Shepherds Bible Romans chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through

our Lord Jesus Christ.

# There is no other way to have this peace with God other than through
Jesus Christ and in accepting and understanding the full truth As Christ
stated, learn the truth and it shall make you free. See John 8:32.

2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we

stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

# Note the qualification.., access through faith in Jesus Christ.

Everything God plans for us we attain through this grace which comes
from faith, faith from the heart and from the very soul.

3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that
tribulation worketh patience;

# As Christians, we glory in tribulation, understanding that from

tribulation comes patience and strength of character. Tribulations arise
because we are Christians. Patience in a sense means endurance.

4. And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

5. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

# We are never disappointed in our hope, because God’s love floods our
hearts...a gift from the Holy Ghost or the Comforter. Even when we
have this hope and faith, many of us fail to realize what this gift means.
It means we can lean on this Comforter, share our burdens and our
disappointments with Him; whereby He will lift them from us, as was
promised.

6. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for
the ungodly.

7. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die.

# There would be no need to die for a righteous man.

8. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.

# God proved His great love for us even while we are sinners, by giving
His only begotten Son for our redemption. Are we truly grateful? Are
you?

9. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through Him.

#lf we have this hope and faith, we are saved through Jesus Christ.
Even though we sin in the flesh, if we believe in Him and love Him, He
lifts the burden of sin from us when we repent.

10. For, if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the

death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
His life.
# lf God loved us that much when we were sinners and standing on the
side of Satan, how much more now are we saved by His life. The elect
who stand on the side of God will be saved, and you who study the
word of God and have the deeper understanding are the elect. He even
is in you and you are in Him.

11. And not only so but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

# We have received the atonement, or reconciliation, you might say,

through Jesus Christ.

12. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

# Not forgetting that Lucifer brought sin to Adam, what it’s saying here
is that after Adam, all sinned; then age and disease came into being
and men knew death, because all sinned.

13. For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when
there is no law.

# For sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not counted when
there is no law.

14. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them
that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is
the figure of Him that was to come.

# Moses was the lawgiver yet death reigned from Adam to Moses. All
died because of Adam’s sin. Now the phrase “who is the figure of Him
that was to come” shows us Adam was a Christ-like figure, but of
course without the perfection of Christ. The next verse shows the
tremendous difference between the two.

15. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift For if through the
offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift
by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

# In other words, Adam brought us death; Christ brought us

forgiveness.

16. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many
offences unto justification.

17. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they
which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

# You will note in your King James version that from verse 13 to and
including verse 17 is in parenthesis. He has made a special explanation
there, and now we pick it up in verse 18.

18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life.

# Now the deeper students, who study the plan of God as it was before
the foundations of this world, find in the scriptures that it is God’s plan
that all men should have the right to choose between Lucifer and
Himself. (See App. IV)
19. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by
the obedience of one shall many be mode righteous.

20. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

# Without the law, one cannot break the law, but with the breaking of
God’s law, sin abounds; yet through Christ, there is forgiveness of sin
and you see His precious grace in the gift He offers all men.

21. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

# So we see the gift of eternal life is made to all men; not only to the
lost sheep of Israel, not only to the elect, but to all men who believe in
Him and partake of this gift from the heart. No one fools God, but those
who really love Him, want to follow Him and do His bidding, certainly
they are the inheritors of this gift, which is forgiveness and eternal life.