Romans 5-8 - Daily Summary

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Recap on Yesterday's topic

Before we'll get to Romans 5-8, let's see the topics of the last few chapters
Romans 1 - Sinful Humanity and God's Wrath
Romans 2 - The Judgement of God 
Romans 3 - God's Faithfulness and Righteousness through Faith
Romans 4 - Abraham Justified by Faith

Romans 5

First Part of Romans 5: "Peace and Hope".
Since we are justified through faith, we have a special peace with God through Jesus. And we also have hope from our suffering and we have glory through our suffering. Hope does not ashame us but is rather God's love that is poured out into our hearts.  God has great love for us while we were sinners, as while we were foolish and unrighteous He died for us. So we are being justified by His Grace and Our Faith. 
Second Part of Romans 5: "Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ".
Sin entered the world in one man, Adam, and death came to everyone since everyone sinned. Everyone is a sinner and unclean as Adam was, and Adam is our ancestor. Everybody should and must die for the sin of one man, but the grace of one man, Jesus, many are saved. The sin brought condemnation and damnation, but a gift, the grace of God, brought justification. Through the disobedience of one man many were sinners and SINFUL, but through the obedience of one man many are made RIGHTEOUS. In fact, the more the sin, the more the grace.

Romans 6
First Part of Romans 6: "Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ".
But do not sin so that grace increases. We have died to sin and those who are baptized to Jesus and being baptized to Jesus is being baptized to His death, so we may live a new like, just like how Christ was ressurected. If we are with Him, we will be ressurected like Him and we will no longer be the slaves to sin. If you have accepted and are truly faithful to Him, we are dead to sin but alive to God. So do not sin in this world and do not obey evil. Change your "master" from Sin to Grace.
Second Part of Romans 6: "Slaves to Righteousness".
But we shouldn't sin even with grace and we shall still obey the Law. We could be either obedient slaves  to sin and obedience. Sin leads to death and obedience to righteousness. Thank the Lord that we have changed our life from a life of sin to a life of righteousness to become a slave to RIGHTEOUSNESS. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus.

Romans 7
First Part of Romans 7: "Released From the Law, Bound to Christ.".
Paul is speaking to those who know the law well. But the law only has power over our life here. We also died through Christ's body so we now belong not to the law but to Christ. We are now bearing fruit for God, not death. By dying to free us from sin, we are being released from the law and now we serve in the "new way of the Spirit.".
Second Part of Romans 7: "The Law and Sin"
But the Law is not sinful. But Sin sometimes makes us, while looking at the Law, become sinful. For example, when it says "You shall not covet", we are tempted to covet and sometimes sin, and then we will be condemned by sin to death. But The Law is Holy and Good nevertheless.

Romans 8
First Part of Romans 8: "Life through The Spirit". 
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, as the law of the Spirit has set you free from sin and death. The worldly law was powerless as it was being bound by sin and a mind governed by flesh is death but the mind governed by the Holy Spirit is life and peace. The usual, sinful and wicked mind  is hostile to God and does not please Him, but if we are in the real, of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit lives in us and we belong to Christ. So live acoording to the Spirit and to its Law.
Second Part of Romans 8: "Present Suffering and Future Glory.".
We should not compare our present suffering to our glory later. Though creation is frustrating and we have diffuculties, these were made so creation will be liberated from its bondage to sin to bondage to God. The Spirit helps us in our weakness. God has predestined people whom He called and Justified and Glorified. God is for us.
Third Part of Romans 8: "More than Conquerors".
Thus, if God is for us, if who can be against us? He sacrificed His own Son as a Gift of Grace. God has justified us through Christ's death and ressurection. The love of Christ is inseparable from us, famine, nakedness, and persecution cannot sever it. No power can separate us from the love of God.

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