Do you want to know why so many Christians have difficulty overcoming temptation? Do you want to know why so many Christians are riddled with doubt about their identity? Do you want to know why so many Christians are sapped of spiritual strength? It is because they are ignorant of—or have forgotten—who they are in Christ.
Scripture Focus: 1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12, 17-19; 2 Corinthians 5:17
"For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive."
"For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ."
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation."
Every single person reading this—every single person you have ever met or will ever meet—is in one of two categories. They are either in Adam or they are in Christ. There is no spiritual Switzerland.
Romans 5:12: "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned." That word for one is used eleven times in Romans 5. This is a real historical man at a real point in history. Adam. And every single person born into this world is born in Adam—sharing the same fate, the same status of doom.
How do we know we are born in Adam? Because we all sin and we all die. The Bible is the only book that makes any logical sense of the world in which we live.
Think about Genesis 5 - it begins by saying, "Here are the generations of Adam." And then over and over again throughout the chapter you read, "and then he died... and then he died... and then he died." All of Adam's sons, grandsons, great-grandsons, what? Die. You could live as long as Methuselah—and then you're going to die. The Bible wants you to grasp something obvious: people die because they are born in sin.
But here is the grand story of Scripture. The Old Testament begins with "the generations of Adam"—and ends with a curse. The New Testament begins with "the generations of Jesus"—and ends by saying the curse is no more.
Because there is a second Adam. One who does what the first Adam failed to do. He obeys God perfectly. Adam ushers in death. Jesus ushers in life. Adam ushers in condemnation and judgment. Jesus brings in resurrection, justification, sanctification, glorification.
And the gospel is this: those who are in Adam can now be in Christ.
Second Corinthians 5:17—"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." Not just clean. Not just reformed. Not just rinsed. Absolutely, totally, radically new.
1. Are you in Adam or in Christ? That is not a question to answer casually—your eternal destiny hinges on it.
2. Do you truly understand that by nature you are born in Adam—not neutral, but under condemnation?
3. Have you come to Jesus Christ—the second Adam—who breaks the curse and clothes you with His righteousness?
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