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Bro. Otis Fisher
We are at Romans 5 and 6, but I want to back up to 5 .5 to
get a running start.
And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given
unto us, for
when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly.
Now since Christ died, or Jesus died,
it has been mandatory that the ungodly receive
the Holy Spirit, for without Him
you shall not see light.
And it says here, in due time, excuse me,
in due time Jesus died just at the right time, the right moment
in history.
It could not have been earlier or later.
That means that He was born at the right time.
His mother and husband had to be born at the right time.
Their folks had to be born at the precise moment.
You can trace this all the way back to Adam.
It had to be at the right time.
Now let me ask you a question.
Could Adam have been made earlier or later?
Who's that on the back?
Okay.
David, you have it again.
Could Adam have been made earlier or later in history?
Greg, Russell,
Brother David, John.
So if we took a vote, David, you'd be outvoted.
No, he could not have been made earlier or later.
It had to be at the precise moment.
Due time, exact time.
God is a God of mathematics, absolute in time and space and motion.
He made you to know at the right moment.
One cannot accept salvation.
One can only receive it.
There is a difference, and you have no choice in it.
There will be none of his children in hell just as
there will be none of the devil's children in heaven.
So John, your good or poor witness will not
send someone to hell or heaven.
I get rather upset where I used to.
I haven't been exposed to them in a long time.
Preachers put in a guilt trip on their people by saying, people are dying and going to
hell because you will not go out and bring them into church.
In Matthew 121, we read the Lord's words in the
Greek, for he will save the people of him from the sins of them.
He will save them.
This does not lessen our responsibility.
We will still have to answer for our own will.
His will shall be done, for he is not sovereign, one or the other.
7.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He commends.
What does the word commend mean, Brother David?
That's right.
He commends his love toward us, so that in the midst of
our afflictions we may know assuredly that he will be present
with us while sin reigned in us.
We have been saved from the penalty of sin.
He is saving us from the power of sin, and someday
he will save us from the very presence of sin.
In Deuteronomy 7 .7, we read these words.
The Lord did not set his
love upon you, nor chose you, because you were more in
number than any people.
For ye were the fewest of all people.
But he set his love upon you, because the Lord loved you,
and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers.
Hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of a house
of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, which
represents the world, while we were yet sinners?
This tells us that we are not sinners now, while we
were yet sinners, meaning that we are not now.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath, not by him, but through him, meaning
Jesus Christ.
It is through that man that we will be saved.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,
much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
we have now received the atonement, or the sealing.
Atonement.
This word comes from a root word that brings another word, and that's
pitch.
And we run across this word in the life of Noah as he was ordered
to pitch the ark within and without.
It means to be sealed, seal, a die or a signet, having
erased or etched letters in a metal emblem used to stamp an
impression on a receptive substance
such as wax or lead.
The impression so made, the design or emblem
itself belonging exclusively to the user, a small
disc or waver of wax.
Therefore, wherefore, has by one man sin entered
into the world?
Who was that, John?
Adam.
And death by sin.
Now I want to stop here just a moment.
Death came by sin.
Now the death of what, Greg?
Well was that the only death?
All right.
So it was the death of what, Brother David?
Well, that's true, but is that all that died,
Russell?
Is that all?
Dave, tell us.
Is that all that died?
All right, the creation, death of the creation.
It all began to decay.
Man didn't die immediately.
He separated from God immediately, but he didn't die immediately.
Neither has the universe died immediately, but it started then
and has been running backwards ever since.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin.
Sin is what caused this world to die.
And so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.
Now from where did sin come,
John?
Where did sin come from?
How did he get it?
Did God create sin?
Well, let me explain it to you.
Since God is God and nothing else, we conclude
that sin is the place where God is not.
You must have an opposite in order to have the present.
God
could not have righteousness unless there was unrighteousness.
Are you with me?
God did not have to create sin for it was there as the other side of righteousness.
When you close the door and you shut something
in, you automatically shut something out.
Sin is wherever God is not.
It came from God in that it is the absence of God.
Did sin enter into this world against God's will?
No.
From where did sin originate?
From outside of this cosmos by way of Lucifer.
So sin is simply where God is not.
Lucifer is where God is not.
He is sin personified.
Any questions?
All right, 13.
For until the
law was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law.
Now let me show you.
God cannot see sin.
Is that right or wrong, John?
Are we responsible for keeping the law, Russell?
You're sure?
We're not held accountable for keeping the law.
So there is no sin in us from the Father's viewpoint.
Do you see that?
For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed
where there is no law.
You don't keep the law.
You're not held accountable for the law.
Is that right, Greg?
So God cannot see sin.
Our Lord can.
Jesus, the Christ.
If sin had never been ordained, the wisdom of God could
not have appeared in overruling it.
The reasons for sin.
Nor his mercy in pardoning it.
Nor his power in subduing it.
God loves us not for what we are, but for what he will make us in his kingdom.
He loves us, but not complete.
He will love us complete when we are complete.
Are there any questions?
You're a quiet bunch this morning.
We're not responsible, as the Old Testament was held responsible for keeping the Ten
Commandments.
