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Romans 4:23 - 5:11 - Corps - April 10,1979

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Publication Date: April 10, 1979

On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.}

And I noticed again that some of the things that were stated are just so beautifully and logically presented, I'm truly thankful for, not only Walter, but the whole Research Department. I think our Biblical Research Department is just second to none. And it' s even going to be better by God' s mercy and grace next year and in years to come than it is at this time. And right now I do not believe that our Biblical Research Department needs to take a back seat for any academic institution or work in the world.

And I thought today, I have never... I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity than to be my assistant. I know Vince Finnegan, you know, on the books is my assistant. And that' s great. But I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity for so many years as always being my assistant. And I think he' s just the most wonderful person that any president could have as his assistant. And also to be chairmen of the Department of Greek, and then the coordinator of the Biblical research of The Way International. For any one man to have that position and that responsibility is an awesome reality and I'm real proud of Walter and real thankful for him. But I am also thankful for the rest of our wonderful men and women in the Research Department.

I would like for the Corps all over the country to go to the Magazine and find "The Spoken_Word," that's the title of it, dealing with Ephesians 4:25 and other scriptures, and before the next Corps meeting next week, you endeavor to master that great piece of work by Walter Cummins. It's just, you know, the spoken Word. Over fifty Greek words are used in the New Testament in connection with the faculties of utterance. Over fifty. And then he takes the most important ones and he lists them and it' s just. .. it' s just a piece of research work that you should really as a Corps master in your heart and in your life.

Ephesians 4:25 in the King James reads, Wherefore put away lyin g, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

The ' putting away' was interesting to me again because of the Greek word aniko, a-n-i-k-o.

And this word is ' the putting away,' this word ' put away,' aniko, is the same root word as in 4:22, where we use the word ' rest,' meaning ' to rest.' Is that right? Yep, that is right. I taught you that,

didn't I? Did I or didn't I? Doesn't look right to me. It is the same root. What chapter am I missing? Am I missing anything? I don't know. Right now I'm screwed up, ha ha. First time today. You check the word again and I'll do that, too and see what I'm missing here.

But a-n-i-k-o is the word for ' putting away from you. ' To put away. And it' s the same root as the word ' rest.' I don't know where the word appears, but it's got to be in there.

Now, that word ' speak,' every man speak. That word ' speak ' is from the Greek word

laleo, l-a-l-e-long-o. And that' s where Walter' s article on "The Spoken Word"_c omes in because that is.. .he uses that word laleo in here, which I teach in Corinthians when I teach the Foundational Class. And he says the word is employed 24 times in I Corinthians chapter 14. I had forgotten that.

This word is truly significant. I couldn' t quite understand it Research Department, what  you said on page 26B 16, where you defined it ' to make vocal utterance,' ' to babble,' 'to talk,'  'to  exercise the faculty of speech without reference to the words spoken.' I just wondered if there might not be another word that could be substituted or utilized at this point. I know that Zachariah 8:16 is the quotation that is used here, or spoken of. And that Zachariah 8:16 adds force to what is said by using a quote, a quotation. That' s why my question to the Research Department is, How can it be without reference to what is spoken if it is truth plus the quotation of the Word of God that's given. It doesn't quite fit for me.

'With his neighbor' has to be a believing neighbor. This 'speak truth with his neighbor' is a figure of speech gnome, g-n-o-m-e, which simply is a citation. And that' s a citation from Zachariah 8:16.

There are a series of figures of speech, Corps, in chapter four which just put the 00mph, the highlight, to the particular things that are set whereby you put off the old man. This phrase here 'speak every man truth with his neighbor'  is one of them. The other one appears in verse 26, 'be  angry and sin not.' ' Steal no more' is another one. 'Corrupt communication' is the fourth one.  'Grieve not the  holy spirit' is the fifth one. ' All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking' is  the sixth. And  then  ' be kind' and so forth, is the seventh.

You see, the last phrase in that verse, in King James, For we' re members one of what? [Another] And it' s relative to the neighbor. Now you just look at that. Wherefore put away  lying, speak  every  man truth with his what? [Neighbor] For we are members  one of  another.  That  doesn't  mean just  a neighbor who lives next door, but it has to be a believing neighbor because  we are members  one of what? [Another]. You could not be a member ' one of another' ifhe  was an  unbeliever.  That's how I know this is going to  work. This tells me that the neighbor  is  a  believer.  And  this  ' we' re members one of another' continues the imagery of the Body of Christ.

The literal  according  to  usage of this verse is as follows:   Wherefore  put away the  lie... and I believe in my heart, before I go on with the literal that until man is born again, it's all a lie anyways. And that' s why I believe that this translation will fit in the light of that knowledge. Because when  a man is not born again, his whole  life is just a  lie. Now you're  born again,  and that ' s  why  I think the text states it ' wherefore put away the lie,' the life you' ve been living , the screwed up life you have lived outside of God. It' s been just a life of a lie. It' s not truth. It' s just the opposite of truth and that's my reason for translating it this way... Wherefore put away the lie.

