Romans | Lecture 11 : BC303-Rom-20260915

Good morning everyone. >> Welcome to class. >> Thank you all for joining the class on moments. Uh welcome to our um inperson students and online students um and our e-learning students. So we finished studying um chapter >> four, right? Uh we'll continue from chapter five now. Uh so by the end of the class my voice is not clear. Is it clear for the others? What about the others? >> Now is it clear? >> Hello. Check. Now is it clear? Yeah. Okay. Thank you Shoubam. Okay. Okay. So, let's begin with a word of prayer. Uh, can one of you lead us in prayer, please? Anyone? Press the mic. Let's pray. Thank you, heavenly father, this wonderful day, Lord, as we going to study about Romans. Lord, give your understanding and give your wisdom. Lord we can understand and we uh share about your word Lord. Thank you for this day. Lord I submitting everyone in your mighty hand Lord. I ask this prayer in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Okay. So Romans chapter 5 in chapter 4 um you know uh Paul talks about Abraham's journey. Okay, that how he was made righteous even before the law and the sign of the covenant that is circumcision. Okay. And so he was justified or made righteous not by works but by uh his his faith or belief in God. And then we also saw how Abraham's journey of faith came into existence. how he grew mature uh perfected in his um faith. Okay. And then he talks about uh the righteousness by faith in Jesus Christ. Okay. And now he's going to talk about grace and righteousness in um chapter 5. Okay. So we receive righteousness by faith because Christ has delivered us from our offenses and raised us for our justification. Okay. So let's begin studying Romans chapter 5. Can somebody read verses 1 to 4, please? Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. through whom also we have access by faith into this grace which we have which we stand and rejoice in the hope of glory of God and not only that but we also uh also glory uh in tribulations uh knowing that uh tribulation produces uh >> perseverance and perseverance uh character and character hope >> and Hope does not disappoint because because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. >> Amen. Thank you. So here he's talking about and he's saying therefore we have been justified by faith. So he's coming to the conclusion that he has been making chapters three and four and he's saying hey we have been justified by faith. Okay. So what does it mean to be justified by faith or what are the outcomes of being justified by faith? Okay. So what are the outcomes of being justified by faith? What does he say? >> Yes. The first thing he says is we have >> peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Okay. That means we are one with God. Okay. We are not enemies of God. We are not in a fighting mode with God. But we are friends with God. We are in a good relationship with God because we are justified with God because we are being made righteous with God. So we should never think that God is angry with us or we should never think that God is upset with us because it says here that we have peace with God. Okay? Because it says God also has peace with us. So verse two, he says, "Through whom you also whom also through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Okay. So there are four outcomes of being justified by faith that is mentioned here. What is the first one? We have peace with God. Okay, that means we are reconciled with God. God is not our enemy. We are not fighting with God. And also only when we have peace with God, we have the peace of God. Right? Only when we have peace with God, we have the peace of God. Okay? So we are no longer enemies of God, but we are friends of God. So that is the first outcome of being justified by faith that is mentioned here. What is the second one? Second outcome >> we have >> access by faith into a standing in grace. What does it mean we have access by faith into a standing in grace? That means we are in a position where we are highly favored by God. Okay. Enter in the standing in grace simply by faith in Christ Jesus. So how do we enter into this standing in grace is simply by faith in Christ Jesus. Okay. So what does it mean to be standing in grace? What To be standing in grace uh to God it mean uh in sorry to be standing in grace means to God we are loved as Christ is loved. Okay. So the first thing to be standing in grace means that to God we are loved as Christ is loved. John chapter 17 verse 23 uh you know Jesus says the world may know that you have sent me and love them as you have loved me okay in the high priestly prayer in John chapter 17 Jesus says that okay so we are loved as Christ is loved that is what it means to be standing in grace the second thing it means to God we are well pleasing that means we are well pleasing to God. It's like the father speaking over us what he spoke over Jesus in Matthew 3:1 17 where he says this is my beloved son whom I am well pleased. So the father was talking about the son but also when it means that we have a standing in grace it means that we are also well pleasing to the father just as Jesus is well pleasing to the father. Can you see how our standing in grace what are the spiritual benefits that we have or what the st our standing in grace really means? The first one to God we are loved as Christ is loved. Second one to God we are well pleasing. The third thing is to God we are fully accepted. So that is another standing in grace. That means to God we are fully accepted. Okay. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 6 says the praise of the glory of his grace by which we he made us accepted in the beloved. Okay. So we are fully accepted by God. That is that also means what it means to be standing in grace. Also to be standing in grace means to God we are beyond blessed beyond measure. We are blessed beyond measure. Ephesians chapter 1 verse3 says, "Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ." So to God we are blessed beyond measure. Amen. Okay. It also means to God we are holy and without blame. Ephesians chapter 1 verse4 says just as he chose us and in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Okay. So for God we are holy and without blame. And the last thing is that for God we are qualified. Colossians chapter 1 verse 12 says, "Giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." Okay. So what does it mean to have access by faith into a standing of grace? What does it mean to be standing in grace? It means to God we are loved as Christ is loved. We are well pleasing to God. We are fully accepted to God. To God we are blessed beyond measure. To God we are holy and without blame. We are also faultless, unaccused and with no condemnation before the father and before God we are qualified. Amen. So this is what it means to be standing in grace. This is our spiritual blessings. These are our spiritual inheritance. Okay. So there is nothing more that we can add to this through our own efforts. But what do we do? We just embrace this and walk worthy of this. Okay. Therefore, all that we do, how we relate to God, how we face the devil, all we do in Christian ministry flows out of our standing in grace. Okay? And we also stand without any sense of guilt and shame. So in everything that we do, okay, how we relate to God, how we face the devil and all that we do in Christian ministry flows out of our standing in grace without any sense of guilt and shame. Okay. So the reason we live holy lives, the reason that we renounce sin, the reason why we uh you know overcome ungodliness or renounce ungodliness, work hard, pursue excellence, make sacrifices, take the risk for God, you know, is not to earn anything from God, but it's because we desire to honor him. It's because we desire to give our best we can all out of love for him because we already know that we are standing in grace and what we do does not earn you know his grace for us because his grace is already given to us. We are standing in his grace but his grace actually empowers us or we are empowered by his grace. And what can we do in return? All we can do is in everything that we do, in how we live our lives, it can be an expression of our honor and love and it's all for his glory. Amen. >> Okay. Now coming back to um um you know what are the four outcomes of being justified? What is the first thing we said? We have >> peace with God. What is the second one? access by faith into a standing in grace. What is the third thing? >> We are in a place of rejoicing. Amen. >> We are rejoicing for the good things that God has planned for us. Okay? And he's going to release upon us the glory that he has kept for us and the hope of the glory of God. What is the hope of the glory of God? We have this hope that we will share in God's glory. Amen. So part of this includes being in his presence in heaven. So we taste his glory now. But part of this also includes that we will live with him forever or eternity in his presence in heaven. Okay. So coming back to verse two says you know through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. So there is already things that we enjoy. What are the things that we already enjoy? What has he already said? We enjoy verse one. What do we enjoy? Peace with God. Yes. What else? Access. >> Yes, >> we have access by faith. >> Yes, access by faith. We have the grace of God. Okay. But there is more that God has kept for us. So, we are rejoicing in that hope as well. We have some things that we enjoy now which is our spiritual inheritance and blessing. But there is more that God has kept for us. Okay. Now what is the fourth outcome of our um you know um uh of our uh righteousness by faith. What is the fourth one or we are justified by faith. What is the fourth outcome of being justified by faith? >> Ah we rejoice in tribulations. Okay. Why do we rejoice in tribulations? Because it develops what? endurance, perseverance, character, and hope in us. Okay, now look at verse three. Can somebody read verse three, please? >> And not only that, but we also uh glory in tribulations knowing that tribulations uh produce perseverance. >> Okay. So when we go through hard times or difficult times or challenging times, what is Paul saying we should do? >> Rejoice or we can still be happy. Right? Why? Why? When things are difficult and when things are hard, we should not be down, dejected, depressed. But why should we glory in tribulations? Why should we rejoice in the hard times? It produces perseverance. Perseverance produces character and character hope. Okay? So Paul is not saying that Christians should enjoy pain. No. No. This is not what he's saying. Right? Some people say, "Okay, you know, God has given me this sickness. Uh God has given me this pain and I have to live with it for the rest of my life. It's like a thorn in my flesh." It's not. It's not that. It's not saying here that Christians should enjoy pain. No. Instead, he's showing that