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Mm-hmm Good afternoon, it is afternoon,
Thursday afternoon, and we're live streaming the next Roman
study, which I think is number 74, if I've got that right. So we're in Romans 5, and in
this extremely important section, verses 12 through 21, addresses
the origin of sin, Death explains why the world
is the way that it is, and most importantly, by the Apostle Paul
pointing to how we all sinned when Adam sinned, and died as
a result, so also the same principle effects our salvation in Christ. And so that's the important topic
we're looking at today. So let's pray, and then we'll
start. Father, we ask your blessing
now as we come to this important passage of your word, and we
pray that you would help us to understand it. We pray that we
would all be encouraged, our faith would be strengthened as
we see your great wisdom in sending us a second and last Adam, the
Lord Jesus Christ. by whom we are reckoned righteous
before you, and so we give you thanks for this, and we do so
in Christ's name, amen. All right, well, let's read this
section again, and as we do, remember that Paul makes a statement
in verse 12, and then as the ESV, remember we talked about
this last time, as the ESV puts a little dash here or whatever
at the end of verse 12, they do so to indicate the fact that
Paul pauses his statement there, which he's making a comparison,
right, between the first Adam and the last Adam, Adam and Christ,
but he makes that statement and then he pauses to explain it.
in a kind of a parentheses, remember, and that explanation extends
from verse 13 down to verse 17. Now the only catch here is that
the ESV should have put another hyphen right there at the end
of 17, and you remember we looked at the King James Version, which
actually did a better job there, come down to verse 12, remember?
Starting at verse 13, it put a parenthesis, then at the end
of verse 17, it put the other side of the parenthesis. So,
that's helpful and that's really how it reads, but we'll read
the ESV here and so, follow along here. Therefore, since we have
been, oh, I'm sorry, I'm wrong verse, we're down to verse 12.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and
death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all
sin, and there you would say, in the same way, but that's not
going to happen until verse 18. Now he explains, for sin indeed
was in the world before the law was given. But sin is not counted
where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to
Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression
of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the
free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one
man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free
gift by the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for
many. And the free gift is not like
the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following
the one trespass brought about condemnation, but the free gift
following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because
of one man's trespass, death reign through that one man, much
more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free
gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus
Christ. Therefore, alright, picks it
up again, as, here's the as, the other part of the comparison,
as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness
leads to justification in life for all men, and so on. Well,
we won't, we'll stop right there, go back to verse 12 and take
a look at this. So, As we as we saw in verse 12 we
have this just as Therefore just as you know, it's like in the
same way as sin came into the world. And so we know that we're
dealing With a with a comparison here that Paul is setting up
and you can remember that Here's this good statement from
Lloyd-Jones. Here's an overview statement
of Paul's main point. The great truth taught here is
that our relationship to Adam was the same in essence and principle
as our relationship now to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. That's what Paul is trying to
tell us here and explaining to us. That's why he's going back
then to Adam. And we mentioned last time, this
is how God deals with humanity, with mankind. He says, I'm going
to have one man, Adam, represent everybody. And I'm gonna put
him in like the most perfect circumstances. Everything is
gonna be loaded for his success. He doesn't even have, he's not
even a fallen man, he's created in innocence. And so, and here
he is in paradise, literally, in Eden. And so, and the same
then with Eve. So God loads the case here, you
know, in Adam's favor, and yet he sinned, right? And so sin
then comes into the world. So just a good overview statement
here, paragraph once again, just so we remember, talking about
then this parentheses from verses 13 to 17. Paul begins the parentheses
in verse 13. We can follow it as far as verse
14. This is an explanation of what
Paul has just been saying. That is, sin passed upon all
men because all sinned. That's what needs to be explained.