You've got to go with that translation. You have no other text to go by both from Aramaic and Greek it's 'lie.' Not 'lying.' If the Research Department has anything to share in the light of that, I'd be blessed to hear, but you' ve heard my reasons for translating it, Research Department, this way.

Now since they're born again, their whole life is changed, so the life of lying, and living a lie, and being a lie, and being false, is to be put away.

And every man... this is the translation ... and everyone, everyone. The word ' man' you could use because it's an inclusive noun, but I prefer to use the word ' one.'

Wherefore put away the lie and everyone speak the truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another. That is literal according to usage.

Now for the expanded according to understanding. It's not bad. Because of this... What we coughing for? Everybody sick?...Because of this... and the reason I went in the expanded along this line is because verse 24 last week told us that we are created by God in righteousness and in true purity, through holiness. Twenty four.

That's why 25, Wherefore ... 'wherefore' can be translated 'because of this.' Because of this what? Being created in righteousness and truly pure. See it's an inside job.

Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure by the grace and the love of

God.. .Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure, you put away, completely lay to rest the lie that you have been and were living and each one of you speak the truth using a quotation from the Word with his believing neighbor for we are members one of another in the Body of the Church.

Robinson {Edward} said, he translated, 'speak every man truth with his neighbor' and he said it's from Zachariah 8:16 which adds force to what is said by using a quote. That's why I translated that. I think that' s great. It adds force to what is said. If you're speaking to someone, it adds force to what you say by using a quote, a quotation from God's Word. In other words, ' you share the Word with them.' That' s why I went with that translation. I want to give it to you again in this sense.

Speak the truth using a quotation from the Word, which means 'share the Word.' Quote the Word to them. Tell them what the Word says, with his believing neighbor. Why? For we are members one of another in the Body of the Church. This verse is just mind blowing.

Here, you have a born-again believer neighbor who needs to grow up a little more. So what do you do? Each one speak the truth to that neighbor, that believer, using the Word, quoting the Word because we' re members one of another in the Body of the Church. It's a real positive thing to do.

Verse 26 in King James reads, Be angry.. .ha ha... we like that one, don't we. Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Here is a verse of Scripture that' s very, very difficult for most people. And it' s not too easy for us either. But I think we are able to share the truth of the greatness of this and it's been burning in my heart for a long time to do this with our people.

Everybody has problems with ' how can you be angry and not sin?' You know, how can raise hell with something and not be sinful in doing it? Teed off and not be sinful. And how can you go... and what does it mean 'don't let the sun go down upon your wrath?' See.

In the context, here, verses 26 and 27 deal with your believing neighbor, specifically. Then the Greek word for ' anger' which is from the root orge, o-r-g-long-e means 'anger together with the desire of revenge .' That' s bad. That' s a heavy. The Hebrew word means ' to kill, and all the tumults of passion that terminate in killing.' So it's a real heavy word when it said ' be angry.'

And the way I believe it's used in God' s Word, ' be ye angry' means ' it's a long time anger with your believing neighbor until a change has ensued.' The desire to... of revenge is a change. And I, knowing the Word in the light of the new birth, it's where a change finally comes about. Until that time, you just, long-term, you just stay put witnessing the Word, sharing the Word. You do not dislike the believing neighbor; you simply dislike that he is not fully accepting the Word and walking on it. So it' s a long-term anger until a change has ensued. You just stay faithful.

I don't know what else to do with those words. It is a righteous anger. Yet it is a righteous anger without sin.

Among the scholars, there is a disagreement on these words. Well, I don't know about my being a scholar; that I don' t anything about being about. But it's simple to me because righteous anger is commanded by God's Word when it says ' be ye angry.' Well, the scholars can fight about it. I don' t care. It' s a command. Not just permitted to get teed once in a while when somebody' s off of God' s Word, a believer is off of God's Word. You' re always teed off righteously at any believer, born-again believer, who is off of God' s Word. And for those of us in the Way Ministry, it' s been a lifetime.

Get into it with them on... Oh what subject do you want to talk about? Baptism? Food? One God? See. All that stuff.

The Aramaic is accurate in the words ' and sin not.' It literally translates ' and you will not sin.' Again, this ' be angry and sin not' is that figure gnome. Quotation. A citation from the Old Testament. It' s from Psalm 4:4. But in King James, Psalm 4:4, it's translated 'stand in awe.' The real sense of the Hebrew is ' one of admonition;' sin not. Where we' re admonished to not sin. Sin not.

' Let not the sun go down on your wrath. ' Ha ha. That again is beautiful. People went to bed when the sun went down, when it got dark. That's when they went to bed. So what that simply is saying, ha ha, ' don't go to bed teed off.' Don' t let the sun go down on your wrath. In other words, go to bed; don' t go to bed mad. ' When you go to bed' is what it means. Let not the sun go down when you go to bed. And they went to bed when the sun went down. When it got dark, they went to bed, see.

