For many years I could not understand Romans chapter 5. Even after I completed my course in the Theological Seminary, it was over my head. As a pastor, I shied away from it in the pulpit.
Then a kind friend 100 miles away xeroxed for me a series of articles on Romans by E. J. Waggoner, from 1896. At last light began to shine through:
(a) When our first "father" Adam sinned in the Garden, a change, of mortality, came over him; he had to pass that on to all of us.
(b) The heavenly Father so loved us that He gave His only Son to save us; Jesus became our "last Adam," or second Adam.
(c) He took on His sinless nature our fallen, sinful nature and became in all points "tempted like as we are, yet without sin" (Heb. 4:15).
(d) In other words, Christ, having come now in "the likeness of sinful flesh" and "on account of sin," has condemned sin in that same fallen, sinful flesh (Rom. 8:3); He has condemned, conquered, defeated, trampled upon, sin in our fallen, sinful flesh, giving us the immense hope that by His grace and in His faith, we can overcome also.
(e) He has proved that we need never again say "the devil made me do it."
(f) He has thus given us the confidence that the great controversy between Christ and Satan can be brought to its triumphant conclusion.
(g) And that confidence is now assured that the final victory hour is near--yes, in our lifetime, by the more abounding grace of Christ.
(h) That's good news that should be heralded to earth's remotest bounds.
(i) Come, help us proclaim it!
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: May 5, 2008.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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