Easter Reversal God’s Answer to the Human Predicament! Romans 5

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God’s Answer to the Human Predicament!

Romans 5

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 On a day

when so much is

happening…

…why think about Easter

so early?

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We need to think aboutthe human

predicament…

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The dilemma of God's

Righteousness &

Man's Willful Disobedienc

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Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 Romans 5:18-19

“Therefore, as through one man’s offense

judgment came to all men, resulting in

condemnation, even so through one Man’s

righteous act the free gift came to all men,

resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made

sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many

will be made righteous.”

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 The Genesis

Problem

“And the LORD God commanded the man,

saying, “Of every tree of the garden

you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good

and evil you shall not eat, for in the day

that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 2:16-17

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 God's

Righteousness Establishes a

Standard

“It is sometimes said, ‘Justice requires God to do this,’ referring to some act we know He will perform. This is an error of thinking

as well as of speaking, for it

postulates a principle of justice…

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 …outside of God

which compels Him to act in a certain

way. Of course there is no such principle. If there were it would be superior to God, for only a superior power can compel

obedience. The truth is that there is not and can never be

anything outside of the nature of God

which…

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 …can move Him in

the least degree. All God’s reasons come

from within His uncreated being.

Nothing has entered the being of God from eternity, nothing has been removed, and nothing has been

changed.” (A.W. Tozer)

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 Man's Willful

Disobedience Brings Forth

Death & Alienation

“Sweet innocence was lost forever. Remember, there was no man in the

garden but the two of them. But they were

ashamed to face each other…

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 …without clothing.

Not only could they not face each other as they had before, but they dreaded

facing God. When He came to have sweet fellowship with them, they hid themselves

in fear.”(Bob Deffinbaugh)

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Reversal

Jesus Demonstrates the Standard:

Obedience

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 Jesus Demonstrates

the Standard: Obedience

“Let this mind be in you which was also

in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it

robbery to be equal with God, but made

Himself of no reputation, taking…

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 Jesus Demonstrates

the Standard: Obedience

…the form of a bondservant, and

coming in the likeness of men.

And being found in appearance as a

man, He humbled Himself and

became obedient to the point…

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 Jesus Demonstrates

the Standard: Obedience

…of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore

God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is

above every name, that at the name of

Jesus every…

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the Standard: Obedience

…knee should bow, of those in heaven,

and of those on earth, and of those

under the earth, and that every tongue should

confess that Jesus Christ is Lord…

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the Standard: Obedience

…to the glory of God the Father.”

Easter ReversalEaster ReversalRomans 5 Jesus' Obedience

Brings Forth Life

“But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I

know that you seek Jesus who was

crucified. He is not here; for He is

risen, as He said.” Matthew 28:5-6

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Easter Reverses the

Damage Done

through Adam!

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Easter Established the

New Life Possible Through Christ!

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God’s Answer to the Human Predicament!

Romans 5