' Upon your wrath.' And the word ' wrath' here is basically ' irritation.' Ha ha. Previously when I taught Ephesians, I made mention of this fact, ' don' t let righteous anger shake you, wondering if it was right on. When you go to bed, go to sleep.'

Now, this is what we have done with it in the literal, ha ha, according to usage. I got more papers up here than Carter has liver pills, or something. Then, I can' t find my... whatever it is I take off of it.

Okay, verse 26. You be righteously angry.. .this is literal according to usage.. .and you will not be sinning. Don't go to bed even with a momentary irritation, ha ha.

I don't think you get nearly as much fun out of this as I do. It's neat. It's absolutely scrumptious, see. At the opening, is that heavy word, remember? Anger. So it's a real heavy time. So what he is saying, in the heavy time, when your standing on God' s Word  and sharing that with the  believing  neighbor, you' re righteously angry... you're not sinning. And  you don't  even go to  bed with a momentary irritation. In other Words, when you go to bed, thank God the day is over. Say your last prayer and start snoring.

Boy, that would save a lot of sleeping pills, wouldn' t it? Practicing that principle. Boy, oh boy, what a tremendous Word. And hardly anybody understands verse 26. They argue about it, but they don' t get the understanding.

Now this is the expanded one according to understanding, I hope. And again, I would like to just lay some things before the Corps, and especially before the Research Department. I translated the first part of verse 26, You always stay angry with an all-out desire to have them to change which anger will not be sin on your part.

Then I have another translation of that first part of it: You be righteously angry, 'teed off' with sin... 'Teed off' I put in quotes. But don't  you sin  by acting  ' holier than thou'  vaunting  yourself  by acting so righteously like you never sin.

I do not know which one of those two the Research Department feels would be the better. The last part of the phrase that I translated which would go with both of these that I have given you here on the expanded one for understanding. This, the last part, goes with that first one and with the second ... also.. .even if it is only a momentary irritation.  When you go to  bed, go to sleep. That's what I did with it.

Now, verse 27. King James says, Neither (or neither) give place to the Devil. The word 'place' is simply a portion, a part. No believer will give full place to the Devil, but he may be giving a part, a portion. He' ll mark off a spot, ' this is Devil' s permission over here, over here, no permission, you know. And you really give the Devil a portion or a spot if you stew about it after you go to bed and you toss and you tum and can' t sleep.

This word 'the Devil,' ' the Devil' in the Aramaic is a very interesting and exciting Word to me and it blesses my heart. It' s a compound word where the first part means ' to eat' or ' to devour.' The latter

' to slander' or ' to accuse. '  So when I got to translating  this, literally according  to usage, verse 27 reads: Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil. So I used those three words synonymously: portion, space, opportunity. Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil.

The expanded according to understanding: And you will not give a toehold, an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. Ha ha. I get more fun than you ever will out of working this stuff, huh.

You see, and to me, that communicates to my understanding. John 10:10. The thief cometh not but for to what? [Steal, kill, and destroy] Right. To eat you out. To beat you. And that's why that Aramaic word, on the word ' Devil' really thrilled me.

And that ' s why I put it into the expanded translation: And you will not give a ' toehold.' Now, at L.E.A.D., you know how important it is to get a what? [Toehold] Ha ha. And when you' re really climbing in, you' re blessed for a toehold. How thankful you are when you get a foothold. Now the adversary can never get a foothold in a believer' s life until he first has a toehold. That's why I translated it that way.

Do not give... and you will not give a toehold ... shave all the rocks off... an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. And that' s exactly what he likes to do to believers.

Now we go to verse 28. King James says, Let him that stole steal not more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. And here again, is another great work that I believe should be in our research journal GMIR, Walter' s work on " Workers for God."

It' s just tremendous where he... you know... he just goes into God' s men are called many things in the Word. They' re called: fellow workers, ministers, or servants, slaves, fellow slaves, partners, messengers, soldiers, fellow soldiers, athletes, fellow athletes, stewards, ambassadors, witnesses, all of those. And he covers them so beautifully. And I love very much how he covered the word ' slave,' because it' s a much stronger word than to be a minister, or to be a servant. It is to be one who is branded, marked out, sold out. And baby, from that day on, there are no ifs, and' s, or but' s. You never budge on it. You are branded. Most believers are never branded. They may be servants, they may be ministers, but they are not branded. When you' re branded, you stay faithful. You do not budge. You do not change. You stay put. If all hell breaks loose, you still live the believing Word.

I think the prophet once said, If I was in the midst of hell, God I know you' d be there. (Psalm 139:8) He' d be there. That' s the doulos. That, of course, is just a tremendous piece of work.

And the other great part that I think... and this is a second piece that I want the Corps to master before next Wednesday night, " Workers for God," the work on ' witness.' You see, it's the same word basically that's translated ' martyr,' see. And we got a lot of those canonized. That's not at all what a witness is. A witness is a living example, not a dead one. The word 'martyr' simply means that you lay down your life in witnessing. And boy, when you put the doulos together with ' witness,' then you' ve got power for abundant living. It's just a fantastic work by Walter and I' m real grateful that it was published. Because once it' s in print, people can take a look at it if they want to.

I'd like a cup of coffee, please.

Now, we are in verse 28. The Aramaic translation is ' and he who was stealing.' I understand it from the English, ' let him that stole,' past tense. The Aramaic is real simple, real strong. ' And he, the one who is born again, who was, past tense, stealing.'

Thank you.

His whole life was one of those before he was born again.

Whenever you bring a cup of coffee to a right-hand man, you put the handle to the right. When you serve a cup of coffee to a left-hand man, you put it on the left-hand side and put the handle to the left. Corps principle number seven or something, ha ha. Mrs. Wierwille would say, Well, be thankful you even get a cup of coffee. [Laughter] Ah, you're wonderful.

See, ' let him who stole, steal no more.' 'Stole and steal,' that' s a figure of speech and is polyptoton p-o-l-y-p-t-o-t-o-n. It' s a repetition of the same root word in different parts of speech or reflections. But, that's not earth shaking right now in my heart.

You see, in some Eastern culture, it was not considered a sin or a shame to steal because that's the way they lived, the only way they lived. Somebody told me... or not only told me, one of our people, but it was in a national magazine, that the basic culture of Russia today is to steal. And in some respects I can understand this. If you don't have anything and you're starving to death and there' s a loaf of bread you can get a hold of... steal the dam thing. I understand that.

So this verse is really sharp, really sharp. Let him who stole, even though that man previously considered it the way to live and there was no shame in it, no sin in it. He said, Well, let that fellow who stole, steal no more. Something has happened on the inside of that man. Something that happened, where He is able to meet all of our need according to His riches in glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. More than conquerors.

A record in the Old Testament, I forget where it is, but it's in there, that it' s never, you never need to borrow or steal bread or... what is that in the Old Testament? Begging bread. One person stand and tell me. {Psalm 37:25, I have been young and now am old; yet have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed begging bread.} Psalm 27:25 who? {Psalm 37:25} 37:25. All the years, he's never seen the righteous to have to do what? {Beg bread} Beg bread.

First of all, I wish the Christian world could hear this. Secondly, I wish our government in the United States could understand it. The Word says, If you don't work, you don' t eat. A lot of that stuff. Well, what we've been doing is stealing from the people who are willing to work to give to the people who don' t want to work. That's a bunch of crap. That's stealing. That's why this verse is so hot in my soul tonight. Let him who stole, quit stealing, dang it. See.

Many years ago I was really knocked for a loop along some of this line in India, from Dr. Williams. I think he loved India maybe like I love the United States, I don' t know. Because only a man knows how much he loves his own country, I guess.

But... as we were traveling together, he said to me, Dr. Wierwille, I hear you have whores in the United States.

You know, I never had given it a thought. I just took it for granted. [Laughter] And I said, yeah. He said, Why does a rich country like the United States have whores?

And I said, I don't know.

And he said, I can't understand it. Cannot your women make enough money to live? Yeah, but they figure that' s cheaper and more pleasurable or something, I don' t know. And he said, Well, I think it's sinful that the United States has whores.

And I said, What do you mean?

And he said to me, why, I can understand India. He said we don' t enough food, we don' t have enough of anything hardly for a lot of people. And we have whores because that' s the only way they can continue to live physically.

And I thought to myself, well boy, that' s slapping me in the face good. And I took it as a wonderful lesson. There is no excuse in the United States for any women being a whore because she doesn' t need to get screwed and paid for it in order to get money so she can live. There's plenty of work available and if there isn' t she ought to get born again, then there' s a guarantee of work. ..other work, available. I tell you, when you' re honest, some of these men in other countries have some real logic behind their thinking. How would you have liked to have handled that? I just simply admitted, Well, I think we' re wrong in the United States. But I said, I think you' re wrong in India, too, because no reason to have whores here if you get them born again.

So I don' t know. But this verse today as I worked the final working on this verse 28 is when my heart really went back and burned with that truth that Dr. Williams had stated. Because in many Eastern cultures, it was not considered as sin or as shame to steal, if it was a matter of livelihood. You sometimes wonder who will live in the greatest condemnation before God and justice and judgment when the time comes.

For in most of what are called poor countries even, there is sufficient money, food, and other things for the people to live if those in positions of authority were not so selfish and egotistical, and want it for themselves , and let the rest of the world die... or a country die.

