 You're welcome, Ebega, Sanitodi, and Hanita. Thank you for joining class. And also, welcome online students, our e-learning students who will listen to these lectures later on. Hope all of you are enjoying your learning on the book of Romans, just such a plough. So many students that we've already discovered, and hope that even as we journey on in this learning, this book that God would reveal people's truths, his mysteries, his word, his kingdom in our lives, and this truth of us, and barefoot in our lives, in our ministry, and even as we engage with them as well. We are learning, we founded who we are, and what they're teaching, and how we relate with people. We'll begin with a word of prayer. Sorry, I just lost my network connection. OK, we'll begin with a word of prayer, and can one of you lead us in prayer, please? Anyone to lead us in prayer? Today is Jeffina's birthday, so wishing her a very blessed birthday, Jeffina. She's looking really beautiful, dressed up. I like the enthusiasm, her enthusiasm to celebrate her special day, and just blessings to Jeffina, even as she's celebrating. Can any one of you lead us in prayer, and can pray for Jeffina? Anyone celebrating her birthday today, so we can take a Jeffina and set up a prayer. Let's pray. Father, we come before Your presence in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, God, as we begin our third session, thank You for our precious Selena. She's going to teach from Your Word. I pray that You have empowered her so that she can teach us according to her prayer. For more of Your wisdom, more of Your grace over her life to teach the truth to us and prepare each one of us so that our hearts are ready to receive what You have instilled for us, this third session, Lord. Our hearts are ready. Our hearts are receptive, Lord, Father, God. Bless each one of us, Lord, and special Lord. I want to lift up our customer, our sister, Jeffina, to hear and to worship. Thank You for her life, Lord. Thank You for she's a woman of destiny, and I pray that as she celebrates her birthday, she will continue to bless her with good health, with your wisdom, with your prayer, that she will grow a rooter and grounded in You that she will continue to be a genius of blessings, Lord, wherever she goes, bless her abundantly, Lord. Thank You, Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen, amen. Thank You so much. I look forward to appreciate that. So last week, sorry, on Monday, we looked at chapter four and we read through chapter five and we all shared what we receive from chapter five, although the Spirit is speaking to us, or something that really imparted into our spirit man, that was imparted to our spirit man, something that really encouraged us. So some of you shared. And this morning, we looked at studying chapter five in detail. So chapter five is talking about grace and righteousness. So Paul has already written or communicated to the church that we receive righteousness by faith because Jesus was delivered up for our offenses and he was raised for our justification. And so then he talks about how we have been justified, having been justified, what do we have? So in verses one to verse four, he's basically talking about, now that we have been justified, that we have been made righteous by faith and not keeping the law and the sign of the covenant circumcision, but we have been justified by faith feeding, which is by the grace of God. So having been justified, what do we have? So that is what he's trying to talk about or write or say in verses one to five. So can one of you please read verses one to five, please? Romans chapter five, verses one to five. Romans chapter five, verse one through five. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through whom all we have accessed by faith into his grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulation. Tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope. Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Amen. Thank you, Lebega. So here, you know, the words justify, justification, righteousness means the same thing because they have the same root word. It means that we have been made fearless or blameless. You know, we have been made just of right before God. We have been made right in God's sight and the right standing with God. And we have been made just as if we have never seen. So what does it mean to be justified by faith? Or what are the outcomes of being justified by faith? All says, you know, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, which means we are one with God. We are not in a fighting mode, so to say with God. We are friends with God. We have a good relationship with God because we are justified with God. So we should never think that God is angry with us or God is upset with us because it says that God has peace with us. Why can't we think that God is angry with us or is upset with us because God has peace with us which means that we are no longer being justified with God. We are made righteous with God. And that means that, you know, God has peace with us. We are no longer, you know, enemies of God. We are no longer in a fighting mode with God, but we are friends with God. We are his children. So in, you know, verse two, he says to whom also, we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. So there, he goes on to talk about four outcomes of being justified here in this passage. There are four outcomes of being justified that he mentions here. The first thing is he says, we have, you know, we have peace with God. And then second thing he says, that we have access by faith into a standing in grace. And the third thing he says, you know, what is the standing of grace mean to us? Okay. And then he