1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,360 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,040 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,960 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,680 and the life of all. Give us wisdom by Your law and 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:16,720 enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,800 Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,280 obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,560 every hour. O You who enlightens the 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,760 rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,600 Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,920 divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son 12 00:00:40,160 --> 00:01:03,240 and Holy Spirit, forever. the Epistle of Saint Paul to the 13 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,120 Church in Rome. We're in chapter 5. 14 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,160 Just a little brief background again for those who are joining 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,400 us for the first time listening to this series. 16 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,440 The the Epistle to the Romans was written obviously to the 17 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,240 church in Rome. Now we know that the the Jews 18 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,880 were taken out of the city of Rome and they were Gentiles. 19 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,200 And I'm talking about the Jews, the Christian Jews, the 20 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,920 believers Jews, they weren't called Christians back then, but 21 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,200 the believing Jews were taken out of the city of Rome. 22 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,280 And then the Gentiles were there and the believing Gentiles were 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,600 there, and there was a church where they were operating. 24 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:46,240 There was no synagogue there. When the Jews come back again, 25 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,880 one more time, the Jewish members come back to the city. 26 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,920 You know, the Jews there was a concern that the city or the 27 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,600 church may be split into a Jewish church and a Gentile 28 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,760 church. Now they met may have been 29 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,080 beginning brewing. But that's why Saint Paul writes 30 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,080 his letter to the Romans so that he can clarify everything to to 31 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,880 show and to to to teach and explain that listen, what was in 32 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,440 the past, It's in the past. And he he goes back to Abraham 33 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,040 and justification and the law, what have you. 34 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,400 We are now one with Christ. There is no more Jew, no one 35 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,120 Gentile, no more male, no more female. 36 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:31,760 We are all one in Christ. That's why he's been talking 37 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,960 about the the nature of justification and we know 38 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,640 justification. You know, some people have a 39 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,480 different understanding of justification. 40 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,160 You're going to go to heaven because you're justified. 41 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,720 No justification. Again, we've spoken so many 42 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,720 times doesn't make right. You know, just like God when we 43 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,720 reading the scriptures, there was a chaos in the world, There 44 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:55,880 was water, there was darkness. The first 3 verses God fixes 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,760 everything, brings everything in order, the sky, the land, you 46 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,120 know, the space, the air. And then he starts filling those 47 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,440 places with birds, with fish in the sea, with trees and with 48 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,800 the, the sun and the moon. So, so it's another way of 49 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,560 saying he justified that the world, he made it right. 50 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,040 He put everything in its place and again until the Lord Jesus 51 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,520 Christ one more time the world was in another turmoil of sin 52 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:26,840 and corruption and what paganism and and you know, you know, non 53 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,800 belief in God, non worship of the true God Jesus Christ came 54 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,640 one more time to justify one more time to make man right. 55 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:37,520 This might this time, not the creation, not the birds, not the 56 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:42,200 sky, not the earth, but man to justify men, to set it right, to 57 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,920 set it straight one more time. Put everything into perspective, 58 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,400 put everything in the right place where God want, wanted 59 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,000 everything to be. Steven, can you turn up a little 60 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,440 bit? God wanted everything to be as 61 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,080 far as men. Now again, the world is in 62 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,960 another turmoil and even worse, and it's getting worse day by 63 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,200 day. Sin, immorality, filth, 64 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:12,960 paganism, atheism, non believing God, it's just increasing and 65 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,760 increasing all those false faiths that are out there that 66 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,279 are not related to the Lord Jesus Christ, not worshipping 67 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,760 and kneeling and bowing before Jesus Christ, intensifying. 68 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,360 You see what's going on? Well, let me tell you something, 69 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,840 be of heart, be of heart and and and don't, don't be in despair. 70 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,440 Wait for the Lord. Blessed is he who waits for the 71 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:39,320 Lord best, blessed is the soul who has has waited for her Lord, 72 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,960 and he's repented and ready to receive the Lord. 73 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,920 When the Lord Jesus Christ comes, he will one more time 74 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,120 correct everything, justify everything, but this time in His 75 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,440 justification, in his correction, putting everything 76 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:57,640 in order, some will suffer and this is the eternal 77 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,440 justification. Some will suffer and some will 78 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,680 joy in that eternal bliss with Jesus Christ. 