Romans 5:12-21, 6:1-4

Adam and Christ

Romans 5:12-21, 6:1-4

Romans 5:6

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. (use)

Romans 5:8

but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (use)

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. (use)

If you aren’t familiar with the creation story, let me summarize it: God made everything, and everything he made was good.

Bruno, C., 2015. The Whole Story of the Bible in 16 Verses. Crossway. (use)

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned (use)

In ADAM'S Fall We sinned all.

Cotton, J., 1777. The New-England Primer. (use)

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see such trouble? How can you endure to look on such wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are all round me, and there is fighting and quarrelling everywhere. (use)

Or consider the question of our fundamental problem as humans: Is our fundamental problem sin, in which case we all equally stand condemned before a holy God? Or is our fundamental problem oppression, in which case members of dominant groups are tainted by guilt in a way that members of subordinate groups are not?

Shenvi, N., Sawyer, P., 2019. The Incompatibility of Critical Theory and Christianity. The Gospel Coalition. (use)

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. (use)

Adam in the bible

1 Chronicles 1:1

Adam, Seth, Enosh; (use)

Luke 3:38

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. (use)

Matthew 19:4

He {Jesus} answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, (use)

Jude 14

It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones" (use)

Big as men may account themselves to be on account of their ancestors, we all trace our line up to a gardener, who lost his place through stealing his Master’s fruit, and that is thee farthest we can possibly go. Adam covers us all with disgrace and under that disgrace we should all sit humbly down.

Spurgeon C.H., Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 21. (use)

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. Because of our sins we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind. (use)

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. (use)

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

Lloyd-Jones, M., 1959. Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. (use)

Isaiah 43:25

And yet, I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am. I will not hold your sins against you. (use)

Romans 5:18

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. (use)

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (use)

For this man who needs amazing kind of grace For forgiveness at a price I couldn’t pay I’m not perfect so I thank God every day There was Jesus

Williams, Z., 2019. There Was Jesus. (use)

1 Peter 2:24

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed. (use)

Ultimately, however, justification by faith alone means justification by Christ alone. It’s by His meritorious life and His substitutionary death that we can stand in the presence of a holy God.

Sproul, R.C., 2007. The Truth of the Cross. (use)

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (use)

The one distinctive thing that Christians can contribute to this moment is to speak fearlessly of the reality of death and human mortality, and the transcendent hope in the face of grief, loss and death that the resurrection of Jesus offers.

Ian, P., 2020. How should Christians respond to a new lockdown? (use)

Psalm 130:3-4

If you kept a record of our sins, who could escape being condemned? But you forgive us, so that we should stand in awe of you. (use)

Romans 6:4

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (use)

What is our hope in life and death? Christ alone, Christ alone. What is our only confidence? That our souls to Him belong.

Getty, K., 2020. Christ Our Hope in Life and Death. (use)

1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (use)

Now death where is your sting Our resurrected King has rendered you defeated

Jobe, K., 2013. Forever. (use)

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins (use)

When Adam failed, we failed with him; when Christ performed, he performed for us. [Romans 5].

Henry, M., 1706. Matthew Henry's commentary on the whole Bible (complete). (use)

Sin yet reigns for the unbeliever but for the believer, righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord