The Triune God rescues us, gives us life, and calls us into his own family! This passage speaks into our identity as sons and daughters of God, who have been raised with Christ to life.
Paul has established that by faith we have been set from sin by Jesus – but we, like Paul, still struggle with our own brokenness and sin. What does that mean about us and our faith?
By Grace we are set free from our bondage to sin and the weight of the Law – we are liberated to belong to Jesus!
Because Adam fell into sin, we all fell with him. Our guilt and trespass before God is clear, but Christ has come as the new and better Adam who provides us with super-abounding Grace!
Paul looks back to Abraham, showing that it was faith that made him righteous, and that God’s promises to us rest on His grace…
Paul now appeals to our Spiritual Fathers – Abraham and David – to illustrate that we are justified by faith and faith alone.
What Paul writes here has been described as “the most important paragraph ever written” … and off the weight of the first few chapters of Romans we can see why! Hope, Redemption, Atonement, Righteousness! All freely offered to us through Faith!
Our situation is desperate — and in this section Paul lays bare just how lost we are. This is the height our need, the darkness just before the dawn…
Continuing on with Paul’s argument against external “religion,” we see that God’s focus is on the state of our hearts.