The word ' labor' in verse 28 is the word which literally means ' hard work resulting in fatigue.' That's how I felt coming from the woods last night. And I didn' t do anything. It was just hard work being there with the rest of you. Today I got so tired of being with some, I came home. Ah, you' re wonderful.

' Working with his hands' is an Eastern cultural type of thing. Today in our culture, you could have it, you know, the truth is working with your mind or working with your hand, whatever you' re working at. But in Eastern culture, every son was to be trained to work with his hands, even if he was the son of a king. Had to learn a trade, a profession of business.

Jesus Christ was a saddle maker. He made them to ride, I guess, what do you want? Tennessee Walkers , or? See. I think not only did he do that, Paul did it, too, you know. Someday I'm going to find a...or Walter, or some of those, are going to find me a manuscript to prove it. .. and a wonderful carpenter by trade. Many times doing carpentry work and being a saddle maker were sort of in the same household, because building carpentry and having saddles to use for their business and carrying on, were very, very closely aligned. Well, I won' t argue the point, but I wish we' d keep looking.

II Thessalonians.. .Do your hands ever get so dry you can hardly hold anything? Golly, mine are so dry tonight, I wonder why? II Thessalonians, chapter 3:10... this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he what? [Eat] Right. Even unemployment is no excuse for stealing. He just doesn' t eat. Goes and gets work. Boy, when I first saw the greatness of these principles many years ago, and then of course, I uniquely by God' s grace, inculcated that into our W.O.W. program and very dynamically in the Corps leadership.