goes on to talk about, you know, that, you know, we have the third thing he says that we are in a place of rejoicing and the fourth thing he says, we rejoice in tribulation. So four things, the first thing, peace with God. Second thing is access by faith into a standing in grace. The third thing is that we are in a place of rejoicing and the fourth thing is that we rejoice in tribulation. So we'll just look at four outcomes of what it means to be justified by faith. The first thing we said is peace with God, which means we are one with God. We are basically reconciled with God, which means God is not our enemy. We are not in a fighting mode with God. That's the first thing that we need when we say we are peace with God. And the second thing is only when we have peace with God, you know, we can have the peace of God. Only when we have, we are in a peaceful relationship with God, when we are friends with God, when we have peace with God, can we have the peace of God. So sometimes, you know, when we think, hey, there is that peace that is missing in my life, you know, when the Bible says that even though we go through the disappointments, tribulations, brokenness, pain, we experience the peace of God, but I'm not experiencing this peace. Maybe it's because, you know, somewhere that we are not in that area of your life, in peaceful with God, because when you're in peace with God, you will experience the peace of God, okay? The second outcome of being justified is we have access by faith into a standing of grace, which means we are in a position where we are highly favored by God. Isn't that wonderful that when we are made righteous, when we are justified, you know, not only do we have peace with God, we are also in a place where we are highly favored by God. You know, we enter into the standing in grace simply by the faith that we have in Jesus Christ, okay? So this access of faith into a standing in grace, this faith that we have is, we enter into it because we're standing in grace simply by faith in Jesus Christ, okay? So what does it mean to be standing in grace, okay? To be standing in grace means to God, we are loved as Christ has loved us, okay? So we're just looking basically at point two, we're looking at what it means to be standing in grace. When you're standing in grace, it means to God, we are loved as Christ is loved, okay? John chapter 17 verse 23 says, the world may know that you have sent me and you have loved them as you have loved me. That is what it means to be standing in grace. That means, you know, we are loved as Christ is loved. That means God loves us just as he loves Jesus Christ. The second meaning of standing in grace means to God, we are well pleasing, okay? Matthew chapter three, verse 17 says, it is like the Father speaking over us that he spoke over Jesus. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. So, you know, the Father spoke about the son saying that he is well pleasing to him. So in the same way, you know, well pleasing means it's the same way the Father is speaking over us just like he spoke over Jesus, that this is my beloved son or this is my beloved daughter, you know, whom I am well pleased in. And the third meaning we can say about standing in grace means to God, we are fully accepted. Ephesians chapter one, verse six says, the praise of the glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in his beloved. That means to God, we are fully accepted. And the next one to be standing in grace means to God, we are blessed beyond measure. Ephesians chapter one, verse three saying, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So he has blessed us with everything, every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And also to God, we are holy and without blame. So when we say we are standing in grace, it means that to God that we are in a place where we are holy and blameless, faultless. We read this in Ephesians chapter one, verse four, he says, just as he chose us and him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in. And to be standing in grace also means that before God, we are faultless, unaccused and there is no condemnation. So in Ephesians chapter one, verse 21 and 22 says, and you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind while wicked works, yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through that to present you holy and blameless and before reproach in his sight, okay? So isn't that wonderful that when we are reconciled to God through the debt of Jesus Christ, we are presented as holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight. And the last thing what we mean when we say that we're standing in grace to God, we are qualified, okay? Our Colossians chapter one was 12 saying, giving thanks to the Father who's qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light, okay? So there is nothing more that we can add to this in our own efforts, except embrace all of this that we receive by grace to faith and we just work worthy of this. And so he says, therefore, all we do. So, you know, it says, how do we relate to God? You know, how we face the devil and all we do in the Christian business street, it's basically, you know, it flows out of our standing in grace. We stand in a place without a sense of guilt, without a sense of shame and condemnation. So in all we do, you know, how do we relate to God? How do we face the devil? How do we, you know, face the challenges that we face in life? How do we approach Christian ministry? You know, we do it all out of the flowing, out of the standing in the grace that is in Christ Jesus' heart, Lord, okay? So the reason we live holy, you know, lives, the reason why we renounce him and ungodliness, the reason