And so he says, for until the law, right, For until the law,
sin was in the world. But sin's not imputed where there's
no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that
is to come. So verses 13 and 14 are, as we've
said, an explanation of this statement. So death spread to
all men because all sin. And we'll get into the details
of that in a closer look later in verses 13 to 14. And so that's
the overview, but remember for right now, the main thing, keep
the main thing the main thing, that's what Paul is teaching
us here is, Our relationship to Adam was the same in principle
as our new relationship to the last Adam, as Paul calls him
in 1 Corinthians. That's how we're saved. You see
it then? People, of course, initially,
you say, well, this is absolutely unfair of God. How can God hold me responsible
for what Adam did? Well, the reason he does is because
he has appointed a, remember the term, federal head. Federal
means overall, representing all. Federal head. And so when Adam
sinned, We all sin, and that's how God ends. Now, object to
that and refuse that principle of Adam being our federal head. If you throw that out, you also
throw out our salvation in Christ, because God ordains, and well
then, I'm going to send my son as a second Adam. In fact, he's
going to be the last Adam because he's not going to fail. Satan
will come to him. Now get this. See this, how this
works? The first Adam failed in perfection,
a perfect environment, right? And then Satan comes, the serpent
comes, Adam and Eve sin. The second Adam, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the last Adam, right off the bat as he begins his
public ministry, what happens? Satan comes to him. You have
the temptation. And where did the temptation
happen? It happened in the wilderness
after he hadn't had anything to eat or drink for 40 days,
right? He's out there. I mean, here
is Here is a circumstance that's loaded in favor of the devil
this time around. But the last Adam will always
be the last Adam because he succeeded. And his victory, his righteousness,
his obedience to God becomes our victory because we are in
him, represented by him. You see, in that sense, it's
not fair. that Jesus had to suffer for
my sin. That's not fair. And it's not
fair then, if you want to say this, that he goes to the cross
for my sin. And so if you want, but anybody
that wants to say, well, that's not fair that I have to be held
accountable for what Adam did. Well, if you're going to be consistent,
it's not fair either. that Christ's righteousness,
His perfect obedience, and His death on the cross is all... It's not fair that He be cursed,
right? For my sin. No. But... He did it. He did it because
God set his love upon us and he sent Christ. But this is how God deals with
man. That's what the Bible says. And so we don't come up with,
well, I think that God should deal with man differently. Well,
we don't do that. We are the creature. We don't
answer back then to the creator. All right, so let's look at a
couple things here in verse 12. Extremely important verse. We
got a couple of things here. We've got sin coming into the
world, and we've got death spreading to all men, right? And we'll
look at that more closely later, not today, but we'll look at
it. I think I've mentioned this already,
but we'll have more to say about it. Two universal principles here,
universal principles that really no one can deny. No person, non-Christian, pagan,
whatever, they can't deny this. There is sin in the world. They
want to call it sin, but something is wrong. Something
is wrong with everybody. Everybody, right? It's called
sin. There's wars. There's murders. There's coveting. There's all
kinds of, we're seeing it getting uncovered now more and more,
but there's all kinds of corruption and wickedness in those that
are supposed to be leading us in our country, right? All this
stuff that's going on, you name it. And then, not only is there
that universal thing, the universal thing that I mean, even the pagan
person, the unbeliever, he'll say, well, hey, nobody's perfect.
Oh, really? Well, isn't that interesting?
You're saying that as if it's an excuse. But why is it that
nobody's perfect? What you're saying is everybody
does wrong at one time or another. Why is that? The answer is given
here in verse 12. And then there's another universal
thing in the world. Death. Death. Whenever I have been called on
to speak or preach, preside, whatever you want to call it,
at a funeral service, I consistently, I do this. I begin talking by
saying, now let's think about why we're here today. Why are
we here? Well, death has struck. Our friend,
loved one, whatever, has died. That's what has happened, and
that's why we're here. Now, why is that? Where did death
come from? And so those are the things that
we, you know, the question that the world doesn't want to face
up to. But Romans 5.12 answers the question,
right? It says, sin came into the world
through one man. That's what's wrong with, that's
what happened. That's how sin invaded, it came
in, it's a trespasser, it doesn't belong here, right? Came in and
threw one man, and that one man represented us all so that, and
so perfectly, so that all of us sinned when Adam sinned, everybody. That's where sin came from. And
that's where death came from because the wages of sin is death
in God's economy. And so death spread to all men. Why? Because everybody sinned.
Death didn't just happen to Adam. came upon all of us. Now, here's some great paragraphs
from Lloyd-Jones, and there's my old volume here from Zondervan
Publishing, Romans, chapter on exposition of chapter five on
assurance. So, but listen to this then.
And he gives a great, he gives a great illustration here somewhere.
Anyway, Alright, anyone concerned about the problem of life and
the world as it is today is confronted by two undeniable facts. Now, so you see Romans 12 becomes
a verse that we all ought to tuck away, have it memorized
and keep it handy because it really is a powerful condensed
launching pad for talking to someone about Christ, right?
