Romans 5:12-21 - Corps - April 26,1979 - Part 2

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Topic: Rom 5:12-21,logospedia,lp
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Publication Date: April 26, 1979

On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.}

And I noticed again that some of the things that were stated are just so beautifully and logically presented, I'm truly thankful for, not only Walter, but the whole Research Department. I think our Biblical Research Department is just second to none. And it' s even going to be better by God' s mercy and grace next year and in years to come than it is at this time. And right now I do not believe that our Biblical Research Department needs to take a back seat for any academic institution or work in the world.

And I thought today, I have never... I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity than to be my assistant. I know Vince Finnegan, you know, on the books is my assistant. And that' s great. But I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity for so many years as always being my assistant. And I think he' s just the most wonderful person that any president could have as his assistant. And also to be chairmen of the Department of Greek, and then the coordinator of the Biblical research of The Way International. For any one man to have that position and that responsibility is an awesome reality and I'm real proud of Walter and real thankful for him. But I am also thankful for the rest of our wonderful men and women in the Research Department.

I would like for the Corps all over the country to go to the Magazine and find "The Spoken_Word," that's the title of it, dealing with Ephesians 4:25 and other scriptures, and before the next Corps meeting next week, you endeavor to master that great piece of work by Walter Cummins. It's just, you know, the spoken Word. Over fifty Greek words are used in the New Testament in connection with the faculties of utterance. Over fifty. And then he takes the most important ones and he lists them and it' s just. .. it' s just a piece of research work that you should really as a Corps master in your heart and in your life.

Ephesians 4:25 in the King James reads, Wherefore put away lyin g, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

The ' putting away' was interesting to me again because of the Greek word aniko, a-n-i-k-o.

And this word is ' the putting away,' this word ' put away,' aniko, is the same root word as in 4:22, where we use the word ' rest,' meaning ' to rest.' Is that right? Yep, that is right. I taught you that,

didn't I? Did I or didn't I? Doesn't look right to me. It is the same root. What chapter am I missing? Am I missing anything? I don't know. Right now I'm screwed up, ha ha. First time today. You check the word again and I'll do that, too and see what I'm missing here.

But a-n-i-k-o is the word for ' putting away from you. ' To put away. And it' s the same root as the word ' rest.' I don't know where the word appears, but it's got to be in there.

Now, that word ' speak,' every man speak. That word ' speak ' is from the Greek word

laleo, l-a-l-e-long-o. And that' s where Walter' s article on "The Spoken Word"_c omes in because that is.. .he uses that word laleo in here, which I teach in Corinthians when I teach the Foundational Class. And he says the word is employed 24 times in I Corinthians chapter 14. I had forgotten that.

This word is truly significant. I couldn' t quite understand it Research Department, what  you said on page 26B 16, where you defined it ' to make vocal utterance,' ' to babble,' 'to talk,'  'to  exercise the faculty of speech without reference to the words spoken.' I just wondered if there might not be another word that could be substituted or utilized at this point. I know that Zachariah 8:16 is the quotation that is used here, or spoken of. And that Zachariah 8:16 adds force to what is said by using a quote, a quotation. That' s why my question to the Research Department is, How can it be without reference to what is spoken if it is truth plus the quotation of the Word of God that's given. It doesn't quite fit for me.

'With his neighbor' has to be a believing neighbor. This 'speak truth with his neighbor' is a figure of speech gnome, g-n-o-m-e, which simply is a citation. And that' s a citation from Zachariah 8:16.

There are a series of figures of speech, Corps, in chapter four which just put the 00mph, the highlight, to the particular things that are set whereby you put off the old man. This phrase here 'speak every man truth with his neighbor'  is one of them. The other one appears in verse 26, 'be  angry and sin not.' ' Steal no more' is another one. 'Corrupt communication' is the fourth one.  'Grieve not the  holy spirit' is the fifth one. ' All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking' is  the sixth. And  then  ' be kind' and so forth, is the seventh.

You see, the last phrase in that verse, in King James, For we' re members one of what? [Another] And it' s relative to the neighbor. Now you just look at that. Wherefore put away  lying, speak  every  man truth with his what? [Neighbor] For we are members  one of  another.  That  doesn't  mean just  a neighbor who lives next door, but it has to be a believing neighbor because  we are members  one of what? [Another]. You could not be a member ' one of another' ifhe  was an  unbeliever.  That's how I know this is going to  work. This tells me that the neighbor  is  a  believer.  And  this  ' we' re members one of another' continues the imagery of the Body of Christ.

