Sermon: "In Adam, In Christ: Romans Part 18" - Pastor Brian Fuller

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Church Woodlawn in Woodlawn, Illinois. I'm Senior Pastor Brian Fuller,

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as we hear from God's word. All right, we'll continue

in the Book of Romans today when you're in chapter

five still, we're gonna look at three verses of Scripture,

specifically Chapter five, verses twelve through fourteen. And and I

love the need of diving in further into scripture to

determine what the author is saying, what the one who

wrote it is saying, what the Holy Spirit is inspiring

through the one who wrote it. And that's what makes

Bible study so fascinating, That's what makes studying God's word.

It just opens up this world that God has for us.

If we will just study, if we will just open

the word of God to what He has for us.

And so we are going to find out some of

these things today and we're gonna talk.

About being in Adam and being in Christ. What the

difference is.

So Romans five verses twelve through fourteen read along with me. Therefore,

just as sin came into the world through one man,

and death through sin, and so death spread to all men,

because all sin for sin indeed was in the world.

Before the law was given.

But sin is not where there is no law. Yet

death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose

sinning was not like the trespass of Adam, who was

a type of the one who was to come.

There's a lot to unpack there. We're going to do that.

We're going to do that this morning.

Lord, We thank you for this opportunity that we have

to be together with one another, to be in your presence.

We thank you so much for the children. We pray

your blessing on them, your protection and Lord.

Now as we open your word, I pray, Dear God,

that the Holy Spirit would speak clearly through me.

Lord, that there would be ears that would hear and.

Understand, and eyes would be opened.

Lord, let us be different when we walk out from

when we walked in today. Thank you, Lord Jesus name Amen,

so I know I don't have to tell you how

a virus works, right that.

The virus, especially over the last four and a half years,

has been something we've all been aware of. We know

how they work because the government tells us. Well, I

don't have to tell you how a virus works, whether

it's a computer virus or whether it is a biological virus.

It only takes one to affect the rest, and usually

getting a virus is not the result of the infected

person doing anything necessarily wrong to contract it. Because you

can be in close proximity to someone who sneezes and

you can end up sick. An entire household can get

sick because of what a child.

Brings home from school, or brings home from church or

daycare or backpacks. Doesn't take much.

Using someone else's phone, a computer, keyboard, Susie's keyboard, right, okay,

sorry about that, a coffee cup.

A coffee cup can.

Transfer germs more quickly then the cardinals fall from playoff contention.

And that's pretty quick. A virus occurs.

On the molecular level and is unseen to the human eye.

Computers without effective virus protection, they can fall prey to

a deadly virus infection from somebody on the other side

of the world, and they can unknowingly pass it on

to other computers. The bottom line is a virul rus

corrupts in Sin is the virus from.

One man that has infected and.

Corrupted every member of mankind. Sins from one named Adam,

the one who originated sin, and the result of that

one sin by that one man is death, physical death

and spiritual death, total and complete corruption.

And there's no there's no.

Other way to express the result and the effect of sin.

It corrupts completely.

I think very few people understand what it was like

to be Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden,

before the before the fall, before the fall of man

in the garden of Eden, what.

Was in life.

One of the great discussions that we've had on Sunday

Nights has been the glorious state of man before the

fall and also his fallen state after the fall, when

sin made him corrupt.

When God created man, he did so.

Not only in his image, but also in his glorious state,

perfect and without defect. Man's natural created state before the fall,

according to many scholars, was perfection and glory.

In the image of God, physical death did not come

into the.

Picture until after the fall, and it was a direct

result of the fall. So man was created to live

in perfect harmony with God for eternity.

That's how we were created in the beginning, in.

A perfect body on a perfect planet. And that's why

Adam and Eve were not ashamed or even aware of

their nakedness, because they were filled with the lights and

the glory of God.

And when they disobeyed.

God in the Garden of Eden, eating the fruit of

the tree and knowledge of good and evil, the virus

of sin was planted into the seed of all mankind,

bringing physical and spiritual death. Sin brought death, Sin still

brings death. The glory of the Lord left them. The

light of His glory that was in them was extinguished.

The light of God's glory that was in them, a

physical light of his glory.

Was extinguished by sin.

And it was at that moment that they recognized their nakedness,

and they were ashamed.

And what does scriptures say?

They hid themselves from God and the results of the

one sin was banishment from God's paradise, physical death, spiritual death,

and broken fellowship with God.

All because of the.

One sin of Adam and still today.

The nature of man.

Is banishment from God's paradise, broken fellowship with God, and

physical and spiritual death. That's who we are in Atom,

every one of us born in Atom, every one of

us broken fellowship with God, every one of us banished

from His paradise, every one of us is spiritually broken

and dead, and that we will face physical death. That's

the result of one man sin Romans five point twelve. Therefore,

just as sin that came into the world through one man,

and death through sin, and so death spread to all

men because all sinned, the corruption of the virus of

one man's sin.

I don't know what that does to you this morning.

I don't know if that gives you a fresh revelation

of how bad things are because of sin. You can

talk to people on the street.