I mean, this is where you begin, right? With an explanation of
things that really, they're obvious to everybody. But man in his
sin likes to shove it down in a corner and suppress it, as
Paul says in Romans 1. But all right, anyone concerned
about the problem of life and the world as it is today is confronted
by two undeniable facts. First, there is the universality
of sin, okay? Now, everybody has to admit that. They don't want to call it sin.
He goes on, of course, all do not call it sin. But even so,
they have to admit and to confess this. There is something which
is spoiling and ruining life. They have to admit further that
mankind at large, this is great now, seems to prefer to do that
which is wrong rather than that which is right. That if you tell
a child not to do a thing, He will want to do it immediately
and will, as often as not, proceed to do it. The man of the world
admits this frequently without your even asking him. He says
gratuitously, oh of course, I'm not claiming that I'm a perfect
saint. Well, he's granting thereby the
universality of sin. There's no such thing as a perfect
saint, he says. All right, well then sin is universal. And then secondly, the second
fact is the universality of death. Every man who lives is born to
die, as the poet said. The moment you breathe for the
first time, you are moving towards death. And even babies, take
a baby that might have been born, maybe that's a day old, and yet, This curse is upon that baby
because that baby died and it aged only one day. The baby dies. Well, how is that? It's because all sinned. Mankind then is fallen. So, here's the question. Two questions that have to be
dealt with by anyone who's honest. First of all, why is man wrong? Why is this? Why does he typically
choose to do What is wrong? Okay, even you're even why is
even? Tempted to do what is wrong?
And the second thing is then second question is why is there
why is there death now? To deal with the first question
here, why is the world the way it is? Why is man? Typically spoiling and ruining
light. Why why is there war what is
wrong with? man. Even absolutely pagan nature
worshiper type people, whether they really like it or not, and
they don't intend to, are acknowledging this fundamental truth. Their solution is wrong. but
they're acknowledging this fundamental truth when they look at what's
going on with the physical world, creation and so forth. And so
they'll point out, and they're not wrong on everything, that's
for sure. They'll point out things like pollution, right? Pollution
of the ocean and maybe when some corporation or somewhere is not
careful in their mining practices or logging practices or whatever,
right? Now, of course, they're... And
what are they pointing to? We say, what's the problem? They'll
say, man's the problem. Well, you're right. We absolutely
agree, but here's the... But the solution is not to get
rid of man, which is basically, ultimately, in their thinking,
the creation would be better off without man, and so that's... But that solution, obviously,
is self-destroying and is not really a solution. It's certainly
unbiblical. Man was created as God's highest created being. So what is wrong with man? How do
other people explain it this way? This is a typical one. All right, well, We believe that
man is evolving, just like all of the organic creation is evolving. came up from the slime or out
of the sea and crawled onto land as whatever kind of a creature.
And after bajillions of years, you know, through mutation, you
know, typical evolutionary stuff. And so here's man's problem. This is what he, this is what,
this is why there's wars and these kinds of things in the
world. It's because man has not evolved to the point of getting
rid of all of the remnants of the beast that he used to be,
right? The beast that he used to be.
There's still a lot of this survival of the fittest battle going on,
and man, he just has not evolved then, all right? Well, so here's
how this works. Man, that scheme says, was not created perfect by any
means. He's a beast. But he's getting better. He's
getting better. Now one thing at that point we
want to point out here is that reality doesn't really affirm
that. So you want to maintain Man is
getting better. He's evolving. You know, it doesn't
look that way. Well, you've got to wait another
billion years, you know. So anyway, but he was created
imperfect, but he's evolving toward perfection, right? But what does the Bible say?
