God’s Love for sinners. Romans 5:6-8 V.6. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all involved in our salvation. It is the love of God that maintains and sustains our sure hope. We were not strong enough to do anything of value when we were ungodly and unworthy of the least of His mercies. However, the Father loved us so much that He sent the Son to bring us to Him by the sacrifice Jesus made for us on the cross. The Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit to convict us of sin, righteousness, and judgment; to reveal Christ to us through the Word and then to regenerate us and live in us in such a fullness that now, by the love of the Spirit, we live by His power.
God has forgiven our sins and accepted us in Christ. We know we are saved from coming judgment because the blood of Jesus has justified us. He died for us. By our nature, we were helpless in our sins. We could do nothing to save ourselves because of sinfulness and moral weakness. Christ came at exactly the right time in God's schedule of events to die for the ungodly. It was not an act precipitated by our demands or arranging, but in absolute grace for the ungodly - Christ died. That evidence of God's love was not brought about by our ability to do good. For a sternly righteous man, some, but not very many, would give their lives for it. Perhaps some would die for a generous and noble person one knows and deeply cares for. Because of His love for the ungodly ones without strength, and even more so for those who chose to sin and go the wrong direction, God demonstrated His love when Christ died for us.
V.7. God did not give Christ to die for us because we were good enough, but because He loved us. Further, when we were enemies of God we were reconciled to God by the death of Christ. For the weak, strength-less ones; for those who were deliberately sinning ones; for those who were enemies, God gave His Son to die for us. This "commending" of His love is beyond our ability to explain. This love was not caused by anything in us or of us. This proof of love, this confirmation of absolute grace, is beyond any stretch of self-righteousness; beyond our ability to reason a cause for. To try to find some way to pay for such love and grace would be an insult to God from whom these marvelous blessings come to us. To try to get God reconciled to us would be the heights of arrogance.
V.8. We were the ungodly in conduct in the past when Christ died for us. We were the sinners in our sinful condition to whom God demonstrated His love. We were enemies in our character that affected our future when Christ died for us. It is arrogance on our part to try to get God to be reconciled to us through our prayers, works or consecration. We were reconciled to God through the death of His Son. That is pure grace! That happened when we were still enemies. I am able to accept this reconciliation, and I do accept this, when I trust the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. Now God accepts me and I am no longer an enemy but a friend - a son of His by His grace.