Romans 5:1-2 – Our Position in Grace

It’s a great question because it’s at the crossroads of God’s promise, human impatience, and the way Scripture portrays faith that’s real but imperfect.

Did Abraham and Sarah “lack faith”?

The short answer is yes, but not in a way that cancels their genuine faith. Scripture presents them as believers whose trust was real, yet whose practice sometimes faltered.

They believed the promise, but they struggled with the timing and the method.

Genesis 15 shows Abraham believing God, and God counting it to him for righteousness. That’s solid, saving faith.

But in Genesis 16, when Sarah suggests Hagar, the issue isn’t unbelief in the promise itself—they still expected a child—it’s unbelief in how God would bring it about.

You could say that they trusted the destination, but doubted the path.

Their action reflects a very human attempt to “help God out”. We often experience this in our own lives.

In their cultural world, using a servant as a surrogate was normal. So their reasoning wasn’t bizarre, it was human, practical, and faith based.

But it was also fleshly.

Paul says this in Galatians 4:23 while using Hagar as a symbol of human effort versus God’s promise,

But he who was of the bondwoman (that’s Ishmael born of Hagar) was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman (that’s Isaac born of Sarah) was by promise. 

Scripture doesn’t hide their hiccup.

The fallout was conflict, jealousy, mistreatment, and many long-term consequences that’re still going on today, and it shows that this wasn’t God’s intended path.

Yet God still cared for Hagar and Ishmael, and He still fulfilled His promise to Abraham and Sarah in His own time.

Their lapse doesn’t erase their legacy of faith.

Hebrews 11 celebrates them as models of faith, not failures.

Biblical faith isn’t flawless but it’s persistent.

They stumbled, but they kept walking with God.

So along with righteousness by faith we also learn that;

• Faith can be genuine even when it wavers.
• God’s promises don’t depend on our perfect performance.
• Human attempts to “force” God’s timing usually complicate things.
• God remains faithful even when we’re inconsistent.

So, now, If Romans is the greatest book, then Romans chapter 5 might be one of the greatest chapters. It’s blessed countless millions of people and clarified the truth and the beauty of our salvation.

It carries a lot of weight, and it’s a joy to study because here Paul starts laying out plainly who we are in Christ and what God has given us. He already talked about the gospel and the need for faith in Christ, but now he pours out the riches of God’s grace.

The first word in Romans 5 is “therefore,” which shows you can’t pull this chapter out by itself. Its built on chapters 1–4, and even on all the Scriptures before.

In Romans 1 Paul starts from creation. In Romans 2 he deals with Israel. In Romans 3 he concludes, “therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified.” All are sinners. None are righteous.

If someone says, “I’m not a sinner,” we go to Romans 1.

If they say, “I’m better than others,” we go to Romans 2. If they say, “I can keep the law,” we go to Romans 3.

Then in Romans 3:28 Paul says,

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 

This is only possible because of Christ’s death and shed blood. Romans 4 keeps proving over and over again that its faith alone, faith without works, without circumcision, without covenants and without the law.

Romans 4:16 says, “therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace.” If it’s faith plus anything, it’s not grace.

Christ died for our offences and rose again for our justification.

So when Romans 5:1 says, “Therefore being justified by faith…,” we must understand all those earlier conclusions.

Romans 5 now tells us what we have because we’re justified.

Salvation is already settled in chapters 3 and 4. Now Romans 5 begins the section on sanctification which is our standing, our position in Christ, who God has made us, and the blessings that come with it.

Sanctification means being set apart for God’s purpose. Romans 5–8 explains how, being justified by faith, God’s set us apart in Christ.

If someone’s not saved, none of this applies.

They must go back to Romans 3 and 4 and trust Christ alone. But once saved, Romans 5 shows the riches of God’s grace given freely to us.

Sanctification and justification are big words, but they really mean our standing before God.

That’s why Romans 5:1 says, “being justified… we have peace with God.” That shows our standing with God.

