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Study Section 6: Chapter 5 – Christ’s Redeeming Love

6.1 Connect
The greatest expression of love is that a person is willing to lay down his life for the one he
loves. That’s exactly what God did. He became a man because by doing so, He could die in
love. God is eternal and cannot die. But Christ, both man and God, could lay down his life
for every sinner. He was the perfect sacrifice for sin.

Christ died on Passover in the year 33 AD as foretold by the prophets in the Old Testament.
He was declared by John as the “Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.” It is interesting that
the Jews would slay a lamb on the afternoon before Passover began at around 6:00 PM. They would all
slay their lambs at 3:00 PM to make preparation for the Passover feast. It is no coincidence that Jesus was
on the cross and EXACTLY, at 3:00 PM, He cried out, “It is finished” and gave up his life for the sins of all
men, the same time the Passover lamb was to die. He paid the penalty for you sins and mine, displaying
infinite love that boggles the mind. We are justified by faith in what Christ has done for us. That is the
theme of today’s study session.

6.2 Objectives

1. Students should be able to explain that because Christ died and rose again to show God’s love
to this world, we can have peace with God when we trust in Christ’s justifying work on our behalf.

2. Students should be able to describe and contrast how Jesus compares to Adam.

6.3 The Passage: Romans 5:1-21

Therefore, having been justified by faith, peace we have toward God through our Lord Jesus
Christ through when also access we have obtained by faith into this grace in which we have
stood and in which we boast upon hope of the glory of God. But not only, but also we boast in
afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance character, and
character hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in your
hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to you. For yet Christ, while we were weak, still at the right
time on behalf of the godless, died. For hardly on behalf of a righteous one would a certain one die; for on
behalf of the good person perhaps also a certain one might dare to die. But God showed his own love unto
us, because while we were being sinners still, Christ died on behalf of us. Therefore, much more rather now
having been made righteous by his blood we will be saved through him from the wrath. For if being
enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more rather being reconciled we
shall be saved by His life; but not only, but also one boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ through
whom now the reconciliation we have received.

Because Christ died and rose again to show God’s love to this world, we can have peace with God when we
trust in Christ’s justifying work on our behalf.

On account of this just as through one man sin entered into the world and through sin death, also thus
unto all people the death spread, upon which all sinned; for until law sin was in the world, but sin was not
charged to one’s account the not being law, but death reigned from Adam until Moses and upon the ones
not sinning by the likeness of the transgression of Adam who is a type of the coming one.

Sin and its consequence of death entered into God’s creation by means of Adam’s transgression before any
law was given.

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