And they don't think they've done anything wrong to deserve.

Death or separation from God.

They think that they you know, they still think.

That they're good outweighs the bad, and so God will

see the good outweighing the bad and.

Will give them entrance into Heaven. Well, that's not what

Bible says. The sin of one.

Man Adam brought spiritual death to all people, rough brokenness

to all people, brought separation with God to all people.

And before we continue with verses thirteen and fourteen and

the corrupt history of sin through Adam, I want to

jump ahead just a few verses because after all that.

I want to I do want to bring in the solution. Okay,

then we'll go back.

Verse fifteen says this, but the free gift is not

like the trespass, for many died through one man's trespass.

For if many died through one man's trespass, much more

have the grace of God and the free gift, by

the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many.

So there's the solution.

There's the anti virus, there's the corruption cleanser.

Right. What Jesus did on the cross will get We'll

get to that eventually, but I wanted to.

Go to that early on before I go back into

verses thirteen and fourteen. So in Atam, in Atom, we

are all guilty, but in Christ we are forgiven and

we are restored.

That's the bottom line.

That's the gospel in a sentence, that in Adam we

are lost, we are guilty, but in Christ we are

forgiven and restored. And it's a true statement that all

are in Atom, but not all are in Christ.

Only those who repent and are saved are in Christ.

That's pretty simple. That seems to be a chasm for

some people to get over Verse thirteen. For sin indeed

was in the world before the law was given, but

sin is not counted where there is no law. We're

going to come back to that verse fourteen.

Yet death reigned from Adam.

To Moses, even over those who's.

Sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was

a type of the one who was to come.

Okay, so it's easy.

It's easy for us to understand that sin was in

the world before the law was given. Right, I mean

a lot of time took place before the law was

given to Moses. But that doesn't mean there was not

sin in the world, because there was. Moses received the Law,

the Ten Commandments, and approximately fourteen hundred BC, which according

to scripture, means that there were roughly twenty six hundred

years between the creation.

Of man and the giving of the law.

And we know that man was sinful, sin to Adam,

But listen to this, not until.

The law was given to Moses.

Was there a distinct written standard or divine law by

which to judge.

The transgression of sin?

Right, that's how man is judged according to the law. Well,

for all those years, the law didn't exist. So I

have a loose example for you the automobile. The automobile

was invented in the mid eighteen eighties and the first

speed limit law in the United States was not established

until nineteen oh one.

That was in Connecticut.

So the early versions of the car, they were not

designed or built for speed. Those early cars, the very

first cars, could reach a top speed of ten miles

an hour, and by nineteen oh four, the Ford Model

A could reach the top speed of a blazing twenty

five miles per hour, and by the nineteen twenties the

average top speed of a new car was forty five

to fifty miles per hour. So the legal speed limit

was established in Connecticut in nineteen oh one, and you

know what it was. The legal speed limit in Connecticut

in the city was twelve miles an hour and in

rural roads it was fifteen miles an hour. So what

if one of those early pre nineteen hundred cars was

found to be traveling at a ridiculous speed of say

forty miles an hour. It was before the established speed

limit law of nineteen oh one. So for the times,

would forty miles an hour be considered dangerous and potentially deadly?

Yeah, it would.

Would the driver be considered in the wrong, being dangerous

and reckless? Yes.

Let me give a side note here, because these.

Things that we don't think of. We think we take

so many things for granted.

We are cars.

You know. One of the most dangerous things was about

cars in those early years. Pedals, they had a clutch,

they had a break, and they had a gas poll

not alone the gearshift and the steering wheel.

It never dealt with that stuff before.

Right, There are stories, there are historical pictures of cars

driving into build buildings and off of bridge bridges.

Because they got confused with the pedals, so they.

Thought they were pressing on the brake, they were pressing

on the gas.

And so these things we take for granted today.

We don't realize that they dealt with these things because

of a horse.

It was just giddy up, you know, and stop.

But the pedals, the steering wheel, all those things, you know,

we take that for granted.

You know that.

Most of us don't know how to ride a horse,

but they certainly didn't know how to figure out cars.

And it took time and a lot of damage and a.

Lot of a lot of wrecks. So we take that

stuff for granted. People had never used pedals before.

So anyway, So would that person have broken an established law,

that person going forty before nineteen oh one, would they

have broken and established law?

No, because the law hadn't been established yet. But would

he still be con entered in the wrong without the

established law? Yeah, that's still wrong, right.

I mean what, I don't know what the cop would do.

You know, well, nineteen oh one is not coming around

for a while yet. But you're still in trouble because

you were being reckless. You were putting not only yourself

in danger but other people. So you're you're guilty by

virtue of your recklessness, not according.

To the law, but according to your recklessness.

And that's what Paul means when he says in verse

thirteen that that for sin was indeed in the world

before the law was given, and sin is not counted

where there is no law. Now, that sounds like they

got away with with with murder and reking the law.

But that's not the case. The case is that.

Even though they did wrong, they sin because they're in Adam.

There was no law established by.

Which to judge. So what's their sin before Moses received

the law?

