Romans 5:12-21 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. 15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. 16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. 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 one 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.
By one man sin entered into the world through Adam, but Jesus conquered sin and when we abide in Him sin has lost its power and control in our lives. Sin is death BUT greater is Holy Spirit in us than him that is in this world. All of mankind sinned and comes short of God’s glory. BUT in Jesus there is freedom from the sin that entered in Adam. The conscience was given to mankind as a guide for civil living. Without it violence and sin would overcome the world. So entered the 10 commandments, given to Moses, they were perfect but unattainable. Only Jesus and His sacrifice on the Cross could overcome the sins of the world. The Law first given to the Israelites brought condemnation to the world but freedom was bought by the precious love of God in His gift of salvation in Jesus the Christ.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whomever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life for God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that through Him the world could be saved! (John 3:16-17).
2 Corinthians 3:5-6 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
We are sufficient in God. Not in the Law but in the Spirit which gives us life. What the Law could not do Christ did. Carla
Paul answers a question he asked in 2:16. He points to God as the source of his qualifications; his confidence does not come from his own abilities, but from the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:1–5). This is a reference to the law of Moses. The law does not justify people; it only identifies sin and condemns (Romans 3:20; 8:2). Instead, people are justified by faith (Romans) Faithlife Study Bible
Sufficient means “adequate,” or “competent.” Paul placed his confidence not in himself or his own abilities but in the Lord. This is the answer to the question asked in 2:16, Who is sufficient? The letter is a reference to the old covenant—that is, the Ten Commandments written on stone. The letter kills because all break the law, and the penalty is death. The NKJV Study Bible
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Jeremiah 31:31–34 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD…
Luke 22:20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
Romans 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
“You are the light of the world,” Jesus reminds us.
When we get our act together? No.
When we have enough faith? No.
When we eliminate the hurdles? No.
“You are the light of the world… Let it (allow it to) shine.”
That light is in every single one of us. But I do know this, when the noise (from news or doubt or difficulties) derails me, I don’t honor the light inside.
I think that’s what Jesus meant by not putting the light under a bushel. Sabbath Moments
God, lover of life, lover of these lives,
God, lover of our souls, lover of our bodies, lover of all that exists...
In fact, it is your love that keeps it all alive...
May we live in this love.
May we never doubt this love.
May we know that we are love,
That we were created for love,
That we are a reflection of you,
That you love yourself in us and therefore we are perfectly lovable.
May we never doubt this deep and abiding and perfect goodness.
We are because you are.
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