Book of Romans - Ch. 5, Vs. 12-Ch. 6, Vs. 3 (06/02/2002)

Romans 5, 12. Romans 5, 12.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned,

Virg, can you do anything out of the will of God? All right.

Let me give you a definition of sin, where it came from. When David said that I had just forgotten,

I went back and looked it up. Sure enough, he's right. From where did sin come?

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.

God did not have to create sin, for it was there as the other side of righteousness.

When you close a door and you shut something in, you automatically shut something out.

Sin is wherever God is not. It's the absence of God.

All right, is sin spiritual, David?

No, you don't have to guess. I mean, is sin mental then?

Diane, you want to say something? You said it can't be spiritual?

Yes, it can.

How do we know that it is spiritual? Spiritual, spiritual is the non -seeable world.

No, not when you're talking about spirit. Evil spirits, sinful spirits, godly spirits.

We need to realize that Satan and God both are spiritual.

Yes, that's right.

All right, since it's spiritual, how do we know this?

Since sin is spiritual, how do we know that it's spiritual? All right, did you hear what

I said? We know because the devil's spiritual. The generator of it is spiritual.

Can you do anything that is sinful? Can you do anything that is sinful,

Greg? Well, can you do anything sinful?

All right. The doing is of God. Sin is in the mind.

We sin in our mind, we carry it out in the world, but that part is under God.

Pharaoh sinned, then he carried it out physically.

All right, 13. Yes, well, that's true, but there was a law.

Yes, there was a, there was sin before the law, but the laws, he's talking about the

Ten Commandments. All right, 13.

For until the law was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law.

He could not judge you by the commandments until the commandments were given.

But there was a law of life and death prior to that.

Imputed means to charge with the fault or responsibility, to attribute credit.

If sin had never been permitted, the wisdom of God could not have appeared in overruling it, 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 of us in his kingdom.

14. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses.

That proves that sin was in the world. Sin brought death. When Adam sinned, he separated the spirit and the body.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned, after the similitude of Adam, Adam's transgression.

Who is the figure of him that was to come? Now, we have a direct reference to who,

Greg? Jesus Christ. Adam was a figure of Jesus Christ.

In what way, Greg? Alright, what did

Adam have that I did not? Alright. Jesus then, being in like figure, did he have a free will?

Yes. The only two people in the world that ever did. Now, we have a right of choice, but we're already sinners.

By free will, I'm taking it back to the state of Adam. 15.

But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one, what's you're dead in that state, how?

Spiritually or physically? Spiritually. Much more the grace of God and the gift by grace, which is by one man,

Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Now, to tear open a feather pillowcase and allow the feathers to blow wherever they want to blow, and they would blow, in that Adam committed the first sin and it affected everybody else, the feathers blowing wherever they wanted.

But the task of gathering each and every feather so as to put them back in the pillow is a far greater task, would you not say?

You cannot compare these two events. This is what Jesus the

Christ did while on the cross for the elect.

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.

17. A second difference between Adam and Christ is pointed out. One offense of Adam caused condemnation to be sent on Adam and all of his race.

All have been put under death. We all die because of what

Adam did. And what Adam did was separate the spirit from the body.

But the free gift through Jesus Christ not only pardons a connection of our race with Adam's sin, but provides a way for the pardoning of many offenses.

All are offenses so as to secure justification. One sin of Adam destroyed all, but the atonement of Jesus Christ provides conditions for forgiveness of all sins.

Are you still with me? 18. 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,

Jesus Christ. The super abounding grace of God, can it ever run out?

Greg, when he extended grace to you, did that lower the storehouse?

Not one bit. Well, the super abounding grace of Christ is still further shown as a result of Adam's one offense.

Death reigned over men, so the other hand, on the other hand, those who receive

Christ's grace and enjoy his righteousness shall through Christ reign.

It has to be if you're in Christ. 18.

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.

Therefore, to make it short, as by one man's offense, that guiltiness came on all men to make them subject to death.

Now, is death universal? Yes. So, on the opposite side, the righteousness of Christ, which by God's mercy is imputed to all believers.

Yes. What? Well, the believer is not in that verse.

You're going to the all, came upon all men.

All right, if you want to make it available to all from man's viewpoint, that's fine, that's right.

From God's viewpoint, it isn't. Therefore, as by one man's offense, that guiltiness came upon all men, all men die.

So, on the opposite side, the righteousness of Christ, which is by God's mercy, is imputed to all believers, justifies them that they may become partakers of everlasting life, not only because of our sins are forgiven us, but also because the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.

19. For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners.

Now, if you understand that much of the 19th verse, you're ahead of most seminary students.

Joy, for as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, not all.

So, by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous.

The same many again. Well, we have to, all right, from man's viewpoint, that's right, but not from God's viewpoint.

Here, Paul sums up his argument on federal headship. Adam's one act of disobedience made all sinners.

Is that right? All right. Not just possessors of a sin nature, but guilty of the act of sin,

Christ's obedience, his death and resurrection, makes it possible for God to declare righteous the sinner who believes in him.

Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound.

Why was the law given, Greg? And where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

Did he have grace to save a sinner before the law? David, did

God have the grace to save a sinner before the law was given? That's right, you have to answer yes.

When God gave the law, he gave with it a sacrificial system.

Then later on, Christ came to fulfill that part of the law also.

In other words, God has given to the human race a lost race to be delivered from the guilt of sin.

Now, not just the nature of sin. You and I will have that old nature throughout all of our lives.

We can't get rid of it. We have it so that we will grow. Twenty -one, that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our

Lord. Again, we come to Jesus Christ. As death has reigned unto death, as sin has reigned unto death, you and I are living in a world where sin reigns.

Now, do you want to know who's the king of the earth? Scripture tells us that Satan is the prince.

He's the one that goes up and down, seeing who he can devour. Sin hath reigned unto death, and the cemeteries are still being filled because of that.

Even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our

Lord. He is calling out a people, out of the lost world.

Man is alienated from God. He has a sin nature.

When you come into this world, before you come into this world, you have a sin nature, if that's possible.

You'll always have that sin nature. Now God gives salvation to his people.

The claims of God's righteousness are fully met in the death of Christ. The kingdom is fully and firmly established on the cross of Christ.

All other ground is sinking sand. The believer now has eternal life by being united to the last

Adam, and he was called that, the last Adam. The raised and glorified

Christ. This makes possible the sanctification of the saved sinner.

Now let's go back and review a little bit. In verse 12, 5 -12, wherefore has by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.

Greg explained to me what is meant by sin bringing death with it.

All right, how does that work? Do you remember the three -finger exercise?

And when Adam sinned, Christ said you're going to die the day, the moment you do that.

Well he didn't die physically, he died spiritually. He separated the body and soul from the spirit.

Now the spirit resides in every last human being, and always will.

That's what makes possible for us to be saved. Let me ask you a question.

Does the sinner, and we're talking about somebody just, they went out on the street and found this person, and we know he's a sinner, does he know it?

What did you say over here? I heard a deep male voice.

Well that's different. He sinned for he killed him.

Does a sinner know that he is a sinner? Well we can't put editorials on this.

Does the sinner, did you know you were a sinner before you were saved? No. David?

The sinner, the sinner, to define the sinner depends upon the society in which you live.

To have sin is to be without God, without Christ, and those that are sinners with that definition do not know that they're sinners.

That's right. That word uses all, it goes into the word many.

The sheep are not sinners. They do sin, but they're not sinners by nature, anymore.

And those who are lost, those are always in that state. And I think that's one of the reasons.

Which is, both are used. The word always used in verse 18. The word many is used in several verses.

And it's the same spot used here in the

Bible study. It is all, it's written, it's predestined, it's all in.

It's true, and that's taught everywhere. What's not taught in verse 19 is the fact that there's blood

Jesus shed, about two points of shed, only for God to use.

That's not something to go in and study back in history.

You'll find that before the turn of the century, England was one of the last places to use majority of baptism.

Believe verse 19 like you did, that there is a Jesus for God to use, and that Jesus died before he was left.

After the turn of the century, that's totally flip -flopped. And the fact is, there's more to that than ever said.

That's why they had two groups, one was called particular baptism, another one was universal baptism.

Particular means they believed Jesus was going to be dead when they left home. Universal baptism is to believe that it's the dead, or all dead, that they were in.

That's a very huge contradiction, because we know it can't be.

And here I sit, teaching from the view of God.

You people are subject to that, but the world is not.

You cannot explain to a Christian the difference, unless they've been in class.