And in Romans 5 we see something very important: the first time Paul ever mentions the Holy Ghost. Romans 5:5 says the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts “by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” That’s the first time Paul writes that.

Romans 5 talks a lot about Jesus Christ. In fact, the book of Romans mentions the name “Jesus Christ” more than any other book in the whole Bible. People think we learn the most about Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but those books talk about Him in His earthly life The Son of God, the Son of Man, God in the flesh. But Paul talks about Jesus Christ as our risen Lord and Savior, and he mentions Him more than any other writer.

People say, “I follow Jesus, not Paul,” but Paul’s the one who tells us who Jesus Christ is to us today. Without Him we’re nothing, and without Him we get nothing. That’s why Paul talks about Him so much.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John show Jesus on earth as the long prophesied Jewish Messiah, but Paul was given the details of salvation from Christ in glory, how all things can be reconciled through Him, and how we’re justified by faith.

People say Ephesians is where Paul teaches the mystery, and that’s true—Ephesians uses the word “mystery” a lot and explains the body of Christ. But Romans 5 actually lays the foundation. Ephesians just expands what Romans 5 already teaches. Romans 5 is about “us in Christ” and “Christ in us,” which is the heart of the mystery.

Romans 5:1 says, “being justified by faith, we have…” That “we have” is what makes the chapter so great.

Romans 5 is about us—our standing, our blessings, our place in Christ. Romans 4 talked mostly about Abraham and the Scriptures of the past, showing faith without works, faith without circumcision, faith without the law. But at the end of Romans 4, in Romans 4:23–24, Paul turns and says it was written “for us also” and now Romans 5 keeps talking about us in this dispensation.

Romans 5:2 says this,

By whom (that’s the Lord Jesus Christ). By Whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 

We “have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.”

We talk about “the dispensation of the grace of God” from Ephesians 3:2, but Romans 5 is really where Paul lays it out.

The word “grace” appears more times in Romans 5 than in any other chapter in the Bible. From Romans 4:16 to Romans 6:23, grace shows up ten times—more than anywhere else. If you want to hear Paul talk about grace, this is the place.

Romans 5 also uses the word “gift” more than any other chapter in Scripture. The phrase “free gift” appears only three times in the whole Bible—all in Romans 5.

This chapter shows God’s gracious gift to sinners. Christ on the cross was needed for justification, but Romans 5:8 shows God’s love in that death: But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

So Romans 5 is about grace, God’s gift, our standing, and what we have in Christ.

Paul said in Romans 1:5 that he received “grace and apostleship.” Now in Romans 5 he shows what that grace means for us today.

Paul starts Romans in Romans 1:1 by saying he’s an apostle of grace, that he “received grace and apostleship.” But he can’t preach grace until he first proves man’s sin. We can’t understand God’s grace until we see our own sin and unworthiness. So for almost three chapters he shows all are sinners.

Then in Romans 3:24 he finally gives the gospel: “being justified freely by his grace.” We said before that this verse is the heart of the gospel according to the mystery.

Romans 3:25 talks about Christ’s blood, which Israel also needed for their covenant, but Paul shows that same blood is now applied to us for free justification by grace. That same “free gift” is what Romans 5 teaches.

So Paul brings up grace in Romans 3:24, then goes back in Romans 4 to prove salvation is by faith alone using Israel’s Scriptures. But when he reaches Romans 5, he leaves the Old Testament arguments behind and begins to tell us what we have by God’s grace.

Romans 4:16 said, “it is of faith, that it might be by grace,” and at the end of the chapter Paul says this truth is “for us also.” Now Romans 5 begins listing what we have.

Romans 5:1 says it like this,

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 

This justification is without works, without Israel, without covenants, without the law—just like Romans 4 taught. This verse helped Martin Luther leave Catholicism because it contradicted the teaching that you’ve got to add works or sacraments to faith.

Even today some say you must be water‑baptised to be a Christian, but Romans 5:1 stands against that.