The Bible says just the opposite, that man was created perfect. He was created perfect as a man. in Eden, and then he devolved. He sinned. He fell and is under
God's judgment and the power of sin. That's what happened. You see, there's the contrast. But this evolutionary type thing,
there's no such thing as sin. We don't like that particular,
we don't like that word, you see. In fact, here's a couple
of good statements here. The proponents of the evolutionary
view heartily dislike the term sin. It's just that he's not
developed sufficiently in his good and better qualities yet. You Christians, you Bible people,
you need to get rid of this biblical idea of sin and guilt. That's not good, that's not a
positive thing to think of. Man, they insist, is not really
bad. What you should say about him
is that he's not good. He hasn't arrived. We don't want
to talk about the bad, it's just that he's developing and he just
needs to get better. You see that in sociology, right? Here's nations like ours in the
West and so forth, more developed nations. They figure, well, you
know, here's these pagan ignorant type societies and so on. We'll go over there and give
them the trappings of civilization and, you know, they'll develop and
they'll see the light. It doesn't work, does it? It
doesn't work. The most developed and civilized
nations simply use their development, as you might say, and scientific
discoveries. to slaughter each other at a
greater rate than their predecessors, right? Well, what does this kind
of a person, this non-Christian, oftentimes elitist when you're
talking to him, what do they say about death? What do they
say about that? Why is there this problem of
death? You're going to die. I'm going to die. People die
in bad ways, because every time death is bad, there's nothing
good about it. Why all this tragedy and death
and so forth in the world? How are they going to explain
this? Well, you can kind of see this
coming, right? It's a natural thing, right? It's part of the, what was that
movie, Disney? The Lion King, right? The circle
of life. It's the circle of life, you
know? You die and your body deteriorates
back to the dust and then at some point the dust will become
the whole circle of life. Death is a natural thing, they
will say. It's interesting that people
like that, I mean, they're not being honest even with themselves.
Then why are you afraid of it, right? it's so natural. This is how deluded sin makes
a person. It's just the circle of life,
you know? Okay, here's this illustration
that Lloyd-Jones gave on this point. He says, It abides alone, but if it dies,
it brings forth much fruit." Now, of course, what Jesus was
talking about there was his own death, right? That's what he... For us, that if he would die,
he will rise again and bring forth much fruit. That's us.
Okay, so... Well, yes, said the principal,
I believe that verse. It's quite simple. And Lloyd-Jones
says, well, I had introduced that verse in connection with
the whole question of Christ's atonement on the cross, which
I maintain was what our Lord was dealing with in this verse,
talking about his own death and resurrection. No, no, no, said
this guy. It isn't just, it isn't that.
That's where you people with your legalistic minds keep imposing
your ideas onto the beautiful, simple view of life, which was
taken by Jesus. There's nothing more disgusting
than one of these arrogant, so-called fake Christian academians, right? That you find all around. Oh,
you people with your legal... What he means by that is, oh,
you people that believe the Bible, right? Here he is, anyway. Don't
you see, he said, Jesus is just illustrating this principle inherent
in life. You put that seed into the ground.
If it remains alive, it's of no further value. But if that
seed dies and degenerates and decomposes, then a chemical process
takes place that leads to the renewal of life. And out of that
one seed, you will have many blades of grass or of corn. That's
how it works. Nothing's lost. You say that
when something dies that that's the end of it, but such is not
the case. When trees and flowers and animals die, the decomposed
matter to which they give rise is most valuable. It produces
nitrogen, which is, after all, the basis of life and many other
essential constituents. Death leads to life by liberating
the nitrogen that's needed to form the molecules of new life. Death is just part, and here
it is, of the cycle of life. Such was this man's contention.
It amounted to this, that death is an essential part in the process
and rhythm of life. And consequently, there was never
a time when there was no death. In essence, this is a summary
of the non-biblical view. And it certainly was unbiblical,
right? What is natural? What's natural? Natural is the creation as God
created it and pronounced it good before the fall. That's
natural. What is unnatural? Unnatural
is what we're living in. That's the world we've only known. Just as sin came into the world, and death through sin. That is
the origin of this thing. And so here's the biblical view. Notice that in explaining this,
Paul kind of personifies sin. Sin came into the world. Sin is active. Well, of course,
the reason he's doing this is behind that is the devil. The devil came into Eden and
he brought this temptation to sin along with him and by that
introduced sin. But he's a trespasser. He has
no right there. Sin has no right in this creation. And the results of sin are unnatural. Death is unnatural. So, you know, we really need
to take on anybody that's pulling this. Well, it's just natural. Now, you see, we can expect the
pagan, unbelieving world to talk like that. But what we don't
expect to have happen is that professing Christians talk like
that, but they do. And we need to call them on it
when they do talk that way. So, for example, what are some
examples we can give here? Death, I've found this, that
when I've preached at funerals, in a church to people that profess,
for the most part, to be Christians. And I start this way and I say,
we're here because of death. And as soon as you begin, I mean,
think of the irony of it. Maybe here's the casket right
in front of everybody. We're here because of death.
