Romans Chapter 5 Vs. 9

 

Peace with God Through Faith

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Rom 5:9

Much more then,... If Christ died for us while we were yet ungodly, sinners, and enemies, how much more will He do for us since we have become reconciled, godly, and friends. If He saved us by His death, how much more can He save us by His life (Rom. 5:9-10; 8:31-34; Heb. 7:25).

The wrath being spoken of here is not God’s temporal wrath to come on the earth as in the book of Revelation, but of God’s eternal wrath reserved for unrepentant sinners.

We see this (in 1Thess. 5:9-10): “For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him”.

by his blood... Not by His physical blood, but by His death we shall be saved from wrath through him, through His violent, substitutionary death.

References to the blood of the Savior include the reality that He bled in His death, a necessity to fulfill the Old Testament imagery of sacrifice, but are not limited to the fluid itself. New Testament writers also use the term “blood” as a graphic way to describe violent death. References to the Savior’s blood are not simply pointing to the fluid, but at His death and entire atoning work.

Because Christ bore the full fury of God’s wrath in the believing sinner’s place, there is no fury left for him.

The participle translated have… been justified (“declared righteous”) ties these verses to the argument at the beginning of the chapter (cf. Rom. 5:1). The immediate connection, however, is with what preceded (Rom. 5:6-8). God gave proof of His love by having Christ die in the place of humans “while we were still sinners.” Because of the sinner’s response by faith (Rom. 5:1) to Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, God has declared him righteous. Certainly that now-declared-righteous person will not be forsaken by God’s love, which has been poured out effusively in his heart. Since the divine dilemma of justification (Rom. 3:26) has been solved on the basis of Jesus’ shed blood (cf. Rom. 3:25), certainly Jesus Christ will see that justified sinners will be saved from God’s wrath. Believers will never be condemned to hell (John 5:24; Rom. 8:1) nor will they be the objects of God’s coming Tribulation wrath (1Thess. 1:10; 5:9).