257 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 22 - Where Sin Abounds

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 22 WHERE SIN ABOUNDS Let's get back into Romans Chapter 5, verses 20, and 21. As I teach the Old Testament, especially Genesis and the Book of Revelation, there is no problem keeping people's interest. But when you start teaching in a book like Romans, people are not as excited. Romans 5:20 "Moreover the law entered, that the offence (the fall, the sin) might abound (sounds like the Law caused sin to abound doesn't it? It wasn't that the Law caused people to sin more, butthe Law caused people to realize how sinful they were. I like to call this three letter word `sin' singular, the old Adam, or the old sin nature. Romans 5:20b "...But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" Romans 5:21 "That as sin (the old Adam) hath reigned (like a king) unto death, even so might grace reign..." We can either let old Adam rule supreme, or we can let the Grace of God come in and overwhelm old Adam. God's grace rules supreme, and that's where the matter of choice comes in. Romans 5:21 "That as sin (old Adam) hath reigned unto death (misery. Look at the world's misery caused by Old Adam), even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." I maintain that this is a narrow Book, and Christianity is a narrow concept. Grace abounds more even where sin abounds. Romans 6:1,2a Shall we continue in sin (shall we continue to let old Adam have his way and reign as king?), that grace may abound? God forbid...." Just because God's Grace is so overwhelming that we are now free to do as we please, let old Adam control us, and God will somehow take care of it. If you explain to some curiosity seeker that the Grace of God is greater than all our sins, that we're not under any demands of the Law, but rather we're living under Grace, they will shake their heads, and say, "Well you're telling me that you can do whatever you want to do, and God's Grace will take care of it?" No, I've never taught that. Romans 3:7-9 "For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Paul says: Romans 6:1b,2 "...Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid (and here is the reason), How shall we, that are dead to sin (old Adam), live any longer therein?" When did our old Adam die? God reckoned him dead, crucified. See that's what Paul meant in Galatians Chapter 2. Romans 6:3 "Know ye not, that so many of us were baptized into (not the Church, not a denomination, but rather baptized into) Jesus Christ (water can't do that, water can't put anybody into the Body of Christ, and I can prove that from Scripture. This has to be the work of the Spirit of God. It will break down if you try to make this teach water baptism) were baptized into his death?" Here is Paul's use of the word which is strictly Pauline. In Ephesians 1, he makes it so plain as he uses the, "Body of Christ, and the Church which is His Body." It's the same concept here in I Corinthians Chapter 12, except in verse 12 he's using the human body as an example. I Corinthians 12:12 "For as the body (this human body) is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are (still) one body (now he's talking about this body - we have eyes, fingers, toes, hands, legs, the whole body, and all of its members are still singular in its purpose. The Scripture teaches it, especially in Paul's writings, that we now become members of the Body of Christ of which He is the Head in Heaven, and we're the Body still here on the earth. How did we become then a member of the Body of Christ? I Corinthians 15:1-4), and the Holy Spirit automatically and immediately the moment we believe did what's in verse 13: I Corinthians 12:13 "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into (not a local Church or denomination, but into) one body,..." Because The Book says so that this is what God did, and we believe it. The moment that every child of God believes, the Holy Spirit baptizes them into the Body of Christ. The Nation of Israel was totally engulfed in Moses' leadership. "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,..." Let's finish this verse and then let's turn to the Book of Colossians for a moment. I Corinthians 12:13 Colossians 3:3 "For ye are dead (old Adam), and your life (that which took the place of Old Adam, that new creation) is hid with Christ (where) in God." Now let's back up in Colossians in Chapter 1. Here Paul has been praying on behalf of the Colossi believers. Colossians 1:12,13 Just like being baptized, engulfed by) the kingdom of his dear Son:" #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible