BLESSING OF THE MANY
(Transcribed Message)

Sunday Morning:  May 20, 2001

Text: Romans 5:8-21; Read verses 14-21

THE CROSS

Romans 5:8  "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD

Romans 5:9  "Much more then, being now justified (un-chargeable) by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."

THE BLOOD CLEANSETH

1 John 1:7, 9  "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. . . .  9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

RECONCILED BY THANATOS

Romans 5:10  “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death [thanatos] of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved (from the wrath, v. 9) by his life (as our high priest, 1 John 1:9).”

UNFAITHFUL

James 4:4  "Ye adulterers and adulteresses (chargeable offences), know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world (chargeable) is the enemy of God."

RECONCILIATION

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 [reconciliation].”

THROUGH THANATOS

Colossians 1:21-23  "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

NOT CHARGEABLE

22. In the body of his flesh through [the] death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

CONDITIONAL

23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;"

ADAM’S THANATOS

Romans 5:12  “Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) [the] sin entered into the world, and [the] death by [the] sin; and so [the] death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (The sin of lawlessness)

LAWLESSNESS

1 John 3:4  “Everyone who practices [the] sin also practices [the] lawlessness; and [the] sin is [the] lawlessness.” (NASB)

SIN NOT IMPUTED

Romans 5:13  "(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed (charged to our account, only here and in Philemon 18 ) when there is no law."

DEEPER KNOWLEDGE OF SIN

Romans 3:20  ". . for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

THANATOS REIGNED

Romans 5:14  "Nevertheless [the] 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."

BLOOD OF SPRINKLING

Hebrews 12:24  "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel (no blood sprinkled)."

OBEDIENCE AND SPRINKLING

1 Peter 1:2  "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit (submissive spirit, not the Holy Spirit), unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied."

THE MANY

Romans 5:15  "But not as the offence [fall away], so also is the free gift [grace gift]. For if through the offence of one (Adam) [the] many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace (the same as the grace gift), which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto [the] many."

GIFT BY GRACE

John 4:10  "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift [gift by grace] of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water."

AGELASTING LIFE

John 4:14  "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water (gift by grace) that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting [agelasting (preferred kingdom)] life."

HEAVENLY GIFT

Hebrews 6:4  "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift [gift by grace, water of life], and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,"

GRACE GIFT

Romans 6:23  "For the wages of [the] sin is [the] death [thanatos, demotion from the kingdom life]; but the gift [grace gift] of God is (promotion)eternal (millennial kingdom) life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

CONDEMNATION

Romans 5:16  "And not as it was by one [Adam] that sinned (one offence caused him to fall), so is (contrast) the gift [gift by grace, promotion to kingdom life]: for the judgment was by one (Adam’s single sin) to con­demna­tion (demotion from kingdom life in the garden), but the free gift [grace gift, to kingdom life] is of many (not unlimited) offences (fall away) unto [leading to] justification (un-chargeable)."

LONGSUFFERING

2 Peter 3:9  "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

MUCH MORE

Romans 5:17  "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they (the many) which receive [present active participle] abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life (in the kingdom) by one, Jesus Christ.)"

HAVING GRACE

Hebrews 12:28  "Wherefore we receiving [present active participle] a kingdom which cannot be moved (changed), let us [may we] have [present active subjunctive] grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:"

ADAM’S OFFENCE

Romans 5:18  "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men (the many by context) to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men (the many by context) unto [leading to] justification (un-chargeable) of life [in the kingdom]."

NOT IN THE FLESH

Romans 8:1  "There is therefore now (but there will be at the judgment seat of Christ)no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (not the Holy Spirit)."

SPIRIT OF OBEDIENCE

Romans 8:15  ". . . but ye have received the Spirit of adoption [sonship], whereby we cry, Abba, Father."

THE MANY APPOINTED JUST

Romans 5:19  "For as by one man's (Adam) disobedience [the] many (called unto His kingdom and glory) were made [appointed, ordained] sinners, so by the obedience (in the garden) of one (Christ) shall [the] many be made [shall be appointed, ordained] righteous [just]."

A BLESSED MAN

Romans 4:8  "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." (un-chargeable)

Psalms 65:4  "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple."

GRACE ABOUNDS

Romans 5:20  "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where [the] sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"

MAY GRACE REIGN

Romans 5:21  "That as [the] sin hath reigned unto (leading to) [the] death, even so might grace reign through righteousness (living, Romans 6) unto [leading to] eternal [agelasting] (preferred kingdom) life by Jesus Christ our Lord."

BLESSED IS THE MAN

Psalms 65:4  "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple."