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Illustration- The more I understood, the more I appreciated.
Parents-God
Paul has gone to great lengths in the previous few verses to explain that the death of Christ is necessary for our salvation.
It was through that event in history that took someone like me who was an enemy of God to being reconciled.
We
This language here points to the understanding of a conflict.
It points to an understanding of a war.
Reconciliation is a war term.
It means to make peace.
That’s what Jesus was doing on the cross.
He was making peace.
He is our prince of Peace.
But he did more than that.
What I want you to see this morning our salvation is multi-faceted.
One aspect of our salvation is that Christ has made peace by his on the cross.
There was a holy requirement of wrath and punishment that has to be paid and Christ did that.
There is not one of us in here that
It wasn’t that God dismissed our charges.
It was that Christ took the charges against us and bore the punishment in our place.
God will not just forget about the wrath that sin is owed.
Romans 1
In other words, there is a righteous and just requirement of God’s wrath that has to be paid.
Paul in tells us this.
What we deserved and we are are rightfully owed is death.
So one aspect of Jesus’s purpose and reason for him coming is to die on the cross for our sins.
On the cross, he paid the debt that we owed in order to bring reconciliation.
We celebrate that.
I don’t think you and I can truly celebrate Christmas, without also having Good Friday in mind.
The death of Christ is important and we will get there next week Lord willing.
Its not just that he died for us.
But tell us a little more about our salvation.
Listen again to what he says in verse 10.
“Reconciled through his death.”
That is talking about the cross.
We are also according to verse 10:
“Saved by his life.”
That is talking about something else altogether.
There’s something else going on here.
in other words, Christ has done more for than just die for us.
Other people have died for us.
We celebrate Memorial Day because there are those who have given their lives for our freedom.
But it isn’t just that Jesus died for us.
He also was raised for us.
Thats what it is what it means here in verse 1-
Look at again at verse 10 and the language there.
We WERE reconciled by his death.
Past tense
In fact, many people have been born.
Many people have died.
Only Christ has lived perfectly.
We shall be saved by his life.
Future tense
We are already starting to see Jesus has done more than just die on the cross.
It is also the fact THAT he is living after he died, that secures our salvation.
In fact, Paul makes a distinction here.
We are reconciled at the cross at his death, and we are saved because he lives forever.
There is no reconciliation or peace with God without this.
I belabor that point because, at times our understanding of salvation is too shallow.
Someone asks us, how did Jesus save you?
“Well he died on the cross for me.”
Thats true, but he also lives now so that you can be saved.
There is more to Christmas than just celebrating the virgin birth.
there is more to Christmas than just celebrating the death of Christ.
At Christmas and at all times we need to celebrate Christ and ALL he done.
And today the goal is to explain another aspect of that so that we can worship him more.
Look at verse 11… We are saved by his life.
Thats our reason for rejoicing.
verse 11 tells us that.
We exult in God because we have been reconciled.
But theres a few more questions that need to be answered.
Like:
What else did he do?But how did he do it?
How does one accomplish salvation for all believers?
Paul is going to explain all of this here.
Now there is a lot in that verse.
Let’s take it piece by piece.
Through one man sin entered the world.
The reference here is to Adam.
Adam, the first man, sinned.
His sin in the garden brought sin into the world.
Before that, he had not sinned.
Adam and Eve were living in uninterrupted fellowship with God.
They were living in a perfect world.
A world God himself said was very good.
but Adam took of the forbidden fruit and he brought death.
The verse goes on to say.
And so death spread to all men because all sinned.
This could be a little confusing.
What does he mean by that?
All men sinned
This verse is teaching that
Adam as the first person created acted as our representatives in the garden.
This is what he means here when he says through one man sin entered the world, and so death spread to all men.
This is why its not just Adam and Eve who die.
In fact, it says “death spread to all men because all sinned.”
Adam and Eve were our representatives.
And they represented us perfectly.
So then, All humanity born after Adam, is born with a sin nature and they die.
The Bible is replete with examples of men after Adam who would continue to struggle with sin and die.
Cain- murdered his brother Abel
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