why we work hard, pursue excellence, make sacrifices, take risks, it's not to burn anything from God, but because we desire to honor him, to give him the best that we can, you know, out of all the love that we have for him, and knowing that we're already standing in this place of grace, okay? And knowing that whatever we do is not going to, you know, earn us grace, but knowing that he has already actually empowered us by his grace, you know, and, you know, and he has intended us to come to this place where we give him all the glory and the honor and the love and manifest his glory for where he has positioned us, that we have already positioned or we already have a standing in this, okay? So that is why we need to, you know, desire to live a holy life, give up saying, you know, live a godly life, give up ungodliness, work hard, you know, pursue excellence for the kingdom of God, make sacrifices, you know, take those risks that God wants us to take, you know, not to earn anything from God because we've already received, you know, everything that God has given to us, we have already received, but we do it because we desire to honor him, and we do it because we want to give him our best because of what he's already given us. He's already given us a standing in grace. Imagine standing in grace, you know, causes us to be loved just as God loves Jesus, causes us to be well pleasing before him, who are we to be well pleasing before him, causes us to be fully accepted, to be blessed beyond measure, to be holy and without blame, to be faultless, unaccused and no condemnation and to be qualified. So, you know, just look at the immense blessing that we have received because of our standing in grace. So what should be our response is, you know, all that we do should be, we should do it out of our love and on honor, the one who has given us a right standing in grace, okay? Because he's already actually empowered us in his grace and we are here to express our honor and love to him for all that he has done for us and what he has given us. The third thing, the third outcome of us being justified, you know, is to be in a place of rejoicing, okay? We're rejoicing for the good things that God has planned for us. He's going to release his glory upon us that he has kept for us. That's why he says the hope of the glory of God, okay? So we have this hope that we will share in God's glory. Imagine who I would need to share in the glory of God, you know, but we have this hope that we are going to share in the glory in God's glory. Part of this includes being in his presence in heaven and there is all the things that we enjoy which is part of this glory of God that we are enjoying, we enjoy the peace with God, we have the grace of God, but there is more that God has kept for us. So we are rejoicing in that hope as well that one day, you know, we will all be people who will share in God's glory even as we are already experiencing it now through the peace that we have with God and the grace of God, the right standing. In the grace that God has given us, okay? And we'll also rejoice in the hope that we will receive as well that we will, you know, share in God's glory. The fourth outcome of us being justified is to rejoice in tribulation. So why do we rejoice in tribulation? Why should we rejoice in tribulation? Why should we rejoice when we go to trials and difficulties? What does the verse say? Verse three. Because what is the result of tribulation? What is it going to produce in us? It's going to develop a severance, endurance, character, and hope in us, okay? So next time, you know, any of us goes through tribulations and you're going through tribulations and difficulties and hardships, you know, glory in God, worship God, just rejoice, praise him, you know, why? Because look at what the results are going to be. It's going to give you, make you persevere, give you more endurance, character, and hope in us again. So that is what he says in verse three. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance. So when we go through hard times, we can still be happy when things are difficult and hard. We are not, you know, we shouldn't be down dejected or depressed, but we glory in tribulations. He says, knowing, what do we know? We know that tribulation develops endurance. Endurance means what? Our ability to stay on the coast, the ability to continue to run our race. And verse four says it produces character and character increases hope, okay? So when we go through tribulation, it develops endurance, so ability to stay on the coast. And when we stay on our coast, our character is developed, who we are as people is being developed, okay? When our character is developed, we become people of hope, which means we can look at things, the positive side, even though we are going through tribulations, okay? So we can look at things, hopefully, that hey, there's something good that is going to come out. You know, God can, you know, bring things that are not as though they are, things that does not exist. You can bring those things out, just like we looked at in chapter four. So we have the hope and that is what we say Abraham had that hope that even though things were good as dead, against all hope, he believed and it was credited to him as righteousness, okay? So hope is the expression of us being a strong character. That means we are people who are happy, tried, you know, tested and we have been proved, even in difficult situations, we can still have hope and hope is not going to disappoint us, amen? We will not be disappointed, the hope will become a reality, going back to chapter four, you know? Against all hope, Abraham believed, you know, even though his body was good as dead, Sarah's