The Book Of ROMANS.....A Systematic Teaching

Romans 4:22............
"And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness."

"Imputed" = Imputed is a form of the word imputation that means to designate an action as reckoned or given to a person. In other words, the righteousness of Jesus is given to us when we believe in order to make us right before God.

Abraham was just like YOU and ME. He did some good things, and he made some mistakes. He stood for what was right, and he sinned.

Through all of this, Paul has written, Abraham's faith in God did not waver. In fact, Abraham's faith grew stronger, and he continued to give glory to God (Romans 4:20).

He continued to be fully convinced that God was able to keep His promise (Romans 4:21), even as he watched his body age and lose function until he was 100 years old and "as good as dead" (Romans 4:19).

Now Paul quotes Genesis 15:6 once more, exclaiming that this was why Abraham's faith was counted to him by God as righteousness. Abraham believed God. God received his faith and declared him justified. Paul will show in the following verses that the same can happen for us when the focus of our faith is on what God did for us through Christ.

This faith in the Resurrection-life from death- is what God accepted from Abraham in lieu of his own righteousness, which he did not have.

God declared Abraham righteous for his faith in the promise of God to raise up a son out of the womb of death, that is the womb of Sarah! God promises eternal life to those who believe that He raised up His own Son from the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, THE PLACE OF DEATH!

Are you seeing the picture being painted here for us??????

Folks, later, Abraham would NOT kill his own son on the alter. WHY??? Have you sat down and asked yourself.......
What was God trying to tell us when He stopped Abraham from killing Isaac??????

The RESURRECTION!

God told Abraham to go and he did. It was On the third day: THE THIRD DAY when Abraham came to the place on the third day. He came to and was told to stop at Mt. Moriah which is modern-day Jerusalem.

This is the same location where Boaz and Ruth will be married and have a son named Obed. Obed would later become the grandfather of King David, who would also serve as an ancestor of Jesus Christ. All of this at Mt. Moriah!!!!!

Are YOU grasping this????

Abraham’s faith was in understanding that should he kill Isaac, God would raise him from the dead, because God had promised Isaac would carry on the line of blessing and the covenant. That is the RESURRECTION!

To Abraham, Issaac was dead! Abraham had the knife in his hand to kill his only son!
At this time, Abraham didn’t know how God would provide. He still trusted in the ability of God to raise Isaac from the dead, but he wouldn’t stop trusting just because he didn’t know how God would fulfill His promise.

We have a remarkable picture of the work of Jesus at the cross, thousands of years before it happened. The son of promise willingly went to be sacrificed in obedience to his father, carrying the wood of his sacrifice up the hill, all with full confidence in the promise of resurrection at the same location that the Son of God would lay down His life for all men!
 
Romans 4:23-25............
"Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification."

"It was not written for his sake alone": ........
It wasn’t only for Abraham’s benefit that God declared him righteous through faith; he is an example that we are invited to follow – it is also for us. Paul’s confidence is glorious: It shall be imputed to us who believe; this wasn’t just for Abraham, but for us also. That means YOU and ME are included.

"Who believe in Him who raised up Jesus:"........
When we talk about faith and saving faith in Jesus, it is important to emphasize that we mean believing that His work on the cross and triumph over sin and death is what saves us. There are many false-faiths that can never save, and only faith in what Jesus accomplished on the cross and through the empty tomb can save us.

Faith in the historical events of the life of Jesus will not save.
Faith in the beauty of Jesus’ life will not save.
Faith in the accuracy or goodness of Jesus’ teaching will not save.
Faith in the deity of Jesus and in His Lordship will not save.
Only faith in what the real Jesus did for us on the cross will save.

The resurrection has an essential place in our redemption because it demonstrates God the Father’s perfect satisfaction with the Son’s work on the cross. It proves that what Jesus did on the cross was in fact a perfect sacrifice made by One who remained perfect, even though bearing the sin of the world.

Paul uses the phrase of "Delivered up because of our offenses" which in the Greek is translated as " delivered (paradidomi)" and was used of casting people into prison or delivering them to justice. Here it speaks of the judicial act of God, the legal act whereby the Father delivering God the Son to the justice that required the payment of the penalty for human sin. ALL SIN HAS TO BE PAID FOR!!!

