(1) - Romans 5:12-19 - declares that God imputes the guilt of Adam's sin to all other members of the human race: 'By one man's disobedience many were made sinners'. ' Through one's man's offense "judgement" came to all men, resulting in condemnation'. 'By the one man's offense death reigned through the one'. This concept is also called "original sin" is touch on as well as in 1Corinthians 15:20-24 - But Christ has in fact raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. Death came through one man and in the same way the resurrection of the dead has come through one man. Just as all men die in Adam, so all men will be brought to life in Christ; but all of them in their proper order: Christ as the first-fruits and then, after the coming of Christ, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having done away with every sovereignty, authority and power.
(2) - In addition to guilt imputed from Adam's sin, each individual is also charged with guilt for his personal sin. The Lord Jesus Christ whose supernatural conception and birth freed Him from guilt from Adam's sin and who committed no personal sin, had no sin counted against Him. But when He died as our substitute, God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that He bore our sins in His own body on the cross. - 1Peter 2:24 -
In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men faults against them and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us and the appeal that we make in Christ's name is: be reconciled. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God. - 2Cor. 19-21 -
This is made explicit in the Book of Isaiah where the prophet says of the Lord Jesus. We had all gone astray like sheep, each taking his own way and Yahweh burdened him with the sins of all of us . - Is. 53:6 -
(3) - "The blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness" is the theme of the fourth chapter of Romans, also 1Cor. 1:30; 2Cor. 5:21; Phil. 3:9 - Jesus became the Holy and Just One through His perfect obedience to God's Law. These qualities are imputed in turn to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. Because of this the believer will appear before God "faultless". We can stand in God's presence because Jesus has imputed His righteousness and holiness to us through His sacrificial death on the Cross.
Scripture however does not refer only to him but to us as well when it says that his faith was thus 'considered'; our faith too will be considered if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us. - Rom. 4:23-25 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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