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Introduction
Introduction:
Earlier this month Vicky Momberg became the first person in SA to be jailed for racism.
She was sentenced to 3 years in jail.
It has highlighted that the politics of Race is a huge raging subject in our country today.
The Sunday Times website this morning carried 2 or 3 stories dealing with race.
It’s an important subject, and the gospel won’t allow us to be racist.
It is the gospel that gives us verses like
Sunday times website this morning Identity: two races: Adam and Christ.
shows us that what race you are matters so much that your eternity depends on it.
For some today is not about well meant platitudes, but about an all important question: when death and tragedy seem to reign, is there hope?
Is there another way?
This passage starts with Adam in v12 and ends with the second coming in v21. the great sweep of all of history, with an Adam-Christ contrast.
The whole world can be divided into two races: the race of Adam and the race of Christ.
He changes his language from 1-11 where he was speaking about believers - to now speak about humanity as a whole.
He shows that there are 2 races in the world: the race of Adam and the race of Christ.
It’s a relief to know that God does have something to say that is not a mere platitude, however well-meant.
It is the truth about our situation, and a word about the future.
It is a word of hope, that there was a day when death was defeated, and there will be a day when death will be eradicated from our experience of life.
This passage starts with Adam in v12 and ends with the second coming in v21. the great sweep of all of history, with an Adam-Christ contrast.
When death and tragedy seem to reign, is there hope?
Is there another way?
just as, so also -
The passage is bracketed by v12 and v21.
READ.
They introduce to us the two great villains in life - sin and death.
Sin gained entry through one man as a hostile power, closely followed by death.
Today we are reminded of the reality of the world in which we live, where death seems to have the last word.
Verse 12 shows us the reason for death – READ.
Verse 12 shows us the reason for death.
4 clauses: sin came, and death came, death spreads, because all sinned: sin death death sin.
Sin is a power which rules and dominates.
Sin is a power which rules and dominates.
And so the apostle makes the point that the world in which we live, is one that is reigned over by sin and death – READ v21.
He almost certainly has in mind.
People die – young and old – not primarily because of disease, or old age, or sickness.
People die primarily because of sin.
The consequence of our humanity – with all of it’s rebellion against God, is death.
(ESV): 21 so that, as sin reigned in death. . .
They enter upon the world stage from “off-stage”; where they actually come from Paul does not stop to say; nor, presumably, did he think it necessary to speculate on the subject.
The only pertinent fact is that they are there, brooding presences whose influence determines the unfolding of the plot
But God has promised better things for those who are in Christ.
Paul makes a comparison of Adam and Jesus:
Paul embarks on a comparison of Adam and Jesus.
I want to make three simple points today from this passage of scripture, that further explain the hope that we have as Christians:
I want to make three simple points today from this passage of scripture, that further explain the hope that we have as Christians:
Adam and Jesus are similar
Paul begins by showing what it is that Jesus and Adam have in common – v12:
In V18a he says the same thing again:
In V18a he says the same thing again:
One man’s sin led to condemnation for all, while one man’s act of righteousness led to the justification and life for many.
The principle of the comparison is that the actions of one affects the many.
I’ve always wondered about the fairness:
What it is saying that all of us were in Adam.
Where are you and I before we’re born: we’re in the genetic bank of Adam.
So when Adam was sinning – where were you and I? We were there!
Adam was all of us – we are just separate parts of Adam.
He made the choice for us all, he broke the law for us all and he became the transgressor for us all.
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