Please take note that the resurrection of Jesus always includes his sacrificial death but it brings out the all-sufficiency of his death.
If death had held him, he would have failed; since he was raised from death, his sacrifice sufficed, God set his seal upon it by raising him up.

Christ did meritoriously work for our justification and salvation by his death and passion, but the efficacy and perfection thereof with respect to us depend on his resurrection… This one verse is an abridgement of the whole gospel.

In this chapter, Paul clearly demonstrated that in no way does the Old Testament contradict the gospel of salvation by grace through faith. Instead the gospel is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, and Abraham – justified through faith – is our pattern.
 
****************************ROMANS CHAPTER 5****************************

Here We Will See The Benefits Of Salvation And The Sanctification Of The Saint

Christianity is not just about the hereafter. There are certain benefits that are available to the believer in the here and now.
Paul has told us so far that we have been saved by the redemption we have in the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross.
What Christ did delivers us from he guilt of sin so that the sin issue has been settled.
He has also told us that we will not come before God for judgment which will determine our eternal state.

Now he is going to talk to us about the HERE AND NOW!

5:1-2..............
"Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

To this point in the Book of Romans, Paul has convinced us all that the only way of salvation is to be justified by grace through faith. Now he will tell us what the practical benefits of this are, explaining that it is more than an interesting idea, hence the phrase....HERE AND NOW!

Justified by faith speaks of a legal decree. Romans 1:18-3:20 found us guilty before the court of God’s law, God’s glory, and our conscience. Then Paul explained how because of what Jesus did, the righteousness of God is given to all who believe. The guilty sentence is transformed into a sentence of justified, and justified by faith. Faith in the Justifier, the Lord Jesus!

Benefit #1. We are at peace with God!
This is the first benefit. Because the price is paid in full by the work of Jesus on the cross, God’s justice towards us is eternally satisfied.

This is peace with God; the battle between God and our self is finished – and He won, winning us. Some never knew they were out of peace with God, but they were like drivers ignoring the red lights of a police car in their rear-view mirror – they are in trouble even if they don’t know it, and it will soon catch up to them.

This peace can only come through our Lord Jesus Christ. He and His work is our entire ground for peace. In fact, Jesus is our peace according to Ephesians 2:14.

It may help you to realize and I hope that you will remember that the Bible doesn’t say we have peace with the devil, peace with the world, peace with the flesh, or peace with sin. Life is still a battle for the Christian but it is no longer a battle against God – it is fighting for Him. Some Christians are tempted to believe the battle against God was almost a better place to be, and that is a dangerous and damnable lie.

Charles Spurgeon said........
“I am delighted to find that sin stings you, and that you hate it. The more hatred of sin the better. A sin-hating soul is a God-loving soul. If sin never distresses you, then God has never favored you.”

Now listen friends..........THAT right there is why some "Church Members" can sit and listen to a preacher condemn SIN and never shed a tear for their own condition!!!!

#2 Benefit is Into this grace in which we stand.
We have a standing in grace – in God’s unmerited favor. This grace is given through Jesus and gained by faith.

God's Grace is His undeserved favor towards us and is not only the way salvation comes to us, it is also a description of our present standing before God. It is not only the beginning principle of the Christian life, it is also the continuing principle of the Christian life.
We stand translates a perfect tense, used in this sense of the present, and with the thought of a continuing attitude.

Many Christians begin in grace, but then think they must go on to perfection and maturity by dealing with God on the principle of law – on the ideas of earning and deserving. Many have convinced themselves that that must do this and that to be in the grace of God.

A standing in grace reassures us does NOT have anything to do with what we do but instead it is God’s present attitude towards the believer in Christ Jesus is one of favor, seeing them in terms of joy, beauty, and pleasure. He doesn’t just love us; He loves us because we are in Jesus.

So then, Standing in grace, the 2nd benefit means that:
I don’t have to prove I am worthy of God’s love.
God is my friend.
The door of access is permanently open to Him.
I am free from the “score sheet” – the account is settled in Jesus.
I spend more time praising God and less time hating myself.

Now consider the phrase of...."Through whom also we have access by faith".

Our access into this standing of grace is only by faith, and through Jesus; we cannot work ourselves into this standing. The access isn’t just into a standing of grace, but into the very courts of heaven. This is a blessing beyond peace with God.

In the original Greek, the perfect verb tense of "have access" indicates that this is a standing, permanent possession.
Because our standing is based on grace, we really can stand and have peace, because we know that our access is a permanent possession. It cannot be taken away at a later time. This also says that ONCE WE ARE SAVED WE STAY SAVED!

Benefit #3 is that we can "Rejoice in hope of the glory of God".
This is the logical conclusion to such peace and such a standing of grace.
When we relate to God on the principle of works, any rejoicing is presumptuous and any imagined glory goes to us, not God.

The HOPE here is that the Scriptures hold out.

Titus 2:13.......... "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ".

We as believers today should be LOOKING for the coming of the Lord to remove His church out of this world.
 
Romans 5:3................
"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope".
FOURTH BENIFIT!
We can have joy while we are in trouble, because we know that trouble works Patience - patience doesn't come automatically-----and patience experience and experience = HOPE!

When we think of Trouble, we never think that JOY and HOPE and PATIENCE are part of that equation.

God has to work that into all of us although it is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. By that I mean it take trouble to bring out the best in us! The only way that God can get the fruit out of our lives is by pruning the branches.

The world does it differently. The lost man lives in a nice comfortable situation with no troubles and he can have fun and a little hope as he goes along, but that is not the way it is with YOU and ME! For the lost man, those who die without Christ, suffering is merely suffering.

It is pain and loss and frustration, resulting in no particular benefit, and coming to no resolution. For those in Christ, however, suffering has a point, since we're destined for something higher. It accomplishes great good in us, in fact.

Of course, this teaching also implies that Christians still suffer on this side of eternity. Being in Christ does not end our personal, temporary suffering on earth. That suffering does, however, produce something Paul here calls "endurance," which itself produces other powerful, positive characteristics in us.

Endurance is the ability to keep going when we feel like stopping, as long distance runners train themselves to do. In this context, endurance is about our ability to trust God for longer stretches of time and through greater degrees of difficulty. Suffering, in other words, is an opportunity to trust God at a deeper level through harder stuff.

James introduced his letter with this exact idea when he said, in 1:2-3.......
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness".

Paul and James both see this reality as reason for rejoicing. They understand "rejoicing" to be a choice we make to declare even our hardest circumstances as God's good for us, in the sense that He is calling us closer, and to trust in Him more deeply.
 
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Paul says here, though, that in hope, Abraham believed against all hope, that not only would he finally have a son with Sarah but that God would keep the promise to make him the father of many nations. Paul quotes that promise from Genesis 15:5. As Abraham looked up at the starry host of heaven, God told him, "So shall your offspring be."
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The author of Hebrews (Paul?) pretty much reiterates the same points...

Hebrews 11:11-12
By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. [12] Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as THE STARS OF HEAVEN IN NUMBER, AND INNUMERABLE AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE SEASHORE.
 
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The author of Hebrews (Paul?) pretty much reiterates the same points...

Hebrews 11:11-12
By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. [12] Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as THE STARS OF HEAVEN IN NUMBER, AND INNUMERABLE AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE SEASHORE.
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Many people say that Paul wrote Hebrews, and the letter closes with the words “Grace be with you all”, which is the same closing found in each of Paul’s known letters.

Some say Luke and others Barnabus.

I have NO idea but lean to Paul and although it is a small detail, Hebrews makes mention of Timothy, and Paul is the only apostle known to have ever done that in any letter. Just a thought!
 
Romans 5:5........
"And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."
When Paul introduced "suffering" as a means to have joy...he is not being stupid or silly! He did not mean by this that anyone should necessarily feel happy or enthusiastic about hard circumstances. Only an idiot would be happy he had cancer!

Instead, what he is saying to us is that those who are saved—can declare to themselves that this suffering is worthwhile. It provides an opportunity to grow into the people that God is calling us to be. Stress and illnesses tend to allow us to be focused on God instead of ourselves.

Sometimes, God has to place us on our backs so that we will look UP to talk to Him.

