Bibles this morning to Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter. 5 and last week, we made it through verse 8 of Romans 5, and today we'll pick up in verse 9 and try to make our way through verse 11. And if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be celebrating salvation from Wrath.
Celebrating salvation from wrath. I don't know if you noticed, but every song we sang this morning, talked about God's wrath, God's anger, not that it was putting that in front of our face to destroy the worship, but it actually was an enhancer of our worship because we're celebrating our deliverance from God's holy wrath, against us for our sins, and that's exactly what Paul is going to do. In our passage this morning, one of the songs that we sang this Sunday and also last Sunday is the song In Christ Alone, just an absolutely beautiful and theologically rich song. We have the words in Christ alone my hope is found.
I've been thinking about this song a lot studying through Romans 5 because a lot of the same themes are in that song that we find in Romans 5. In Christ alone my hope is found. He is my light, my strength, my song, this cornerstone. The solid ground firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace when fears are stilled, when striving cease, my Comforter, my all in all, here in the love of Christ, I stand. We have Christ, we have our hope. He is our peace. We got the love of God, the love of Christ, and a standing in that....
