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In Adam All Die, In Christ
All Shall Be Made Alive
Telema Okobi
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world as a result of Adam and Eve's sin. Romans 5:12-21
explains why Adam's sin brought sin to all people, how death and sin spread to
all humans because of the first Adam. There is some parallel between Adam's
death and Christ's death. "For since by man came death, by Man also came
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all
shall be made alive." (1 Corinthians 15:21-22)
Adam began with a measure
of intimacy with his Creator. "And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being...Then the LORD God
took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it" (Genesis
2:7, 15).
In the garden, Adam served the Lord and had fellowship with Him, when He would
walk "in the garden in the cool of the day" (Genesis
3:8).
Adam could partake
freely of all that was in the garden, except for one tree. "Of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat, for in the day
that you eat of it you shall surely die"
(Genesis
2:17). For Adam's entire race, it is said: "the wages
of sin [was] death"
(Romans
6:23). The day that Adam and Eve disobeyed and ate of the forbidden fruit,
they died spiritually. "And they heard the sound of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence
of the LORD God among the trees of the
garden" (Genesis
3:8). Whereas they had enjoyed a degree of intimacy with the Lord, they now
fled from His presence. Ever after, the natural children of Adam would begin
their existence "dead in trespasses
and sins" (Ephesians
2:1).
The only remedy for
the spiritually dead human family would be a relationship with a new "family
head." "Therefore, just as through one
man sin entered the world, and death
through sin, and thus death
spread to all men, because all
sinned...if by the one man's offense many died, much
more the grace of God and the gift by the grace
of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded
to many" (Romans
5:12, 15).
There are only two families to which human beings can belong: Adam's or
Christ's. There are only two family heads to which anyone can be related: Adam
or Christ. Adam passed along spiritual death to his offspring.
Christ gives to His family life eternal, life abundant-all
by His glorious grace.
Prayer:
Eternal God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, I confess that I was born in Adam's sinful line. I have
demonstrated my sinfulness on a multitude of occasions. Thank You for the fact that You delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of Your love.
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