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A note about Romans 5-6
Read with deliberateness
This is true for the whole book of Romans, but especially in Romans 5 and 6, read this slowly and deliberately. I imagine that Paul is sitting there explaining to me, as if to a child, my relationship to God through faith in Jesus Christ. Let the words and phrases enter your mind with expectations of understanding and a comprehension of the language that the Holy Spirit has told him to use in this letter.
A challenging portion of scripture is where Paul speaks of death entering the world through Adam and the free gift entering the world through grace in the one man Jesus Christ. Get the gist of what Paul is writing which is that the gift of life in Christ Jesus is so much greater than the trespass through the sin of Adam in abundance and power. Every one of us who are now alive in Christ were formerly dead in Adam. Every life redeemed is an unspeakable display of God's power and goodness. Consider the promise filled words of Romans 5:20-21
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
And then Romans 6:22-23
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Praise God for His gift through grace in Christ Jesus our Lord!