Paul began by showing that suffering produces .....
1. Endurance: a deeper, longer trust in God.
2. This produces character, meaning we more consistently choose to do what honors God.
3. This, in turn, produces hope, where we experience growing certainty that our ultimate destiny is an eternity of good in God's presence.

Now Paul concludes this chain by saying that our hope will never put us to shame. By that, Paul means our hope will be fully vindicated. We will never, in the end, be disappointed for hoping to receive God's goodness forever.

Why can believers be so confident about our ultimate destination?

Paul's answer reveals the very emotion of God toward us. His love has been poured in our hearts. In other words, God will always, always keep His promises to us because He loves us.

Can you name ONE promise that God made that He has not kept in all of the Bible??????

It is not just that God is powerfully able to do what He has promised. It is not just that God is good. It is because He cares about us, loves us, so deeply that each of us actually carries His love inside of us, through the Holy Spirit. That makes God's promises powerful indeed.

Finally, Paul adds as almost an afterthought that each person who trusts in Christ has been given God's own Holy Spirit to live in our hearts—in our inner being. That may be the most powerful benefit Paul has mentioned, and he will talk more about it later in Romans.

That my friends is the INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, another Bible doctrine!
 
Romans 5:6.........
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."
Here is the evidence of God's love that Paul talked about in verse #5. This is one of the most powerful verses in all of the Bible.
It wraps up the gospel. It screams at us.........GOD LOVES YOU!

God's sacrifice was made while we were still weak, or "powerless," or "helpless,". This comes from the Greek word asthenōn, which implies something feeble or sickly. There is nothing about us earned this salvation. There is nothing of value in us to cause God to do what He did. It was entirely offered on the basis of God's grace, and at just the right moment.

This huge idea is key to the good news—the gospel—which Paul preached all over the world. ........
#1. It shows that God, the Father, and Christ, the Son, are so closely connected that Christ dying for us is evidence of God's love for us. Together with the Holy Spirit, mentioned in the previous verse, the three are mysteriously united as one God.

#2. God proved His love for us by acting first. He didn't make arrangements with us ahead of time, or wait for us to become strong and godly and worthy of being saved. He loved us and took action to save us while we were still helpless to save ourselves because of our sin.

#3. God showed His power by sending Christ to die for us at exactly the right time. Jesus arrived, lived, died, and was resurrected at the moment in history when His action would accomplish the most good for God's plan. God's timing, too, was motivated by His love for all of us godless people.

Now, many of us right now would say that I would give my child as a sacrifice to save all the good people in the world.
I would allow my child to die in order that all the English speaking people would be saved or that all the while people would be saved.
Some would say....."I" would die to save all the Americans.

But God said.....I will allow my Son to die for the WORST of humanity. WE look at ourselves and say we are good. I do not take drugs, I do not kill dogs, I do not rape women, I do not cuss, I am really pretty good.

But God says that in His eyes we are as "Filthy Rags"! All have sinned and come short of the approval of God! God died for the UNGODLY not the godly!

That comment is proven in the next two verses.
 
Romans 5:7-8............
"For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
BOOM! See..........It's no small thing to suffer pain and death, intentionally and voluntarily, for the sake of someone else.

While it would be rare, there would be some people, maybe, who would be willing to give their lives for the sake of some other good and righteous person, but Paul's point is that we'd be hesitant to die for the sake of someone we found morally lacking. The really bad people, the ungodly, the degenerate, the drunk, in the gutter, the murderer hiding in the closet.

And yet Christ—God in human form—died for us, the ungodly, weak people who deserved judgment for our sin (Romans 5:6). Why would God do such a thing? The point Paul is making will be stated explicitly in the following verse: God loves us and He has proved it through Christ's death in our place on the cross.

God died for ALL of us. YOU and ME! Listen friends........GOOD people are not saved and then go to heaven!
SINNERS are saved and then go to heaven and YOU are a SINNER! To be saved from YOUR sin YOU must come to and accept Christ!

Yes.....God loves YOU but pay attention now..........LISTEN UP, God does not save you by His Love!!!!! God saves us by His grace because the guilt of sin has been removed by the death of Jesus Christ and now He can hold out His arms and receive YOU today through faith in His Son, Jesus the Christ!
 
