Romans 5:12-17

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<div> <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Youth Ministries"><U>Youth Ministries</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Romans 5:12-17</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0a7bc4b0.jpg" border=0 width="700" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Quest for Much More</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Romans 5:12-17</B></I></div> <bR> <div> How can you get more out of life?</div> <bR> <div> Examples of A Fortiori:</div> <div> If God provides for the plants, then He will provide for you Matt. 6:28-30</div> <bR> <div> If God judged Jesus for your sins, then He will deliver you from the last judgment Romans 5:8-9 </div> <bR> <div> If God reconciled you to Himself, then He will deliver you by Christ's life Romans 5:10</div> <bR> <div> If God justified you, then He will give you great temporal blessings in time Romans 5:15</div> <bR> <div> If God removed the reign of death at salvation, then He will empower you to reign in life Romans 5:17</div> <bR> <div> If God is on your side at salvation, then He'll be on your side and freely give you all things necessary for God's plan in time Romans 8:31-32</div> <bR> <div> If God blessed the world through Israel's failure, then He will bless Israel when they return in obedience Romans 11:12</div> <bR> <div> <B>Why?</B></div> <div>      </div> <div> <B>How?</B></div> <bR> <div> Humble yourself before God.  Rom. 1:21</div> <div> Study His Word dependent on God the Holy Spirit. John 16:13</div> <div> Grow in grace with other believers for accountability, support, and service to the body - what nuance can I learn/ be reminded of today?      1 Peter 3:18</div> <div> Fulfill the mission to the church: Love God, love others, and make disciples. Matthew 22:37-39; 28:19-20</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>Amplifications of A Fortiori</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If God provides for the plants, then He will provide for you Matt. 6:28-30</B></div> <div> The greater is the provision for plants, which don't matter, the lesser is God's strong desire to provide for His own people, who do matter very much to God.   </div> <div> As you would take care of your house or car, so much more will you take care of your children (friends).  Things don't matter compared to the people. </div> <bR> <div> <B>If God judged Jesus for your sins, then He will deliver you from the last judgment Romans 5:8-9</B> </div> <div> If God has given the greater benefit of justification, it follows, a fortiori, the lesser judgment of the Lake of Fire will be withheld.  The greater is the provision of Christ's shed blood on the cross, the lesser is deliverance from the last judgment.  </div> <div> Therefore, the believer can have confidence in life to press on with God's plan rather than frantically pursuing happiness from the world, in degrees, new things, more hobbies, perfect health, knowing that what matters in life is fulfilling God's purpose for us in life - Love God, love others, and make disciples.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>If God reconciled you to Himself, then He will deliver you by Christ's life Romans 5:10</B></div> <div> If we are reconciled to God by means of the death of Jesus Christ, it follows, a fortiori, we will be delivered by His life. It was more difficult for God to reconcile us as His enemies, but now as His children, it is easy for Him to deliver us by His life. </div> <div> Before we were God's enemies.  Now as His children, He will deliver us no matter what kind of fix we might be in.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>If God justified you, then He will give you great temporal blessings in time Romans 5:15</B></div> <div> If God provides the greater blessing of justification, then it follows, a fortiori, that God will provide the less --temporal grace blessing in time to His own children.  It was more difficult for God to bless believers by removing the penalty of sin from them by Christ's substitution, but it is more easy for God to provide great temporal blessings and eternal blessings, now that we are His children.</div> <div> The blessing for the believer is enjoyment of what God enjoys.  The only reason believers do not enjoy life is because they are not choosing to enjoy what God enjoys.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>If God removed the reign of death at salvation, then He will empower you to reign in life Romans 5:17</B></div> <div> If death reigned in all men, but God counteracted with the abundance of grace, it follows, a fortiori, that God will empower with righteousness to reign in time, that is reign over sin.   It was more difficult for God to impute the judgment for sins on Jesus Christ while He died on the cross, than the easier task of transforming believers as victors and overcomers in grace in time and eternity. </div> <div> When you look at life from God's perspective, then the things of this world grow strangely dim and the things of God grow increasingly brighter (Col. 3:1-4).  </div> <bR> <div> <B>If God is on your side at salvation, then He'll be on your side and freely give you all things necessary for God's plan in time Romans 8:31-32</B></div> <div> If God did not spare His own Son to prevent accusation against His justice, then it follows, a fortiori, that God will not spare anything to prevent any accusation against His own children.  The more difficult work was judging Jesus on the cross, while the easier task, based on the first conclusion, is to give us freely all things.</div> <div> God will not withhold from His children what they need to accomplish His will with joy John 15:1-11.  He'll keep pouring the sap into them so they'll bear fruit.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>If God blessed the world through Israel's failure, then He will bless Israel when they return in obedience Romans 11:12</B></div> <div> If God provides great blessing to the Gentiles in the failure of the Jews, then it follows, a fortiori, that God will provide greater blessing to the Gentiles when the Jews are restored in the Millennium.</div> <div> We ought to always watch out for God's people for they will always be in God's plan.  We do not have to pamper or coddle to them, but we should never be against them.  The enemy always is and you don't want to find yourself on the enemy's side.  If God was faithful to Israel <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Wingdings" >à</FONT> He will be faithful to me. 1 Pet. 2:9</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id143.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romans 5:1217"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B><IMG SRC="0c740400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>