79 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,240 He talks about Abraham and his faith. 80 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,560 He talks about how the Gentiles didn't have the law yet. 81 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,560 They were still sinning, but God was. 82 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:18,600 You know, lack of a pen of term is turning a bland blind eye. 83 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,040 God had compassion towards them, but now he's saying that now 84 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,520 that Jesus Christ has come, that grace has come, that the 85 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,720 justification is there, it's done, it's ready to be, to be 86 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,320 for the taking of anyone who believes. 87 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,880 They too, now the Gentiles too are under the new covenant of 88 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,680 the law and of the Spirit. So now the Jews who believe and 89 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,520 the Gentiles who believe are under the covenant of the law 90 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,920 and of the law, but the law of the Spirit. 91 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,320 So we're going to pick it up from verse 12 and we're going to 92 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,480 conclude chapter 5 by the grace of God. 93 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,600 Paul writes Romans 512. Therefore, therefore, just as 94 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,440 through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, 95 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,640 and thus death spread to all men because all sinned, that means 96 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,120 people continue to live in sin. No word of condemnation. 97 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,080 Keep that thought. Keep that word. 98 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,640 No word of everyone was condemned. 99 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:24,040 No, no, no death. Death entered the world and 100 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:30,440 because of death it entered into mankind and all began and lived 101 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,160 a life in sin until the law, by the way, until Moses and Paul's 102 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,560 going to make make mention of that. 103 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:44,200 So Adam introduced sin. Adam introduced mortality into 104 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,120 human history. It was Adam. 105 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:54,400 Notice I said Adam introduced sin, or through Adam, sin 106 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,240 entered the world and not Adam established and created sin. 107 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,920 We're going to talk about that. Adam introduced sin and 108 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,840 mortality into the human history, in the human race. 109 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:08,080 How? How? 110 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,680 By disobeying. Let me ask you a question. 111 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,480 Didn't Adam believe in God? God would talk to Adam. 112 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,080 God would. Adam was God's handiwork. 113 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,960 He had no faith in God like he was telling, let's say Eve and 114 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,400 you know, speaking to him so that there's no God. 115 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,640 I've just, I just popped here. I just came from nothing. 116 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,960 I was a just imagine Stephen and Shamaja. 117 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,480 Just imagine Adam saying I came from a soup. 118 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:43,160 I came from nothing, right? Just like there was a an atheist 119 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,760 or a scientist trying to explain what nothing is. 120 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:48,480 It's ridiculous. And then he's saying why are you 121 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,600 laughing? Because it's ridiculous to 122 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,840 explain to me what is nothing. It's nothing, period. 123 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,880 Anyway, let's not go there. So didn't Adam believe in God? 124 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:05,120 He had faith, but then why was what he did counted as sin? 125 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,000 But he believed in God. It's OK, I can do this. 126 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,360 I just believe and I sin. I continue to sin for all those 127 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,200 heresies that are out there. And if you're listening and to 128 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,640 confine to that and you believe in that, stop. 129 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,040 You've been fooled. You've been misled just because 130 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,160 you believe. That's it. 131 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,280 Adam believed. Adam had a life in the garden 132 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,200 with God. God would communicate with Adam, 133 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,520 yet what he did did was counted as sin. 134 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,919 He believed, didn't he? Of course he did, but he had 135 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:43,600 faith, but his faith was dead according to James chapter 2, 136 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,160 verse 17. Hence, because of that 137 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:52,160 disobedience, because of what he did, because of he did what God 138 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:57,000 told him not to do, and he believed in God, death entered 139 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,840 the world. So sin followed death. 140 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,040 Death spread to all humanity. Keep in mind, I'm just saying 141 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,360 death. No word of condemnation there. 142 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,120 Death spread to all humanity. Why? 143 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,760 Because all the people participated in Adam's mortal 144 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,720 condition. Because our race, our kind, our 145 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:24,720 being was corrupted and was participating in the mortal. 146 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,920 The death part of our condition of mankind being the beginning 147 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,920 of our race. Adam being the beginning of our 148 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,400 race. Now please consider this very 149 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,520 well, and I hope that I don't give you this message. 150 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,480 This is not my intent. We did not participate in Adam's 151 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,080 act of sin as rights, the Church fathers as right, the Church 152 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,760 fathers. My issue that all the Syriac 153 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,000 Church Fathers, we did not participate in Adam's act of 154 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,640 sin. Disobedient. 155 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,320 I wasn't there. We didn't do that. 156 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,960 We didn't do it like Bart would say. 157 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:10,840 I didn't do it, but death when mortality entered the human race 158 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:18,600 and then the human race was seen to commit sin because sin, you 159 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,720 know the the the human race, the the nature of man or the the 160 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,800 inclination of man became to sin because it came through one man 161 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:34,920 and through that one man many others came beginning with Cain 162 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,680 and Abel and maybe daughters as well. 163 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:43,080 The Bible says unto Adam and Eve were born sons and daughters. 164 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:50,160 Now this is in no way introducing inherited guilt. 165 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:56,040 Augustine taught this that we inherited the guilt the Church 166 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,400 of the East and many Syriac fathers right. 167 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,640 We did not inherit the guilt, according to to Augustine. 168 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,520 No, we didn't. The Catholic Church also 169 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,840 prescribes to this. The Protestant churches teach 170 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,400 and understand this, the Assyrian Church of the East. 171 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,920 And obviously this program is presented to you by the Assyrian 172 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,680 Church of the East, according to the teachings of the Fathers of 173 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,040 the Church of the East, of the Life of the Church of the East, 174 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,040 the framework of the Church of the East and the Scriptures. 175 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:27,840 The Assyrian Church of the East understands and teaches that 176 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:34,360 humanity inherited the consequence, the consequence of 177 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,160 Adam's fault, the corruption, the mortality, the inclination 178 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,000 to sin, not Adam's personal guilt. 179 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,440 And we're going to continue. This is what Paul is going to 180 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:51,240 tell us, not condemnation. Because I too was a part of that 181 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,400 guilt, because I did it. I didn't do it. 182 00:11:53,840 --> 00:12:01,000 My first father did it. And that was Adam verse 13 and 183 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,360 14. For until the law sin was in the 184 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,000 world, people were sinning. But sin is not imputed when 185 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,720 there is no law. There's no law, but people are 186 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,400 still sinning because people were dying as well. 187 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:18,560 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses. 188 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,440 That is the law. Moses is the law even over those 189 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,360 who had not sinned according to the likeness of the 190 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,640 transgression of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come. 191 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,160 People sinned and died before Moses, before the Law, even 192 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,400 though the Mosaic law had not yet been given. 193 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:46,720 Cain killed Abel murdered Abel, sin crime. 194 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,840 And they say he murdered 1/4 of the world's population, but we 195 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,040 don't know. There may have been daughters 196 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:57,760 there as well, right? This demonstrates that death's 197 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:03,520 reign originated from Adam's transgression. 198 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:08,840 Not because I committed or I was guilty of that, but I became a 199 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,840 part of that sin, meaning the effect of that sin. 200 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:21,840 Also, let us keep in mind that sin itself, let me ask you a 201 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:26,040 question. Did sin originate from Adam's 202 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,840 disobedience? Did sin? 203 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:36,000 Do we read that sin originated? No, no, no mortar sin entered 204 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:44,440 the world, right? So did Adam originate the sin, 205 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,520 or did sin originate from Adam because of his disobedience? 206 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,000 Why am I asking you things? Because we got to keep in mind 207 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,480 that no, there was one person, there was one being before Adam, 208 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,800 the tempter, Satan, the serpent. Who was it? 209 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,240 He was a means of the revolt among the angelic heavens. 210 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,320 He revolted, he was disobedient to God. 211 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,880 There is a, a Jewish tradition that when God created Adam, when 212 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,120 God created man, he commands the angels to worship. 213 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,000 Now this is a Jewish tradition. He commands and, and I've, I've, 214 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:29,800 I think I've maybe some of the Syriac fathers who also comment 215 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:35,560 on this, that when God made Adam, he commanded the angels to 216 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,760 worship. Now worship doesn't mean that, 217 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,600 you know, someone would say, oh, worship is only for God. 218 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,040 Worship is not only that worship that you give to God. 219 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,400 Worship means Revere, respect, honor. 220 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,040 You're going to be serving, for example, you're going to be 221 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,760 serving this man, just like Paul says angels are serving 222 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,720 ministers for mankind. But he didn't, he revolted, 223 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,960 right? So that's where sin originated. 