Well, that should be pretty obvious, but people want to deny it. And they actually, By minimizing
it, they're kind of agreeing with this theological professor,
right? That it's just, you know, it's
not so bad. We're going to miss the person
and everything, but, and what's the common line? They've gone
to a better place. It doesn't matter how wickedly
this person lived, right? They've gone to a better place
and surely they're in heaven. But that kind of language really
in lots of ways is agreeing. It's language that really underneath
it is agreeing with The pagan view that death is a natural
thing. He's gone to a better place.
That's what we do. We go to a better place than
you see. There's another way that death
as a curse. That's what it is. Death is God's
curse upon man for sin, right? And there's another way that
we're seeing very much increasing. around this is that people want
to turn a funeral service into a celebration. You know, there's
the word, celebration. Now they'll say, we're going
to celebrate the life and we're going to celebrate this. It's
going to be a celebration, right? That kind of a thing. Rather
than rather than facing up to the
issue that this is not natural. There's nothing to celebrate
here. It's fine to remember the loved one and so forth and kind
of grieve together, but there's nothing to party on about. Nothing to hold a party about. What it is an occasion for is
for us all to give serious thought to what death is, where it came
from, and only then will people turn to the remedy. which is
Christ, okay? That's only then. So those are some things to keep
in mind. We see it here then in verse
12. Sin came into the world and it
brought death with it. The devil came into the world.
He didn't belong there. He was trespassing in Eden when
he came there as the serpent. And he's been a trespasser, the
god of this world. And he's getting thrown out,
right? He's getting thrown out. I should
have some kind of a mug made. Got a mug over here. I won't
get into politics. My mug here. Well, you can't
make an image of Jesus. You can't do that, but maybe
we could have the devil in a garbage can and say, take out the garbage. God took out the trespasser,
right? In Christ, that's what happened.
And ultimately, that's what's gonna happen on that day of judgment
then as well. And Satan knows it. So, okay, why is man as man is? Because sin came into the world.
He's fallen. There's nothing natural about
any of this. Why is there death in the world?
Because sin, why do people die? Universally, everybody dies. Why? Because sin has come into
the world. You notice it's interesting to
think about some of the things that Roman Catholicism teaches,
what the Roman Church has taught frequently. about death and immortality
and so on. And some of this stuff is pretty
weird, it's all unbiblical, but have you noticed, and I'm not
an expert on this, but they've got people, alleged saints, you
know, in Rome it's not every Christian is a saint, there's
the hierarchy, and I'm sure you're aware of, so they'll have Saint
so-and-so, Maybe the guy or the woman died 200 years ago or whatever,
they've still got the dead body there on display. And it's like,
oh, it's a miracle, just a miracle. It's not decomposing or anything
like that. There again, I think that's just
another denial of the fact, you know, if somebody did that and,
oh, look at this, you know, look at, man, look how natural they
look. Well, they look dead to me. They're
dead. That's not natural. There's nothing
natural about it. But those are all the kinds of
lies that man in his sin wants to propose. So what have we got here? There
was a time There was a time when sin was not in the world. And
there was a time when there was no death in the world. Nobody
died. And then the fall came, sin came
in, and death came, and death came with it. So now, all men
not only sinned, in Adam, but we all sin, right? Now, what is sin? Sin is, and
it's part of man's nature. It's part of man's nature. We,
even as Christians, we still have to battle with it, right?
What is sin? The Westminster Shorter Catechism
defines that, but... I'll read this sentence that
Lloyd-Jones puts in here. Right? That's man. And that's
what's wrong with the world. Because sin, that's what it is,
and man is infected by it. He is a sinner by nature. Sin is an attitude, a mindset
you might say, of rebellion and hatred to God, and a refusal
to obey his holy law. Sin means that a new reigning
principle has come into the life of man, and it means that we're
in a fallen condition, all right? Sin, that great invader, and
death following because death is the wages then of sin. Now, we're going to need to get
into this idea of Well, the comparison that Paul
is setting up here, and we'll get into it in more detail. You know, for example, in verse
13, why does Paul point out that there was sin in the world before
the law? That is, before Moses. Let's say Moses lived about 1400
BC, right? And a little back up to Abraham.
