What do Romans 4 and 5 teach about justification by faith?
Romans 4 lays out justification by faith through Abraham, who believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Romans 5 then declares that, therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. This follows the earlier proof that all have sinned and come short in glory.
Les explains that after the first three chapters prove the whole race sinful and guilty before God, Paul moves into Romans 4 to lay out justification by faith. Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. Then Romans 5 states the result: therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Les connects this to the earlier conclusion that all have sinned and come short in glory, and he notes that the next chapter enlarges on justification as accomplished when Christ died, was buried, and rose again.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: