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Preaching the Gospel to Ourselves By Bill Warner (Romans 5:1-11)

Romans 5:1–11 is laid out as the living contour of the good news: a gospel that not only saves but reshapes how a person stands before God every day. Beginning with a personal testimony of conversion and a candid admission about the long road to learning how to preach the gospel to oneself, the text moves into a careful exegesis of Paul’s opening claim—therefore—linking the first four chapters of Romans to the transformative realities in chapter five. The heart of the explanation names five finished works of God: justification (a once-for-all declaration of right standing), peace or shalom (positional wholeness with the Father), access to grace (the same grace that saves also sustains), the pouring out of God’s love by the Spirit, and reconciliation (restored favor through Christ’s death). Each work is stressed as already accomplished, received while people were still weak, sinful, and even enemies—an act of sheer, prior knowledge love. The preacher exposes a common human distortion—gospel deficit—where believers default to a performance-based relationship with God, trying to leverage favor by behavior. Against that backdrop the gospel is presented not simply as legal rescue but as an invitation into divine hospitality: God moves forward in compassion, welcomes, and takes up residence by the Spirit. The distinction between justification and sanctification is clarified: justification admits no degrees—it is binary—while sanctification is progressive and cooperative, requiring human response within the grace already granted. The natural response to these truths is to boast, or rejoice, not in self, but in God’s work and the hope it secures. Practical application closes the teaching. Personal rhythms—most notably a daily declaration rooted in Romans 5:1–11—are recommended as countermeasures to gospel deficit, helping believers rehearse who they are in Christ so they can live for God’s glory and the good of neighbor. The gospel thus becomes both the ground of salvation and the daily means of growth: preached outwardly to the world and inwardly to the heart, it frees people from fear and shame and empowers a life of rejoicing amid suffering and hope for glory. Key Takeaways 1. Justification is a once-for-all declaration God declares sinners righteous by imputing Christ’s righteousness, not by grading their effort. This legal act settles the believer’s status before God forever, removing the need to earn acceptance. Knowing this changes how a person approaches fear, shame, and spiritual striving; it reframes obedience as grateful response, not leverage. [18:16] 2. Shalom: peace means wholeness Peace with God is not merely absence of conflict but the presence of right relationship—positional wholeness before the Father. That shalom assures there is nothing between the believer and God that needs reconciling; it grounds identity and vocation. Living from that wholeness frees one’s spiritual life from constant defensive performance. [21:26] 3. Gospel for sanctification, not just salvation The gospel is the power that begins salvation and the means by which growth happens; grace that saves also sanctifies. Sanctification is cooperative and graded: believers respond to Spirit-breathed truth and exercise moral choice in the space between stimulus and response. Rehearsing gospel truths daily trains affections and reshapes default responses to sin and suffering. [37:52] 4. Preach the gospel to yourself daily Repeated, intentional declaration of gospel realities combats gospel deficit and aligns heart affections with what God has already done. Simple practices—reading Romans 5 aloud, standing before a mirror, rehearsing reconciliation and grace—turn theological truths into lived realities. This discipline cultivates courage to rejoice in hope and to love neighbors from a place of secure identity. [34:27] Youtube Chapters [00:00] - Welcome [00:31] - Romans 5 introduced [00:49] - Opening prayer [01:52] - Conversion testimony [06:12] - Reading Romans 5:1–11 [08:16] - Context from Romans 1–4 [09:25] - Defining the gospel [17:36] - Overview: five gospel works [18:16] - Justification and shalom explained [23:49] - Grace and God’s love poured out [25:57] - Reconciliation through Christ [34:27] - Daily practices and declaration [36:59] - Final exhortation