trials have a divine purpose. Right? So when we or you go through tribulations, when we go through troubles, uh pressures, testing times, times of uh trials, we don't simply sink into despair or hopelessness or depression, but we can rejoice in them because we know what God is going to do through them. Okay, look at what he says. Knowing, okay, knowing that means what? He says, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance. Knowing means what? That we understand about tribulations. So Paul is explaining the chain reaction of spiritual growth. Here he's saying tribulations produces what? >> Perseverance or endurance. What does it mean? What does it mean that tribulations or difficulties or challenges produces endurance or perseverance? >> Withstand. Okay. Yes. >> AB your able to stand against it. Fight against it. Okay. The ability to stay steady, right? not give up and to keep trusting God even when life is tough. That is what it means. Tribulation produces perseverance means the ability to stay steady, not give up and keep trusting God when life is uh tough. And perseverance produces what? Character. Okay, what is character? Through perseverance, through endurance, our inner person is shaped. Yes. Is developed, is refined, is proven, tested, proven. Okay. So, who we are gets strengthened not just what we do. So, our inner person gets strengthened. Who we are gets strengthened and not just what we do. Okay. What does character produce? Hope. Okay. So, proven tested character gives us the confidence that God is faithful. So, we can face the future with a positive expectation even in trials. Amen. Right? We can face the future with a positive expectation even in trials. And what does he say? Hope does not do what? Hope does not >> hope does not disappoint. >> Yes. Hope does not disappoint. Why? >> Okay. Also, what what is this kind of hope that we have? God's love. What is hope? Our hope is >> not something that is a wish or something that will may happen chance happen stance. It's not that it is something that is real. Our hope is real. Okay. So the hope is in wishful thinking but it's rooted in where? Where is it rooted in? I hope >> what in Jesus. What does it say? What did you say? It's rooted in Jesus's what? >> Love. >> Love. Yes. Love and faithfulness. Right. Love is one of the core attributes of who God is. God is love. One John. Right. So hope is not a wishful thinking. I wish it'll happen. Wish it could be. It's rooted in God's love and faithfulness that is steady, that does not change, that is eternal. Okay? Because God's love has already been >> poured out into our hearts to the Holy Spirit and we know we are not abandoned. So the hope is already a realized hope. Why is it a realized hope and not a futuristic hope? Why is it a realized hope and not a futuristic hope? This hope that he's talking about character produces hope. Why is this hope not disappointing? Because we said it is rooted in God's love and faithfulness. And why why am I saying this hope is um uh not a futuristic hope but something that is something that is a realized hope. Why? Look at that verse. What does it say? Why verse four? Why is it a realized hope? >> What is God's love being is doing now? >> What does verse four say? What is God's love? >> Verse four. What is God's love being done doing for us? It has been >> poured out where? >> Into our hearts. Through whom? Through whom? >> Holy Spirit. >> The Holy Spirit. Does it say the the love will will be poured out or may be poured out? What is it saying? It's been poured out, right? It's already been poured out into our hearts. And so that is a that is why it's not a futuristic hope, but it's a hope that we already realize now. Why? Because God's love is being poured out into our hearts. And our hope will not let us down till the end because God is a faithful God and he will fulfill his promises. Amen. >> All of you able to understand? >> Yes. So it also says the love of God is being poured out. That means it's not something that we are waiting for in the future. It's already been given to every believer. Amen. Okay. And the Holy Spirit continually pours God's love into our hearts which is why we get strengthened during our trials you know and we can face it with joy and with that hope and trust. So why can we face trials and tribulations and difficulties with joy and hope? because we know God's love and faithfulness that is a sure anchor and also the love of God has been poured out and is being continually poured out into our hearts. Amen. >> Okay? And it's already been given to us. So when we go through hard times, we can still be happy. When things are difficult and hard, we should not be down, dejected or uh you know or or depressed. But we should glory in tribulations knowing what do we know that we know that tribulations develops perseverance or endurance. That means our ability to stay the course. Okay? And it produces character and character increases hope in us. Okay? So when we go through tribulations, it develops endurance. It gives us the ability to stand the course, to run the race, to face it. And when we stay on the course, our character is developed. Who we are as people are being refined, being perfected, being mature, being developed. And when our character is developed, we become people of hope. Okay? Which means we can look at the positive side of things even though we are going through tribulations and hope is the expression of us being uh you know uh uh of us having a strong character. Okay, that means we are people who have been tried, who have been tested, who have been proved or proven. Okay. So even in difficult situations we can still have hope and this hope will not disappoint us and we will not be disappointed. Okay. And the hope is a reality and will keep becoming a reality in our life and eventually we will experience the full hope in even as we are in the presence of God the father. Okay. So the love of God is being poured into our hearts. Okay. Right now, the love of God is being poured into our hearts and we are experiencing the love of God that is being poured out into our hearts. Amen. Okay. So, let's continue reading. So, can somebody read from verse 5 to verse 8, please? Verses 5 to verse 8. Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has given to us. For when we were still without strength, in due due time uh Christ die for die for the ungodly. For uh >> scarcely >> for scarcely for uh righteous man will uh one die. Yet uh perhaps for a god a good good man someone would even dare to die. But but God demonstrates his love uh towards us in in that in that while we were still sinner Christ died for us. >> Amen. So in tribulation I'm a person of full hope because God's love is where in our hearts in my heart and I experience the love of God. Amen. So it is the Holy Spirit who enables us to personally experience the love of God and to walk in the love of God. It's also that we are able not only to you know love God, love ourselves but also love others. If God's love is poured into my heart, not only do I experience that love, but I'm also able to turn around and say, if God has loved me, I can also love others as well. Okay? And to the measure that I experience the love of God, that measure I extend the love of God to others. Amen. So sometimes you find you find people uh believers who are very very loving who very very forgiving easily accepting of people easily letting go and forgiving people and you wonder why it is because they are experiencing the love that go the love of God to the full extent to the full measure and that is why they are able to pour out that love to others. Okay. So if we are not able to love others the way that Christ would want us to love them, if we are not people who are easily forgiving, easily accepting of people, you know, then we need to check, you know, what is stopping that full measure of love to flow into our hearts. So it can be our hearts are filled with bitterness or hatred or anger or unforgiveness and because of that there is no space for the love of God. But once we let go of all of those, you know, um, uh, wrong heart attitudes, then we can open our hearts to the full measure of Christ's love. And then we see that all we can pour out to others is the love of God. Amen. So if God could love us in spite of our faults, then we can love others in spite of their weaknesses. Amen. Which is very, very difficult. The same love that is poured into our hearts which we experience personally which makes us more than conquerors in difficult situations which gives us the conviction that nothing separates us from God's love. This same love we can extend to others and hopefully they too will feel the same love of God. Okay. It's only when we love them like and accept them even though uh irrespective of who they are and what they do will get them to a point to think hey how can that person really love me right in spite of everything that I have not done I have things that I've done to hurt them they you can bring them to the place where they can experience the love of God okay so the same love that we extend towards other people. Hopefully they too will feel the same love of God. Uh that and they can also feel that they are more than conquerors in difficult situ situations and that nothing can separate them from God's love. Okay. Now verse five can be understood both as the love of God being poured into our hearts creating creating in us an experience an intimate personal knowing of the love of the love that God has for us and also it can also be understood as the love of God being poured into our hearts giving us the capacity to love as he loves. So two things can be both understood as the love of God being poured into our hearts creating in us an experience and intimate personal knowing of the love that God has for us and also that the love of God is being poured into our hearts giving us the capacity to love as he loves. Amen. Now later on chapter 8, Paul will describe for us how powerful this love is which God has for us. First he points us to the cross as the place where God demonstrated this great love. We will see that in in the in the verses that come up and also in verse 8 in chapter 8 sorry. And he says all this is possible because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. That means because we have been bought out of sin, slavery and death. And we are now in a place of um uh being justified with God, being made righteous with God. And you know that is why we can experience this powerful love that God has for us. Amen. Okay, we'll move on. Um verses um 6 to verse 11. Paul is now focusing on Christ's death for us and he's focusing on the cross. Okay. Verse six. For when we were still without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Okay. Now I like to emphasize three things here. First thing is we were without what? Strength. Okay. Now later on in this chapter he will talk about how we are in a place of strength in a