Baker Book, Morris, L. The Epistle to the Romans. John reminds us that "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. God hath depleted Looking back on past blessings can restore our hope and give us reason to look ahead. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Nearly ninety percent of that class went on to graduate from high school. Nothing confounds more than disappointment. When the silversmith could look into the pot and see himself, then he would cool the fire. That is what Hebrews 12:5ff says, doesn't it? * 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace * with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, a 2 through whom we have gained access [by faith] to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. William Gouge, Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope. The interpretive question is to what they relate. It kindles love in us, and love “becomes the moral principle by which we live” (Dodd). Denney - The experience of what God can do, or rather of what He does, for the justified amid the tribulations of this life, animates into new vigor the hope with which the life of faith begins. But vain the word; vain, vain: (Read full text of Rejoicing in Suffering). What if the object of our faith is false? It works an experience of ourselves. So, if you are a Christian, NO CIRCUMSTANCE OF YOUR LIFE happens to you EXCEPT that it comes BY THE CHOICE OF GOD. George Sweeting, Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is unsurmountable. If you fall, don’t give up, get up. The Bible certainly is God's book of hope. Today a unique chapel stands at the Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Read full chapter That too is a great obstacle to our assurance. An earthly illustration of our hope which does not disappoint: about the boy and his father who were planning a fishing trip for the next day. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. The verb (katergazomai [word study]) is still implied (and can be paraphrased0 "brings out, works out" proven character. Alexander MacLauren, The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. I began to feel I would never be emancipated from its grasp. He who believes in it (Him - Messiah) will not be disturbed (Septuagint = ashamed = kataischuno). To live without hope is to cease to live. Thomas Brooks, Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds. (Gal 4:6), In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, Who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t. Furthermore, the proof that our hope will not disappoint us in the end is the fact of the amazing generosity of God’s love for us—a fact which we have been enabled to know and understand by His gift of the Holy Spirit to every believer. Until Jesus returns we have a message for those sleepwalking on trails that lead to a hopeless end. The related verb dokimazo means “to put to the test for the purpose of approving, and finding that the person tested meets the specifications, to put one’s approval upon him.” This approved character produces in turn and increasing degree of hope, of absolute certainty that the Lord will do good to us in the future! (Romans 5:3-8). The holy, righteous God, cannot be at peace with a sinner, while under the guilt of sin. When a silversmith melted silver he would put it into a pot and heat that pot and heat that pot. The result: When that same rat was placed in the water again (after a little rest), it kicked and swam for hours. The Bible is not a spiritual mail-order catalog, but in its pages we vividly see ourselves both as we are today and as we hope to be. The word means either the process of trial, proving, as 2 Corinthians 8:2, or the result of trial, approvedness, Philippians 2:22. Rev. Whatever we are like today, we know that in Christ we have a living hope, and it will not end in disappointment. Wuest: and this endurance, approvedness, and this approvedness, hope. This giving of the Spirit does not refer to the giving of the Spirit at Pentecost in the sense that at that time He came to form the Church, but to the act of the Spirit at the time of the conversion of every believer, at which time He takes up His permanent abode in the believer's inner being. Sin and death entered into the world by Adam's transgression, and all became guilty before God, Romans 5:… Hope is the looking forward to something with some reason for confidence respecting fulfillment. We see ourselves changing. It's his work. ANONYMOUS, Someone said, "Don't despair if you have spells of despondency. For in acceptance lieth peace. This is what God brings us to. It is a great mistake to rely on my own recognition of the Spirit's work within me as the ground of my assurance. This is surely good news for the redeemed - let us say so! When you go through tribulation, and your faith is tested, and if you persevere, what you get is a wonderful sense of authenticity. It is the inner experience of this love through the Spirit that sustains us as we go through tribulations. We are not suffering alone. In his book Live With Your Emotions, Hazen G. Werner quotes part of a letter from a woman who had run out of hope. How can we be so sure? Suffering, persecution, you name it. —Ps 119:114 Billy Graham, Faith and a good conscience are hope’s two wings. So it was with an Italian prisoner of war being held on a military base in the United States during World War II. It is the inner experience of this love through the Spirit that sustains us as we go through tribulations. Yet even in these situations, those who live close to Christ receive grace to die in hope. Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" How many Christians are fighting against the very thing God is trying to use to prove Himself, who you are and what He has given you in the Holy Spirit of God? Ray Stedman- "Suffering produces character. (Ro 8:35-note). CHAPTER 5 Faith, Hope, and Love. 6 When we were still helpless, at the appointed time, Christ died for the godless. He would take a ladle and throw it off. The Holy Spirit entered, In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul encourages us to "boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope" (Romans 5:3-4, NRSV (2Th 2:16,17), John Piper writes that that Paul addresses two threats to the assurance of our salvation "One was that our faith might be fake, and the fire of tribulation is a gift to prove us and show us to ourselves that we are real. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life—which begins right now as you open your heart to Him. Our hope is grounded in the trustworthy character of the God who loves us with an everlasting love. Billy Graham, Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope. I take the phrase "love of God" in verse 5 ("the love of God has been poured out within our hearts") to refer mainly to God's love for us, not our love for God… Whatever else we say about this experience, let this be said: it is not decisively the work of man, but the work of God. 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not in aloofness lieth peace. ", Romans 5:5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. - C H Spurgeon, THE DANGER OF "COUNTERFEIT HOPE" - "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope," wrote journalist Norman Cousins, who himself survived a near-fatal illness and a massive heart attack. Justification takes away the guilt, and so makes way for peace. Whatever you have to give up because of your faith-- friends, reputation, chances for advancement--you have hope of something better awaiting you. Now, it is true that HE may use Satan, and Satan does attack us, but NEVER without the permission of Christ. "Malformed? All other ground is sinking sand. Oh, tears that drown the fire of manhood, cease." Where there is such love filling and mastering the life, hope is never put to shame in the processes of tribulation, and it will be ultimately saved from shame as all the toils are vindicated in the glory of the results. What must be the misery of souls in hell where they remember the word, but can never know hope itself! Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not Not that the believer does not work at all, but not from such principles, and with such views as the other; he does not work in order to obtain life and salvation; he does not seek for justification by The One they loved the most was going away to a place where they could not immediately follow. The Holy Spirit-Walking Like Jesus Walked! 4:25 ("justification") connects with the first verse of chapter 5 ("having been justified"--literal translation from Greek). Through the Holy Spirit - This is the first mention of love and the first mention of the Holy Spirit in believers in Romans (cf Ro 1:4-note). In other words, one of the great obstacles to a full and strong hope in the glory of God is the fear that we are hypocrites - that our faith is not real and that we just inherited it from our parents and have been motivated by things that are not honoring to God. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. He said, "I will submit; I am defeated, Cranfield - To have one's faith proved by God in the fires of tribulation and sustained by Him so as to stand the test is to have one's hope in Him and in the fulfilment of His promises, one's hope of His glory (Ro 5:2), strengthened and confirmed. Therefore, there is no necessity to cry out, and say, "Oh, what have I done? Dokime is the quality of being approved and thus of having a demonstrated character… Words in this family (dokimazo, dokime, dokimos, or adokimos) emphasize that the test is designed to display the genuineness of that which is tried. (Jn 7:37, 38, 39). (Ep 1:13, 14-note). You don't make it happen. It is not finally in our power. But the church endured, because those early believers knew that heaven awaited them. When you put metal through a fiery testing and it comes out on the other side persevering and enduring, what you call that metal is "proven" or "authentic" or "genuine" and that is the idea of this section. God must be a cruel god to make us live like we live." —Lewis Smedes, "Keep Hope Alive,". We first get it by looking away from ourselves to the Lamb of God; next by looking into or upon ourselves as transformed by that "looking unto Jesus." I’ve always said, "Put a Christian under pressure, and you’ll find out what they’re made of." I don't blame you! (Click Faith Faces Life for complete sermon), Hope is faith in the future tense. ", Ray Stedman - We have all seen the tire advertisements on television. We have the hope that God is producing the image of Christ in us right now. So either one repents and believes in Jesus and has God's love poured out extravagantly within his heart or he rebels against and blasphemes Jesus and has God's wrath poured out abundantly! God revealed His love at the Cross when Christ died for those who were “helpless,” “ungodly,” “sinners,” and “enemies,” thus proving His great love. It was silver before it ever went in the fire, but it was the fire that burned off all the things that had been hiding what it really was. The English poet Alexander Pope said, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast, man never is but always to be blessed." Your faith is therefore real, authentic, proven, genuine. 5:1-5 A blessed change takes place in the sinner's state, when he becomes a true believer, whatever he has been. But two days later our baby was dead. You have a perfect baby boy. God is in the process of making veterans. The joyous hope of eternal glory, Romans 5:2. 