Jesus' Death Reveals God's Love and Guarantees Final Salvation

Jesus’ Death Reveals God’s Love and Guarantees Final Salvation
ROMANS 5.6-11

I have heard it said – one hears all sorts of strange things in church – that John’s gospel is all about the love of God, but Paul’s letters are all about law, justice and hard, sharp things like that. Well, this passage challenges such a theory head on. In fact, of course, so does John’s gospel too: John’s vision of God’s love is tempered like steel in the furnace of the bitter hostility expressed against Jesus, and the incomprehension of everyone from the disciples to the crowds to the chief priests to Pilate. But Paul’s vision of God’s love, rising here like the sun on a clear summer’s morning, shines through all the detail that has gone before. You need to wake up early, to get out of bed, and to throw back the curtains, to see it; that’s what the previous four chapters are about. But now that we have done all that, the view is here for us to enjoy...