Trading the Old Man for the New Man (TMF:1554)

Thursday, February 25, 2021
Peace to Live By: Trading the Old Man for the New Man (TMF:1554) - Daniel Litton
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       The house has to be torn down, and a new one built in its place. For you history buffs, it’s like Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence, the old had to be abolished and the new had to be set in its place. There was no hope of making the old government work for us as a new one. We read from the Apostle Paul: “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come” (Romans 5:12-14, ESV). Ok, so first we are presented with a “Therefore.” Interestingly, Paul does a little reversal here. It seems to me that this part of the chapter we are reviewing today would have better come before the first part of the chapter, but Paul is now giving us a background, a defense, as to why the first part is reality for us.