Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Romans 5:17-21

Satan would like nothing more than to silence us through the sins of our past…..we must not let him! Christ died for us so that we could live. He who was sinless took on our sin and gave up His earthly life in exchange for ours so that in His death and resurrection we could have life eternal. We need to shout it to the rooftops that there is salvation in Christ Jesus and God wants that no man perish but all to have His free gift of life. Believe!!!

As the result of Adam's sin, people became sinners. By Christ's death many will be made righteous. That is, believers are actually being constituted or made righteous. Through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, the believer who has been declared righteous by God is continually becoming more righteous. Not only can sin never exceed the grace provided by God, sin loses its threat when compared to the super abounding grace of God.

17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by zone Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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