31/08/2025 – Evening Service: Adam and Christ

Bible Readings:

1 Corinthians 15:20-49

Romans 5:1-21

Semon Outline:

Romans 5:12 (NKJV)

¹²Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

Romans 5:18–21 (NKJV)

¹⁸Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

¹⁹For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

²⁰Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

²¹so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I Adam and Christ – their similarities

Romans 5:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

WCF 7.2
The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,
wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity, upon
condition of perfect and personal obedience.

WSC 12
What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the
estate wherein he was created?
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with
him, upon condition of perfect obedience;
forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
upon the pain of death.

II Adam and Christ – their dissimilarities

Romans 5:15–17 (NKJV)

¹⁵But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

¹⁶And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.

¹⁷For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

III Adam and Christ – our relationship to them

In God’s sight there are two men — Adam and
Jesus Christ — and these two men have all other
men hanging at their girdle strings.

Thomas Goodwin