12.27.24 Rom. 5:12-21 God Will Redo Everything Adam Undid

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So we’re reaching a pinnacle. We’re reaching the Himalayan heights, as it were, of Paul’s message to us about what Jesus Christ has done for the human race. You remember yesterday we talked about the fact that Paul is about to introduce… the great truth that as every human being went down in Adam’s sin and death, so also every human being will come up in Christ’s resurrection and life. And we started to introduce this based upon what preceded it, and that is chapter 5 of Romans, verses 6 through 11. Let’s just remind ourselves of that, shall we? Because Paul says there, when we were still without strength and ungodly, Christ died for us. And while we were still sinners, verse 8, Christ died for us. And while we were enemies, God reconciled us to himself through the death of his Son. So here we’re looking at an incredibly powerful and revealing passage. The limitation that we Christians have had is that we tend to think it’s talking about us on an individual and personal basis. Well, of course, it definitely includes that. But it’s not simply talking about Christians, because it says the ungodly. Who are the ungodly? All the world are the ungodly. Who are those who are without strength? All the world. Who are those who are sinners? All the world. And who are those who are enemies of God? All the world. and yet Christ died for them, verse 6, Christ died for them, verse 8, and Christ reconciled them to the Father while they were enemies through his death, verse 10. So this shows us, as I pointed out in the last few days, that Jesus Christ’s death is not conditional on It’s not, Jesus will save you if you accept him. Of course we must accept him. But the point is, that isn’t a condition, that’s part of the grace. Because God gives the gift of faith to everyone, ultimately, that is why he is able to say that every knee shall bow before him and every tongue shall confess and acknowledge and take an oath, actually, the literal word is, that in the Lord alone is there righteousness and strength. Now, to understand or to come to the conviction and persuasion that this argument that I’m giving you is accurate, Paul then goes on to say, therefore, verse 12, and notice as I pointed out yesterday how important that therefore is, because he’s gathering up all that he’s just said about sinners being ungodly and without strength and enemies nevertheless being reconciled. He’s gathering that all up and saying, therefore, just as through one man’s sin, that’s Adam’s, of course, the whole world, Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, so now he’s going to say, through one man righteousness entered the world, and life through that righteousness, you see. But first of all, he’s got a parenthesis, as I mentioned yesterday. He’s saying, for until the law… Sin was in the world. Okay, sin was in the world before the law came, in other words.

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But it wasn’t imputed because there was no law until Moses, you see.

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So what’s he getting at? Nevertheless, even though sin wasn’t imputed to humanity before the law of Moses… They died as a result of sin. Well, if it’s not imputed to them, how come they died for their sins? Well, they didn’t die for their sins. They died for Adam’s sin. Look what it says. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam. who is a type of him who was to come. So death reigned from Adam to Moses upon the whole human race who had not sinned the sin that caused that death to come, because Adam who headed up the human race, he sinned, and he’s brought sin and judgment upon the whole of humanity. He put humanity under judgment because of his sin. Now, note what Paul says in verse 14, that Adam is a type of him who was to come. Well, who is to come? Jesus Christ. Adam is a type of Christ. Christ isn’t a type of Adam. Adam is a type of Christ. Just as Adam brought sin upon the human race, and the human race suffered for that sin, but did not commit that sin of Adam, so also Jesus Christ has brought in righteousness and life upon the human race, even though that human race did not commit sin. or did not obey the law, or did not bring in righteousness of themselves. Christ did. So, just as Adam’s race fell because of Adam’s sin in which they had no part, so Christ’s race rises again in righteousness and resurrection in a righteousness that they had no part. That’s what Paul is saying. Now, I know that sounds a little bit complicated, but it’s not really when you just think it through. What it is basically saying is this. God has decided in his love and mercy and grace and richness towards us to completely undo what Adam did by bringing in Jesus Christ, who will completely redo what Adam did. And that is why the book of Revelation says, Behold, I make all things new. God is going to redo it all, and we’re all going to bask in it and enjoy it and reap the benefits of it. Look, You may have considered so far in your Christian experience that the message of the gospel is that everybody is lost, but those who put their faith in Jesus Christ, if they will so decide to do so, will be saved, but unfortunately the rest, which is the majority, possibly two-thirds or ninety percent, will be lost and burn in hell for judgment for rejecting him.

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That is not the gospel.

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It is not the message of Christ. It is not the message of the Bible. Scripture is revealing, not only here, but in many, many other places, that God will redo everything that Adam undid.

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And this makes for glorious news for all of us.

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It says in verse 18 of chapter 5 of Romans, Therefore, as through one man, that’s Adam, as through one man’s offense, judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation. How odd, how strange, I don’t understand it fully myself, that we experienced the condemnation of Adam, even though we had no part in it. Even so, Through one man’s righteousness, that’s Jesus Christ, through one man’s righteous act, the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life, even though we had no part in that righteousness, just as we had no part in Adam’s sin. The message of the gospel is so expansive and extraordinary that it is almost impossible to believe it unless God brings faith to the heart of human beings. It is beyond comprehension. It is wonderful beyond words. Many, many people have doubted God because of false teachings of hell. teachings that make God appear to be some kind of sadist who would have people burn eternally in hell for having rejected Christ. Now, rejection of Christ is very serious business. It brings the judgments of God upon us. But those judgments are not meant to destroy us, but to sober us, to make us desolate, according to the book of Ezekiel, I think it’s 37, it might be chapter 16, so that we may awaken to what we have done. And we may call upon God for mercy, and God brings mercy once he has brought desolation. Because desolation seems to be the only thing that wakes us up, the only thing that makes us realize how much we need God. And so, you see, this is what we are facing here. We are looking at an incredibly loving, compassionate, merciful God. who lost his creation and is determined to win it back and has sent his son, so that, according to 1 Corinthians 15, as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive.

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We do not have a God who is going to burn the human race, for goodness sake.

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This is so incomprehensible that it causes even rational atheists to turn away from God, rational non-Christians to say, I can’t take that, I just can’t understand it, how it could possibly be. Not that they are more enlightened than we are, But the fact is that Christianity has taken on an aberration, a mollusk which has stuck to the body of the whale, as it were, and is swimming around with it, but does not belong to that whale. We have many mollusks that have stuck to the Christian faith over the centuries, and this is the worst of them. Now look, you may argue with me, and I don’t wish to argue with you. My message on this is going to be made clear in the manuscript, in the book that I’ve almost finished, just redoing the introduction, then I have to look for a publisher, and I hope you will take note of that book when it’s published. But What I want to say right now is that you have a promise before you. It is given by the Lord God himself in the book of Isaiah, and it is repeated twice in the New Testament. Here it is. Look to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. So it’s talking to everyone in the world, not just to Jewish people or Israelites or Christians. For I am God and there is no other. I have sworn by myself. Oh, God has taken an oath by himself. I have sworn in my name, as it were. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and it shall not return. It is irrevocable. It will never be brought back. That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath, and he shall say, that is every knee, every tongue, Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength. To him shall all men come, and all shall be ashamed who were incensed against him. Finally, even those who are ashamed, when they see the realities in the great judgment, will turn and bow to him. Make your donation online at faithquestradio.com. Thanks. See you next time. Cheerio and God bless.