Thoughts for another day

Feb. 17, 2014.

Today's verse:  Rom. 5:16. The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. (NIV – copyright acknowledged)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Following Adam’s sin all men who were his seed, died.  It was a sad time for mankind because Adam caused the downfall and death for everyone who was born through him, as the consequence of his sin was death, for God clearly told him that on the day he would eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would surely die.  He did and he died and so did all that followed of his seed.  This was the spiritual death which was to affect the soul in its eternal state.

But thanks be to God that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ as the sacrifice – a blemishless Lamb as it were, Who was to take away the sin of man.  Christ fulfilled God’s plan, prepared even before time began; and every sinner who looks at Christ’s benign face can hear the whisper of God say, ‘let US (the holy Trinity) then for man, be a sacrifice to wipe away his sin, be a sinless Lamb in the stead of man to stand in the breach and thus do away with the gulf between US and him to bring him back to US. So We decree You (Jesus Christ) the Word, to take the role of Savior.  To this, the sinner can again hear the whisper of the Son of Man, ‘Thy will be done My Father!’

So all those who died by the sin of one man now received the Grace of God – freely and without limit to be reconciled to God – The Grace of the one Man Jesus Christ, overflowing to many so that all men might see the salvation of God.  Blessed is our God forever who worked out such a great salvation in His Son Jesus Christ, by which we’re free and without stain, not merely washed but adopted as His child, so we can even dare to say, ‘I am holy’ and inherit the Kingdom of God which is our appointed place forever.  He did this by portioning a faith into all who chose to believe in Him, so we may not boast of our own merits but receive it in simple belief. He did it not because we’re good, but because He is good and by His goodness, we receive Him in our lives and we live.