ROMANS 4:23 - 5:11
April 10, 1979
I think it’s sort of wonderful, unique, perhaps Providential, that this session of the Corps
tonight from God’s Word closes the great doctrinal section of the truth regarding the
church of the body, justification by believing through our Lord Jesus Christ. And it opens
the floodgates of life upon the results to both Jews and Gentiles who are born again.
Romans 4:23
“for” – dia; on account of: It was not written just on account of him, not just for Abraham
alone.
“imputed” – reckoned
Romans 4:24
“but” – in contrast
“for” – dia, on account of; On account of us also. If Abraham needed it, we need it.
“it shall be imputed” – One of the translators has it, “is about to be imputed.” There’s a
wonderful literal translation here that I’d like to give you that I believe gives the integrity
and greatness of what is said here.
“For whom it is appointed to be reckoned” = to whom it shall be imputed. “Appointed”
would fit with predestination and some of those words. But for us also for whom it is
appointed to be reckoned. You just think for a moment. Did he know before the
foundations of the world that you would believe? For whom you it is appointed because of
His foreknowledge to be reckoned if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from
the dead. It is appointed to be reckoned if we believe. The believers upon Him. Him
whom? God who raised. This “raised” is the Greek word egeirō, which means to awake.
The believers upon God who raised. This is the first of ten usages in Romans of this word
“raised.” Other references are Romans 6:4, 9; 7:4; 8:11 (2 times); 8:34; 10:9; 13:11. Those
are the ten usages in Romans of this word “raised.”
The believers upon God who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
“from” – ek
Jesus our Lord. I just taught you recently the usages of Jesus, Christ, Lord. This is real
significant that it uses here “Jesus our Lord.” Jesus the humiliated one, because he is dead.
God raised him, and that one who is raised is our Lord.
Romans 4:25
“again” – not in the text, so scratch it
Here you have parallel clauses; delivered for our offences, raised for our justification.
“delivered” – paradidōmi; beside; didōmi, laid down or surrender; who was delivered
beside, laid down. He surrendered. He gave up his life. He laid it down. No one took his
life. He surrendered it.
“for our offences” – “Because of our sins” would be a good translation, or “because of our
trespasses.” Jesus Christ was delivered because of our trespasses.
“for our justification” – It’s a participle form and could literally be translated “justified.”
Was raised for our justification Jesus Christ, raised by God because all that was necessary
for God to again re-establish original purity like Adam had when he was formed, made and
created, was literally fulfilled in Christ. That’s why God raised him. Having fulfilled all the
law, everything. Delivered for our offences and raised for our justification.
I suppose when you’re in research, a man’s mind gets disturbed about things at times that
most people just swallow and never pay any attention to. I remember very vividly tonight
the time when I worked the Word to find out why he would be dead three days and three
nights, and in the heart of the earth. If you’re dead, you’re just as dead one minute after
you’re dead as three days. Therefore, there has to be a reason, a cause for the three days
and three nights. As you well know, he just literally fulfilled the law where no one could
be declared officially dead unless he had been dead three days and three nights.
He was delivered for our offences, raised for our justification.
Romans 5:1
Now you’re into the results, or fruits of justification There are four major things I want you
to just note in Romans 5:1 and 2.
The result or fruit of justification:
1. Peace with God (Verse 1)
2. Access, standing, by believing (Verse 2). This word “access” should be translated
“standing.” Standing by believing – That is salvation.
3. Stand in the standing (Verse 2) – That’s the walk.
4. Rejoice in hope (Verse 2)
Whenever someone is born again of God’s spirit, Jesus Christ delivered for our offences
and raised for our justification, and when you and I confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. That believer receives new
strength in him. Why? Because Colossians says it’s Christ in you, the hope of glory. At
that moment with his presence, with his entrance, and we have lived so far below par
because nobody has ever magnified this. They just haven’t thought it through. Believers
have a new strength, they have Christ in them. He becomes eyes behind their eyes, ears
behind their ears, nose behind their nose, mouth behind their mouth. It’s Christ in you, the
hope of glory. And that’s new strength. With that new strength, if people understand the
Word and have been taught the Word so they can rightly believe God’s Word, you will see
a tremendous amount of physical deliverance, a new strength coming in. That’s why with
this new strength coming in, you have much more delivered for our offences, God raised
him for our justification, and you have peace with God, you have standing by believing,
you stand in the standing, you rejoice in the hope, because you have much more.
Romans 5:9, 10
It is at this time you can begin to enjoy everlasting life from, by and through, our ever
living Savior.
Romans 5:1
therefore – because of what God did
“faith” – believing
“being” – from the verb, to be; aorist tense, a one-time deal. Christ Jesus entered in,
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Hebrews says, once and for all. No more sacrifice for sin. It’s a one-time deal. Therefore
being justified. If it was anything else but eternal life, it might be a two-time deal, or a
three-time deal. From God’s point of view, what God wrought in Christ, he entered in just
once. And when Christ is in you, the hope of glory, it is a one-time deal. That’s why it’s in
the aorist tense.
You do not have peace first. Being comes first. Being justified. That crates first. Christ in
you, the hope of glory, then you have peace. With this verb to be, being, we have peace. In
Verse 2, it’s to have.
Romans 5:2
We have peace in Verse 1 and in Verse 2 we have access. “Access” is that word standing
that I gave you. In Verse 10 it is to receive or to reconcile.
Romans 5:10
Romans 5:11
Very interesting regarding that verb to be. Verse 1 it’s being; Verse 2, to have; Verse 10, to
receive; Verse 11, to receive.
Romans 5:1
“Therefore being justified by faith, believing, we have peace.” That’s the first thing that
you receive by justification. It’s Christ in you. You have peace. In Colossians 3 it’s called
the bond of perfectness, we have peace. In Ephesians 4 it’s called the bond of peace. That
is what is produced in the believer.
There are a number of old texts, and the revised versions following these texts that, it
would be translated what here in King James is “we have peace,” it would be translated