5:1; 8:1; 12:1). Not in submission lieth peace. Chicago: Moody Press), Constable writes that in this verse we see "The fourth benefit of justification therefore is the indwelling Holy Spirit. He is interested in our lives -- it is what the work does to us, it is what life is doing to us. And you can know this because the Holy Spirit has come into your life and has begun to pour the love of God experientially into your heart. They're tested, proven!" Richards - The word group from which dokime comes draws our attention to testing as a means of determining genuineness and thus as a grounds for giving approval. Billy Graham, For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection. A. J. GORDON, Where there is no hope, there is no faith. (Ref), John Piper writes that "The Holy Spirit is not a mood-altering drug. We say, "God, why did You do this?" Afflictions are often sent for this purpose, and patience in the midst of them shows that the religion which can sustain them is from God… (Afflictions) show that religion is genuine; that it is from God; and not only so, but they direct the mind onward to another world (exult in the hope), and sustain the soul by the prospect of a glorious immortality there." We thought God loved us, but it turns out he didn't. And having the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit, Romans 5:5. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. (see index below to in depth study of this "blessed hope"). Hope, in the larger sense, can never be killed. We endure because we hope, but "hope in hope" (like "faith in faith") is too often only a kind of self-hypnosis that keeps us from facing life honestly. In short, Christians can boast and rejoice in tribulations (Acts 5:41, cf Acts 14:22) fully confident of what those tribulations are guaranteed to produce. They dread dying. For sure this one relates to Desire, thou doest befool me, thou shalt cease." De Haan. She writes this under the title, The Shadowed Way: He said, "I will forget the dying faces; Suffering is a part of every believer’s life, just like it’s a part of anybody else in this world, except that we have persecution thrown in. (Ibid). But when that inward meekness, which is infused by the Spirit of God, and the consolation, which is conveyed by the same Spirit, succeed in the place of our stubbornness, then tribulations become the means of generating patience; yea, those (same) tribulations, which in the obstinate can produce nothing but indignation and clamorous discontent." We're hurting. You know beyond doubt that your faith is genuine for it has been tested and has stood the test with perseverance. Our hope rests on God having made a covenant with us. We can see that we are more thoughtful, more compassionate, more loving. Faith without hope would, by itself, be empty and futile. Sinclair Ferguson, He who gives over never truly begins. Greek: e de hupomone dokimen, e de dokime elpida; Amplified: And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). Is ours from heaven above; "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Romans 15:4) If you can cling to hope in the midst of trials, a difficult situation can become bearable because hope … Three NT uses of ekcheo refer to the Holy Spirit…, Whom (the Holy Spirit) He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior (see note Titus 3:6), And it shall be in the last days,' God says, 'That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams; (Acts 2:17), All the circumcised (Jewish) believers who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out upon the Gentiles also. Not in endeavor lieth peace. This is all-important. (Vine, W. Collected writings of W. E. Vine. Set your hope on Christ's promises. Paul is probably drawing on a well established theme of Jewish wisdom—the idea of testing, particularly that of proving gold by testing it with fire. When they least expected it, He would walk up the front path, climb the porch steps, and knock boldly on the door. Clare Booth, A man full of hope will be full of action. Romans 4:4-5dropdownNew International Versiondropdown. (Why?) Before we were saved, God proved His love by sending Christ to die for us. Let me share with you a brief word from Amy Carmichael; some of you know of her great work out in India. Everyone in the world suffers, but Ro 8:17 (note) says we suffer with Christ. Every son whom God receives, he chastens because he loves him -- not because he hates him -- but because he loves him {cf, Heb12:6}. W. B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press, Romans 5 Commentary Critical and Exegetical Commentary, MacArthur, J: Ephesians. This answer is briefly stated for us in these next verses as the two sources of our hope [Ro 5:6-11]: In Ro 5:2, Paul spoke of "rejoicing in hope," the hope of sharing the glory of God, a hope for the future beyond death. We know this because God has poured out his … Than Jesus' blood and righteousness. Chicago: Moody Press, Spirit-Filled Believers Are Like Artesian Wells. They were called the Covenanters. Romans 5:1-2 “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. HOPE On December 17, 1927, a submarine sank off Provincetown, Massachusetts, and forty crewmen died. Donald Sarnoff, By perseverance the snail reached the ark. