Today’s passage: Romans 5:12-21
Helpful thoughts:
- Verses 13-14 are like a parenthetical statement to help explain verse 12 and then 15 and following. If someone were to think that only Adam sinned, because he broke a given command…and that only Israel sinned, because they had the law…they must also take into account that death (A consequence of sin) had come on all in between that time as well. All have sinned and death is the proof.
- In Adam, all die. All who are in Christ, will live.
- When mankind is given law, sin increases. It is our nature to rebel.
- We are rebels and God is gracious. Where our sin abounds, God’s grace abounds even more!
Questions to consider:
- How was God gracious in giving us commands? What do God’s commands teach us about Him? What do His commands (And our inability to keep them all…or even our propensity to do worse in response to being told what to do) teach us about us? Why must we learn these things?
- Without the grace of God, what is death? By the grace of God, for the Christian, what is physical death?
- Through whom does God’s grace abound over our sin? What justice provided for the grace God has shown us? What information does this give us concerning the specificity of Christ’s suffering at the cross? How does this truth cause us to love Him all the more?