Water baptism is a work of the law, and Paul says plainly we’re justified by faith alone.

Titus 3:5 says the same:

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, (not baptism) and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 

Ephesians 2:8–9 also says salvation is “the gift of God.” That’s Romans 5 doctrine—grace and gift.

Romans 5 begins listing the riches we have because we’re justified. People read Ephesians 1 and ask, “What are the riches of his grace?” Romans 5 explains them. Jesus Christ is mentioned thirteen times in this chapter because everything we have is through Him.

Ephesians 2:7 says,

That in the ages to come he (God) might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

God will show “the exceeding riches of his grace… through Christ Jesus.” Romans 5 shows why it must be through Christ and not through us. Later in the chapter Paul says we’re “saved from wrath,” which is one of those future riches.

Paul says in Ephesians 3:8 that grace was given to him to preach “the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

Why unsearchable?

Romans 5:20 says grace “did much more abound.” These riches were not in the prophets, not in Israel’s covenants, and they overflow beyond sin. Ephesians 3:16 prays that believers would be strengthened by these riches in the inner man. But we can’t understand Ephesians unless we first understand Romans. Romans 5 lays the foundation.

So Romans 5:1 says, “being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Peace is the opposite of wrath. Because Christ died, shed His blood, and rose again, and because we believe that, we now have peace instead of judgment and the wrath that accompanies it. That’s the first of the great riches of God’s grace in this chapter.

Romans 4:15 says the law works wrath. If there’s no law, there’s no transgression.

Paul already proved we can’t be justified by the law, so God now gives “the righteousness of God without the law.”

Because we’re justified without the law, one of the riches of God’s grace is that we now have peace with God. No wrath can fall on us, because wrath comes from breaking the law, and we’re not under the law.

Some people try to divide the law into parts, but Paul’s whole point in Romans 4 is righteousness without the law.

That’s why Romans 5:1 says plainly, “we have peace with God.” This is very different from Israel’s situation. In the Old Testament God poured out wrath on Israel many times. Even under the New Covenant, before the kingdom comes, Israel can still anger God and face judgment according to their covenant.

Hebrews 3 warns Israel’s believing remnant not to harden their hearts like their fathers in the wilderness.

God swore in His wrath they would not enter His rest. Hebrews 3–4 teaches that if those believers don’t endure, they’ll not enter the kingdom rest. Their peace comes in the kingdom, and they must trust Jesus and the Holy Ghost to get them there—just like Caleb and Joshua did in the Old Testament.

But Romans 5:1 is different. Paul’s not talking to covenant Israel. He’s talking to people saved without the law, without covenants, without an earthly kingdom promise. And he says we already have peace with God.

Hebrews 10:26–29 warns Israel that if they sin willfully after receiving the truth, judgment will come.

They can lose blessings under their covenant. First Peter 4:17 says judgment begins at the house of God. Israel still faces wrath for purification, to separate the wheat from the chaff.

But in Romans 5:1 we, that’s you and me, are justified by faith alone. We’re not under the law, not under covenants, not under kingdom conditions. We have peace with God right now.

Can we fully understand how incredible that really is?

Paul says this in 1 Thessalonians 5:9,

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 

Romans 1:18 begins by showing God’s wrath on all sinners, but once we reach Romans 5:1 we see that wrath is gone for the believer,

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ

The war with God is over because of Christ.

This peace is not peace with other people. Christians still argue. The world still fights. God never promised that being justified by faith would make everyone like us. He promised peace with Him, which is far more important. His wrath is eternal; people’s anger is not.

This peace is also not peace within ourself.

Romans 7–8 shows that believers still struggle on the inside. Romans 5 is talking about our standing before God.

Being justified by faith means the problem of sin, the guilt, the judgment, the death it brings before God, is removed. Sin is still present in our flesh, but the problem it caused between us and God is gone. God is fully satisfied with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins.