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Any hope for a peaceful resolution of the long and bloody conflict in Lebanon died with the dying president. Romans 5:4 Context 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And then finally, after ten years, Doris became pregnant. Then the scientists placed another rat in the water. But the hope of our salvation will never be put to shame. My life of its rich gain. -- Dennis J. (He 6:18, 19, 20-See notes He 6:18; 19; 20) (Note that when our hope is centered on Christ and His finished work on our behalf, it will not disappoint. William Jenkyn, The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. How serious? I began to thank Him still more, and the light continued and grew, and for a whole evening I was relieved of my burden." (Romans 5:3-4) I love when people can see the silver lining in the midst of situations despite circumstances or obstacles. But for a believer hope does not make the heart sick nor disappoint because God’s love is poured within our hearts. The power of gratitude can lift the weight of the most pressing trial. It is not the product of mere circumstances. He can say from experience "I have trusted God in the middle of the trouble and found that God is faithful!". Geoffrey B. Wilson, Our risen and glorified Lord is himself our hope, because his triumph over sin and death provides the objective pledge of our final redemption.Geoffr ey B. Wilson, The Christian hope is not a matter for tickling our minds but for changing our lives and for influencing society. Billy Graham, Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9). Crossway Books), MacArthur adds that "In most modern cultures, the heart is thought of as the seat of emotions and feelings. We thanked God and drank a toast to hope. (NLT - Tyndale House), Phillips: a hope that will never disappoint us. Romans 4:5, CSB : "But to the one who does not work, but believes on him who declares the ungodly to be righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness." Anon. This is hope. — Reprinted by permission. BECAUSE THE LOVE OF GOD HAS BEEN POURED OUT: hoti e agape tou theou ekkechutai (3SRPI): Note Paul's transition from faith (Ro 5:1, 2-see notes Ro 5:1; 5:2) to hope (Ro 5:2, 4, 5-see notes Ro 5:2; 5:4; 5:5), to love (Ro 5:5-note). Philippians 2:22-note But you know of his [Timothy's] proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father. —D. The pouring out in Romans 5:5 is however not of the Holy Spirit but of God's holy love. Romans 5:4, CSB: "endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope." An illusion to Come and see." "That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. The pouring out of divine love marks an interesting contrast with John's 9 uses of ekcheo in Revelation 16, all but one referring to a pouring out of God's wrath. (1Ti 4:8-note), And so for a believer, trials work FOR and NOT AGAINST us. I am not saved by what goes on within myself. Notice that the Greek word for not (ou) signifies absolute negation - it will never, ever disappoint! (Commentary on Romans), Vine notes that "Each believer received the Holy Spirit when he believed (John 7:39; cp. It is interesting though that Luke used the same verb ekcheo in describing the event at Pentecost, Peter declaring…, "Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear." The more accurate rendering is proof or approval. We thought God loved us, but it turns out he didn't? John Piper says "Isn't the answer that when your faith has been tried in affliction, and persevered, and thus proven genuine and authentic you know you are real and not a fake Christian and that undergirds you hope (certainty) that you really are a child of God and will inherit God's glory. This hope became a major theme of the New Testament. —M.R.D.II (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. 8:2); but here (Ro 5:4) it has its other meaning, of approval, as a result of proving (see also 2Cor 2:9; 9:13; Php 2:22), the condition of one who is conscious of having endured tribulations effectually, the spiritual state that results being in accordance with God’s designs. On the contrary, we rejoice in these very tribulations because we realize that they are parts of the working force which is ever operating toward the realization. In the end, hope triumphed over despair. They were stout-hearted and strong, and willing enough for labour, and much they needed all their strength and more. Hope, like an anchor, is fixed on the unseen. At night when they went to their rest, the day's work always seemed so light, for as they crossed the threshold, Patience, wiping the sweat from his brow, would be encouraged, and Self-denial would be strengthened by hearing the sweet voice of Hope within singing, "God will bless us, God, even our own God, will bless us." Romans 4:4-5 KJV Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. In itself it might refer to the act of testing (2 Corinthians But here he simply says, your hope, rooted in the genuineness of your proven faith, will not disappoint you. God is my strength and power, and He makes my way perfect. 1:10). Although I try not to be shocked by the things I see these days, I was caught off-balance by the message on the woman’s T-shirt as she walked past me in the mall. Poured out points to abundance (cf. 4 and perseverance develops a tested character, something that gives us hope, 5 and a hope which will not let us down, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. He said, "But you know of his proven worth that he served me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father." But probation has come to be understood, almost universally, of the process of trial. I have tried this. Reprinted by permission. And experience blossoms into hope, weaning the heart from the things of earth and occupying them with the heavenly scene to which we are hastening. In the prophetic Book of Revelation, John, in Old Testament fashion, depicted himself as a prophet inspired by the Spirit. 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