Well, I haven't massaged that much, but offhand I would say no.
He doesn't see it.
And he doesn't change.
Yes.
Well, it was imputed to all of us.
Prior to the law, they were a law unto themselves.
You had the head of the family was responsible for passing not
the Ten Commandments, but the law of God onto Cain and
Abel and so forth.
So you had the family, then you had the law, and now you have Christ.
See, Adam and Eve knew the fact that you were not to eat
of that tree.
They didn't understand sin, but they knew they were not to eat of it.
Well, there must be, there has to be, John, a choice
if you have freedom.
Without a choice, you don't have freedom.
So Adam had a choice, be it or not eat.
Now, they understood there was good and evil, because that was the name of that tree.
But they didn't understand the evil part until they ate of the tree.
So they were held responsible for that from the beginning.
Now, we're held responsible for the laws of the land.
That's something else.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even
over them that had not sinned, after the similitude or likeness
of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
Now, the figure of him to come was Jesus.
But not as the offense, so also is the free gift.
For if through the offense of one, notice it says, many be dead.
Not all are dead.
Many be dead, spiritually and physically.
Much more, the grace of God and the gift by grace, which is
by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Now, let me read that to you from the Amplified Bible.
But God's free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass.
His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man.
For if many died through one man's falling away,
this lapse, this offense, much more abundantly did God's grace and
the free gift that comes through the undeserving favor of the one man,
Jesus Christ, abounded and overflowed to and for the benefit
of many.
See if I can give you an example.
Of what Adam did and what Christ did.
Now, it didn't take very much
thought or action on Adam's part
to plunge the human race into sin.
But, when it comes to Jesus Christ, he
saved every single one of his sheep with
one act.
But it is as though, John, we take a pellicase, a
feather pellicase, and we tear it open,
and the feathers just fly everywhere.
They fly all over the world.
I thought about taking a pillow and, while I was here, to tear it open, but that would
have been undue work for the people that clean up, and they would have never got it all.
Jesus, then, had to reverse that act.
He must pick up every feather and put it back in the
pellicase.
Now, John, how much of a job would that be for you if we had just a small pillow and we
scattered the feathers?
Do you suppose you'd ever get them all?
Well, I doubt if you'd live long enough to get them all.
But, that's just a little bit of what Jesus did.
If you look at the comparisons between what Adam did and what Jesus did to reverse it.
Tremendous, tremendous act.
The task of gathering up each feather.
16.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of
many offenses unto justification.
That's exactly what the illustration shows.
14.
For if by one man's offense death reigned, and this is
an active voice, by one much more they which
receive, present tense, an active voice, abundance of
grace, of the gift of righteousness, shall,
future, active, reign in the life of one by Jesus Christ.
15.
For if by one man's offense death reigned, by one much more they which
receive, abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall
reign in life by one.
Therefore, as by the offense of one
judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of
one the free gift came upon all men unto
justification of life.
Now, the all, by all men.
What does it mean?
Free gift came upon all men.
Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men,
and the free gift came upon all men.
David?
Brother David, explain that.
It came to all men to condemnation.
Adam's sin caused the seed of Satan to be born into this world.
Even so, by the righteousness of one, all men unto justification of life.
The all in the second use refers to all of those that believe.
For as by one man's disobedience, it goes on, many were made sinners.
Were made sinners, meaning they were made before, but not sinners.
And Adam come along and he made them sinners.
It's rather interesting, John, that by one man's
disobedience, many were made, past tense, sinners.
Did you exist before?
No, he's talking about those that do belong to him.
For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience,
shall the many be made righteous.
Change of tense.
I want you to memorize this verse.
For by one man's disobedience, many were made
sinners.
If sin had not come into the world, we would all have been righteous.
That's all that would have been born.
But Adam saw to it unknowingly that he made all that
were to be born, he made them sinners.
Now, made, one man's disobedience, many were made
sinners, that's the group of believers.
They were made sinners, so by the obedience,
meaning the obedience of Jesus, many were made
righteous.
This many we're talking about.
Before Adam, when Adam was made, there was only one class of people,
the righteous, that would come from Adam.
And Adam took that group, not the sinning group, but that
group, and he changed them into being sinners by sinning
himself.
Because we all came from Adam.
Then Christ came, Jesus came, and by what he did, as he's been
talking about throughout the whole chapter, what he did was pick up every feather,
the many, and made them righteous.
It has nothing to do with sinners.
Have I confused you completely?
Could you explain it?
You have always belonged to God.
I don't want to go on if you're confused.
Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound.
Why did the law come into effect, Greg?
To show me that I was a sinner.
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
We've seen the example.
It had to take an enormous amount of grace to pick up the feathers as
compared to the one of Adam releasing them.
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Eternal life without beginning, without end, that
which has always been and always will be.
Eternal life.
Jesus the Christ.
If you're not his, I pray that you will be.
I pray that he will notify you and that
I will know it because I'm getting ready to leave and
I'd like to know before I go.
But with this group, I think you all already know it.
Is there any discussion now from anybody?
You've been rather quiet this morning.
I would ask you to read the chapter again, the last
part of it.
Study it.
Greg, dismiss us please.