will God punish non-believers with His wrath?

       • Does God punish believers with His wrath?

     • Does tribulation comes due to consequence of our sin?

   • Is tribulation essential or must for the Christian life?

   • Why is tribulation essential? or What does tribulation produce?

   • Do you rejoice naturally when you go through tribulation?

   • What is your spontaneous response when you go through tribulation?

   • Application: Have you gone through tribulation?

     • Share your experience.

   • Do we need to look for tribulation?

   • Does tribulation separate us from the love of Christ?

   • Is it possible to overcome tribulation?

   • Why believers are still martyred due to tribulation or persecution if they can overcome tribulation?

   • What does overcoming tribulation means?

     • Does overcoming tribulation always means worldly success or victory in this world?

   • How can we overcome tribulation? or How can we glory or rejoice in tribulation?

   • Why can we glory or rejoice in tribulations?

5. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

   • Why doesn't hope disappoint us?

   • What is love of God?

   • Through whom do we experience the love of God?

   • When do we first experience the love of God through the Holy Spirit?

   • Is this love of God experience a onetime experience?

   • Is it possible to keep away from the love of God? or Can we keep away from the love of God?

   • How does the Love of God never disappoint us?

     • What does the Love of God do to us?

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   • How to love God?

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     • Is loving neighbor or enemy is a smooth and easy process?

     • Why then God asked us to love Him first instead of just command us to love others? or Do we need God's love to love others?

       • How non-believers love others?

       • Why non-believers love others?

       • How believers  love others but not love God? or How believers please others but not please God?

       • How then believers needs to love others?

         • What do believers in Christ have which non-believer don't have?

         • What are some major evidence of Holy Spirit that works within the believers heart but not find evidence in non-believers?

         • Application: Do you have these evidence of the Holy Spirit that works within you?

   • Do we need to love all people?

     • Do we need to make peace with everyone and in everything?

       • Did Jesus make peace with all people always? or How Jesus handled these while he lived here on the earth?

       • Did apostles make peace with all people always?

       • Why didn't Jesus and apostles approach in a polite and peaceful way?

       • Application: Are you ready to do whatever Jesus leads?

       • Is it possible to make peace with everyone without compromising God's word?

   • How to stay or keep ourselves in the love of God?

   • Application: Are you experiencing the Love of God continuously?

   • 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

   • What it means when we were still without strength?

     • What is the state of humanity before or without Salvation?

   • With whom Salvation is possible?

     • With men what is impossible?

     • With whom salvation is possible?

   • Why Jesus didn't come (show up) to the earth earlier?

     • What happen to those people who died before Jesus Christ death and resurrection?

       • For more detail read How God demonstrate His righteousness in the past? in Romans 3:26 notes

         • What is forbearance?

         • What is passed over means?

         • Whose sins are passed over?

         • Why Jesus went to the deep after His death and before His resurrection?

   • To whom Christ died?

     • Who are these people? or Who are the ungodly and wicked people Jesus died for?

   • Application: Do you realize your hopelessness without Jesus?

   • Why Paul is introducing someone dying for righteous and good man?

     • Is there a difference between a righteous man and a good man in Paul’s mind?

   • What did God demonstrate through  the death of His Son?

   • Why did God demonstrate His love in this way?

   • How does the death of the Son demonstrate the love of the Father? or Does the death of the Son demonstrate the love or cruelty of the Father?

   • Why does Paul introduce the death of Jesus Christ while he listing the blessings of our justification?

6. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
   From what we shall be saved once we have been justified by Jesus Blood?

   • Whose wrath is this?

   • Does God's wrath has already come?

   • Why God is pouring out His wrath?

   • When does God's wrath come?

7. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
   11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

   • In what state Jesus reconciled us to God?

   • How does Jesus reconcile us to God?

   • How does Jesus save those who reconciled with God?

   • What then we need to do?

   • Why we need to rejoice?

   • Application:

     • What ministry God has requested all the believers to do?

     • What is your response?

Summary/Application:

What did you gain from this section Romans 5:1-11?

The basis for our justification (Rom. 5:12-21)

12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- 13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. 16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. 17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Map the Passage:

• 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- 13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

• 15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

• 16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.

• 17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

• 18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

• 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

• 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Observation:

1. How sin entered the world?

2. What does this sin do?

3. Does sin exist before the law was given?

4. Does their sin imputed to them when there is no law?

5. Does death reigned when there is no law?

6. Adam was type of whom?

7.  Is free gift is same as offense or sin?

8. What does the free gift do to us?

9. Does the grace and the gift available to all?

10. What does the law of Moses do?

Interpretation:

1. How sin entered the world?

   • Through whom sin entered? or Who is that one man?

   • What is the sin Adam committed?

     • What is the commandment God gave to Adam?

2. What does this sin do?

3. Why did the sin bring death?

4. Is this death only to Adam or to all of us?

   • What it means death reigned all, sin reigned in death or death spread to all men?

   • Does this include children too?

   • Does anyone escaped from death?

5. How one man's sin affected the entire world? or Why is death reigning all?

   • Is God's commandment to Adam is still valid?

     • Do we  have the tree of the knowledge of good and evil exist now?

     • Does that mean that this law is no more valid?

6. What does death mean in the Bible?

   • Is death means just depart from this world?

   • What was the ultimate thing sin brought to all humanity?

   • What is condemnation?

   • What is condemnation in the Bible?

   • Does condemnation resulted based on our sins or Adam's sin? or Are we condemned based on our sins or Adam's sin?

   • Why God created hell? or Did God created hell for us?

7. Does sin exist before the law was given?

   • What law Paul is talking about here?

   • When was the law given to Israelites through Moses?

   • Did people sin who lived during Adam to Moses period? or Did people sin who lived before the law was given to Moses?

8. Does their sin imputed to them when there is no law or the law was not given?

   • What it means sin was not imputed to them when there is no law?

9. Does death reigned when there is no law?

10. How will God judge people who do not have the law (Gentiles or non Israelites and people who lived before law was given)?

11. Application:

    • Does death reigned on those who believe in Him?

    • Does God imputes/records their sins to those who believe in Him?

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13. What does the law of Moses do?

14. Adam was type of whom?

15. Is free gift is same as death or condemnation?

16. What does the free gift do to us?

17. What is this free gift?

18. What is eternal life?

19. How the free gift came from many offenses?

20. Does the free gift available to all?

21. Do all men or humanity receives this free gift?

    • Why didn't we inherit this gift from our birth like how we inherit Adam's sin by birth?

22. Application:

    • What would have happened if Jesus would have not come to the earth to save us?

    • Do you want to choose Jesus or stay with Adam sin?

23. In what way Adam is type of Jesus Christ? or What are the similarities and Adam and Jesus?

24. What does disobedience and obedience to God bring to humanity?

    • Application:

      • What does disobedience to God bring to our life?

      • What does obedience to God bring to our life?

25. What Paul is contrasting in Romans 5:18,19?

26. What Paul is contrasting in Romans 5:20,21?

27. Compare Adam and Jesus deeds and outcome in Romans 5:18-21:

28. What increased/abounds when sin increased/abounds?

    • Why Paul didn't contrast sin/disobedience with eternal life/obedience/righteousness? or Why didn't eternal life or obedience increased when sin increased?

29. What is grace abounds means?

30. Is grace is new addition to God's plan?

31. How grace of God reigns our life?

    • Application: Who is reigning your life either sin or grace?