THE JUSTIFICATION OF ALL MANKIND Paul says in Rom. 5:19, For just as by one mans disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Mans obedience the many will be constituted righteous - made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him (Amplified Bible). The word disobedience in this verse is from the Greek word PARAKOE which comes from a root meaning to mishear; neglect to hear; inattention. It speaks of A HEARING AMISS, or a wrong hearing. The verse also speaks of Christs obedience, the word for obedience in Greek is HUPAKO meaning A SUBMISSIVE HEARKENING. If obedience is a right hearing and obedient action thereto, then disobedience is simply a wrong hearing, a hearing amiss, and then acting in kind. It means a hearing of a voice other than Gods, a listening to the wrong voice and then acting upon what is suggested. Adam and Eve listened to the voice of a stranger, the voice of the bestial spirit of this world, as represented by the serpent, and found that sin was at the door, and death by sin. It would not have been so tragic if Adams sin had affected himself alone, if all after him could have observed the horrible fruit of his sin and then kept themselves from the same ravaging despair; but the Scriptures faithfully point out the awful POWER OF DISOBEDIENCE, revealing that it was by ONE MANS DISOBEDIENCE that the many (thats how the Greek says it) - ALL - were made sinners! As Adam fell, we fall each one, for Adam lives yet in his progeny. Because Adam had the principle of sin and death imposed as an actual feature of his biological life, his descendants also have inherited a life principle which involves a built-in death principle. The moment a child is conceived the nature of disobedience is in him and the power of death - so that in the same moment he is conceived he is a sinner by nature and also begins to die; he is dying ere he is born, and eventually the death principle wins out over the life principle and he does die. And, fallen in Adam, men prove he is in them, by walking just as he walked. Adam yet relives old Adams life in every unregenerated man, as Christ in us yet lives Christs life. With all emphasis I must declare that at the very most, the worst offender on earth, has committed a crime which is inherent in his own nature, and the eye of the all-seeing God sees what even we, in most cases, cannot see, that the most wicked sinner on earth is simply doing that over which he really has no control. People tell me that man has a choice, but I declare to you that when I came into this world some 54 years ago Adam had already made my choice for me! God didnt ask me if I would prefer to be born a sinner or a saint. Adam answered that question for me in the dim and distant past! Never in my life did I have a choice until the blessed day when the Spirit of God came and illumined my mind, convicting me of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, taking the things of Christ and unveiling them to my astonished soul; then, and not until then, did I have a choice! It did not take me long, to make that choice! Blessed & Free Eternally in his unfailing love for all the world
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:41:38 +0000
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