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So far the emphasis has been on how we are justified by faith in Christ. The next few chapters take us on to the implications for this justification. In this chapter the emphasis is on our reconciliation with God. The broken relationship with God has been restored in Christ. “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The “we have peace” could be “let us have peace”, but the former tends to be favoured. Whatever the case, the key point is that we have peace with God. People tend to think of God as being distant, this is not the Biblical view. Right from the beginning we find God having fellowship with Adam and Eve, and throughout the Old Testament He chooses various people and develops a relationship with them. In the gospel all can know God, as was promised in Jer 31:34. If we view God as being distant then we will have a wrong view of life.
We need to understand that the only reason we can have peace with God is because we have been justified. Without the problem of our guilt being dealt with there could be no peace with God. But in Christ the problem has been comprehensively dealt with, and this changes everything.
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