DEATH COMES BY SIN

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For THURSDAY, 13TH JULY, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  DEATH COMES BY SIN 

MEMORIZE: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis 2:17.

SCRIPTURE READING: Romans 6:20-23.

“For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

EXPOSITION:

In continuation of our study on the sin of one man, Adam… Now Adam acted as a public person, by the sovereign ordination and appointment of God, and yet that founded upon a natural necessity; for God, as the author of nature, had made this the law of nature, that man should beget in his own likeness, and so the other creatures. In Adam therefore, as in a common vessel, the whole nature of man was deposited, from him to flow down in a channel to his posterity; for all mankind are made of one blood, Acts 17:26, so that according as this nature proves through his standing or falling, before he puts it out of his hands, accordingly it is propagated from him.  Adam therefore sinning and falling, the nature became guilty and corrupt, and is so derived. Thus in him all have sinned. 

Death by sin, for death is the wages of sin. Sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. When sin came, of course death came with it. Death is here put for all that misery which is the due desert of sin, temporal, spiritual, eternal death. If Adam had not sinned, he had not died; the threatening was, In the day thou eatest thou shall surely die, Genesis 2:17. 

So death passed, that is, a sentence of death was passed, as upon a criminal, passed through all men, as an infectious disease passes through a town, so that none escape it. It is the universal fate, without exception: death passes upon all.  There are common calamities incident to human life which do abundantly prove this. Death reigned, Ro 5:14. He speaks of death as a mighty prince, and his monarchy the most absolute, universal, and lasting monarchy. None are exempted from its sceptre; it is a monarchy that will survive all other earthly rule, authority, and power, for it is the last enemy, 1Co 15:26.  Those sons of Belial that will be subject to no other rule cannot avoid being subject to this. Now all this we may thank Adam for; from him sin and death descend. Well may we say, as that good man, observing the change that a fit of sickness had made in his countenance, O Adam! what hast thou done? 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, I receive victory over sin and its domineering power in my life in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Proverbs 22 – 25.

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