"That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses. Even those who didn't sin precisely as Adam did by disobeying a specific command of God still had to experience this termination of life, this separation from God. But Adam, who got us into this, also points ahead to the One who will get us out of it.
Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man's sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God's gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do!
There's no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man's wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life!
One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life - a life that goes on and on and on, world without end." -The Message-
Questions=
1. Relations with God were disturbed by who?
2. What dominated the landscape of this huge abyss of disturbance?
3. The one who got us into this points ahead to another One, who will get us out of this.
4. Is the rescuing gift of the One, comparable to the wrong doing of the other one?
5. Is the recovery of the One, comparable with the other one?
6. What does breath taking recovery mean?
7. What does wildly extravagant life-gift mean?
8. Sin versus grace: which prevails?
9. Prevails by how much?
Never ever limit the One who does exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think!
Wildly=
Definition of WILD
Extravagant=
Definition of EXTRAVAGANT
Breathtaking=
Definition of BREATHTAKING
Recovery=
Definition of RECOVERY
Prevails=
Definition of PREVAILS