The literal  according  to  usage of this verse is as follows:   Wherefore  put away the  lie... and I believe in my heart, before I go on with the literal that until man is born again, it's all a lie anyways. And that' s why I believe that this translation will fit in the light of that knowledge. Because when  a man is not born again, his whole  life is just a  lie. Now you're  born again,  and that ' s  why  I think the text states it ' wherefore put away the lie,' the life you' ve been living , the screwed up life you have lived outside of God. It' s been just a life of a lie. It' s not truth. It' s just the opposite of truth and that's my reason for translating it this way... Wherefore put away the lie.

You've got to go with that translation. You have no other text to go by both from Aramaic and Greek it's 'lie.' Not 'lying.' If the Research Department has anything to share in the light of that, I'd be blessed to hear, but you' ve heard my reasons for translating it, Research Department, this way.

Now since they're born again, their whole life is changed, so the life of lying, and living a lie, and being a lie, and being false, is to be put away.

And every man... this is the translation ... and everyone, everyone. The word ' man' you could use because it's an inclusive noun, but I prefer to use the word ' one.'

Wherefore put away the lie and everyone speak the truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another. That is literal according to usage.

Now for the expanded according to understanding. It's not bad. Because of this... What we coughing for? Everybody sick?...Because of this... and the reason I went in the expanded along this line is because verse 24 last week told us that we are created by God in righteousness and in true purity, through holiness. Twenty four.

That's why 25, Wherefore ... 'wherefore' can be translated 'because of this.' Because of this what? Being created in righteousness and truly pure. See it's an inside job.

Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure by the grace and the love of

God.. .Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure, you put away, completely lay to rest the lie that you have been and were living and each one of you speak the truth using a quotation from the Word with his believing neighbor for we are members one of another in the Body of the Church.

Robinson {Edward} said, he translated, 'speak every man truth with his neighbor' and he said it's from Zachariah 8:16 which adds force to what is said by using a quote. That's why I translated that. I think that' s great. It adds force to what is said. If you're speaking to someone, it adds force to what you say by using a quote, a quotation from God's Word. In other words, ' you share the Word with them.' That' s why I went with that translation. I want to give it to you again in this sense.

Speak the truth using a quotation from the Word, which means 'share the Word.' Quote the Word to them. Tell them what the Word says, with his believing neighbor. Why? For we are members one of another in the Body of the Church. This verse is just mind blowing.

Here, you have a born-again believer neighbor who needs to grow up a little more. So what do you do? Each one speak the truth to that neighbor, that believer, using the Word, quoting the Word because we' re members one of another in the Body of the Church. It's a real positive thing to do.

Verse 26 in King James reads, Be angry.. .ha ha... we like that one, don't we. Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Here is a verse of Scripture that' s very, very difficult for most people. And it' s not too easy for us either. But I think we are able to share the truth of the greatness of this and it's been burning in my heart for a long time to do this with our people.

Everybody has problems with ' how can you be angry and not sin?' You know, how can raise hell with something and not be sinful in doing it? Teed off and not be sinful. And how can you go... and what does it mean 'don't let the sun go down upon your wrath?' See.

In the context, here, verses 26 and 27 deal with your believing neighbor, specifically. Then the Greek word for ' anger' which is from the root orge, o-r-g-long-e means 'anger together with the desire of revenge .' That' s bad. That' s a heavy. The Hebrew word means ' to kill, and all the tumults of passion that terminate in killing.' So it's a real heavy word when it said ' be angry.'

And the way I believe it's used in God' s Word, ' be ye angry' means ' it's a long time anger with your believing neighbor until a change has ensued.' The desire to... of revenge is a change. And I, knowing the Word in the light of the new birth, it's where a change finally comes about. Until that time, you just, long-term, you just stay put witnessing the Word, sharing the Word. You do not dislike the believing neighbor; you simply dislike that he is not fully accepting the Word and walking on it. So it' s a long-term anger until a change has ensued. You just stay faithful.