“let us have peace with God.” I do not believe that is accurate. I do not believe that is the
originally God-breathed Word. I believe that the God-breathed Word more accurately
would be as you have it in the King James. Being justified, we have peace. If we’re
justified we have peace. It is produced. Peace is an inside job, like love is an inside job.
You do not get love by legislation. You can’t make a woman love you by hitting her over
the head and saying to love me. It’s an inside job. When Christ comes in, who is the prince
of peace, if you put this all together, when you’re justified by believing, you have peace.
It’s produced within you. Not only just new strength, but peace.
Isaiah 32:17
The manifestation of this inner peace within you will be the quietness, the serenity, the
peace, the second part of this verse. But the first part, it’s the work of what?
Righteousness. Whose righteousness? God’s righteousness. That’s why I think it’s
accurate the way it is. You have peace with God. The natural man is at loggerheads with
God. Your being justified by believing, you have peace with God.
Romans 5:1
“with” – pros; together with yet distinctly independent of. We have peace with God. No
longer any animosity, no enmity. We have peace, which is produced within us because of
God’s righteousness. Peace with God. That’s why the natural man will never have peace
until he has the prince of peace. He’s got to come home. And to come home is to come
back to God. That’s the only way he’s going to have peace. And the way to come back
home is being justified by believing God and His Word, what He did, doing what the Word
says you must do in order to get Christ in you, the hope of glory. Then you’ve got peace
with God.
Here is the great keynote of all of this, “through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“through” – by means of, by way of
It’s used here in this wrap up which I told you these verses are, in the first verse, and it
wraps it all up in Verse 11.
Romans 5:11
“through our Lord Jesus Christ” – Just puts it in a vice. That’s the keynote. All of this
available through our Lord Jesus Christ, the opening of Verse 1 and the close of Verse 11,
which closes out this whole doctrinal section on justification by believing.
Romans 5:2
“by” – dia, genitive case
“whom” – the Lord Jesus Christ
“we have access” – we have obtained. It is very interesting that peace with God; “with” is
pros. The word “access” is prosagōgē. Agōgē can be translated standing. By whom also we
have standing, pros, together with yet distinctly independent of. We have a standing
together with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, yet distinctly independent of it. Isn’t that
beautiful? Because it’s freedom of will. You made the decision. You’re together with, yet
you’re an individual. You haven’t lost your identity as an individual. That’s this word
access. I believe the most beautiful translation is standing. By whom also we have obtained
a standing by believing.
Remember the difference between standing and state? In your earthly family when you’re
born into that family, your standing in that family is always one of a son or a daughter,
whether you’re good, bad or indifferent. But when you’re bad and indifferent, your state
has fluctuated. Your standing is still the same.
A believer’s standing is not in Adam, but in Christ. A believer’s standing is not in works or
law, but into this grace. That’s why the word “into” is eis. We have a standing by believing
in this grace. What grace? The grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
“wherein” – en: Wherein we stand. Access standing and we do stand. That’s why I told
you standing by believing, stand in the standing is the works. In that standing as sons of
God we stand.
“rejoice” – Many times translated “boast,” but I don’t mind “rejoice.”
Having peace with God, which is an inside job, knowing other things that are inside jobs
from the scriptures, like love, joy, I like this word “rejoice.” But if you understand it better
as “boast,” you may have it.
Rejoice in hope of the glory of God. The boasting or the rejoicing is in the hope. And it
comes immediately after the new birth, peace with God, standing by believing, stand in the
standing. The only way you’ll ever stand in the standing is to rejoice in the hope of the
return. That’s why it says you rejoice in hope. In Verse 3, you glory in tribulations, so you
rejoice in tribulations, and that’s covered in Verses 3-10. And the third boasting or
rejoicing is in God, Verse 11. Three of them will appear in this section that we’re dealing
with tonight.
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“in” – epi; dative case, meaning literally it’s actually resting upon. We rejoice actually
resting upon hope. Here’s hope, this tabletop, and I rest my arms on it. That’s this word
“in.” Actually resting upon hope of the glory of God.
Hope is our solid rock which is secure. Tribulation is but circumstances in the world. The
tests never break us loose from the solid rock. Hope is securely anchored in the grace of
God. All the storms of tribulation cannot break us loose in this world from the sure
mooring of hope.
Romans 5:3
Our ground for rejoicing or our ground for boasting is our standing because of the pure
grace of God.
“glory” – rejoice
“in” – en
“tribulations” – thlipsis, literally means squeeze. Only the one rejoicing upon hope can
rejoice in tribulation.
John 16:33
Matthew 13:21
This is great here in Romans. The only one rejoicing upon hope can rejoice in the world
where you have tribulation.
Romans 8:35, 37
All through Jesus Christ our Lord. There is no other way to handle tribulation graciously
outside of grace. The only thing it does to people otherwise is to harden them, callous
them, make them adamant. But when you know who you are and what you have in Christ.
Jesus, and you understand the hope, then the tribulation doesn’t break you off from the
mooring where you are anchored.
II Corinthians 4:17
Most people are overcome by the tribulations in this world, and you know it’s a crazy
world. You with the power of Christ in you, you are the overcomers of it. You make those
tribulations into stepping stones of success for your life. That’s what makes the brook to
sing, Foundational Class. It’s like the man who said you cannot help from getting kicked,
but you can sure determine the direction you’re going to go. You don’t have to pray about
getting tribulation in the world. It’s there. But what you do with it and the direction it sends
you, you make the decision.
II Corinthians 4:18
See how all this ties together here in Romans. Fantastic.
I Thessalonians 3:3-4
That’s why this section in Romans is so tremendous.
Romans 5:3
Romans 12:12
Patient in tribulation. Remember that.
Romans 5:3
Knowing that tribulation worketh patience. Doesn’t tell you to be patient in tribulation.
Just says it works it. Tribulation worketh patience.
