God's "Much More" Kind of Love

Romans 5 solidifies and explains God’s message of salvation.  We are told that God, motivated by love, seeing our helpless situation, paid our penalty in Christ.  But Romans 5 doesn’t stop with the believer’s salvation – we are said now to be in the “much more” care of God.  Five statements tell us that there is so much more to God’s salvation than an escape from our due punishment.

•       Romans 5:9 - Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Romans 5:9 tells us that not only are we forgiven we are sure to be saved from God’s wrath that is to come upon the world.

•       Romans 5:10 - For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Romans 5:10 makes it clear that Christ’s death reconciled us to God and Christ’s resurrection is a guarantee of our salvation’s future consummation.

•       Romans 5:15 - But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Romans 5:15 tells us that God’s grace of salvation in Christ is more powerful to save than Adam’s sin was to condemn.

•       Romans 5:17 - For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:17 promises that every believer in Christ, far more than just being saved, WILL reign with Him, by His grace.

•       Romans 5:20 - The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more...

And Romans 5:20 tells us that where sin abounds, grace “much more” abounds – literally – Grace “super abounds” to break the power of sin in the believer’s life with God’s grace and forgiveness.

May we each live in an ever-growing understanding of this “much more” care of God for us.