While we were yet sinners...
I am reading a book by Elyse Fitzpatrick called Comforts from Romans. The more I read Romans the more I am totally amazed at our great God and the more I want to worship Him.
From chapter 5:
v. 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
v.8-10 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Mind boggling! God in His infinite wisdom, provided a way for sinful man to be reconciled to Himself through the sacrificial death of His only Son, His perfectly obedient Son, His sinless Son. He poured out His wrath for sin on His beloved.
Jesus, who has always been and will always be, who created mankind, humbled Himself, took on the limitations of humanity, allowed Himself to be born of a virgin in the most humble (and probably scandalous) of circumstances. He lived a perfectly sinless life among those whom He created; endured their mocking, ridicule, persecution, and rejection of who He really was. He came to earth knowing He would endure the most shameful and humiliating death known to man at the time; and suffered beyond our imagination as His Father poured out His wrath upon Him for the sins of all who would believe on His name.
v. 19-21 For as through the one man's disobedience (Adam) the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but WHERE SIN INCREASED, GRACE ABOUNDED ALL THE MORE, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
From chapter 5:
v. 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
v.8-10 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Mind boggling! God in His infinite wisdom, provided a way for sinful man to be reconciled to Himself through the sacrificial death of His only Son, His perfectly obedient Son, His sinless Son. He poured out His wrath for sin on His beloved.
Jesus, who has always been and will always be, who created mankind, humbled Himself, took on the limitations of humanity, allowed Himself to be born of a virgin in the most humble (and probably scandalous) of circumstances. He lived a perfectly sinless life among those whom He created; endured their mocking, ridicule, persecution, and rejection of who He really was. He came to earth knowing He would endure the most shameful and humiliating death known to man at the time; and suffered beyond our imagination as His Father poured out His wrath upon Him for the sins of all who would believe on His name.
v. 19-21 For as through the one man's disobedience (Adam) the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but WHERE SIN INCREASED, GRACE ABOUNDED ALL THE MORE, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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