“worketh” – eroazomai, energize; Tribulation energizes patience.
True believing built upon the truth and integrity and accuracy of God’s Word, when that is
tested by tribulation it simply energizes your patience.
Romans 5:4
“experience” – dokimē, a proving, a testing; And patience is a proving of the greatness of
the integrity of the Word and the truth of God’s deliverance out of all. More than
conquerors.
More than abundant life. That’s patient experience. And this a proving, hope. It’s the hope
of the glory of God, the return of Christ, that is at the end over here with salvation at this
end. Tribulations, afflictions, what the world throws at us, can’t hurt us, can’t even slow us
up. It just says it energizes. World throws you a left hand hook, you turn right around and
throw two of them back at it. Energizes, and you get some boldness because of the hope.
All tribulation is very closely associated with patience in the Word. A proving and hope.
I Thessalonians 1:3
James 1:3
That trying is a proving; Dokimion
James 1:2-6
The trying of your believing worketh patience, but let patience have a perfect work,
wanting nothing.
Romans 15:13
Romans 5:5
“maketh” – causes; Causes us not to be ashamed. Hope causes us not to be ashamed. If
tribulation would overcome me, then I would be ashamed. Hope causes us not to become
ashamed. Because the love of God, genitive case, with emphasis on God first and
foremost. For God so loved, John 3:16. This is the first mention of the love of God in the
church epistles. This love of God is shed abroad.
“shed abroad” – ekchunō
Acts 10:45
“poured out” – That’s the shed abroad.
Hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is poured out, shed abroad.
Romans 8:35
Romans 5:5
“hearts” – innermost part of your being, all through you.
Those first five verses of Romans 5 just sit like a great diamond of truth. From here they
take us directly to the conclusion in Romans 8, as far as checking the great doctrinal
section of truth regarding the church of the body.
Romans 8:38-39
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Love of God shed abroad, poured out, in the innermost part of our being.
Romans 5:5
Shed abroad in our hearts by pneuma hagion which is given unto us. Nothing can separate
us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. He who knew no sin became sin
for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. How far below par has the
so-called Christian church lived.
Justification by believing, receiving the fullness of Christ in you, the hope of glory. The
love of God shed abroad in your heart, in the innermost part of your being, by pneuma
hagion which is given unto us, or which was given unto us.
Romans 5:6
Here’s the proof.
“strength” – astheneō; without strength, completely pooped out, completely exhausted, not
one iota of strength left
“in” – kata, accusative case, meaning along with
“due time” – the proper season; In the fullness of time, God sent His only begotten son. In
the fullness of time He sent His holy spirit.
A wonderful translation of this would be “a time divinely appointed.” For when we were
yet without strength, at a time divinely appointed, Christ died for the ungodly.
“for” – huper, genitive, in place of
In Verse 6 it’s ungodly. In Verse 8 it’s sinners. In Verse 10 it’s enemies.
Christ died in the place of the ungodly. He died for the ungodly, that’s us, ungodly,
sinners, enemies.
Romans 5:9
Justified by his blood. He died for us. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission
of sins. He died for us. That’s why this verse says justified by his blood.
Romans 5:10
Reconciled to God by the death of his Son. Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:7
“righteous” – dikaios, literally meaning right in conduct, moral living
For scarcely for a right in conduct, moral living man.
“yet” – for
“some” – one
“dare” – venture
Romans 5:8
“commendeth” – sunistēmi, meaning give proof.
“toward” – eis
“in that” – because
“sinners” – ones who missed the mark
“for” – huper, in behalf of, or on account of us
There’s a descending scale of unbelief. In 5:6 we were without strength and ungodly. In
5:8 it degrades to sinners In 5:10, enemies. That’s the descending scale of unbelief.
Romans 5:9
“much more” – greater certainty
“by” – en
“saved” – sōzō, meaning to be made whole; This is the first of eight usages in the book of
Romans of the word “saved.” Here in 5:9, 5:10, 8:24, 9:27, 10:9 and 15, 11:24 and 26.
We shall be made whole.
“from” – apo
Romans 5:10
“if” – ei; an actual fact; “For since” might be a wonderful translation.
“reconciled” – katallassō; Reconciliation is mercy to us due to the grace or God’s
justifying us. “Reconciled” is made up from the root of allos, translated “other,” or
“another.” But it’s when you have a change of a very radical kind. That is this particular
verse.
When we were enemies, at the lowest stage, we were reconciled. That’s going to take a
dramatic and drastic change. That’s that word.
I Corinthians 15:51-52
“changed” – That’s that same word.
Another word is apokatallassō, and this word is used only for the revelation or the mystery
in Ephesians 2 and Colossians 1.
Another word is katallagē. Another is allassō. It builds from allos to allassō to
apokatallassō to katallassō. Really wonderful, isn’t it.
Romans 5:10
Remember reconciliation is mercy to us due to the grace of God’s justifying us through
Christ Jesus our Lord. That’s why “by the death of his Son, much more.”
“being” – having been reconciled, katallassō; “We shall be saved” comes from sōzō again.
The Greek word is sōthēsometha. That’s the first person plural future indicative passive. It
comes from sōzō, made whole. Not just by his death where he shed his blood, but made
whole by his life, the resurrection.
“by” – en; in his life, in his living. In his living we are made whole.
Romans 5:11
“joy in God” – “Joy” is rejoice. “In” is en. God is in Christ, Christ is in us. We are in Him.
How? Through our Lord Jesus Christ. There’s the wrap up.
“by” – di
We have now received. Not when you die but now received the atonement.
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“atonement” – katallagē
We have now received the reconciliation, atonement. I believe the King James used this
word “atonement” here because they wanted to indicate the offering of Christ himself in
sacrifice on the cross. They use reconciliation at other places, but they translated it this
way because this reconciliation is via the offering of Christ himself in sacrifice on the
cross. Reconciliation operates now as a basis, not a future goal. Having received this
reconciliation now, we have peace with God.
No more sin reckoned against us, for we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Our
present life is in Christ who died and now lives for us making a complete intercession for
all saints according to the will of God.
Romans 5 that we have just now finished is dynamically set forth in Chapter 8 again.
Romans 8:31-39