A Series on Romans - #9
Speaker Notes (apology for losing the last 10 minutes)
What Do We Hope For?
Romans 5:1-11
5.1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Charles Péguy - The Portal of the Mystery of Hope, page 10:
My three virtues are no different than men and women in their homes.
Children are never the ones who work.
But no one ever works except for children.
It’s never the child who goes to the field, who tills and who sows, and who
reaps and who harvests the grapes and who trims the vine and
who fells the trees and who cuts the wood.
For winter.
To warm the house in winter.
But would the father have the heart to work if he didn’t have his children.
If it weren’t for the sake of his children.
And in winter when he works hard.
In the forest.
When he works the hardest.
With his billhook and with his saw and with his felling axe and with his
hand axe.
In the icy forest.
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All that we do we do for children.
And it’s the children who make it all get done.
All that we do.
As if they led us by the hand.
Thus all that we do, everything that everyone does is done for the sake
of the little girl hope.
All that is small is what is most beautiful and greatest.
All that is new is what is most beautiful and greatest.
And baptism is the sacrament for the little ones.
And baptism is the newest sacrament.
And baptism is the sacrament that begins.
All that begins has a character that is never again recovered.
A strength, a novelty, a freshness like dawn.
A youth, an ardor.
A spirit.
A naiveté.
A birth that is never again recovered.
The first day is the most beautiful day.
David is a Theologian and Ethicist.