Title: Sin and Righteousness
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Sin is disobedience to the law and righteousness is obedience to the law. It is the same evidence as it is written, “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).
Sin and righteousness are determined only by the law. Sin and righteousness are the relationship between God and man. This is because in God there are curses and blessings. Of all the things that God created, only man was created in relation to sin and righteousness. This is because humans are sons of God who will inherit the image of God, the kingdom of God.
The son of God under God is the son of the slave girl, the slave of sin, and the son of the above is the son of the free woman, the slave of righteousness. Death works below and life works above. It is written, “I give thanks to God, for you were originally slaves of sin, but you were set free from sin and became slaves to righteousness by obedient to the pattern of teaching that was delivered to you from your heart” (Romans 6:17-18) something like
God made people as numerous as the stars in the sky and like the sand of the sea, but there are only two of them. One is called the first Adam and the other is called the last Adam. It is the same as it is written, “The first man is of the earth, of the earth, but the second is from heaven” (1 Corinthians 15:47). “Therefore, through one man sin entered the world, and through sin Death has come, and in the same way death spread to all men, because all have sinned” (Romans 5:12).
When the first Adam disobeyed, all the peoples of the world who were in him also disobeyed in that one man, so they are already sinners. This sin was in Adam from the beginning, but he didn't know he was a sinner before the law. It is the same evidence as it is written, “Sin was in the world before the law, but sin was not counted as sin when there was no law” (Romans 5:13).
He did not consider sin a sin until he commanded the law and disobeyed it. Therefore, God's thinking about the point of sin and man's thinking are different. Even before God commanded the first man, Adam, to obey the law, God knew that he was a disobedient person, a child of wrath by nature.
The first man, Adam, was a sinner who had absolutely no obedience, so from the beginning he was to break the law, “You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Therefore, He even said the result of the law, saying, “In the day you eat of it you will surely die.”
Before Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, men could not know what was evil and what was good. . Therefore, the Bible says, “Then their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together for their skirts, and in the cool of the day they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden, He hid himself among the trees of the garden, and the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" (Genesis 3:7-9).
Before breaking the law that you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "Adam and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed" (Genesis 2:25). This is the same as the evidence of “Sin was in the world before the law, but when there is no law, sin is not counted as sin” (Romans 5:13). Come” (Romans 7:9).
For this reason, the Bible says, "In the midst of it, we all lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like others. who raised us from the dead in Christ Jesus (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together and seated us together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, because in Christ Jesus, by his mercy toward us, the exceeding riches of his grace may be passed on to generations to come. so that it may be revealed” (Ephesians 2:3-7).
As the above evidence says, the God who created death also created life. Death is in Adam and life is in Christ. It is the same as the testimony of what was written, “For as in Adam all died, so in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22).
This is why sin and righteousness are like this, “It is appointed for men to die once, and after that the judgment. In the same way, Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, He will appear a second time” (Hebrews 9:27-28).
Sin and death were from the beginning in the first Adam, and righteousness and life from the beginning were in the last Adam, or Christ. For this reason, those who are in Christ are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Amen, thank you Lord.