body was good as dead, but believed God can call things that are not as though they are. And so the God can give life to things that are dead. He can call those things and give life. And against all hope, Abraham believed, even though he could not see, okay? And that hope did not disappoint. Abraham, he had the son of promise with his wife, Sarah, and we know that, you know, hope will not disappoint us and that hope will become a reality, even as we spoke about the class on Monday, we spoke about the difference between hope and faith. Faith is actually the present reality, substance of what, you know, we are seeing, something that we experienced, hope is something, you know, into the future. But, you know, when we have hope or when we glory in tribulation, we will have this hope, which means this hope will become a reality. It can be something that we can experience and see in the here and in the now. He says the love of God has been pulled out into our hearts, okay? So right now, the love of God has been pulled out into our hearts. We're experiencing the love of God that has been pulled out into our hearts, okay? And then he talks about this in verses five to eight, the love God has for us. So can somebody please read verses five to eight, please? But before we look at verses five to eight, anyone has any doubts, any questions, anything you'd like to share? You need any clarity? No? Okay, we'll move on to verses five to eight. Can somebody please read verses five to eight, please? Verse five, and hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been pulled out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person, someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Amen, thank you, Rosalind. So in tribulation, I'm a person who can, you fill with the hope, why because God's love has been pulled into my heart. The same way in tribulation, you can be a person full of hope why because God's love has been pulled out into your heart, which means you can experience the love of God. The love of God has been pulled out into our hearts. Right now, the love of God has been pulled out but experiencing the love of God that has been pulled out into our hearts here and now. And it's the Holy Spirit that will enable us to personally experience the love of God. And it's the Holy Spirit that enables us to walk in the love of God. And it's not just that we experience the love of God, but it's also Holy Spirit that helps us to be able to love others because if God's love is pulled out into our hearts, not only do you experience it in your life, not only do you experience the love of God in your life, but also you and I are able to turn around and say, if God has loved me, I can love others as well. So to the measure that I experience the love of God is the measure I can extend the love of God to others, right? So if you're not able to love others, if you're not able to speak kind words to others, if you're not being gracious, you're mercifully compassionate to others, it's basically you have not experienced the full measure of the love of God. To the extent the measure of the love of God that you experienced in your heart, you're able to extend that love of God to others, okay? If God could love us in spite of our faults, then I need to love others in spite of that weakness, right? The same love that is pulled out into our hearts, which we experience personally, which makes us more than Congress in difficult situations, which gives us the conviction that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. The same love can extend to other people and hopefully they too will feel the same kind of love. And hopefully they can also feel that they are more than Congress in difficult situations and nothing can separate them from God's love, okay? Verse five, he says, you know, in verse five he says, I hope that's not disappoint us because the love of God has been pulled out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Now, we can understand it both as the love of God, you know, that has been pulled out into our hearts, creating in us an experience and intimate personal knowing of the love of God or intimate personal understanding or knowing the love that God has for us. And it could also mean that the love of God has been pulled out into our hearts, giving us the capacity to love other. So two things, we experiencing intimate personal love of God, knowing the love of God, understanding the love of God has for us and also the love of God being pulled into our hearts, giving us the capacity to love others just as he loves us. And later on in chapter eight, you know, Paul will describe for us how powerful this love is, which God has for us. Firstly points to cross as the place that God demonstrated this great love. And he says all this is possible because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, again. Now in verses six to 11, Paul is basically focusing on Christ's death for us. He's focusing on the cross. And in verse six, you know, like to emphasize three things. Verse six, I like to read it out for us for when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for me and ungodly. Just like to mention or emphasize three things here. The first thing is, says when we were without strength, when we were without strength. So later on in this chapter, you know, he will talk about how we are in a place of strength when we are reigning in life. So here there's a contrast being built. Later on in this chapter, he'll talk about, you know, how we have a place of strength when we reign in life. But here is, there's a contrast being built, he's saying, when we are without strength. So when we were without strength, we were weak, we were powerless, we were