| These are not easy verses to read are they? Yet they contain tremendous truths. Paul is saying that all the human race came from Adam and because Adam sinned, every one of his millions and millions of descendents was born a sinner. It is as if someone had poisoned a town's water supply at its source and the poison had been carried by the water itself into every pipe and outlet in the town. Death also came into this world when Adam sinned and it was passed on to all men. What terrible results came from Adam's one sin. Think of it and listen to the hiss of the serpent behind it all. Sorrow, sadness, sickness, suffering, sin. You can sum up this whole passage by reading verse 19 again: 'Through one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous'. Paul almost sings a doxology whenever he thinks of what Christ has done. In Adam all men are sinners. In Christ men are made saints. Sin began with Adam but both sin and death are conquered in Christ. The provision of salvation through Christ is greater than the problems sin brought into the world. No matter how much sin there is in a life, God's grace is greater (v. 20-21). Those who have been terrible sinners (by our standards) before they came to Christ, often seem to appreciate God's wonderful gift of grace more than those who never fell into deep sin. Remember there is always more grace than we have ever discovered or taken hold of. Paul says, 'grace abounds'-it overflows. It can cover everything. You could write across God's grace every day 'More to follow'. There is enough for today and there will be even more tomorrow. A SONG TODAY: 'Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.' | 
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