| "Much More" Bible Word Study |
| There is always, "much more," with God in redemption towards those who are His people. Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has justified us in the presence of God. God is holy and righteous and there is coming for the ungodly: judgment and wrath. We are therefore not only declared acquitted, but much more saved from the wrath to come, which even now hangs over the world. Romans 5:10 "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." It is a great thing to be reconciled to God, to know the reconciliation through the death of His Son and have peace with God, BUT there is much more salvation by His life. This is not the earthly life of our Lord, but it is His risen life. Because He lives, we also live. His life in glory as our Priest and our Advocate with the Father saves us down here. "For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many..." (Romans 5:17). For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ...But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound..." (Romans 5:15, 17, 20.) "For if the ministration of condemnation [the Law] be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory" (2 Cor 3:9). When Moses received the Law, which was a ministration of death, there was glory seen by Him, which was reflected on his face. But how much greater is the glory of the Gospel-ministration for with unveiled face we behold now the glory of the Lord and are changed into the same image from glory unto glory. "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrews 9:13, 14.) There is also a "much more" as to Israel's future. "Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?" (Rom 11:12). When the Jews rejected Christ and fell as a nation by their unbelief, it proved to be in the purposes of God-- the means to give the riches of grace to the Gentile world. By their fall, salvation came unto the Gentiles. But prophecy predicts a time of their fullness, when the promised glory will be theirs. How much more blessing and glory will come to the world and to the nations of the world when Israel is received back. Speaking to the Gentiles, Paul writes in the parable of the two olive trees, "For if thou (Gentile) wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: (the Abrahamic Covenant) how much more shall these, which be the natural branches (the Jews), be grafted into their own olive tree?" (Romans 11:24). And how much more we shall find out in glory of what grace has done for us! In that eternity of glory there will always be more and more to follow. Taken from Our Hope Magazine, September 1924. ©2008 Cobblestone Road Ministries All Rights Reserved Further Reading: Eternal Security of Believers in Christ Jesus Assurance of Salvation By J. Vernon McGee Jewels - We Are Precious To God The Grounds Of Grace - By William Kelly ALL THINGS - Bible Word Study "Come" - The Blessed Word Are You A Rocking Horse Christian? |
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