Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
It is true that God “calls those things which do not exist as though they did.” It’s strange; but on the basis of that principle He declares to childless Abraham “I have made you a father of many nations” (Rom.
On the same unearthly but divine basis God declares for the entire sinful, rebellious human race a “verdict of acquittal” because “the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to [the] many [that is, everyone]. And the gift is not like that which came through the one man who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation [a legal verdict], but the free gift which comes from many offenses resulted in justification” [a verdict of acquittal]” (Rom.
But what moral right does God have for making this declaration? It seems so contrary to reality!
Is He playing a game of make-believe?
There is a grand event which underlies this apparent moral injustice: it’s the cross of Jesus Christ.
He has taken over from the fallen Adam the true Headship of the human race, by virtue of His incarnation. By so doing He is in a corporate sense the human race, and the human race is in a corporate sense “in Him.”
In that capacity He goes ahead on His own without asking our permission and dies the second death “for every man” which the entire human race deserves; it’s an act of grace unbounded (cf. Heb. 2:9; 2 Cor. 5:21). It’s a fait accompli, a done-deal, for the “all men” of Romans 5.
And now having died “every man’s” second death, Christ has acquired the moral right to declare of “all men” what He desires for them, for He has paid their debt. Now He can treat “every man” as though he has not sinned; He can encircle the earth with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air we breathe; He can shower the field of the wicked with rain (if He wants) as well as let His sun shine on them, too (Matt. 5:45).
And what does He “desire” for “all men”? Eternal salvation (1 Tim. 2:3, 4). And it will be theirs if they do not resist and reject His ongoing gift of the new covenant of His grace.
Having the power of choice, they can reject if they want, and many do. But you can choose to accept the “gift.” Please do!
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