The term “much more” is used 19 times in the New Testament and five of those times it is used in Romans Chapter 5. This is a term that has great significance each time the writers used it as it indicates something much greater than whatever we were reading just before this term is used. I will not go into all the places this is found as that would take up too much time but I will look at that term in Romans 5:9 & 10.

This term is used in verse 9 so lets look at what verse 8 says that would cause the writer of Romans, which is Paul, to say that something more than what verse 8 says is going to happen. Verse 8 says that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. That is a pretty significant event I would say and yet the beginning of verse 9 says even though that was a great event, and of course it was a major event, something will happen beyond that. It says that we are now justified by His blood, and note that is past tense, it is saying the same thing as Romans 5:1 which states also that we are justified by faith (His faith).

The last part of verse 1 says what happened when we were justified. That is when peace came. When we were justified the peace of God was ours. In essence what it is saying is that it is through His death (blood) that we have peace with God. The “much more” of verse 9 is saying that we will be saved from His wrath through Him. There are a number of different meanings that can be attached to the word wrath here but one of them is punishment. It is saying that we will not have to face God’s punishment because He justified us through the shedding of His blood. I think we are beginning to see the picture of the “much more” of this verse.

In verse 10 the term is used again in much the same way and it is saying we were reconciled through the death of His Son (blood), “much more”, since we are already reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Now we can begin to see where the peace came from and where grace came from. Peace came through His shed blood when Jesus died because that is where we were justified. Grace came to us when He resurrected because it is by His life we are saved.

How can we know that God is no longer angry with us? The only proof you need is to know Jesus died. If you believe Jesus died then you can rest assured that you are at peace with Him and He is at peace with you. When you realize you have been justified by His death (blood) you can know that you have peace with God. When you were reconciled to God there is no more anger towards you by God. If God has given His Son to pour out His wrath upon, for the sins of the whole world, “much more” being reconciled through that death we shall be saved by His life. That amazing grace is what saves us. For by grace are you saved, and not of yourselves, it (grace) is the gift of God.