Christ Died For Us

CHRIST DIED FOR US

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace [unmerited favor] wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

Romans 5:6 “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:1 (Amplified Version) “Therefore, since we are justified--acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God--through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation] to hold and to enjoy, peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One. 5:2 Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace--state of God’s favor--in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.”

Romans 5:6 “While we were yet in weakness--powerless to help ourselves--at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly. 5:7 Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even dare to die. 5:8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One, died for us.”

"In the whole Bible there is hardly another chapter which can equal this triumphant text.” Martin Luther

I. WE WERE

A. At War

1. With God

a. Romans 5:10 “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.”

b. By Christ, we have peace with God. (Rom. 5:1) The warring is over

between us and God when we surrender.

2. Because of the Adam Nature

a. Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

b. Romans 5:12 “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:”

c. Romans 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Romans 7:23 “But I see another law in my members, warring against the

law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which

is in my members.”

3. Being Alienated

a. Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the

blindness of their heart:

b. Colossians 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.

4. Due to Sin

Psalm 59:2 “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and

your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”

B. Helpless

1. Romans 5:6 “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for

the ungodly.”

C. Hopeless

Ephesians 2:12 “That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:”

II. HE WAS

A. Able

1. To Commend

Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were

yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

4921 sunistao {soon-is-tah'-o} or (strengthened) sunistano {soon-is-tan'-o} or sunistemi {soon-is'-tay-mee} from 4862 and 2478 (including its collat. forms); TNDT - 7:896,1120; v AV- commend 10, approve 2, consist 1, make 1, stand 1, stand with 1; 16

1) to place together, to set in the same place, to bring or band together

1a) to stand with (or near)

2) to set one with another

2a) by way of presenting or introducing him

2b) to comprehend

3) to put together by way of composition or combination, to teach by combining and comparing

3a) to show, prove, establish, exhibit

4) to put together, unite parts into one whole

4a) to be composed of, consist

2. The expression here employed strictly means "to set two things side by side," and it has two meanings in the New Testament, both derived from that original signification.