Romans 5:9..........
"Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."

WRATH = Zeph. 1:15.........."That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,".

What is the great day of WRATH?

It is what Jesus said was the Great Tribulation. It is the last 3 and 1/2 years of the 7 year Tribulation Period.

JUSTIFIED = Being declared NOT GUILITY!

We need to be careful how we read this. Paul is not implying that there is a question about whether those who are in Christ will experience God's wrathful, angry judgment on sin during the Tribulation. Those who have expressed saving faith—true believers—absolutely will not.

Instead, Paul is simply arguing that the second idea is obvious, once the first is accepted.
Writing today, Paul might have said, "Since A is true, then B is really, really true." Both ideas are connected, and both are true.

In other words, those who are justified in God's eyes, through faith in what Christ has done, will certainly never suffer God's wrath for our sin. This is the context of Paul's use of the word "we" in this passage: those who are saved by grace through faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:9..........
"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,".
 
Romans 5:10.............
"For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."
Those who trust in Christ are reconciled to God by Christ's death, even though we were God's enemies, because of our sin. In other words, Christ's death in our place for our sin made it possible for us to enter into a real and personal relationship, something not possible without Christ. Before we came to this point, God considered us enemies due to our rebellious sin. Now He considers us His beloved children.

We were actually more than God's enemy before we came to Christ! WE WERE DEAD!

Ephesians 2:1-3........
"And you hath he quickened,(Saved) who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,(Satan) the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."

Not only were we ENEMIES, and DEAD, we were children of SATAN!

Proverbs 14:12 notes,.........
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death."

Satan deceived Eve in the garden of Eden and continues to deceive many today YES, even those who sat that they are Christians.
Paul specifically refers to Satan's influence in the lives of those who are "sons of disobedience," rather than the sons of God. Satan is a spirit, not a human, who works in the lives of those who disobey God. In this context, the sons of disobedience are clearly unbelievers.

Since we were reconciled with God by Christ's death, Paul writes, how much truer is it that we will be saved—rescued from being eternally separated from God, and from His angry judgment—by Christ's life. This may refer to Christ's sinless life on earth before the crucifixion or it may refer to Christ's resurrection from the dead, which showed that God's justice for our sin had been fully satisfied and concluded.
 
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Romans 5:10.............
"For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."
Those who trust in Christ are reconciled to God by Christ's death, even though we were God's enemies, because of our sin. In other words, Christ's death in our place for our sin made it possible for us to enter into a real and personal relationship, something not possible without Christ. Before we came to this point, God considered us enemies due to our rebellious sin. Now He considers us His beloved children.

We were actually more than God's enemy before we came to Christ! WE WERE DEAD!

Ephesians 2:1-3........
"And you hath he quickened,(Saved) who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,(Satan) the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."

Not only were we ENEMIES, and DEAD, we were children of SATAN!

Proverbs 14:12 notes,.........
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death."

Satan deceived Eve in the garden of Eden and continues to deceive many today YES, even those who sat that they are Christians.
Paul specifically refers to Satan's influence in the lives of those who are "sons of disobedience," rather than the sons of God. Satan is a spirit, not a human, who works in the lives of those who disobey God. In this context, the sons of disobedience are clearly unbelievers.

Since we were reconciled with God by Christ's death, Paul writes, how much truer is it that we will be saved—rescued from being eternally separated from God, and from His angry judgment—by Christ's life. This may refer to Christ's sinless life on earth before the crucifixion or it may refer to Christ's resurrection from the dead, which showed that God's justice for our sin had been fully satisfied and concluded.
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Rom 5:10 has been my go-to verse when struggling with doubts about whether I have slipped up too much to be saved. The 'how much more' has always been a comfort in the light of the fact that I once was an enemy.
 
Romans 5:11...........
"And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."

We Joy in God! That is a wonderful thought which I think we all miss. It actually means that RIGHT NOW, wherever you are, whatever troubles you, you can rejoice in God.

Think about that!

Because He lives you will live! He has provided for YOU a salvation and is willing to save sinners and bring us into His presence.
He has a plan!

He doesn't go around grinning like a Cheshire cat, but He certainly ought to have a joyful heart.

