Romans 5:13-14, Our Privilege In Christ

Romans 5:13-14  (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. 

The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:22 “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”  He speaks of the victory over death and sin when Jesus Christ’s rose from the dead. Because of Adam’s sin, all his posterity must die. Because of Jesus’s victory over sin, all who comes to Him in faith, repenting of their sin, receive eternal life.

The disease of sin that plagued mankind result in death and judgement in hell fire. Death was a reality from the time Adam fell to the time of Moses during Israel’s Exodus from Egypt. Man’s sin has to be accounted for and the law simply shows that he is guilty. When Adam and Eve sinned, they sewed fig leaves to cover their shame. Their conscience gave them no peace until God gave them the covering of an animal symbolizing Christ’s work on the cross to pay the penalty for man’s sin. Indeed, the law was written in human conscience before it was articulated by God to Moses. When God gave the law to Moses at Mount Sinai,  Moses said unto the people, “Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.” (Exodus 20:20). For God’s children, the law was to show them their need for God’s strength to overcome the sin problem.

Truly, after we come to God through Christ, we receive God’s grace to say “no” to sin, to live a holy life. This is God’s gift to the believer. This is our privilege in Christ. Amen.