Bible Verse of the Day Sunday March 12th, 2023

Romans 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

We are not sinners just because we commit sins daily but because we were born into sin through our human ancestry. We were born into this world with a sinful nature through our ancestral line back to our first parents, Adam, and Eve. It was through the first sin they committed that death became part of the human race and was passed down from generation to generation. It was through this one sinful action taken by Adam and Eve that cursed the entire human race with death and separation from God.

God created a way for humanity to recognize our sin; it is called the Law and lays bare our sinfulness. The curse of death is due to the doubting of the truth of God's Word by Adam and his wife. Several places in this chapter of Romans between verses 15 to 19 reiterate the phrase or reinforce the meaning of "many died by the one man's trespass." For that reason, sin and death came from the iniquity of one man, Adam. It was not in and through other humans' actions that came after Adam and Eve that condemnation remained on the Human Race.

The comparison in this verse and, ultimately, the chapter and the totality of The Gospel is that sin came upon the world because of one person's sin, and justification for that sin came through one man, the God-man Christ Jesus. The one single act of Christ Jesus is greater by far than the one of Adam and Eve because death came through our first parents' action, but eternal life came through the efforts of Christ Jesus.

Through our salvation in and through Christ Jesus, we gained much more than we lost through Adam and Eve because the love and grace of Christ Jesus are definitively more powerful than sin. God's grace tells the world that even if we have done the worse as humans, God has given us His best. Our victory in Christ Jesus is immeasurably superior to the downfall we experienced through the defeat suffered by our first parents.

As subtle and sly as Satan believes himself to be, he cannot win when he goes up against God's Word. Jesus used the Power of God's Word to defeat Satan when He was in the wilderness for forty days, and it will work for us today and every day as long as Satan is free to roam the earth. Do not be fooled, Satan knows what his future holds (Revelation 20:10), and he knows he cannot win, but his objective is to take as many down with him as possible. By the power of Christ Jesus, we can overcome Satan and His evil followers and live eternally with God in the "New Heaven and the New Earth" (Revelation 21:1-7).