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Direct Answer Based on the speaker’s teaching, “justified by faith” begins at conversion and baptism, but “let us have peace” means peace must be maintained through an obedient, repentant walk—not presumed as a permanent settled state.

Support from Transcript:

• He says early Christians read Romans 5:1 as an exhortation: Paul “exhorts us to have peace… It’s not automatic.”
• He explains the practical meaning: if someone “go[es] back to a life of sin… then you lose that peace that you started with.”
• He distinguishes initial salvation from ongoing fruit: “We get a clean slate, but now we have to produce fruit. We have to walk faithfully with Christ.”
• He ties peace to daily repentance: “That’s why Paul says, ‘Let us have peace.’ We need to every day repent of what we’ve done.”
• He frames this as the “normal Christian life” lived in ongoing grace: “The grace doesn’t end when we are baptized. It’s a continual thing… assuming we avail ourselves.”