224 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,320 But it comes into the world through Adam, when he too 225 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,520 becomes a part of that, when he too disobeys God and revolts on 226 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,200 God's commandment. Do not eat. 227 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:15,920 And he ate he and his wife. Verse 15 to 17. 228 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:22,000 But the free gift is not like the offense, for if by the one 229 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,320 man's offence many died, much more the grace of God and the 230 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,800 gift by the grace of the one man capital, O one man, Jesus Christ 231 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:40,520 abounded to many and the gift and the gift is not like that 232 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,440 which came through the one who sinned. 233 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,480 We're going to talk about that. It's greater for the judgement 234 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,320 which came from the offence results resulted in 235 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,680 condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offences 236 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,800 resulted in justification. For if by the one man's offence, 237 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,080 death reigned through the one, much more through one through 238 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,600 much more, those who receive abundance of grace and of the 239 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,960 gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus 240 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,280 Christ. Wow, lot of information there. 241 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,480 Let's start unpacking number one. 242 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:25,720 Do you see that Adam is a type of Jesus Christ, is a foreshadow 243 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,560 of Jesus Christ? Adam was the negative, the 244 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:35,360 corruption, the morality, immorality, the mortality. 245 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:41,560 Christ is the positive, the holiness, the life, the 246 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,680 immorality. He's a type of Christ, but in a 247 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,960 reverse way. Remember, we just learned that 248 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,240 the actions of one man affected many. 249 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,360 Adam introduced death by his action. 250 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:04,480 Jesus introduced life. Adam brings condemnation. 251 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:15,000 Jesus brought justification. One person's trespass harmed 252 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,240 many. One act of obedience of Jesus 253 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:23,720 Christ benefits many. However, Paul writes. 254 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:29,280 Christ's gift. This is why salvation and grace, 255 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,360 it's not something to be played with. 256 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,760 It's not something to be taken lightly, because those who took 257 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,560 grace and take grace lightly find it as a license to sin. 258 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:46,200 That's what Paul writes to Jude. They took grace as a license to 259 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,680 sin. Saved by grace, I can do what I 260 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:49,880 want. No, no, no. 261 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,320 That is the most evil teaching, heretical teaching. 262 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,840 That is so away from the truth, beloved. 263 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:01,000 No, no, don't believe it. If someone says to you Jesus has 264 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,920 done it, there's nothing else you need to do. 265 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,160 Well, why are you preaching? May I ask? 266 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:11,040 May I ask if Jesus has done everything, there's nothing we 267 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,960 need to do. Why is there a Bible? 268 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,120 Why is there a preaching? Why are there commentaries? 269 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,200 Be it orthodox, Catholic, Protestants, Why are they 270 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,280 commentaries? Why do our brothers, the 271 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,840 Protestants ring their leaders and ask them questions? 272 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:30,960 It's been done. It's finished, done. 273 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,240 Don't just read the Bible. The Bible will tell you 274 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,800 everything. No need for commentaries. 275 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,160 No need for Talkback shows to ring in and ask questions. 276 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,920 No, no, no, no. So grace is not something to be 277 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,240 taken lightly. And don't ever, for your own 278 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,360 benefit, for your own eternal benefit, don't use it and abuse 279 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:58,680 it for a license to sin. Saint Paul writes this sin is 280 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:04,680 punishable by death. The wage of sin is death. 281 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,560 When you work and you receive wages, it's because you've 282 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:09,800 worked. That's it. 283 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,200 Your boss cannot say, hey, I just gave you a paycheck here 284 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,040 because I've worked. When you sin, the wage is death. 285 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,760 You cannot say why? Because you sinned and sin 286 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:29,560 brought death into the world. So Christ's gift of grace is far 287 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,760 greater than Adam's offence. Why? 288 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:36,720 Because grace not only reverse the fall, beloved, if you know 289 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,880 God, Christ didn't just come and reverse the fall, the corruption 290 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:46,800 and and fulfill the redemption. No, no, no, Christ bestowed the 291 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:52,960 grace of God, which is Jesus Christ through him and him only, 292 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,760 only Christ. I'm not concerned you have 293 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,680 friends from other faiths if you love that friend. 294 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,080 That is from a faith that has no connection to Christ. 295 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,640 If you really love that friend, you'll talk to that flame about 296 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,240 Jesus Christ, to bring him into Christ. 