For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.
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What should we say then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means. We died to sin. How can we live in it any longer? Don't you know that all of us were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death. We were therefore buried with him through baptism in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead, we too may live a new life. If we've been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him, that the body of sin will be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin, because anyone who's died has been freed from sin. Now, if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, because we know since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again. Death no longer has mastery over him. …
… one righteous act results in justification in life for all people for justice through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners also through the obedience of the one man many will be made righteous. That's another word for being saved, but it's a bigger word. It's not just saying I pressed the code and now I got a ticket to heaven. It's saying that my whole being now has been changed into a new position with God. I am now made righteous, forgiven, made new in Christ, not apart from Christ, a code, but in Christ now, a brand new person. so the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace increased all the more. We preached on that the other day. So that just as sin reigned in death, so also, here's the end, grace might reign through righteousness to bring, there it is, I knew it would be there somewhere, thank you, Lord, to bring what? Eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. …
The Apostle tells us that we "were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." "By nature," mark you, not merely by practice, but, "by nature the children of wrath" The expression is a Hebraism. When a person was doomed to die, he would be called by the Jews, "the child of death." One who was very poor would be called by them, "the child of poverty." So because we were, by nature, under the wrath of God, we are called "the children of wrath." When the Apostle says that we "were by nature the children of wrath," he means that we were born so. David expressed what is true of us all when he said, "Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Our first parent, Adam, sinned and fell as the representative of the whole human race. "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men." If any object to this principle of representation, that does not affect its truth of it—and I would also remind them that by this very principle of representation, a way was left open for our restoration! The angels did not sin representatively—they sinned personally and individually—and, therefore, there is no hope of their restoration, but they are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." But men sinned representatively, and this is a happy circumstance for us, "for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous." As we fell through one representative, it was consistent with the principles upon which God was governing mankind that He should allow us to rise by another Representative! At first, we fell not by our own fault, so now, by Grace, we rise not by our own merit. Death by sin came to us through Adam when we were born, so did life come to us through Christ Jesus. Thus our first text sets before us this terrible fact—as true as it is terrible, and as terrible as it is true—that we were by nature under the wrath of God from the very first. The whole race of mankind was regarded by God as descended from a disgraced traitor! We were all born children of wrath. …
II. Now comes the important question, "HAVE I ANY PORTION IN IT?" May the Holy Spirit help us to ascertain the Truth of God on this point! You who are really anxious in your hearts to know, I would earnestly persuade to read the Epistle to the Galatians. Read that Epistle through if you want to know whether you have any part or lot in the Covenant of Grace. Did Christ fulfill the Law for me? Are the promises of God, absolute and unconditional, made to me? You can know by answering three questions. First, Are you in Christ? Did you not notice that I said that we were all in Adam and in Adam we all fell? Now, "as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so, by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous." Are you in the Second Adam? You certainly were in the first one, for so you fell! Are you in the Second? Because if you are in Him, you are saved in Him! He has kept the Law for you. The Covenant of Grace made with Him was made with you if you are in Him, for as surely as Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchisedec met him, so were all Believers in the loins of Christ when He died upon the Cross! If you are in Christ, you are a part and parcel of the Seed to whom the promise was made—but there is only one seed, and the Apostle tells us—"He says not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of One, And to your Seed, which is Christ." If, then, you are in Christ, you are in the Seed—and the Covenant of Grace was made with you! …