Yes, of course we know that, but there had not

yet been the established written law to judge. But Scripture

says sin would still be judged by God because sin

injured humanity through Adam, and sin must be punished.

Romans two twelve.

For all who have sinned without the law, that's what

we're talking about. For all who have sinned without the

law will also perish without the law, and all who

have sinned under.

The law will be judged by the law. So Paul

explained it a little further.

In verse fourteen, he says, yet death reigned from Adam

to Moses at twenty six hundred years before Moses would

receive the Ten commandments. Death reigned from Adam to Moses,

even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression

of Adam, who was a type of the one who

was to come.

So what does it mean? What does it.

Mean that those whose sinning was not like the transgression

of Adam?

People died.

In Adam because of the virus of Adam's sin, the

one sin of the one man. Adam brought sin to

all of mankind. And his sin, which is a sin

we all still deal with on a regular basis, his

sin was disobedience to a direct command of God. So

those who died because of sin before the law was

not because of their own sin, but it was because

of Adam's sin.

You get that.

I mean, there there's there was sin, but they were

they still died because because of Adam's sin, death came

into the human race. So they sinned, but it wasn't

against the law that they were judged, because the law

had not yet come.

It was because of Adam's sin that they were judged.

So then after the giving of the law, maned sin

would then be judged against the standard of the law.

Right, Okay, is this clear?

Am?

I am?

I am?

I making this.

Understandable because I know this is this is stuff that

you can read and go what, well, I'll just I'll

just go on to another chapter or some of it.

But this is important for us to understand how this works.

Bile being born. By being born, you are sinful because

of Adam. It's not by anything that you have done

to become sinful. By being born, you are your nature

is sinful, and that you will not only die a

physical death, but you will die as spiritual death. You

are separated from God and you are banished from his

eternal kingdom. So that carries so much weight with it

carries so much weight. It's we're talking about eternity. We're

talking about being in rice standing with God. The last

part of verse fourteen, Paul says he gives it a

comparison of Adam to g and he says that that

Adam was a type.

Of the one who was to come. And there are

there are several examples in scripture that scripture.

Gives as a type of Christ, an example of of Christ.

And he mentions.

Adam as being a type or a a and type

means a symbol or an example. So how is Adam

a symbol or an example of Jesus.

Well, first we need to make it just very clear.

That that Adam was not Christ like. Okay, because Adam sinned,

and because of because of Adam, it's his fault. We'll

throw an eve there as well. Because of because of Adam,

we're all sinners.

All by nature. We are sinful.

Adam is embolic of Christ in that he was the first.

He was the original head of all mankind, the first,

and Jesus is.

The new Atom.

Jesus is the first of the spiritually reborn family of God.

And another comparative quality is that both.

Adams and Jesus' choices affected all mankind. Adam's choice was

to disobey, bringing sin to all mankind. Jesus choice was

righteousness and obedience, bringing forgiveness and new life to all

who would believe on his name. They can be compared,

but they cannot be considered equal. The obedience of Jesus

is greater than the disobedience of Adam. The righteousness of

Jesus is greater than the sin given to those in Adam.

The forgiveness given in Christ is greater than the trespass

of Adam.

Adam started it, Jesus finished it. Adam broke it.

Jesus fixed it.

Adam sin brought death to all. Jesus death, burial and

resurrection brings life to all, to all who would confess sin,

repent and call on his name. All are in Adam,

All of us are in Atom. We are all guilty.

We're all sinful, We're all broken. All are in Adam,

but not all are in Christ. Being born places.

You in Atom.

Being born again places you in Christ. In Adam, you

are guilty. In Christ, you are forgiven. Let me finish

this morning with verses fifteen through seventeen. But the free

gift is not like the trespass. For if many died

through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of

God and the free gift by the grace that the

one man, Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free

gift is not like the result of that one man's sin.

For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the

free gift following many trespasses brought justification.

For if being of.

Because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man,

much more will those who receive the abundance of grace

and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through

the one.

Man, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Let's pray, Heavenly Father, how grateful, how grateful we are

that the free gift of God, through the death, burial.

And resurrection of Jesus Christ.

How grateful are we Lord that and by confessing our sin,

confessing that we are guilty, that we can be forgiven

and restored. The curse of sin that is upon us

is broken, it is gone.

So Lord, we say, we say hallelu You. We say

thank you, Jesus. Thank you for your provision of new life.

Thank you for your provision, Lord of restoration.

For being broken, to being fixed, to being lost, to

being forgiven.

Lord, thank you that that message is for all people,

that all who call upon the name of the Lord

will be saved. Lord, I pray that the reality of

this scripture, of this message will fall on ears that

are listening, that our eyes, Lord of understanding, Lord, that

are opened to realize this truth.

Today.

Lord, I pray that those who are lost this morning

will understand that they are lost, and they would come

to know you and to call upon your name. Thank you, Jesus,

have your way, have your way.

We submit to you, Lord, We submit to your call.

We want to do what is pleasing in your sight.

May it be so, Jesus. Day Amen.

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