Peace With God, Access To God And The Hope Of Glory
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
According to Rom. 4:25, Christ was delivered to death for
our sins and then raised from the dead because He had fully settled our debt. The
results of this mighty work of redemption are marvelous indeed to ponder over.
First,
it means for every believer in Christ, that “being justified by faith we have
peace with God” (Rom. 5:1). If Christ has paid for our sins and the barrier
between God and us has been removed, why should we not enjoy peace with God?
Why should we not rise in the morning, go about our work during the day and
retire at night with complete confidence that all is well; that we are at peace
with God and that He loves us as His very own?
But
more: Verse 2 goes on to say that by Christ we also have “access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand.” If the barrier of sin has been removed and we are
at peace with God, what is there to keep us out of His presence, especially
when He Himself bids us to “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need”? (Heb.4:16). How wonderful
to have a standing before God in grace! to be at peace with Him and to enjoy
free access into His presence by faith!
But there is still more. Not only does the
believer in Christ enjoy peace with God and access to God, but, as this same
verse says: “We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” “Hope” in the Bible is,
of course, more than a wish. It is an eager anticipation of wonderful things to
come. Heb. 6:19 says: “Which hope we have as an anchor to the soul, both sure
and stedfast.” Man has always been afraid of the glory of God. When the glory
of the Lord shone round about the Judaean shepherds “they were sore afraid.”
This was because “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom.
3:23). But the simplest believer in Christ may rejoice in the anticipation of
sharing God’s glory some day.
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