place of strength where we are reigning in life. So here he's building he's starting to build a contrast. He first starts by saying in verse six when we were still without strength and then later on he goes to talk about the same chapter how we come to a place of strength and what is that place of strength where we are reigning in life. So he's building a contrast here. So verse six, he says, you know, when we were without strength, how were we? >> Ungodly, weak, powerless, we were slave to many things. He says this was our condition. And in this condition, in this stage of our life, we were without strength. Then what does he say after that? We were without strength. But what happened? >> At the in due time or in the right time, what did Christ do for us? >> Christ died for us. Now, Adam and Eve had sinned and it was 400 years after which Christ died. Okay? So, it was 400 years from the time Adam and Eve sinned to the time Christ died. So you can ask this question, why did it take so long? If Adam and Eve sinned and God already had a solution, okay, did he know that Adam and Eve are going to sin? Yes or no? You're doubtful about that. He knew it. Did he already have a plan in mind? Okay. So we can say if he already had a plan in mind, he could have executed his plan of salvation. The very next day after Adam and Eve died, the very next day Christ could have come and died and then only two people had to be saved and redeemed. Right? So we can ask this question, why did God have to wait 4,000 years? In that 4,000 years, people suffered and faced the consequences for sin. Yet, what does the scripture tell us? >> When in due time or in the right time. Now, we cannot understand everything. We cannot understand God's timing. We can we cannot understand why it took 4,000 years for Christ to come. But we can say he revealed himself. He brought the nation of Israel into being. He gave them the laws. He gave them the covenants. He sensed the prophets and the priests and the judges. But if you look at the main thing that had to happen, who had to come? Jesus Christ had to come and he had to die for our sins. And that took 4,000 years. Well, we cannot understand everything about God's timing. But what we can understand is that in his in the right time in the chairos moment in the godapp appointed time god does what he has to do right so the same thing about the return of Christ we can say it has been 2,000 years since Christ died so when is Jesus going to come right now the only thing that we can say is at the right time Jesus will come or in due time he will come and so we can just rest in that. Okay, coming back to the verse five six he says Christ died for whom? For the ungodly ungodly people who do not deserve God. Okay. And he contrasts this with what he says in verse seven. What does he say in verse seven? For scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Hardly anyone will die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. Okay. So he's saying no one will give their life for any other good person and very rarely will they give their life up. But he says in way verse eight what does what does he say in verse eight? What did God do for us? While >> while we were still sinners, >> while we were still ungodly, while we were without still without strength. Yes. While we were still sinners, while we were still ungodly, while we um uh were still without strength, what did how did God demonstrate his love towards us? by dying. >> Yes, >> by dying on the cross. So Paul is saying this is not about us whether we were good or bad, whether we were blameless, whether we were noble or worthy. But God is saying, I know that you are ungodly. I know that you are without strength. I know that you are sinners. And in spite of that, I still love you so much. And I'm going to show you the love that I have for you. Amen. >> What amazing profound love that God has shown for us. So this is how he Jesus said, "I'm going to God is saying uh the God the Father is saying, I'm doing it for you." Verse eight, what does he say? God demonstrates his own love towards us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Okay. So in verse five he says this love is being poured out into our >> lives our hearts. Okay. And we know it. And here is the evidence or the proof that that love is being poured out into our hearts. What is the evidence? What is the proof? that God demonstrates his own love towards us that we were still sinners Christ died for us. Amen. >> Okay. So at times uh you know we feel does God really love me right? Have you ever felt that ways? All of us have. Does God really love me? Okay. And we try to um uh you know uh or we tend to determine or judge God's love for us by the nice things that happens to us. When there are difficult things that are happening in our life, you know, we think that God does not love us. Do you think it's the right thing to do that to judge God's love by the nice things that happens to us? No. It's a wrong thing to do. Okay. What we must do is look at the cross. Amen. >> So every time we want to know God's love for us, what should we do? We must look at the cross and we must say this is h this is how much God loves me. Okay? that he gave Jesus, he gave his only son. While I was a still a sinner, while I was still ungodly, while I was still without strength, Christ died for me. This is God's demonstration of his love for us. Okay, so Christ died for me. What is the result? What is the result? Okay, so let's look