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Two-Minute Features | 07 March 2021

The Example of Adam Compared to Christ (TMF:1560)

Friday, March 05, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Example of Adam Compared to Christ (TMF:1560) - Daniel Litton
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       The people had the sin nature, and they went about sinning in the world, even though they didn’t have a Law to show them what they were doing wrong. However, they were still sinning, it just wasn’t counted. I’m just not sure if we can really understand what this means in full. We understand that the people were judged by the Flood, so God still gave judgment for sin. Adam was a type of Christ. Now, how is this? Well, he was a type of Christ in the reverse way. He sinned, and all were affected in a negative way. All inherited the sin nature. All were disobedient to God. One might say Adam is like Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars. He ended up sinning, and many were defiled by his sin. And Christ, who’s he like? Well in this analogy, he’s like Luke Skywalker. The many are given hope and helped through his actions. But as we are going to see in the next section, Paul here is about to explain the goodness of Christ’s obedience to God, how he is the opposite of Adam.

The Condition of those Before the Flood (TMF:1559)

Thursday, March 04, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Condition of those Before the Flood (TMF:1559) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul says, “for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.” “Sin is not counted where there is no law.” This doesn’t mean that people didn’t sin against God. It just means because God had not placed a law system in the world yet, that people were incapable of transgressing his law. Adam and Eve went against one of God’s prohibitions in the Garden of Eden. They ate of one of the forbidden trees. So, they broke his Law of that time. But the people after them had not broken any of God’s actual Laws, in a one-on-one basis. Yet, because Adam and Eve had sinned, the people had the sin nature, and they went about sinning in the world, even though they didn’t have a Law to show them what they were doing wrong. However, they were still sinning, it just wasn’t counted. I’m just not sure if we can really understand what this means in full.

All Sin Because of Being Born of Adam (TMF:1558)

Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Peace to Live By: All Sin Because of Being Born of Adam (TMF:1558) - Daniel Litton
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       Sin was so bad, at the time right before the Flood, that God actually regretted making men and women. We know we can sway the hand of God with prayer, right? We should know that. Well, humans can also sway the hand of God by their intensity of evil. Quickly, notice in the text that Paul says, “so death spread to all men because all sinned.” I want to clear something up here. Paul is not saying that the people after Adam had the opportunity not to sin. He’s not saying that none were found to be righteous. For it would have been impossible for anyone not to have sinned, as I stated a little bit ago that people all have the sin nature from Adam’s seed. I think to understand what Paul is saying here, it is good to look at a cross reference Scripture in 1 Corinthians 15. Verse 22 states: “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” (ESV). You see, all had sinned because they were in Adam, not because they just so happened to sin. That difference is important.

Great Sin Leads to World-wide Destruction (TMF:1557)

Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Peace to Live By: Great Sin Leads to World-wide Destruction (TMF:1557) - Daniel Litton
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       Recall, I mentioned that’s why Jesus could be born of the human Mary from the Holy Spirit. He could be born human without sin because no man was involved in her pregnancy. The infectious seed of Adam leads all people born everywhere to be born sinners, straight down the line. No exceptions. Those before the Law of Moses was given, in the earlier part of Genesis, were sinners. God ended up destroying the world, the one he had created for Adam, because sin had increased so much. And this was before the Mosaic Law. It is recorded in Genesis 7:5-6: “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart” (ESV). Sin was so bad, at the time right before the Flood, that God actually regretted making men and women.

Satan Can be a Great Compeller (TMF:1556)

Monday, March 01, 2021
Peace to Live By: Satan Can be a Great Compeller (TMF:1556) - Daniel Litton
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       Surely, Satan can be a great compeller. He can compel you, me, or anyone to do things that we shouldn’t do. And what was the result of Adam sin? Well, it was death. Interestingly enough, though, God had warned Adam that in the day he ate of the forbidden fruit, that in the day he did that, he would surely die. Remember? So, it wasn’t that Adam got a consequence that God hadn’t already forewarned him against. Notice how fair God was. He tried to warn him. But what Satan had promised Eve to be life to her and her husband, did just the opposite. It gave them excitement in the moment as they were eating the fruit, in anticipation that they would get something great, as promised by Satan, but in the end what did they actually get? The excitement was over, and they were left with death. So, death enters the world through Adam’s sin. It is through Adam’s sin because man bears the seed of sin. Recall, I mentioned that’s why Jesus could be born of the human Mary from the Holy Spirit.