I don't know what else to do with those words. It is a righteous anger. Yet it is a righteous anger without sin.

Among the scholars, there is a disagreement on these words. Well, I don't know about my being a scholar; that I don' t anything about being about. But it's simple to me because righteous anger is commanded by God's Word when it says ' be ye angry.' Well, the scholars can fight about it. I don' t care. It' s a command. Not just permitted to get teed once in a while when somebody' s off of God' s Word, a believer is off of God's Word. You' re always teed off righteously at any believer, born-again believer, who is off of God' s Word. And for those of us in the Way Ministry, it' s been a lifetime.

Get into it with them on... Oh what subject do you want to talk about? Baptism? Food? One God? See. All that stuff.

The Aramaic is accurate in the words ' and sin not.' It literally translates ' and you will not sin.' Again, this ' be angry and sin not' is that figure gnome. Quotation. A citation from the Old Testament. It' s from Psalm 4:4. But in King James, Psalm 4:4, it's translated 'stand in awe.' The real sense of the Hebrew is ' one of admonition;' sin not. Where we' re admonished to not sin. Sin not.

' Let not the sun go down on your wrath. ' Ha ha. That again is beautiful. People went to bed when the sun went down, when it got dark. That's when they went to bed. So what that simply is saying, ha ha, ' don't go to bed teed off.' Don' t let the sun go down on your wrath. In other words, go to bed; don' t go to bed mad. ' When you go to bed' is what it means. Let not the sun go down when you go to bed. And they went to bed when the sun went down. When it got dark, they went to bed, see.

' Upon your wrath.' And the word ' wrath' here is basically ' irritation.' Ha ha. Previously when I taught Ephesians, I made mention of this fact, ' don' t let righteous anger shake you, wondering if it was right on. When you go to bed, go to sleep.'

Now, this is what we have done with it in the literal, ha ha, according to usage. I got more papers up here than Carter has liver pills, or something. Then, I can' t find my... whatever it is I take off of it.

Okay, verse 26. You be righteously angry.. .this is literal according to usage.. .and you will not be sinning. Don't go to bed even with a momentary irritation, ha ha.

I don't think you get nearly as much fun out of this as I do. It's neat. It's absolutely scrumptious, see. At the opening, is that heavy word, remember? Anger. So it's a real heavy time. So what he is saying, in the heavy time, when your standing on God' s Word  and sharing that with the  believing  neighbor, you' re righteously angry... you're not sinning. And  you don't  even go to  bed with a momentary irritation. In other Words, when you go to bed, thank God the day is over. Say your last prayer and start snoring.

Boy, that would save a lot of sleeping pills, wouldn' t it? Practicing that principle. Boy, oh boy, what a tremendous Word. And hardly anybody understands verse 26. They argue about it, but they don' t get the understanding.

Now this is the expanded one according to understanding, I hope. And again, I would like to just lay some things before the Corps, and especially before the Research Department. I translated the first part of verse 26, You always stay angry with an all-out desire to have them to change which anger will not be sin on your part.

Then I have another translation of that first part of it: You be righteously angry, 'teed off' with sin... 'Teed off' I put in quotes. But don't  you sin  by acting  ' holier than thou'  vaunting  yourself  by acting so righteously like you never sin.

I do not know which one of those two the Research Department feels would be the better. The last part of the phrase that I translated which would go with both of these that I have given you here on the expanded one for understanding. This, the last part, goes with that first one and with the second ... also.. .even if it is only a momentary irritation.  When you go to  bed, go to sleep. That's what I did with it.

Now, verse 27. King James says, Neither (or neither) give place to the Devil. The word 'place' is simply a portion, a part. No believer will give full place to the Devil, but he may be giving a part, a portion. He' ll mark off a spot, ' this is Devil' s permission over here, over here, no permission, you know. And you really give the Devil a portion or a spot if you stew about it after you go to bed and you toss and you tum and can' t sleep.

This word 'the Devil,' ' the Devil' in the Aramaic is a very interesting and exciting Word to me and it blesses my heart. It' s a compound word where the first part means ' to eat' or ' to devour.' The latter

' to slander' or ' to accuse. '  So when I got to translating  this, literally according  to usage, verse 27 reads: Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil. So I used those three words synonymously: portion, space, opportunity. Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil.

