793 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 67 - But God! (Where Sin Abounded) - Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 67 BUT GOD! (Where Sin Abounded) – Part 1 Rom. 5:20, Rom. 6:22, I Cor. 1:23, I Cor. 1:27 It’s a beautiful January day in Oklahoma. It’s good to see everybody in. We’re going to go right into the Book and continue on where we’ve been for the last several programs on the But God, But Who, or But When. Regardless, you know it’s always the “flip side.” I’ve expressed so often, that if you want to be a serious Bible student, you must determine: to whom is it written, what went before, and what went after. This is the whole premise of this line of teaching. We’re going to show what comes up on the “flip side,” and then we’ll see what a difference that makes. All right, for the next “But God,” we’re going to go to Romans chapter 5 and verse 20. We’ll go to the flip side and then go back and see what goes before. Again, remember that Romans is a doctrinal book. Ninety-nine percent of our Grace Age doctrine has its roots in the Book of Romans, and that’s what so many people fail to realize. Acts is not a doctrinal book. Acts is a record of the transition from Judaism to grace. But Romans is strictly a doctrinal book. We see things in Romans that you almost will not find anywhere else in Scripture, and here is one good example. Romans 5:20b “…But where sin abounded,” Now, I hope you can stretch that word abound to what it really means. It just is overwhelming. It’s beyond borders, and that’s where sin had become, even at the time that Paul is writing. You want to remember that the Roman Empire was totally devoid of any spirituality. It was pagan. It was under all of the gods and goddesses of paganism and mythology. Consequently, the moral fabric of the empire was as rotten as you could expect the human race to get. So Paul, I think, is using that background of his present day civilization to show that this grace of God is greater even than the horrendous sins of the Roman Empire. Let’s go back to Romans chapter 5 verse 12 and see the very beginning of this sin problem. Now I know, from what I gather from my listening audience and from my own experience that we hardly ever hear anybody talk about sin anymore. Oh, it might disrupt a little bit once in a while, but they won’t call it sin. It’s either the parents’ fault, or it’s the school teacher’s fault, or it’s somebody else’s fault. But they refuse to call it sin. But Paul has no compunction. Paul, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, calls sin exactly what it is. It is total rebellion against a Holy, Righteous God. But where did it begin? All right, Romans chapter 5 verse 12, “Wherefore.” You want to remember, in these first four and half chapters, this is what he’s been explaining – the human sin problem. Remember, if you go back to chapter 1, he lays out all the ramifications of the immoral individual. Then he goes into chapter 2 and lays out all of the sin problem of a moral person who thinks he’s pretty good. Then he goes one step further in the last part of chapter 2 and on into chapter 3, and he lays out the dilemma of the religious man, which of course in his day was the Jew, and they were just as devoid of spiritual life as the immoral man. So, sin has been the subject of this letter to the Romans for the first four and a half chapters. All right, now he’s telling us where it all began. All right, verse 12. Romans 5:12a “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,…” Now, of course, you all know who the one man was. Adam! Now you know, there are those out there that are trying to tell us that there were humans before Adam. Well, if that’s the case, then the Bible falls apart, because everything in the Bible goes back to the creation of Adam and Eve and their fall, which sent the human race under the sin dilemma. All right, this is what the Apostle Paul is showing us. This is where sin and death began – with Adam when he partook of the forbidden tree. So, by one man Adam-- Romans 5:12b “…sin entered into the world, and death by sin;…” Now, I always have to stop and remind people that sin and death are synonymous. You can’t separate them. Sin and death are as tied together as Siamese Twins, because sin, sooner or later, is going to bring about death. Even in the garden experience, the moment Adam ate of that fruit his spirit died and his physical body began to die, even though it took 930 years before that was consummated. But sin and death, Beloved, are synonymous. You take sin out of the picture and death goes with it. That’s why eternal life, you see, is totally separated from sin and death. Romans 5:12 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible