SIN AND IT’S DEFEAT
ROMANS 5:6-14
Introduction:
“Sin is a fundamental relationship: it is not WRONGDOING, it is WRONG BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.” (Oswald Chambers).
Sin is a terrible thing. Religion deals with SINS (plural), only the Bible deals with SIN (singular)(the word appears 457 times in Scripture). God deals with the NATURE of sin, the HEREDITY of sin, and He deals with the DEFEAT of sin.
I. THE NATURE OF SIN – TOTAL DEPRAVITY.
A. One whose heart has turned away from God, Deuteronomy 29:18, Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;”
1. One who rejoices to do evil, Proverbs 2:14, “Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness [perversity] of the wicked;”
2. Those without faith, Deuteronomy 32:20, “And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.”
3. Those who are disobedient, Genesis 2:17, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
B. Those whose every desire is sin, Genesis 6:5, “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
II. THE HEREDITY OF SIN – TOTAL.
A. One man brought sin into the world, Romans 5:12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
1. “The sin,”—the sin of unbelief.
2. “The death,” both physical and spiritual death.
B. Death came by this man also, Romans 5:18a, “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation;”
III. THE DEFEAT OF SIN – RECONCILIATION.
A. God sees but two men, Adam and Christ.
1. Note the repetition of the word “one.”
a. In v. 12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
b. In v. 15, ” But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.”
c. In v. 16, “And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
d. In v. 17, “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)”
e. In v. 18, “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.”
f. In v. 19, “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
B. This story does not end in tragedy, but in victory, 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
1. The Second Adam who knew no sin became sin for us.
2. In Him we see the victory of man over sin by the quickening power of Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:45, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”
CONCLUSION
Jesus has dealt defeat to Satan and sin by the offering of Himself as the sacrifice for sin that God required. Now we who have trusted Jesus Christ as our Savior stand justified before the God of Heaven.