When in Rome

So Romans is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Tonight I am planning on going through the first half of Romans 5 in Student Ministries. There are 3 points I want to communicate to my students about God's goodness given by this passage. The first is that God gives us peace. We are given a peace that stands no matter what happens to us on this earth. God is faithful to fulfill His promise to raise us from the dead and allow us to come into His presence in Heaven and that is awesome. Second, we can rejoice in the promise that God makes! We rejoice because we have hope and we rejoice in suffering. It is crazy to think that we can rejoice in suffering but when one is filled with the hope of God then we can rejoice in any circumstance. The last point is that God loves His children dearly. One of my favorite verses in the whole Bible occurs here. "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." The fact that God would come down and die for us when we were still playing around in the mud of sin shows how deeply God loves us. If we were doing good then it wouldn't be a big deal but God died for the ones that were spitting in the face of Truth and slandering His name. God is so good and when we view His death in the midst of us sinning I cant help but be humbled! I pray that you also will be humbled and filled with the love that God showed us on the cross.