In Romans chapter 5, verses 12 to 21, the Apostle Paul, after showing us that salvation is by grace alone,

and that is not the cheap grace that is preached in Minneapolis today, this is the grace of God

that transform lives. As you've heard me quote Spurgeon many times,

the grace that does not change a life is not the grace of Jesus Christ. And that salvation comes

with the six-fold guarantees that we saw in the very last message. Here he explained the origin

of sin and the only solution to sin. Here he goes again. The Apostle

Paul is anticipating the questions of the readers. And the question here is this. Why is it that

so many, oh so much, only to one person. Great question. And so here he begins by providing an

analysis, a contrast, if you like, between Adam and Jesus. The two are not equal. I'm going to

show you in a minute. But a contrast between the acts of those two men.

Please follow with me. Romans 5, beginning at verse 12, all the way to 21. I actually have simplified

and boiled down this whole passage into three sentences. Adam fell, Christ arose, and the believer wins. Verses 12 to 14, we see Adam fell and took all

of humanity down with him. Versus 15 to 19, Jesus arose and he raised the believers up with him

from death. Thirdly, verses 20 to 21,

the believers are the winners. Let's look at these very quickly. When Adam decided to activate

his rebellious genes, he had to face the consequences of his actions. More importantly, he passed these

defective genes to every one of us, to all of humanity. I read not long ago about a very

prominent scientist who is a professor at a very well-known scientific

university. And he was addressing a group of doctoral candidates. Here's what he said. With all

of our scientific progress, the mortality rates remain at 100%.

Death comes to all of us.

Death comes to the rich and the poor.

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