in slavery to many things. And this was our condition. And when we were in the stage, you know, we were without strength, okay? The second thing I like to emphasize from verse six is that he says at the right time Christ you know, died. At the right time or in due time Christ died for the ungodly, okay? So you see that Adam and Eve sinned 4,000 years before Christ died, okay? So we can think, why did God take so long? You know, why did he take 4,000 years to die for the sins of mankind? If Adam and Eve, when Adam and Eve sinned and if God, you know, had the solution or he had the span of redemption, ordering in his mind that he's going to redeem mankind from sin, then why couldn't he have executed his plan the very next day or the very next moment when Adam and Eve sinned, okay? Why did he wait for 4,000 years? Christ should have come immediately and died that only two people sinned, only two people would have been saved, would have been redeemed and the rest of mankind would be free from sin, okay? Why did God take 4,000 years? So God waited for 4,000 years and you know, people suffered and face the consequences for sin for 4,000 years but scripture tells us that at the right time Christ died for us, okay? In due time, which means it's not the prologue's time but the kairos time, the God appointed time, the right time, you know, when Christ died for us. So 4,000 years actually in our mind is such a long time, right? But for God is the right time. We cannot understand everything, we cannot understand God's timing, why he does what he does, when he does it, we cannot understand God's timing. We can say he revealed himself, he brought the nation of Israel into being, he gave them the laws, the covenants, nobody, if you look at the main thing to happen, Christ to come and die for our sins, it took 4,000 years and we can't understand everything about God's timing but we trust that it is the right time God does what he has to do, okay? So the same thing about the return of Christ, there's been 2,000 years since Christ died, so when is Jesus going to come, okay? But the only thing we can say is that the right time he will come and we just rest in that, okay? And then he says, you know, in verse six, that in the due time Christ died for the ungodly, okay? So ungodly is people who don't deserve his grace, his mercy and his love. And he contrasts this with what he says in verse seven, he says, no one will give their life for another good person, very rarely will they give their life up, but he says in verse eight, this is what Christ did for us, this is what God did for us, okay? So verse seven says, for a righteous man with one diet, perhaps for a good man, someone would bear to die, but verse eight says, God demonstrates his love for us, you know, his own love for us or his own love towards us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, okay? So while we were still sinners, while we were still ungodly, while we were still without strength, God demonstrated his own love towards us. And Paul is saying, this is not about us whether we are good or blameless, it's not about us whether we are noble or worthy, but God is saying, and I know that you are ungodly, I know that you are without strength, I know that you are sinners, and I love you so much, and I'm going to show you that I love you. Okay? So this is the full extent of God's love. I mean, eight, this is so amazing, this can just blow our minds that when we look at human love, so much based on what to do, what to give, sometimes we can just love and love and the other person is not able to receive, not able to understand, you know, like God is saying, I know who you are, I know you are ungodly, I know that you are without strength, I know that you are sinners, and God is saying, I still love you so much, isn't that so amazing? You know, and he's saying, I'm going to show you how much I love you, and that is what they are going to love, that is the God kind of love, and that is the love that really holds us and strengthens us that we can really depend on and we can rely on with the rest of our lives, okay? So he's saying, this is how I'm going to do it, Romans chapter five verse eight, God demonstrates his own love towards us in that while we are still sinners, Christ died for us again. So this is the love God has poured out in our lives, you know, back in verse five we know, and here it's evidence, the proof that God demonstrates his own love towards us that while we are still sinners, you know, Christ died for us. So at times, you know, we feel God really does not love us, we feel that God does not, sometimes we feel like God does not really love me, or we tend to determine and judge God's love for us when nice things happens, and you know, when wrong things happen, we think that he doesn't love us, he doesn't care for us. I think that's a wrong thing to do, what we must know and what we must do is when we feel that, you know, God does not love us, God is punishing us, or he doesn't care for us, we need to look at the cross. So every time we want to know God's love for us, we must look at the cross. We must say, you know, this is how much God loved me, that he gave Jesus his only son for me, you know, while I was unbodly, while I was without strength, while I was still a sinner, Christ died for me, and this is God's demonstration of his love for me. And I know that maybe now in the stage where I am, I'm not living a life that is right, you know, I might be without strength, I might be seen as a sinner, but you know, God still loves me. So never doubt God's love for you, never doubt that you are not in peace with God because he says we're already in peace with God, and never doubt God's love for you because he always loves you, okay? So Christ died for you and me, what is the result? What is the result of Christ dying for you and me? We look at it in verses nine to 11. We are reconciled to God, can somebody read verses nine to 11 please? Before that, anyone has any questions, any doubts and things you'd like to ask and what was explained so far? I just wanna ask a question, verse one and two, five. Can you increase the volume because I'm not able to show you. Yeah, okay. Is it fine then? Yeah. Yeah, so I just wanna ask a question when you're one to five, where we see inverse two, rejoicing the hope of the glory of God. And then in verse three we see, we also glory in tribulations. Are these glories the same word? I mean, we are glowy in tribulation and in verse two it says, glory of God. So what did glory actually mean for us? Sorry. So what do we mean when we say the glory of God? What do we mean when we say the glory of God basically mean who God is and what he does. This basically talks about the manifestation of the nature of God, his character, his attributes, okay, who he is, is revealed or manifested through his works as well. So when you talk about the glory of God is basically talking about who God is and what he does. But when you're saying when you glory in tribulation, it means that we rejoice, we worship, we praise, we give thanks in tribulation. Because when we do that, yes, we experience the manifest the glory of God. At least we experience his nature and we also experience his work, what he does, signs, miracles and wants to test it. Anyone else has any questions? Any doubts, anything you want me to explain again? I hope all of you are following. Am I too fast? Okay. First of all, we always deal with the problem. Thank you very much. Okay, so we'll move on. So Christ died for us. So what is the result of Christ's death? The first thing is living reconciled to God and he talks about this in verse five to 11. So can somebody please read five to 11, please? I need to read more. How do you read more? Verse nine to 11, verse nine to 11. Yes. Much more than being unjustified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him. 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. Amen. Verse 11 is when? Please? I will bring it back. Verse 11. I'm not only so, but we also join in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. By whom we have now to see the Atomum. Amen. Thank you, Abubakir. So here it says, because Christ died for us, we have been justified by his blood. We shall be saved from the wrath, the judgment through him, and we are saved from eternal judgment, okay? So in verse 10, we see for if when we were enemies, so he's, you know, looking at the past when we were ungodly, when we were without strength, when we are sinners, and now we are adding to the list that, you know, he's adding to the list that we were even enemies with God, but, you know, we have been reconciled to God because of his death, okay? So he says that, you know, he's already said in the past, we were ungodly, we were without strength, we were sinners, now he's adding to the list of who we were before we were, you know, reconciled to God. He says now we're also enemies with God, but now we are reconciled to God, okay? So just imagine two friends, James, you can just name them as James and John. There's no James and John in our last name. So imagine James has borrowed huge amounts of money from John, and then, you know, he turns against John, bringing all kinds of false allegations against him, and, sorry, and doing much damage to him, and, you know, John has a choice. What are the choices that John has? He can choose to retaliate, he can choose to ignore, or he can choose to reach out to restore his relationship with James, okay? So he has all these options. Now, imagine John goes to James and forgives his death completely, okay? forgives all the wrong that James has done to him, and only asks for friendship to be restored to him. Wouldn't that be amazing? That would be truly amazing, right? So in a similar way, you know, or in a far greater way, we were enemies with God, okay? We are the ones who owed a great debt because of our sin. We were the ones who were hostile towards God. We were the ones who were so indifferent to God, but it was God himself who killed to us, you know? It was God himself who took that initiative. It was God himself who paid our debt in full by giving his son, Jesus, and God himself making a way for us so that we can become friends with him and be reconciled to him and have a peace of God and, you know, have the right standing with God. So he says, because we are reconciled, we are also being saved from eternal judgment because of what Christ has done for us. That means we have eternal life and we are saved from eternal judgment, okay? We have this assurance that we have eternal life that you will spend eternity with God where we can experience the fullness of his glory, okay? We'll stop there, or we'll continue with verse 11 on Friday. Anyone has any questions? Any questions? I hope you're enjoying our study on Romans chapter five. It's just very powerful foods. It sometimes just overwhelms me, but it's just so good, so powerful. Thank God for, you know, what he has inspired for so long to write and the opportunity that we have to build. Okay, thank you everyone. Have no questions to ask. We've end class now. Have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead. Enjoy your week, God bless you. Even as you are standing in his grace, enjoy all the benefits and the blessings of his grace, you know, through your mission. Okay, enjoy yourselves. Thank you, bye bye. Thank you so much, Pastor, we appreciate you. Thank you.