• The Benefits of Reconciliation
  • We are justified
  • By faith only
  • We have peace with God
  • Through Christ our Lord
  • We stand in God's grace
  • We rejoice in testing
  • God's love is poured into our hearts
  • Christ died for us
  • We are saved from wrath
  • We joy in God
• We Are All Related to Adam by Nature and All Believers Are Related to Christ by Grace — Rom 5:12-21
  • Analysis ofRom 5:12
    • The universality of sin
    • The origin of sin
      • Through one man sin came upon the whole world
      • Sin entered — invaded the world
        • Sin enters
        • Sin is active
        • Sin rules
        • Sin changes man's nature
          • Depraved
          • Corrupt
          • Unrighteous
          • Governs our behavior
          • Brings selfishness
      • The sin — Gen 3
    • The effect of sin
      • Death
        • Physical — Rom 6:23
        • Spiritual — Eph 2:1-3
      • Guilt — universal
    • The universal scope of sin
      • Men — Adam
      • Women — Eve — 1Ti 2:9-15
      • All have sinned
    • The proof of sin is death — Heb 9:27
      • Adam was originally innocent
      • He could have communion with God
      • That relationship could have continued forever
      • There was no principle of death in Adam
      • Adam's sin brought death — the universal fate of all men is the result of the action of one man. Adam stands for the race, for all humanity. Death passes upon all men from father to son. Adam is the representative for men. Christ is our new representative

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