ERCC DEVOTIONAL (TEKAN) DAILY SPIRITUAL DIET; THURSDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2023
TEXT: ROMANS 5: 12 - 21.
SPIRITUAL FOCUS: THE FIRST AND SECOND ADAM.
Today's study, is the story of Adam known to followers of Christ, and non- followers. The story is about two opposers, Adam who disobeyed. Adam's disobedience, resulted in the sin of the world, which resulted in all the sins that people commit to this day.
Another Adam, Jesus Christ, who came into the world to live without sin. He eventually died to save us from the judgment that the first Adam inflicted on us. The second Adam, Christ Jesus, is the cause of eternal life, forgiveness of sins and all that the Lord God intended for us. The first man, Adam, died because of his sin did not rise from the dead.
The second Adam, Christ Jesus, died for our sins and rose again. Having risen from the grave, we have received forgiveness so we will surely rise to eternal life. Happily, every true believer hopes to be with Him in His Kingdom when He withdraws from this world.
The first Adam, sin and death followed the same path, while in the way of Christ Jesus, grace and eternal life. Brethren, if we are to inherit eternal life, let us believe in the second Adam, Christ Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no thief on the road to paradise, except Christ Jesus.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: In Christ, there is forgiveness of sins.
PRAYER: Lord God, help me to surrender so that you may reign in the name of Christ Jesus, Amen.
ROMANS 5: 12 - 21 (AMP).
12 Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.
13 [To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law [to transgress].
14 Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse, the former destructive, the Latter saving].
15 But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.
16 Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man’s] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (an act of righteousness).
17 For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
18 Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men.
19 For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him).
20 But then Law came in, [only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded,
21So that, [just] as sin has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord.
