06/27/19 GRACE GREATER THAN SIN

06/27/19 GRACE GREATER THAN SIN

Neither sin nor Satan is as great as God.
Most of what was lost in Adam (and more) is redemptively restored in Christ. Ro. 5:12-21

Redemption is Greater
Greater is salvation than sin.
Greater is God than Satan.
Greater is my gain than Adam's loss.
This includes my ability to obey God, choose God, follow God.
Though our whole being is impaired by the sin of Adam and our impairment is intensified by our own rebellion, God offers deliverance that is greater than our sin, loss, impairment, inability. God not only provides salvation, He enables us to receive salvation by faith, thereby maintaining the integrity of free will and Divine justice.

We are told that grace abounded much more than sin. Sin corrupted all men and robbed us of Divine endowments, but salvation through grace restores most of what Adam lost and gives us even and greater blessings and inheritance. Judgement came to all because of the sin of one man but salvation (by grace, through faith) covers all of the sins of all believers. Grace is greater than sin.

Romans 5:12-21
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:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.