at that. Can somebody read verses 9 to 11 please? >> Much more than having knowing been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him. For if we if when we were uh enemies, we were uh reconciled to God through the death of his son. much more uh having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliization. >> We have now received the reconciliation. Thank you. Amen. Okay. So, because Christ died for us, what do we have? What does it say? Verse N. We are justified by his blood. And what else? >> We shall be saved from wrath, the judgment through him, and we are saved from eternal judgment as well. Okay. Verse 10. For if when we were enemies. So look at the past or look at our past. We were in our past, we were ungodly. We were sinners. We were without strength. Okay? And now he's adding to the list. What is he saying? Verse 10. >> We are. He's adding to that list. Ungodly sinners without strength. We are enemies. Yes, we are also enemies. But what what is what are we now? we are reconciled to God. Okay. So just imagine two friends James and John and imagine James has borrowed huge amounts of money from John and then he turns against John bringing all kinds of false allegations against him and doing much damage to John. And John has a choice. What is a choice? He can choose to retaliate. He can choose everything that James has been doing and you know saying about him or he can choose to you know reach out to him and restore his relationship with James. Now imagine John goes to James okay and says okay whatever you've taken man bro I have you know forgiven all your debts completely forgets all the wrongdoings that James has done to him and only asks for friendship to be restored again don't you think this would be amazing yes or no >> so in a similar but far greater way okay we had enemies with God. We were the ones who owned a great debt because of our sin. Okay? We were hostile and indifferent to God. And it was God himself who paid the debt in full by giving us Jesus. It was God himself who made a way for us to be brought into friendship with him and to be reconciled to us to himself. Amen. And because we are reconciled, we are also being saved from eternal judgment because of what Christ has done for us. Amen. So I told you that in the book of Romans uh the uh episode of Ro Romans we find the uh the gospel very very beautifully and very very neatly and powerfully presented. Yes or no? Okay. So this is what is the gospel that he is presenting here. Amen. Okay. Any doubts so far before we move on? And was verse 11 he says what can we do? We can rejoice in God. Why should can why can we rejoice in God? >> We have received what? Reconciliation. Amen. >> Okay. Okay. Now um verse 12 onwards he tells us what has happened on the cross. Okay. Uh so verse 12 he tells us what has happened on the cross. Verses 12 to 21 is very unique. We don't find it anywhere else in the New Testament. And Paul calls this truth or he refers to this truth as our identification. So verses 12 to 21 is very unique. Uh we don't find it anywhere else in the New Testament. He talks about the truth of our identification, who we are. And Paul says that every person is affected by one man. Who is that one man? Adam. Yes. What happened to that one man affected the rest of the human race. Similarly, what happened to the second man or the last Adam? Who is that? Jesus Christ is also now made available to the rest of the human race. Amen. So very interesting truth that is presented here verses 12 to 21. This passage is very unique because Paul does not write or mention anywhere else in scripture about this. A little about this is mentioned in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and we look at it a little later. But what what Paul mentions here, he builds on this in Romans 6 and how it affects the believer today. Amen. So let's begin studying um verses 12 uh to 19. So can somebody please read um verses 12- 19 please? Therefore, just as through one man's sin entered the world, and death through the sin, uh, and thus death spread to all men, because all sin, uh, for until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputeed when there is no law. Uh nevertheless uh death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had had not sinned according to the like likeness of the transgressions of the Adam who is a type of a type of him who has to come >> who was to come >> who who was to come. But the free gifts is not like the offense. Uh 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 abound uh abundant >> abounded >> abounded to many. >> And the gift is not like that which uh came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in uh >> condemnations, but but the free gifts which came from the from many offense resulted in justification. For if by the one one man's offense death reign, through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace of of the gifts of righteousness will reign in in life through one Jesus Christ >> 1819 also. There therefore as uh through one man's offense judgment came to all men resulting in uh condemnation even so through one man's uh righteous acts the free gifts came to all men resulting in uh justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so also by one man's uh obedience, many will be made righteous. >> Amen. Thank you. So, uh we just have one more minute. We'll um go for our break and then maybe we'll come back and then um we will continue with um verse 12. Okay. Thank you.