Let's say Abraham, about 2000 BC. Now, it was through Moses that
the law came. The law was given. So in Abraham's day, the law
hadn't been given. Abraham was not under the Mosaic
law. He wasn't under the law. Hadn't
been given. Because Paul will say, until
the law is given, your sin's not reckoned because of violation
of the law because the law hasn't been given yet. And yet, he says,
before Moses, everybody died. There was death. How come? You know, why is that? Well, sin was in the world before
the law was given, okay? So what he's doing is he's explaining
how it is, he's explaining his statement in verse 12, that death
spread to all men because all sinned. In other words, and this
is important, you don't really understand the gospel and our
need for Christ if we don't understand this. People are not condemned and
sent to hell because of sins, because they
sinned through their life. They committed these sins and
so forth. Now I think there's another aspect here, but we don't
want to, Paul's not addressing that here, okay? Doesn't mean
there's no consequences or anything. But what Paul is fundamentally
saying is the reason people end up in hell... unless they're
born again by faith in Christ, is because of Adam's sin. Adam's sin was our sin, alright? It's death spread to all men
because all sinned, sinned. He doesn't say death spread to
all men because, hey, everybody sins, you know? No, no. spread
to all men because all sinned. And so that's why death was in
the world before Moses and Mount Sinai and so forth. So think about this. Even if
somebody lived a perfect life, they never broke any of the Ten
Commandments. That idea is impossible. We know
that because the law, you got to obey it even from your heart.
The law is spiritual. But let's say somebody did. Without Christ, they're still
going to end up in hell. Why? Because they're It's called
total depravity. They're sinners by nature. And
they are that way because Adam sinned and Adam, when Adam sinned,
we all sinned. When Adam fell, then we all fell. One final thing here, I think
I mentioned it last time, and that is we see here that the
Apostle Paul treats Adam and the fall and the whole account
of Eden, the early chapters of Genesis, as history, true reality,
history, Adam as one man, all right, one man. He mentions Moses
in the same breath here as Adam. And it's important to remember
that you can't deny the historicity of Genesis, God's creation, Eden,
Adam and Eve, the serpent, the fall, even on up to Noah and
the flood. You can't deny the historicity
of those events and those people without throwing Christ out. because his whole point here
is that we are saved by one man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Is the
one man a literal man? Yes. Well, we were condemned
by one man's sin, and that man then, of course, is Adam. So clearly the apostle Paul taught
this. and believed that the Lord Jesus
did. And so, well, there it is. He'd do away with Adam. Oh, well, this is just, you know,
Adam is not a real guy. He just represents all mankind. Well, okay, it represents all
mankind. What does that mean? And what
do you do then with Paul's comparison? I think you can see how ridiculous
then that is. Well, we'll want to press on
next time and look at some more details here in Paul's comparison
and in his argument. I'd say just one more thing in
conclusion, and it's this. Most professing Christians are
ignorant of what we've just been talking about. Most professing
Christians have this simplistic mindset, unbiblical mindset that,
well, you know, if anybody ends up, you know, there's still some
free will in people and some goodness in people and so some
of them choose to believe in Christ and some of them don't
and this kind of a thing. And if you talk to them about,
well now wait a minute, what's all this in Romans 5 here about
how when Adam sinned, We all sinned. Oh, that's not what that
means. That's not, you know, you see
it off, they go, or they'll stare at you with a blank look on their
face. And a lot of the responsibility for that ignorance is that pastors
do not systematically and thoroughly teach what the Bible says, right? They don't sit down and say,
Let's seriously consider verse 12 here and let's think about
these things. And so there's plenty of people
that claim to be Christians that say, well, you know, I don't
think that's the way this works. Well, how do you think it works
with Jesus then? Well, Jesus, He, you know, He
loved me. He saw some good in me, and He
knew I was going to believe, and so He saved me. And they
don't have the foggiest notion, and they don't have it because
they don't want to. So, okay, well, let's pray. And Father, we thank You for
these great truths from Your Word. Thank You for the Lord
Jesus Christ. Thank You that that you sent
the last Adam, another Adam, who would perfectly obey your
law as no fallen man ever could, and who would go to the cross
and have our sin laid upon him, and he had no sin of his own.
So he was able to bear the curse for us. And so we give you thanks,
pray that we would continue to grow and understand these things
that we can really give you glory and praise for. And we pray this
in Christ's name, amen.
74 - Romans Study 5:12-21
Series Paul's Epistle to the Romans
The fruit of the Light is goodness, righteousness, and truth. But what are these fruits exactly? We take a closer look. And verse 10 is vital to understand. It enables us to discern the true Christian from the "moral, good, pagan."
| Sermon ID | 26252252516182 |
| Duration | 52:48 |
| Date | |
| Category | Bible Study |
| Bible Text | Romans 5:12-21 |
| Language | English |
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