That’s why Romans 5:1 shows us one of the great riches of God’s grace: peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul says we’re justified by faith, and 2 Corinthians 5:21 teaches the same truth and we read,

For he (God) hath made him (Jesus Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

That doesn’t mean we live perfect in works. It means His righteousness is imputed or accounted to us by faith as we saw in Romans 4, and He took our sins as we saw in Romans 3.

So 2 Corinthians 5:21 is a gospel verse because it points back to Romans 3–4.

When preachers say “the sin problem is gone,” that’s only true for those justified by faith. If someone’s not justified by faith, sin’s still a problem because God will judge them and that should trouble them.

There’s a conflict between God and man. But God’s satisfied with Christ’s atoning work. For those justified by faith, the conflict is gone.

When Romans 5:1 says, “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” It’s because everything we have—salvation, sanctification, blessings all come only through Him. Without Him we have nothing.

The phrase “our Lord Jesus Christ” is important.

Unbelievers do not call Jesus “our Lord.”

In Matthew some say “Lord, Lord,” but Jesus says He never knew them. But in Romans Paul’s talking to believers justified by faith. Christ is Lord of all, whether people accept it or not, but for the saved He truly is our Lord. And it’s through Him we have peace with God.

Colossians 1:20 says,

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Christ “made peace” through His blood.

Romans 3 already taught about His blood shed for us. This is reconciliation—God and man brought together. Romans 5 will go on to explain this reconciled relationship. Paul even says God has given us the ministry of reconciliation in this dispensation.

Peace with God is salvation.

If we don’t have peace with God, we’re not saved. Salvation means being saved from the wrath that a righteous God pours out on sinners—not because God is mean, but because part of God’s character is perfect justice, justice that’s incalculably above our justice. A justice that brings judgment. So when we say, “I have peace with God,” we’re saying, “I’m saved.”

Religious people struggle with this.

Martin Luther, as a Catholic, kept doing works and sacraments to “maintain” his standing.

But when he saw Romans 5:1, he realised he already had peace with God by faith, not by works and it didn’t matter what he felt or thought about it. That truth changed history.

Many lost, unsaved people may seem peaceful, but their peace comes from ignorance or apathy. They don’t know or don’t care about God’s judgment.

But ignoring the problem doesn’t fix it. A person can look calm while a calamity is heading toward them. That’s not real peace.

The real problem is sin, not God. God made creation good. Sin ruined it. Ignoring sin doesn’t remove it. Sin has consequences. True forgiveness requires atonement. That’s why Christ died. Only His blood can atone for sin.

So Romans 5:1 is about the great riches of God’s grace:

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

In any court, if a judge forgives a sentence, he must have a reason or he becomes an unjust judge. God’s the same way. For there to be real truth, righteousness, justice, and peace, there must be a right reason.

Christ is that reason.

He’s the only one who can give us that peace with God.

Peace with God is more than just being saved from wrath. It is also our position before God.

Being justified means God declares us righteous.

Romans 5:8 says,

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

That shows His love.

This peace is part of our sanctification, our standing, our position before God.

Sanctification’s not our behaviour or us working to make us better people, it’s the place God puts us for His purpose. Our position never changes. Our condition —our feelings, our struggles—may change. We may not always feel peaceful, but we still have peace with God because of Christ.

Someone may ask, “Have you made your peace with God?” But according to the gospel, we don’t make peace with God Christ did it for us. We simply believe what He did, and then through that faith we have peace with God. Asking someone, “Do you have peace with God?” is really asking, “Are you saved?”

Romans 5:2 says,

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 

The “whom” is Jesus Christ. Every blessing in Romans 5 comes through Him. He didn’t just save us from wrath; He gave us a position, a standing of peace before God.

Romans 5 is a whole list of things we have because we’re justified by faith. These are the riches of God’s grace.

Up to this point in Romans, the only thing we “did” was sin. Salvation wasn’t us doing anything to earn it. And sanctification—our position—is also not us doing anything. Because of Jesus Christ we have it freely.

