Romans 5:1-11
April 19, 2026
preached by Ed O’Leary
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Faith gives us peace with God because it reconciles us to him by taking away those sins that had made us his enemies.”

~ Ambrosiaster, the name given to the unknown author of a commentary on the epistles of Saint Paul, written between 366 and 384 AD, Commentaries on Romans-2 Corinthians

“Consider how great the things to come are, when we can rejoice even at things which appear to be distressful.… Sufferings are in themselves a good thing, insofar as they prepare us for endurance.”

~ John Chrysostom (347- 407), archbishop of Constantinople, Homilies on Romans

“Very occasionally someone might die for a righteous man, but nobody will ever die for an unrighteous one, which is what Christ did.”

~ John Calvin (1509-1564), a French-Swiss reformer and theologian, Commentary on Romans

“The Son of God loved us so much that he took his Father’s wrath on himself so that those made in God’s image might not perish eternally.”

~ Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600), a Danish Lutheran theologian, Commentary on Romans

“Our justification has not been earned by our faith but by the blood of Christ.”

~ Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563), a Reformed theologian, Commentary on Romans

Sermon Passage

Romans 5:1-11 (ESV)

¹ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² 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. ³ Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ 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.

⁶ For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— ⁸ but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.