The Seldom Heard Truth of Romans 5 by Brian Leslie Coatney Everything grows from a root. When Adam sinned, everyone born of Adam sinned. It doesnât seem fair that a baby born today should be born already having sinned, but this is fact. Though Eve fell first, sin or righteousness is reckoned to us through our father. Dan Stone always said, âRomans 1-4 talks about sins, plural; Romans 5-7 talks about sin, singular.â Thus, the producer had to be eliminated, or the products will keep growing up from the root. Romans 5 takes sin beyond our individual acts of Adamâs descendants and back to the root. When Adam fell, sin entered, and everyone dies because of Adam. As strange as this sounds, Paul gives proof. Death was the assigned result for only one specific sin, that of Adamâs disobedience. No other sin by any other person carried that sentence because the law hadnât been given yet. So there was this big gap between Adam and Moses during which everyone died. Paul says, âListen, everyone died for only one reasonâAdamâs sin, which everyone sinned when he fell.â Sometime at a Bible study, line people up along a wall to illustrate this. Letâs say that ten people line up along a wall, and the first one is Adam. He is the only one to violate a law carrying the sentence of death, so he of course dies. But then, no new law gets introduced in the time period between person number one and person number ten, yet they all will die. The reason can only be Adam. Through him, in came sin, death, and condemnation. God, however, is a âmuch moreâ God on the grace side. There is no comparison since anyone by faith has the freedom now to get birthed into the Last AdamâJesus Christ. Christ is the replacement Adam. As devastating as our losses were by being born into the first Adam, the benefits are immeasurably more glorious when born into the last Adam, namely Christ. These benefits include righteousness, eternal life, and no condemnation. In Adam, we sinned. In Christ, we are made perfect.
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