Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled… 1. The resurrection and life of Jesus are the sure pledge of the resurrection and life of all His people. 2. Christ. in His present life at God's right hand, is invested with "power to give eternal life to as many as the Father hath given Him." 3. Jesus is employed in interceding for His people: and the evidence of God's full satisfaction in the finished work of His Son, afforded by His rising to life from the grave, gives us the most assured confidence that He never pleads in vain, that the Father heareth Him always. 4. All the arrangements of providence are in His hands. He not only exercises a general superintendence of the affairs of the world for the advancement and final triumph of His spiritual kingdom; there is a minuter care — a care which extends to each particular individual of His subjects in his passage through life. 5. By the power which is committed to Him in His mediatorial life, He will perfect the salvation of His people, by raising them at last from the grave. He is "Lord of the dead." Their spirits are with Him. Their bodies, though for a time left under the power of the last enemy, are still His. He will "redeem them from death, He will ransom them from the power of the grave." He ransomed them by price on earth: He will redeem them by power in heaven. (R. Wardlaw, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. |
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