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Romans 5:1-2   Rom 5:1-2  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:1-2   Rom 5:1-2  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:1-2   Rom 5:1-2  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

“Have I believed?”

“Have I believed?” “Have I believed in Christ?” “Have I believed a lie?”

“Have I believed?” “Have I believed in Christ?” “Have I believed a lie?” Complete assurance Continual acceptance Confident anticipation

Complete assurance Rom 5:1  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  

There are at least four Pillars of truth holding up this peace with God We lose our fear of God

Jonathan Edwards once preached a sermon titled, “Man, Naturally God’s Enemies.” In this sermon Edwards declared: “Men, in general, will own that they are sinners. There are few, if any, whose consciences are so blinded as not to be sensible they have been guilty of sin … And yet few of them are sensible that they are God’s enemies. They do not see how they can be truly so called; for they are not sensible that they wish God any hurt, or endeavor to do Him any.”

There are at least four Pillars of truth holding up this peace with God 2. We lose our fear of death

Heb 2:14-15  Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,  15  and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

There are at least four Pillars of truth holding up this peace with God 3. We have an answer to the doubts and fears from Satan

There are at least four Pillars of truth holding up this peace with God 3. We have an answer to the doubts and fears from Satan 2Ti 2:13  If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

There are at least four Pillars of truth holding up this peace with God 4. We have an answer for the accusation of our own conscience

1Jn 3:18-21  Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Continual acceptance Rom 5:1-2  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, …

Continual acceptance Heb 10:19-22  Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 22  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith…

Confident anticipation Rom 5:1-2  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Confident anticipation Joh 14:19  "After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. Joh 14:3  "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

Confident anticipation Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all...As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength. –G.K. Chesterton

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