1 Corinthians 1:30 says this,

But of him (God) are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 

Some Christians say justification is without works, but sanctification is by works, something we do over our lifetime to improve ourselves. But Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 1:30 say we’re already sanctified when we’re in Christ not by our continued works or our service. Service is what we do. Sanctification is the position God gives us.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says,

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

Salvation is not us trying to make ourself new. Christ makes us new and places us in His body.

If people confuse sanctification with works, they end up denying the riches of God’s grace. If we’ve got to work for these blessings, then what does justification even mean?

Paul warns the Colossians about this. They knew the gospel, but others tried to rob them by saying Christ’s work wasn’t enough. Paul says in Colossians 2:16-17,

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Paul deals with this again in Romans 6–8. Almost all his later epistles build on what he lays down in Romans.

Romans is the foundation because it shows what we have in Christ. Romans 5:2 says, “By whom also we have access by faith.”

This is the second thing Paul lists. We already have peace with God as per verse 1, and now we have access.

How do we get access to God? Not by works, not by anointing, not by church attendance, not by praying enough. The same Christ who justified us by faith is the same Christ who gives us access by faith into the grace “wherein we stand.”

Paul’s saying the grace that saved us is the same grace we now stand in. It’s not that grace saved us once and now we need to run to God’s “throne of grace” to get more.

Romans 5:2 says we’re already standing in grace. You approach God from inside grace, not from outside begging to get it.

That access means access to God Himself.

Ephesians 3:12 says,

In whom (that’s Jesus Christ) we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. 

This is part of the mystery—this fellowship and access freely given by grace. Many Christians understand salvation but miss this part: the access, the standing, the position.

Ephesians 2:12 explains it too, Let’s read,

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 

Some people twist this and say Paul’s teaching that now we Gentiles get Israel’s covenants. But Romans 4 already proved we are justified without Israel, without circumcision, without covenants.

Paul’s simply reminding us that in time past the only way to access God was through Israel.

Then, in Ephesians 2:13,

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 

The blood of Christ not covenants.

God always wanted to give grace, even in Exodus 33 under the law, but Gentiles had no access. They had to come through Israel. But now, through Christ alone, without Israel, without the law, without covenants, we have access to God’s grace.

Some say the church is under Israel’s New Covenant. They call it the umbrella of the New Covenant, but the real “umbrella” is Christ Himself. The question is not “Do we get grace?” but “How do we access it?”

Israel accessed grace through prophecy and covenants. We access grace through the mystery—Christ alone.

Ephesians 2:14–18 shows Christ broke down the wall between Jew and Gentile, making “one new man.” That new man is the body of Christ which consists of all, Jew and Gentile, Free and bond, male and female. There’s no difference in the Body.

Peace is preached to those far off and those near. Peace is salvation. Israel had covenants of peace if they obeyed. Today, through the mystery revealed through Paul, we have peace now through Christ without any of that.

Through Him we have access by one Spirit unto the Father as we see in Ephesians 2:18. Why do we need access? Because God is the giver of life, love and righteousness. Without Him life is empty.

Israel accessed grace through covenants.

James 1:27 shows their covenant religion—helping widows, staying unspotted. James 4:6 says God gives grace to the humble. Luke 18 shows the sinner’s prayer under the law. That was how grace worked then, before Paul’s gospel.

But today, under the mystery, we don’t get grace by humbling ourself. We get grace through Christ alone, by faith, standing in the grace He already gave us.

We have access to God through faith in Christ’s shed blood. Romans 4 says righteousness is imputed to those who believe Jesus “was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification.”

That’s grace through faith.

Israel, before this dispensation of Grace, accessed God’s grace through covenants, but we access God through Jesus Christ, the same Christ who gives us peace with God.

Many people picture Jesus as only loving and gentle, almost effeminate, but Scripture says when He returns, He comes “in flaming fire taking vengeance” according to 2 Thessalonians 1:8.

Catholics try to solve this by praying to Mary as a softer mediator, but the Bible says Christ alone is the mediator. Today He’s offering grace, not wrath, so today we can approach Him without fear.

