The Beginning & Consequence of Sin (TMF:1646)

Monday, July 05, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Beginning & Consequence of Sin (TMF:1646) - Daniel Litton
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       Then Paul says, “For apart from the law, sin lies dead.” We talked about this in Romans chapter 5, remember? In the comparison between Adam and Christ. Without any type of Law system, there is no law-breaking. Adam broke the law of God in the Garden of Eden. He broke God’s law. After Adam and Eve were banned from the Garden, there weren’t any more commandments. Yet, everyone born into the world would now have a sin nature. But there weren’t any more commandments until later. People were sinning, Adam and Eve and their descendants, all the way up until the Flood of Noah. Somehow I think the lack of commandments during this time somehow ties into the fact that God “regretted that he had made man on the earth” (Genesis 6:6, ESV). Next Paul says, verse 9: “I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me” (Romans 7:9, 10, ESV).