Prepare: How serious are we in our Christian walk? Are we sensitive to God's directions?
Read: Romans 5:12-21
Contrast between Adam and Christ: Paul delineates the results of Adam's disobedience and Christ's obedience. Adam's disobedience brought sin, guilt, judgment, and death. Conversely the obedience of Jesus brought grace, justification, the gift of righteousness and life eternal.
The underpinning argument of Paul is that, if disobedience could bring terrible damage to humanity, the blessing that comes through the obedience of Christ can do much more than simply over-ruling the effect of sin.
God's marvelous gift of grace: Grace is God's gift to surpass the effect of sin. 'When sin increased, grace increased all the more' is a powerful expression to show that the disobedience of Adam and its consequence could not thwart the plan of God. God had a far greater way to overcome the disobedience of Adam and the consequence of sin. God does not give up on His creation, but works patiently to redeem the derogatory situations.
The insertion that the law was added only to increase the trespass is a shocking revelation; but that was only to reveal how derogatory our life would be without Jesus and what a blessed new life we have as the free gift of God.
Respond: Lord, help me to be mindful how my obedient walk can produce marvelous results.
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