Romans 5:2 says we stand in grace. We don’t run to God hoping for more grace—we already stand inside it.

This is the same truth Paul expands on in Ephesians 3: the dispensation of the grace of God, the mystery of Christ and our position in Him.

Our position never changes even though our state – our feelings, our circumstances—change all the time.

Philippians 4:11–13 shows this. Paul says he learned to be content in any state: rich or poor, healthy or hurting. “I can do all things through Christ” means he can endure any circumstance because he has peace with God and access to grace.

Romans 5:3–4 teaches the same: we glory in tribulations through Christ.

God’s not punishing us day by day. Bad weather or sickness is not God being angry. Our position is peace with God through Christ. Our condition may feel rough sometimes, but our standing is secure because it’s the result of Christ’s work, perfect and complete.

Our state is our changing earthly condition. Romans 5:2 says we stand in grace and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

 

Colossians 1:24–27 matches Romans 5. Paul rejoices in sufferings because of Christ. He says the dispensation of God was given to him to reveal the mystery: Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Romans 5:2 says we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

How can Gentiles have this hope? Because justification is by faith without works, without Israel, without covenants. Christ dwells in us, and we in Him.

In Colossians 1:28 Paul says he preaches and warns so believers will be “perfect in Christ Jesus”. He doesn’t mean sinless. He means believers should understand their complete position in Christ. When we know who we are in Him, grace can work in us and through us. If we don’t know this, we can be saved but never grow.

That’s why Paul warns—because people will try to rob us of what Christ freely gave. Romans 5 teaches these riches so believers can stand firm, complete in Christ, knowing their peace, access, and hope come from Him alone.

Paul says the mystery is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Romans 5:2 says we “rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

That’s mystery truth. In Romans 4, Abraham “against hope believed in hope.” He trusted God even when everything looked impossible. We do the same. We didn’t get saved by good works or by looking worthy. We believed Jesus Christ. We believe in the hope He gives—peace now and glory to come.

 

What is this “glory of God” we hope in?

God’s glory includes His peace, joy, love—everything we truly need. God gives these things by His grace.

In 2 Corinthians 3:18 Paul says we behold “the glory of the Lord” and are changed “into the same image… by the Spirit.” The Holy Ghost works in us to conform us to Christ so Romans 8 tells us. That’s glory.

2 Corinthians 4 says the “glorious gospel of Christ” shines light into our hearts.

Why is it glorious?

Because salvation is only the beginning. In Christ we have a perfect standing, riches of grace, and a future glory. God gives us “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

If we want to know God’s love, peace, and joy, we must know Jesus Christ—especially as revealed in the mystery.

Ephesians 1 speaks often of “the glory of his grace.” Ephesians 1:6 says we’re “accepted in the beloved.” That’s glory.

In 2 Timothy 2:10 Paul says salvation in Christ comes “with eternal glory.” Colossians 3 says when Christ appears, we shall appear with Him in glory. Instead of wrath, we get glory because we have peace with God.

 

Many Christians fear Christ’s return, but someone truly saved by grace has no fear.

Christ will judge the world, for sure, but we’re at peace with God through Him.

When He appears in glory, we’ll be glorified with Him.

Romans 8:18 says the sufferings of this life are nothing compared to the glory that will be revealed in us.

Ephesians 3:21 says the church exists “to the glory of God” through Christ forever. Titus 2:13 calls Christ’s return “our blessed hope and glorious appearing.”

So why can we rejoice in the hope of glory? Why can we say we have peace with God even though we still fail and still have a life to live which can be challenging and hurtful? Because our hope is not in ourselves. It’s in His grace.

The glory that will come is by His grace and the glory we have now is by His grace.

Everything rests on what Christ has done, not what we do.

That’s why we can stand firm, rejoice, and trust His grace. And that’s where Romans 5:3 will take us next episode glorying even in tribulations because of what Christ has already given us.