Are you weary of the cycle, promising to do better only to fall back into the same patterns?

Tired of carrying the weight of guilt and shame from poor choices?

Romans Chapter 5 brings liberating news.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals how Paul

transitions from man's hopeless condition to the stunning reality of what happens when Christ

enters your life. This isn't about trying harder. It's about discovering three immediate benefits

that transform everything.

For anyone drowning in self-condemnation, Romans 5 offers the lifeline you've been desperately

seeking.

Chuck titled today's message, Triumphant Joy.

Hope naturally would make you jubilate.

But tribulation?

Look at verse three.

Not only this, but we also triumphantly rejoice in tribulation.

The old country preacher said, When the Lord sends you tribulation is supposed to tribulation. The old country preacher said when the Lord sends you tribulation,

it's supposed to tribulate. But you know what? It's really, that's really not the best option.

When he sends you tribulation, you're supposed to jubilate. It's supposed to jubilate. Now, how can we jubilate if we're pressured? How's that work?

Obviously, we're not going to get it from other people. We're not going to get it from our jobs. I'm not going to get it from our circumstances or the demands to adjust to whatever. Our jubilation will come from above.

When we realize, don't miss this, that the pressure is all part of the plan of God

to bring us to the place he wants us to be as we grow toward maturity.

I'll show you how it works.

It's like dominoes sitting on the end, bumping up against one another. Look at the dominoes.

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