I love the praise song............"Lets just praise he Lord"! There is a reason we should do that!
 
Romans 5:12.........
We have seen the salvation of the sinner and now we come to the sanctification of the saint. In salvation, we are declared NOT GUILITY but God wants to do more than declare us righteous. JUSTIFICATION does not make a person righteous!
I said that before and I say it again just in case you missed it. Justification is a LEGAL term that means before God's holy court room, a lost sinner can be declared righteous BUT his heart has not changed! I say that just in case that there are those reading this who for some reason think that God intends to leave a sinner in his sin, they are wrong.

God wants to make us the kind of people we should be as His children! He declares us righteous but then He is going to MAKE a sinner righteous. That my dear friends is called.........."SANTIFICATION!".

I say all of that to say this........the rest of this chapter is labeled "Potential Sanctification". Now let me warn you.......some of you may find this difficult to understand and accept. In "Potential Sanctification" we have what is known as the FEDERAL HEADSIP OF ADAM and JESUS CHRIST.

Chapter 5:12 addresses Adam first............
"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:".
What sin??? Paul here is talking about the sin of ADAM! That very 1st sin. Not his 2nd or his 3rd.......but his 1st sin! Disobedience to God's Word! Adam had ONE restriction.........." Don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ".

Adam, along with his wife, Eve did exactly what they were told not to, and sin entered the world.

It's worth noting here that the term "world," in this context, is specifically a reference to humanity. Paul's discussion here is entirely focused on the relationship between human beings and God. Interpreters differ on whether or not this verse supports that all death—including that of animals—is implied in this statement.

What's clear from Paul's argument here is that death followed sin, as God said it would. First, God slaughtered an animal to provide clothing for Adam and Eve. God had to shed blood to cover their sin. They were suddenly made aware of their nakedness by their sin (Genesis 3:21).

Now.....death came by Adam and because of Adam. That right there answers the question of....."Why do innocent babies have to die"?????
That little infant child who did no wrong, belongs to the race and line of Adam and in Adam ALL DIE! You see folks....get this...write it down-GOD DID NOT CREAT MAN TO DIE!





More than that, though, Adam and Eve were sent away from God and from the garden and began to die physically. They became mortal beings with a limited lifespan. Even worse, Adam and Eve passed on their sin to their offspring. Every person ever born in the world, other than Christ (Hebrews 4:15) was born sinful and destined to die. Sin always leads to death, as Paul will make clear in the following verses.

This was the tragic and seemingly inescapable result of Adam's first sin in the garden.
 
Romans 5:13.........
"(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law."

Paul identified Adam as the one through whom sin entered the world. Sin is disobedience to God's law so here Paul answers a question that may have popped up for some of his readers. How could there be sin before the law of Moses existed?
Many ask that same question today!

From Adam to Moses sin was in the world, however at that time sin was not a transgression----it was a rebellion against God!

Personally, I think that is the reason God did not exact the death penalty on Cain!

Paul now says that specific sin was not counted against specific people before the law. It was not a transgression in the sense of breaking the written words of the law; it was simply sinful humanity expressing its sinful nature: self-serving, hurtful, deceptive, and immoral.

The argument here, as in Romans 4:15, is entirely one of perspective. Humanity does not recognize sin when God does not give us something like the law: in our minds, those sins are not "counted." They are still sins, since we still ought to know better (Romans 1:18–20).

The presence of the law does not turn righteousness into sin—it turns supposed ignorance into certain knowledge of our own wrongdoing.

Paul has shown that sinful nature every human being was born into resulted in separation from God and in inevitable death.
 
Romans 5:14............
"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come."
Paul is personifying death! He speaks of the fact that death reigned like a king from Adam to Moses. Although he had not broken the Ten Commandments, he was still a sinner in that He disobeyed God.

The word DEATH is used in a threefold way in Scripture.
1. Physical death = that effect only the body.
2. Spiritual death = separation and rebellion against God.
3. Eternal death = the Lake of Fire or torments.

Adam here is definitely declared to be a TYPE of Christ----"who is the figure" or "he is the type of him who was to come".

He does not mean that Adam and Jesus shared Christ-like qualities. Paul will clarify this comparison in the following verses.
 
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