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Who reigns in your life – Adam or Christ?
That is the question our text asked us this morning.
Read with me -
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As Americans living in what we call a free society, we often conclude we are free.
>>>> I can do whatever I want, when I want, and how I want.
I can do whatever I want.
But,
Thomas Huxley once said,
A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
- Thomas Huxley, “Address on University Education,” Collected Essays, 1902, III, 236.
But is that true?
Even in a free country, are we really free?
And you can understand why.
What happens if a person gives full vent to the spirit?
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Is the drunkard and the drug addict truly free?
Or maybe the addiction is not narcotics, but it’s debt or pornography … or million other things that we can become obsessive about.
Is the person who just been diagnosed with cancer truly free?
Is the person who has to follow visitation rights truly free to love their kids?
Is the man or lady controlled by anger and bitterness – really free?
Is the person
We can have constitutional and legal freedom, but that doesn't mean were free.
We have a king ruling over our life
- whether we realize it or not;
- whether we like it or not.
The only freedom we have is to decide whether Adam or Christ will rule over my life.
When we evangelize… Many times people will deny Christ.
Sometimes though we rejoice because someone comes to believe in the gospel.
{{{And as far as I am concerned, that one soul is worthy everything we do as a church.}}}}
But often we approach evangelism like it's an intellectual question only.
I have to answer all their doubts.
Even if we approach it as a spiritual question – I would contend the decision is more than a spiritual question.
Every person faced with the Gospel is faced with a choice - who shall reign over my life?
Jesus or Adam.
That is the weight of what we are asking every time we ask someone if they believe in Christ.
Whatever belief we have about Christ
- Remember you are also deciding who should reign over my life - the act of Adam or the Act of Christ.
Every unbeliever, unknowingly, is saying Adam is my king.
EXPLANATION OF BACKGROUND:
Every believer, hopefully knowingly, is saying Christ is my king.
Our text this morning is an important text to our theology.
It answers the question where sin, disease, and death came from.
It answers the question of whether I can survive without Christ.
It answers the question whether Christ really gives me the peace, grace, and hope, justification, and reconciliation?
In terms of the book of Romans, this passage is just as important as when Paul said our righteousness comes from Christ – .
It is meant to give us confidence in our Savior,
but also very convicting about your need for Christ.
By the time you're done reading ,
it should be absolutely clearing your mind you need Christ and he is a sure help for humanity who desperately needs a Savior.
The question I have for you this morning is - who reigns in your life?
PROP: and the answer - We ought to choose and trust Christ as the ruler over our life.
TRANS: and this text teaches us that we ought to do so, because righteousness and eternal life reign through Christ for all who believe.
So as we study our text, we first understand the –
1) The Reign of Adam, Sin, and Death.
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The Reign of Sin.
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Romans 5:12-
Let's begin by looking at verse 12.
Paul links sin and death together.
a. Universal Sin and death (and judgement) are a result of Adam’s first sin.
As we understand where sin came from - we might ask the question, why is there evil in the world?
And the answer is simple because the first man and the first woman, Adam and Eve, sinned.
Adam as the father of the human race passed on sin the moment he ate the forbidden fruit of the garden.
Remember the world was a good according to ,
Remember the world was a good according to , but then in Genesis chapter 3 we are told how sin entered the world.
but then in Genesis chapter 3 we are told sin entered the world by one man’s sin - Adam.
I have heard some unbelievers reject God because of evil?
and I have meet countless believers who struggle with their faith - because they suffered?
They question God's goodness because their is sin and death in the world.
They are questioning God's goodness because their sin and death in the world.
Romans Chapter 5 deals with that – God didn’t create a world with sin and death.
Adam and Eve chose to bring sin into the world.
>>>>You can kick Adam for sin and death.
We all have sin and suffer here today not because were cruel joke of a morbid God,
but because our race choose sin.
But how do we know that sin effects every person?
After all, aren't people inherently good?
There's been much debate among philosophers in popular culture
– who hold that people are basically Good, but sometimes we do bad things or we have bad influences
> like where grew up,
> or how we grew up,
> the poor influence of our parents.
In other words - Our capacity for evil instead is something we learn rather then something we are.
>>>> I remember talking to man.
He life was full of pornography.
His marriage was full of anger.
He had a reputation for being lazy and a drunk.
And he nearly God fired for it.
And one afternoon I had chance to talk to him about Christ …and what amazed me is his biggest disbelief was he didn’t think he was a sinner ... he really didn’t think he was that bad of a person and needed Christ.
Despite what we would say is obvious sin … even among non-believers… he was still convinced he generally was a good person living a good life.
And I am sure - if you spend any time telling others about the Gospel…you will meet people just like this.
>>>>There sin is obvious to everyone but them.
There sin is obvious to everyone but them.
But that is not the picture that the Bible gives us.
The Bible snapshot of humanity is that we all are inherently sinful and by exceptions we do good things.
It is opposite.
But how do we know that?
According to Paul –
Because every person is appointed once to die.
Because every person is appointed once to die.
Because every one of us dies, we know we have sin.
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