Everything changes with Christ

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July 14, 2019

Because of Adam’s sin we were trapped in a cycle of sin and death: they are the powers that rule over our lives. If we are in Christ then the consequences of Adam’s sin are overturned and surpassed. Jesus doesn’t just keep the law on our behalf, he gifts us what we don’t deserve; he doesn’t just forgive us, but declares us in the right; he doesn’t just defeat death but invites us to reign in life; he was obedience where no one else could be, and so we can be too. Everything changes with Christ.

Tim Suffield

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Romans 5:12–21 (Listen)

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men1 because all sinned—13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 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.

15 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. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned 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.

18 Therefore, as one trespass2 led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness3 leads to justification and life for all men. 19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Footnotes

[1] 5:12 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18
[2] 5:18 Or the trespass of one
[3] 5:18 Or the act of righteousness of one

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