297 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:15,120 OK, only through Christ and what it did, what did it do? 298 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,960 Adam brought death, but Christ bestowed adoption of sonship in 299 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:24,040 baptism. In baptism, righteousness we 300 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,240 made right. We made justified, made right 301 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:36,520 again, salvation, forgiveness, compassion, mercy, repentance, 302 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:45,760 right, absolution, eternal life, eternal life, this all through 303 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,760 Jesus Christ and all that Adam did. 304 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,800 And by we, we don't take death lightly and sin lightly as well. 305 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,960 But through Christ we have all these victories, praise and 306 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,920 glory be to His name, salvation and eternal life. 307 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:06,000 Not bound by time, but you know by at one time at one instance. 308 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,320 No, no, beloved, no Always remember if you are asked, are 309 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,400 you saved? Are you entering the Kingdom of 310 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,480 God? Your answer should be as a 311 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,480 Christian. This is the correct true 312 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,600 biblical and you know the church fathers that teach this. 313 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:28,440 I have been saved through my faith in Jesus Christ. 314 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,560 I've been made righteous or justified means I've been 315 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,640 corrected through my faith in Jesus Christ. 316 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,960 I am being saved through my life with Jesus Christ, the new life 317 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,240 that I received from the waters of baptism being put to death 318 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,760 and brought to life. And I continue to live that life 319 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,520 through Jesus Christ. And I will be saved if I endure, 320 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:59,160 if I suffer, if I persevere with Jesus Christ, and if I sin, I 321 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,760 ask for forgiveness, I repent, I continue this life of battle 322 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,080 until the Lord returns and, and and justifies and makes 323 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:13,320 everything right for the last time, and then I will enter 324 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,080 eternity with my Lord and my Savior Jesus Christ. 325 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:22,760 Verse 18 Therefore, as through one man's he keeps he keeps 326 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,480 repeating to tell them that they're both in the same boat, 327 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:30,080 both the Jews and the Gentiles. As through one man offence, one 328 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,920 man's offence, judgement came to all men. 329 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,480 What is judgement? What was judgement? 330 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,600 God came to set things right because again it was out of 331 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,960 order. It was in chaos there. 332 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,560 Through therefore, as through one man's offence, judgement 333 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:51,000 came to the all men, resulting in condemnation. 334 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,200 Even so, through one man's righteous act, the free gift 335 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,280 came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 336 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,320 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also 337 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:10,160 by one man's obedient once many will be made righteous. 338 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:14,400 Now this is the new King Jem version. 339 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,000 That word condemnation is, I think, mistranslated. 340 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:25,200 There's no mention of the word condemnation, that we were all 341 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,080 condemned. No, we weren't. 342 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:34,520 We all became part of the repercussion and the outcome of 343 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:45,840 that sin through Adam's disobedience, humanity entered a 344 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,240 condition of corruption and death. 345 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,880 Remember what God said in Genesis chapter 2 verse 17. 346 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,000 He said in the day that you will eat from it. 347 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:05,720 That is the fruit you your race. I just added that will die the 348 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:11,920 death not just die in the Syriac versions mortar bit meted. 349 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:20,600 You will die the death not be put to death not I will kill 350 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,920 you, I will bring death upon you. 351 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,400 No, no, no, you will die the death. 352 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,080 So through Adam all this happened. 353 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:36,600 Death entered the world. See this is the the condition of 354 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:42,240 mankind when they are born into this world by by means of their 355 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,440 humanity. Through Adam this all happened, 356 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,000 but through Jesus Christ, through his obedience, humanity 357 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:57,760 receives the possibility that the the provision, the the gift 358 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,120 of righteousness and restoration. 359 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:06,600 By believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, Christ initiates, Christ 360 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:12,960 establishes, brings forth a new humanity, just that as Adam was 361 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,800 the head of the old humanity, God is the establisher, the 362 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:23,760 initiator of new humanity. Moreover, verse 20. 363 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:29,720 Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound, but 364 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:34,800 where sin abound, grace abounded much more, so that as sin 365 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,840 reigned in death, Even so grace might reign through 366 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,440 righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 367 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,960 The law came to, to control, to manage sin. 368 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,960 The law exposed sin more clearly, clearly, but it didn't 369 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,240 cure sin. That's why the law was weak, 370 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,160 because man was weak in the flesh. 