If you've ever wondered what makes the Christian life worth living, Romans Chapter 5 holds the answer.

After four chapters of sobering truth about humanity's desperate condition before God,

Paul, the writer, suddenly shifts gears with a welcome bouquet of good news. It's as though God is saying, Christian,

you're just beginning to discover the joys of walking with me. It only gets better and better.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall unpacks three life-changing benefits

that become yours the moment you trust in Christ. They're not rewards you earn, but gifts

you immediately receive.

The letter to the Romans represents the magnum opus of the Apostle Paul in his writings.

And when we get to the fifth chapter, this is one of those climactic sections that require concentration and attention to great truth.

I have in my library the eight volumes set by Donald Gray Barnhouse on the letter to the Romans,

and he dedicates one entire volume to the first 11 verses of Romans 5.

220 pages, be grateful, I'm your pastor, not Donald Gray Barnhouse, huh?

No, don't be grateful.

Would that all of us could hear him again, as he stood and delivered the good news of Christ

to the people of Philadelphia for more than 20 years.

And what a marvelous messenger of the gospel he was.

He's the man who led S. Lewis Johnson to Christ.

Dr. Johnson said to me, when I was a student at Dallas Seminary,

there was only one man who could have interested me in spiritual things.

As I look back on it, it was Donald Gray Barnhouse.

Fluent in several languages, a scholar to the souls of his feet,

but a dedicated servant who delivered the goods every time he preached.

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