Notes of Faith March 19, 2026
Pastor’s Pen Pulpit
September 2, 2001
Series: Romans Chapter 5
“PEACE WITH GOD”
Romans 5:1
Today we begin a verse-by-verse study of the fifth chapter of Romans. This is one of the great chapters of the Bible.
In Romans chapters 1-4 Paul makes an unarguable case against the whole of the human race - both Jew and Gentile. He closes chapter four with these words:
He who was delivered up because of our transgressions and was raised because of our justification.
Then he launches right into chapter five:
Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Therefore” reaches back and connects the whole of the preceding chapters with chapter five. “Justifies” means “declared righteous” not “made righteous.” Being made righteous won’t happen until we receive our new bodies. But we are declared righteous before God based upon what Jesus Christ has done. God the Father looks at us as He does His own Son! This produces for us peace with God. Not the peace of God, although that follows later. This is talking about a peace relationship that Jesus Christ established for us when He died and rose again. What a statement of finality He makes here! All of God’s justified ones share an equal standing with Christ before God. This should settle once and for all how God looks at us.
Are you struggling today with guilt? If you are, it may be unjustified guilt. If you have trusted Jesus as Lord and Savior, there is no guilt upon you. However, if you are out of fellowship with God, there is something causing that. Find out what it is and confess it to Him in the Name of Jesus.
Have a guilt-free day! God bless.
Love to you all,
Pastor Charles Covington
Rom 8:1
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
No means none. Though we still sin we are covered by the blood of Jesus perfect sacrifice and our sins are washed clean. We stand before God in Jesus, pure and holy, as He is. Satan likes to bring up our past sin, saying that we are unworthy of relationship with God. Yet, we believe in the work of Jesus! Being in Christ brings us into a relationship with God through His righteousness and worthiness. We must understand our relationship to God through Jesus to understand that we have perfect peace with God, now, and forever more!
Follow Jesus! Pursue holiness! Trust the work of God through His Son, believing that you have been given perfect peace through keeping your heart and mind on Christ and your relationship in Him!
Pastor Dale