371 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,000 It just came to it just came to put things in order. 372 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,600 For example, again, I give you this example. 373 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,880 I always do it. You're driving on a road. 374 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:08,560 There's no street signs. No, you know, no speed signs 375 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,720 whatsoever. You're out in somewhere where 376 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,360 there is no street signs and you drive as you wish. 377 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,080 And then there's going to be chaos. 378 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,760 There's going to be accidents, there's going to be tragedy, 379 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,920 tragedies. But the government puts up a, a 380 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,480 speed sign. Why? 381 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,840 So that it can control your urge to drive fast. 382 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,440 It manages you. It manages your your driving 383 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,440 right, but it doesn't cure that. Even if you do have a car 384 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,640 accident while driving at the speed limit, there could still 385 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,480 be death. It's there to manage it. 386 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:52,760 The grace in Jesus Christ supersedes that and and 387 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,720 increases over sin. Beloved, as we spoke, we're sin 388 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,120 multiplied. That means people knew sin 389 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,760 because the law came. God's mercy, Paul Rice and grace 390 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,760 abounded even more where they were sinning and they knew it's 391 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,240 sin. God showed grace and mercy by 392 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:17,120 forgiving. If my people shall come back and 393 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,960 repent and ask for forgiveness, I will forgive them and remember 394 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,040 their sins no more. This is mercy. 395 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,000 This is grace. Marishu that writes it very 396 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,920 nicely summarizes this. He writes Adam introduced cause 397 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,360 death and corruption, not inherited guilt. 398 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:37,800 We didn't inherit the guilt. Death spread because humanity 399 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:43,280 shares Adam's fallen condition. Christ is the second Adam or the 400 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:49,880 last Adam who restores humanity. The law reveals sin but cannot 401 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,480 heal it. Grace in Christ is greater than 402 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,680 Adam's transgression because it can heal the sin. 403 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,320 Romans chapter 5, he writes, teaches the movement from death 404 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,360 to life, corruption to restoration, and Adam to Christ. 405 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,720 He puts it so beautifully, and this is what he's telling both 406 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,280 the Gentiles and the Jews. You had the law, you sinned. 407 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,280 You didn't have the law, you sinned. 408 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,320 It was corruption. There was death, there was sin. 409 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,880 The law came before the law by the way, let's go pre law Jews, 410 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,680 you were living, you were sinning, you were dying. 411 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,200 Gentiles, you were living, you were sinning, you were dying. 412 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,920 There was no law. Law came to manage that sin. 413 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,720 The Jews accepted, but they were still sinning and they were 414 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,680 still dying. The, the, the Gentiles didn't 415 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,520 accept they were sinning, they were dying as well, right? 416 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,840 Jesus Christ, praise and glory comes into the picture into the 417 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,880 world to just or to make everything right now there is no 418 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,200 more excuses for the Jews or the Gentiles. 419 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,600 There's no excuses for the Christians and the non 420 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,120 Christians as well. There's no excuse. 421 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,160 Christ has come. We who have accepted we need to 422 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,520 do away with sin, live a pious life through Jesus Christ, and 423 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,560 we have the gifts we have. We have so much gifts above, 424 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,280 more than what Adam brought on upon us. 425 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,320 Christ has given us again confession, forgiveness, the 426 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,880 Holy Eucharist, the Church, Baptism, the Sacrament of 427 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,400 Baptism, the sacrament of Absolution. 428 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:27,280 We have all these gifts and then we live in this life waiting for 429 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,440 the Lord to return, for that final justification, for that 430 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:36,080 final righteousness, for that final process where Christ makes 431 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,880 everything right for the Jews, for the Gentiles, for the 432 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,080 Christians, for the non Christians, for every man on 433 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,080 this earth. Because every man will kneel and 434 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:54,240 will confess now, either confess in shame or in fear and not 435 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:59,840 having a an opportunity to make things right, or we will confess 436 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:05,800 in pride, in glory, in confidence, and in that that joy 437 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,720 that Christ will bring to take up His Church into His heavenly 438 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,080 bright chamber. Praise and glory be to His name 439 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,440 now and not all times and forever. 440 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:43,830 Amen. We hope you enjoyed this week's 441 00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:46,150 message. 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