The expanded according to understanding: And you will not give a toehold, an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. Ha ha. I get more fun than you ever will out of working this stuff, huh.

You see, and to me, that communicates to my understanding. John 10:10. The thief cometh not but for to what? [Steal, kill, and destroy] Right. To eat you out. To beat you. And that's why that Aramaic word, on the word ' Devil' really thrilled me.

And that ' s why I put it into the expanded translation: And you will not give a ' toehold.' Now, at L.E.A.D., you know how important it is to get a what? [Toehold] Ha ha. And when you' re really climbing in, you' re blessed for a toehold. How thankful you are when you get a foothold. Now the adversary can never get a foothold in a believer' s life until he first has a toehold. That's why I translated it that way.

Do not give... and you will not give a toehold ... shave all the rocks off... an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. And that' s exactly what he likes to do to believers.

Now we go to verse 28. King James says, Let him that stole steal not more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. And here again, is another great work that I believe should be in our research journal GMIR, Walter' s work on " Workers for God."

It' s just tremendous where he... you know... he just goes into God' s men are called many things in the Word. They' re called: fellow workers, ministers, or servants, slaves, fellow slaves, partners, messengers, soldiers, fellow soldiers, athletes, fellow athletes, stewards, ambassadors, witnesses, all of those. And he covers them so beautifully. And I love very much how he covered the word ' slave,' because it' s a much stronger word than to be a minister, or to be a servant. It is to be one who is branded, marked out, sold out. And baby, from that day on, there are no ifs, and' s, or but' s. You never budge on it. You are branded. Most believers are never branded. They may be servants, they may be ministers, but they are not branded. When you' re branded, you stay faithful. You do not budge. You do not change. You stay put. If all hell breaks loose, you still live the believing Word.

I think the prophet once said, If I was in the midst of hell, God I know you' d be there. (Psalm 139:8) He' d be there. That' s the doulos. That, of course, is just a tremendous piece of work.

And the other great part that I think... and this is a second piece that I want the Corps to master before next Wednesday night, " Workers for God," the work on ' witness.' You see, it's the same word basically that's translated ' martyr,' see. And we got a lot of those canonized. That's not at all what a witness is. A witness is a living example, not a dead one. The word 'martyr' simply means that you lay down your life in witnessing. And boy, when you put the doulos together with ' witness,' then you' ve got power for abundant living. It's just a fantastic work by Walter and I' m real grateful that it was published. Because once it' s in print, people can take a look at it if they want to.

I'd like a cup of coffee, please.

Now, we are in verse 28. The Aramaic translation is ' and he who was stealing.' I understand it from the English, ' let him that stole,' past tense. The Aramaic is real simple, real strong. ' And he, the one who is born again, who was, past tense, stealing.'

Thank you.

His whole life was one of those before he was born again.

Whenever you bring a cup of coffee to a right-hand man, you put the handle to the right. When you serve a cup of coffee to a left-hand man, you put it on the left-hand side and put the handle to the left. Corps principle number seven or something, ha ha. Mrs. Wierwille would say, Well, be thankful you even get a cup of coffee. [Laughter] Ah, you're wonderful.

See, ' let him who stole, steal no more.' 'Stole and steal,' that' s a figure of speech and is polyptoton p-o-l-y-p-t-o-t-o-n. It' s a repetition of the same root word in different parts of speech or reflections. But, that's not earth shaking right now in my heart.

You see, in some Eastern culture, it was not considered a sin or a shame to steal because that's the way they lived, the only way they lived. Somebody told me... or not only told me, one of our people, but it was in a national magazine, that the basic culture of Russia today is to steal. And in some respects I can understand this. If you don't have anything and you're starving to death and there' s a loaf of bread you can get a hold of... steal the dam thing. I understand that.

So this verse is really sharp, really sharp. Let him who stole, even though that man previously considered it the way to live and there was no shame in it, no sin in it. He said, Well, let that fellow who stole, steal no more. Something has happened on the inside of that man. Something that happened, where He is able to meet all of our need according to His riches in glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. More than conquerors.

A record in the Old Testament, I forget where it is, but it's in there, that it' s never, you never need to borrow or steal bread or... what is that in the Old Testament? Begging bread. One person stand and tell me. {Psalm 37:25, I have been young and now am old; yet have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed begging bread.} Psalm 27:25 who? {Psalm 37:25} 37:25. All the years, he's never seen the righteous to have to do what? {Beg bread} Beg bread.

First of all, I wish the Christian world could hear this. Secondly, I wish our government in the United States could understand it. The Word says, If you don't work, you don' t eat. A lot of that stuff. Well, what we've been doing is stealing from the people who are willing to work to give to the people who don' t want to work. That's a bunch of crap. That's stealing. That's why this verse is so hot in my soul tonight. Let him who stole, quit stealing, dang it. See.

Many years ago I was really knocked for a loop along some of this line in India, from Dr. Williams. I think he loved India maybe like I love the United States, I don' t know. Because only a man knows how much he loves his own country, I guess.

But... as we were traveling together, he said to me, Dr. Wierwille, I hear you have whores in the United States.

You know, I never had given it a thought. I just took it for granted. [Laughter] And I said, yeah. He said, Why does a rich country like the United States have whores?

And I said, I don't know.

And he said, I can't understand it. Cannot your women make enough money to live? Yeah, but they figure that' s cheaper and more pleasurable or something, I don' t know. And he said, Well, I think it's sinful that the United States has whores.

And I said, What do you mean?

And he said to me, why, I can understand India. He said we don' t enough food, we don' t have enough of anything hardly for a lot of people. And we have whores because that' s the only way they can continue to live physically.

And I thought to myself, well boy, that' s slapping me in the face good. And I took it as a wonderful lesson. There is no excuse in the United States for any women being a whore because she doesn' t need to get screwed and paid for it in order to get money so she can live. There's plenty of work available and if there isn' t she ought to get born again, then there' s a guarantee of work. ..other work, available. I tell you, when you' re honest, some of these men in other countries have some real logic behind their thinking. How would you have liked to have handled that? I just simply admitted, Well, I think we' re wrong in the United States. But I said, I think you' re wrong in India, too, because no reason to have whores here if you get them born again.

So I don' t know. But this verse today as I worked the final working on this verse 28 is when my heart really went back and burned with that truth that Dr. Williams had stated. Because in many Eastern cultures, it was not considered as sin or as shame to steal, if it was a matter of livelihood. You sometimes wonder who will live in the greatest condemnation before God and justice and judgment when the time comes.

For in most of what are called poor countries even, there is sufficient money, food, and other things for the people to live if those in positions of authority were not so selfish and egotistical, and want it for themselves , and let the rest of the world die... or a country die.

The word ' labor' in verse 28 is the word which literally means ' hard work resulting in fatigue.' That's how I felt coming from the woods last night. And I didn' t do anything. It was just hard work being there with the rest of you. Today I got so tired of being with some, I came home. Ah, you' re wonderful.

' Working with his hands' is an Eastern cultural type of thing. Today in our culture, you could have it, you know, the truth is working with your mind or working with your hand, whatever you' re working at. But in Eastern culture, every son was to be trained to work with his hands, even if he was the son of a king. Had to learn a trade, a profession of business.

Jesus Christ was a saddle maker. He made them to ride, I guess, what do you want? Tennessee Walkers , or? See. I think not only did he do that, Paul did it, too, you know. Someday I'm going to find a...or Walter, or some of those, are going to find me a manuscript to prove it. .. and a wonderful carpenter by trade. Many times doing carpentry work and being a saddle maker were sort of in the same household, because building carpentry and having saddles to use for their business and carrying on, were very, very closely aligned. Well, I won' t argue the point, but I wish we' d keep looking.

II Thessalonians.. .Do your hands ever get so dry you can hardly hold anything? Golly, mine are so dry tonight, I wonder why? II Thessalonians, chapter 3:10... this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he what? [Eat] Right. Even unemployment is no excuse for stealing. He just doesn' t eat. Goes and gets work. Boy, when I first saw the greatness of these principles many years ago, and then of course, I uniquely by God' s grace, inculcated that into our W.O.W. program and very dynamically in the Corps leadership.

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ROMANS 5:12-21
April 26, 1979
Reconciliation, justification, righteousness, sanctification, redemption and substitution are
all for us by Jesus Christ’s obedience in believing unto his death. He died for us, but there
is something more, fuller, deeper, much more in Christ than we ever lost in Adam. This I
believe is a truth seldom seen and hardly ever believed by Christians. It is the core, the
heart, of our completeness.
Colossians 2:10
It is our oneness with him, with Christ, our identification in him.
Romans 6:3, 5, 6, 8
Something more in Christ, which is newness of life.
Romans 6:4
Romans 6:14
Romans 5:17
Death reigned by one, first Adam. Much more shall we in Christ reign in life. That reminds
me of that scripture where we have our foot on the Adversary’s head or neck.
Romans 16:20
Romans 6:8
That’s not only in the present now, but at the time of the return, all in that verse.
The organic unity of the human race demonstrates and illustrates clearly and dynamically
our oneness with Christ, our identification with him. The first Adam was head of the
human race. The second Adam is head of the spiritual race.
John 3:16
God’s only begotten son is Jesus Christ, who is the head of the spiritual race of men. He
was of the seed of Abraham.
Romans 4:12, 13
Whenever you read the word “seed” in the Bible, in context it will tell you whether it’s
physical genetic offspring or whether it’s believing.
Hebrews 2:16
John 7:42
Romans 1:3
Acts 13:23
The greatness of all this is that God is just; therefore, He has to be just to the people whom
He has called. But He also has to be just to the Adversary. That’s fantastic.
II Timothy 2:8
You not only start out with God’s only begotten son in John 3:16, but I wanted to show
you it goes back to Abraham, because Abraham represents all believers. Then it goes back
188 Romans 5:12-21
to David, the royal line, as king.
Matthew 1:1
Luke 3:23
Luke 3:38
John 1:45
When Jesus Christ was brought to the temple and Joseph paid the price for him, he legally
adopted him as his son. That’s why he is called the son of Joseph.
Romans 9:6-8
They are not all Israel who are of the bloodline of Israel. Bloodline-wise, they would all be
of Israel. Why did he mention Isaac? Because of the believing of Abraham. Just because
you are an offspring of some person doesn’t make you automatically a believer. That’s
why it says Isaac, because Isaac was the child of promise.
Galatians 3:16
That seed is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15.
Genesis 3:15
“it” – the child
“thy head” – head of the Adversary
That’s why when you put this all together with Romans, that’s why we can reign in this
life. You can get along without an arm, but don’t try walking in here without your head.
Bruise his head means going to put such a big impression on his head that it will never get
healed.
Bruise his head – when he tripped him up and crucified him.
Hebrews 2:14, 15
Children partake, but Jesus only took a part. That’s what we read about. He was of the seed
of Abraham, David, and then legally the son Joseph. From the physical point of view, he
came from Mary, but from the conception point of view he was conceived from God. This
all comes up in this section in Romans. All in the second Adam, Jesus Christ, by what
Christ did. It does not say all are of the second Adam. But all are of the first Adam. The
first Adam is physical.
Acts 17:26
But not everyone is of the second Adam, because to be of the second Adam you have to
believe Romans 10:9, 10.
I was checking out the word pistis. It’s a remarkable thing that in Romans 1:1 - 5:11, pistis,
to believe, is used 35 times. However, in this section, Romans 5:12 - 8:39, pistis occurs
only once. The reason it’s not needed in 5:12 - 8:39 is because it shows what Jesus Christ
did, not what you do.
In the first Adam, all mankind is dead in trespasses and sins. In the second Adam, Jesus
Christ, all mankind is covered and believers reign in life by him.
All seed of the second Adam have righteousness, redemption, sanctification, justification,
and that is what I refer to as our vital union with him. By one man, Christ Jesus, eternal life
Romans 5:12-21 189
entered into this world, and the result is that we born-again believers of the seed of
Abraham can reign in life.
John 10:10
Romans 8:37
Romans 5:12
Hebrews 10:12
Hebrews 10:5
One man’s sin entered into, that was Adam’s. A body was prepared for him by Mary to
house that which God gave when she conceived.
One sacrifice for sins forever. Sins is: fruit of sin,the root is sin. Not only for the root but
for the fruit of the root, sins. He entered into once, and yet in mass he is sacrificed daily.
When you partake of the Eucharist, they drink his blood. Either the Word of God is right or
tradition and religion is. He entered in once and he was sacrificed for sins, the fruit of it.
There is therefore now no condemnation. This will came up in Romans 8. Where we are
tonight, I doubt if there is one Christian out of a million who believes the greatness of the
