Peace With God Conference Review
Peace With God
Conference Review
On Friday, August 23 we began our first (of hopefully many) Bible exposition conference. For three evenings, we studied through Romans 5:1-11. It was a joy to open up the Word of God with so many individuals who want to sit under the expository preaching of Scripture.
The focus of this conference was not self-help or entrepreneurial motivation. Instead, we set our attention on the ultimate peace that the believer has with God at his justification. The teaching included going back to Romans 3 and working through Romans 4. We must first realize that it is our sin that puts us at enmity with God before we can understand our desperate need of a Savior. This is explained that “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness” (Romans 4:3). Just as Abraham was justified by faith alone, so is every follower of Jesus Christ. To be Justified by Faith is to have Peace with God.
On night 1, we looked at the definition of Justification — and ultimately, the necessary redemption for every human who has ever existed. If you do not put your faith in Jesus Christ, then you will never be at Peace with God. You will forever be at enmity. And ultimately, you will experience His eternal wrath.
Night 2 was focused on the idea, “but God showed His love to us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Such an amazing reality of the grace of God. His mercy extends beyond what is even comprehendible for us. The Peace of God is offered to anyone who will repent of their sins, turn to Christ, and trust the Only Way, the Only Truth and the Only Life.
Night 3 centered on the joy that we have because of our Peace. The greatest reality of our salvation is the fact that we can now worship the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The only reason that we are able to love God is because He first loved us — and this is the greatest blessing to the established Peace that a believer now has with God.
In all, I was very pleased with how the conference went! I believe that we can use that same format for future conferences and it will be a sufficient study. We do not need to focus on man — we need to focus our attention on the glory of God. Biblical exposition points the listener to the Holiness of the Almighty God. When we get a glimpse of His glory, then the reaction of a true believer is that his life will be conformed to the image of the Son of God.
The focus of this conference was not self-help or entrepreneurial motivation. Instead, we set our attention on the ultimate peace that the believer has with God at his justification. The teaching included going back to Romans 3 and working through Romans 4. We must first realize that it is our sin that puts us at enmity with God before we can understand our desperate need of a Savior. This is explained that “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness” (Romans 4:3). Just as Abraham was justified by faith alone, so is every follower of Jesus Christ. To be Justified by Faith is to have Peace with God.
On night 1, we looked at the definition of Justification — and ultimately, the necessary redemption for every human who has ever existed. If you do not put your faith in Jesus Christ, then you will never be at Peace with God. You will forever be at enmity. And ultimately, you will experience His eternal wrath.
Night 2 was focused on the idea, “but God showed His love to us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Such an amazing reality of the grace of God. His mercy extends beyond what is even comprehendible for us. The Peace of God is offered to anyone who will repent of their sins, turn to Christ, and trust the Only Way, the Only Truth and the Only Life.
Night 3 centered on the joy that we have because of our Peace. The greatest reality of our salvation is the fact that we can now worship the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The only reason that we are able to love God is because He first loved us — and this is the greatest blessing to the established Peace that a believer now has with God.
In all, I was very pleased with how the conference went! I believe that we can use that same format for future conferences and it will be a sufficient study. We do not need to focus on man — we need to focus our attention on the glory of God. Biblical exposition points the listener to the Holiness of the Almighty God. When we get a glimpse of His glory, then the reaction of a true believer is that his life will be conformed to the image of the Son of God.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 5:1-11
Romans 5:1-11