794 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 67 - But God! (Where Sin Abounded) - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 67 BUT GOD! (Where Sin Abounded) – Part 2 Rom. 5:20, Rom. 6:22, I Cor. 1:23, I Cor. 1:27 It’s good to see you all back, and I see you’ve got your coffee cups. We’ll get right back into where we left off in the last program, which is in Romans chapter 5. But first, we want to thank our television audience for all your cards and letters as well as your contributions. My, it just thrills our hearts. As I’ve said over and over through the years, our mail time is the best time of the day. So again, from the depths of our heart we thank you for everything. We’re going to pick right up where we left off. What we are coming to is “But where sin abounds.” We’re laying the ground work for that – this whole subject of sin that Paul is dealing with in these early chapters of Romans, and what a cancer it has been on the whole human race. Sin, of course, is at the heart of all of humanities’ problems. And in our last program, we saw that sin wasn’t really delineated until God gave it by virtue of the Ten Commandments. That’s where we left off. So, verse 14 is where we ended up. Romans 5:14 “Nevertheless death reigned (like a king) from Adam to Moses, (Absolutely, even though there was no specific written law, they had it in their conscience, remember.) even over them who had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.” Now, all that says is the whole human race didn’t eat of the forbidden tree. That’s obvious. That was merely the step of disobedience that Adam took that plunged the whole human race into sin and every form of sin followed. All right, but Adam’s transgression was “the figure (or an example) of him that was to come.” Now, Paul is introducing us to the whole biblical concept, which is especially in Paul’s epistles, that sin came from one man, and the remedy from sin comes from another man, the man Christ Jesus. All right, now that’s what we’re going to see in the succeeding verses. But, here’s another but. This isn’t the one I started with, but they’re always the flipside. Romans 5:15a “But not as the offence, (not like eating of the forbidden tree) so also is the free gift….” Now, in a way, they’re identical, and in a way they’re as separate as daylight and dark. The way that they are identical is that one man plunged the human race into sin and death, and one Man did something to overcome it. But on the other hand, we have to realize that even though Adam sent every human being into condemnation, Christ has accomplished everything that needs to be done to give salvation, but only those who come in by faith will benefit from it. So, it’s not an automatic universalism - I guess is the word - that the whole human race has been saved through the work of the cross. It is only when they believe it. All right, now let’s just read on, verse 15. Romans 5:15 “But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one (Adam) many be dead, much more the Grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, (the God man) Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.” So, there is no excuse for a single human being to miss salvation. There is not any lack in what God has done to bring the whole human race to salvation. In fact, let’s just look at what it says in other portions. II Corinthians chapter 5, because there are those who speak that the work of the cross was only for the believer. Well, that’s not what my Bible says. I don’t like to pick an argument with people, but I do have to point out where I disagree. No, the work of the cross wasn’t limited to the believer. It accomplished everything that needed to be done for every last human being. All right, II Corinthians chapter 5, jump in at verse 14. II Corinthians 5:14-15 “For the love of Christ constraineth us; (drives us) because we thus judge, (or conclude) that if one died for (How many?) all (not just a few) then were all dead: (Dead spiritually. Well, that’s obvious. But, He did die for every last human being.) 15. And that he died for all, that they which live (as a result of their faith) should not henceforth live unto themselves, (Because they’re no longer under the old sin nature.) but unto him who died for them, and rose again.” So, here’s the whole biblical concept that the work of the cross was sufficient for every human being that ever lived – none excepted. So many come back and water it down and say it was only for those who became believers. All right, back to Romans chapter 5, remember where we’re heading. We’re heading to that place where we get that profound statement that “where sin abounds, God’s Grace does more abound.” But we’re not there yet. We’re still building up to it, now verse 16. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible