Romans 5:11 : "And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have received the reconciliation." We rejoice in God--rejoice in the glory of his being and the perfection of his attributes, and we rejoice in what he is to us and what he has done for us. These great benefits and blessings come to us through our Lord Jesus Christ, "through whom we have now received the reconciliation." That is, it was through the Lord Jesus Christ that we were reconciled to God. The remaining portion of this chapter is considered very hard to understand. It is easy to see that Paul was still setting forth the blessings of gospel justification, but it is not so easy to understand some of his reasoning.