Yes? Yes. Well, let's go into chapter 6, just for a little bit.

Yes. All principalities, and power, and might, and dominion, and everything in this world, but also the rest is to come.

So I have always believed that Satan has no power in this world, except that it's a given in him that Christ Jesus Christ, and philosophy, it says the same thing, that today's

Christians, they get from him. Now, those that are not

Christians don't recognize it, but that doesn't overawe principalities.

People like him were often created that were in heaven, and that aren't visible, invisible.

That's invisibility. That's him. That's evil. We say he's from the dominion, that's the dominion, or principalities or powers that were created by him and for him.

So I have always thought that there's no credit to the society of truth, except that Satan is a hater, not a believer.

Sometimes it's a hater that's often a believer. The statement that I made, the statement

I made was, do you want to know who is king of the earth?

Well, Christ is. But Satan has the power, only the power, he can't make you do anything.

He has the power to travel the earth and devour who he can, the unsaved.

That's right. Who he can eliminates us.

Can Satan, can Satan, Satan can do only that that God has for him to do, and that's to grow us, to make us grow.

Believe it or not, we grow by adversity. Never give credit to the devil.

That's right. All right. All right, are we ready to go on?

I didn't say that he had the lord of the earth, or that he was king of the earth.

I said, do you want to know who is king of the earth? I didn't go ahead and finish saying

Christ, but Satan is here. He's from one end to the other.

Now, let's leave that. In Romans 6, I just want to open this chapter because I want to spend some time on it.

But first of all, in this chapter, I want you to read every place that it says sin, you read it sin nature, or the old sin nature.

Now, verse 1. What shall we say then?

Shall we continue in the sin nature that grace may abound?

If you think that Christ has given you freedom of righteousness without a new life, you're dividing

Christ asunder. God has provided a way for us to sin.

Did you ever think of that? What is this way?

We don't know. You simply leave your walk with him.

It's sin when you leave him, not when you sin, but when you leave is the sin.

Verse 2.

God forbid. How shall we that are dead to the sin nature live any longer therein?

The verb dead is a perfect verb, meaning that it is an action that goes on and on and on.

The imperfect verb goes on and on and on and on forever. You're dead forever.

Never again will you return to the old sin nature. You can't.

How can a cow, how can a dead cow give fresh milk?

David, you can't. So how do you any longer live in the old man?

You can't. He was crucified. He's dead.

He's gone. Now, don't get confused. We're dead to the sin nature, all right, but it's still alive to me, and it picks at me all of the time.

But he can never have me. You can sin, but you cannot any longer live in sin habitually.

Know you not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

First of all, there is no water in this verse at all, so just get that.

Yet we're baptized. Joy, what does baptized mean? Baptized means to be placed into, meaning you were outside of.

Placed into. Greg, give me the long definition.

All right. Give me an example. All right.

Did it change the outside or the look of it? No. The minute you are placed into Christ does not change your position in this earth.

Paul says, do you not know? It is common knowledge.

Know this. You were baptized.

Now, is that a passive verb or an active verb? Passive.

Because it was done to you. You were placed.

You had no choice in it. You had nothing to do with it.

But the moment that you become aware that you were saved, you were already placed into Christ at his death.

Why at his death? Why not the resurrection, Greg? All right.

The bond -servant relationship cannot be broken unless one of the two parties dies.

On the human level, the slave would have to die or the master would have to die, one or the other.

On the spiritual level, we were doulos, bond -servant, to Satan.

I can say it again.

Did I recognize the moment I was... I did not realize it until I began to study, if that's what you mean.

Well, help me out, B, what she's saying. All right.

Adam separated it. We joined it, not by moving the spirit, by him giving me a new life.

That life is part of the spirit, and that, according to Ecclesiastes 12, 7, goes back to God who gave it.

Right, but you don't recognize it?

The old sin nature is dead. Now, whether I recognize it or not, that comes with study.

David? But when you position it, when you're saying

Christ is dead, that you, that the old man is dead, and in fact we are dead to Satan as well.

That's right. However, it doesn't mean that they aren't by strength. They're thinking that, not believing.

Unfaithful prevents operative death. That's right.

So, positionally, yes.

Even when we walk in the spirit, however, they still are, as I said again, still trying to have the vision.

But the thing that's not there is the experience of death.