truths we’re dealing with in Romans 5:12-21. They don’t know it; it’s too good to be true;
they don’t give a hoot about it because they would rather live in condemnation, fear,
frustration and defeat than to .see the greatness of God and the power of God and the
majesty of His Word living in their lives and the lives of others.
Sacrificed once. It’s very simple. If they only had one lamb, Old Testament, how many
times could that one lamb be sacrificed? Once. Here’s the lamb of God. How many times
can he be sacrificed? Once. But that sacrifice is absolutely fantastic.
II Timothy 2:5
I Timothy 2:5
There’s one mediator. To have a mediator, you can’t have a mediator of one. You can’t
even have a mediator of two. You have to have a minimum of three to have a mediator. A
mediator is one who stands between one and two. That’s the mediator.
The substitute, the lamb of God. Substituted just once. He entered in just once.
I Corinthians 15:27
Jesus Christ is not included underneath the Devil’s feet. Jesus Christ is the accepted.
I Corinthians 15:45
“quick” – alive
Romans 8:3
“Weak through the flesh” means there was nobody in the senses realm who could ever
fully keep the law. Jesus Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh. The man, Christ Jesus,
just like we are, flesh. What a tremendous revelation on the redemption of God through
Christ Jesus. Had Jesus Christ not been a man, then he would have been a puppet and if
God pulled the strings he could jump over here. He could never be a just God and redeem
man unless He redeemed them on the level where man is. Don’t you see it? What a
devilish thing they teach that Jesus Christ is God. God was long before Jesus Christ. If He
could have done anything about it, He would have redeemed man long before that. God
could not redeem man upon the earth. It had to be God in Christ. Jesus Christ had to be as
manly as you are manly physically. He had to be flesh. That’s why he came in sinful flesh.
Romans 8:4
Jesus Christ became one with and for man before anyone could become one with him.
Jesus Christ was the firstborn of Mary before he could become the firstborn from the dead.
He had to be man before he could be seated at the right hand of God. This is a declaration
of where I think the greatness stands in Romans 5:12-21. It shows the establishment of the
reign of grace unto life through the righteousness of Jesus Christ our Lord.
I think the thing that puts it all together is Romans 8:2.
Romans 8:2
Freed by the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The other law is the law of sin and
death. These two laws set just like this. This is the physical man, first Adam. This is the
second Adam. It’s freed from the law of sin and death because of the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Not freed to the end that you will never die. All men physically come
from Adam, and because of Adam’s disobedience we have sin and death in the physical
realm. Freed from law of sin and death because without the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ, nobody would ever get up. There would be no gathering together, no resurrection.
Freed from law of sin and death, because in I Corinthians everybody is going to be
resurrected or changed. Dead in Christ rise; those alive changed. Before that you have the
resurrection, because in order to have a resurrection everybody has to be dead. To have a
rising, not everybody is dead. The church of the body to which you and I belong will not
all be dead at the time of the return, but all will have to be changed. The dead in Christ
shall rise first, then that’s why it says mortals, those living at the time, put on immortality;
corruption puts on incorruption. Those believers who have died will get up, rise, and that
body that has corrupted has to put on incorruption. But if you are living you are mortal. If
Christ came right now you would be changed. That’s the greatness of it. Christ Jesus’ life
spirit that Lives in you is the guarantee now that you are freed from the consequences or
results of staying dead forever, freed from the law of sin and death.
Romans 10:4
Christ is the end of the law, the completion, the fulfillment to everyone who believes. Not
to all mankind but to all mankind who believes. Jesus Christ died for all mankind without
exception. Then whosoever will can get saved. They can believe. Christ is the fulfillment,
the end of it. He’s the only one who kept the law and fulfilled it.
Galatians 3:13
Curse of the law is death. Christ hath redeemed us from death. Cursed is everyone who
hangeth on a tree because he dies.
Sin reigned unto death (Romans 5). Without the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ it still
would continue to reign unto death. Romans 5:21 sets it like a diamond if you just watch
your verb forms.
Romans 5:21
II Corinthians 5:14
Because of Adam’s disobedience, because of the nature of man, every man will die unless
the Lord returns and then you’d be changed. By the first Adam’s one sin, all mankind is
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dead in him. So by the second Adam is a new head of the believers of mankind. All
believers of mankind are in him, in eternal life, by reason of his one act of righteousness.
One act of Adam, sin. One act of righteousness, eternal life. If the one is true, the other has
to be true. In the second Adam we are dead to sin.
An executed man, even though later declared acquitted and declared innocent by the law,
will not get back his life again. All mankind who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, if they
die, they are going to become alive again in him. We are acquitted, declared just and
innocent, by what Jesus Christ did. All mankind who believe are made alive in one, even
as all mankind die in the other.
Romans 5:15
One man, Jesus Christ, one mediator. This all fits together like a hand in a glove.
I’ll give you a much simpler translation of that before the evening is over with, which I
think will bless you.
Romans 6:7
He who is dead with Christ has become justified, freed in Christ from sin. That’s the
correct translation according to usage.
Men die because of sin, not sins. Sins are the fruit, the result, the evidence, the
manifestation of the root of sin. Since Christ became sin for us (II Corinthians 5:21), the
penalty has been paid for all mankind without exception. Yet only those of mankind who
believe receive the benefits. Yet if no one of all mankind believed unto righteousness, sin
has been righteously dealt with in Christ Jesus.
In the foreknowledge of God all believers die to sin in Christ and thus are justified, freed
from sin. The penalty, death. The dominion reigning over man forever. If man would never
get up, the penalty for the first Adam breaking God’s Word would be death forever. It
would be a dominion because there would never be a getting up. That would be the
dominion where it would be the reign over man forever. All believers died with Christ and
shall live with him also.
Romans 6:8, 9
Raised from the dead. And Jesus Christ is the only one so far, and your speaking in
tongues is the proof that God did it. Dieth no more. All the believers of the Old Testament
saw the day of the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. You and I do not look for that
since it’s over with, but we look for the second coming.
Romans 6:10
He lives because of God. Why? Because he was dead. God did what? He went through the
same trip we all go through. He died. He lives because of God, because God raised him.
Had God not raised him he would still be dead and all mankind would be dead and would
be under that dominion forever. Boy, when you get to see this and the greatness of it, what
Jesus Christ really is and what he has really done, you’ll get a new spring in your soul,
glory in your walk. Death has no more dominion over Christ or his brethren because God
raised him and seated him at His own right hand.
Romans 7:6
That being dead, being held in death. “Being dead” is apothantos.
Romans 7:6
Literal translation according to usage:
But now we (mankind believers) have been justified (freed) from the law, having died (in
and with Christ) to all the law wherein we were formerly, as all mankind ensnared
(trapped). We now serve, live, in the newness of the spirit and no longer by the old law that
affected all mankind.
Here in Romans you have the deliverance itself, and secondly the results occurring due to
this deliverance. That’s the application of the deliverance itself.
Romans 8:13
That’s the result occurring due to this deliverance. It’s the application of it.
Romans 8:34
That’s the outworking of it. That’s the application of the deliverance itself that we have in
Christ Jesus. Why the Christian who really loves God and wants to do God’s will the best
way, why he always allows himself to live in condemnation and all the rest of that junk
when Jesus Christ himself is making intercession for us. He looks upon the heart. All men
are dead in trespasses. Did we all blow it after we are saved. If you have one sin and
someone else has twenty, it’s only different in the senses world, not in God’s sight. Sin is
sin. One sin breaks as much fellowship as twenty. He makes intercession. That’s in the
deliverance. Jesus Christ makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 6:2
“to” – That’s important; dead to sin.
Romans 6:7
Justified from sin.
Romans 6:8
This is why we are completely complete in Christ.
Romans 6:9
By the resurrection and no more dying for him, death breaks all the law’s dominion and its
responsibility. He uses the illustration of a husband and a wife.
Romans 6:11
We reckon ourself as believers to be dead because of sin. You reckon. We’re dead to sin.
So we reckon ourselves dead to it. You’ve got to do it.
Romans 7:8
The law was put in there to show the utter failure of man in the flesh and to show what a
big sinner you are.
Romans 7:24
Alive unto God.
Romans 8:10
The body is dead because of sin, but the spirit in us is life. If Christ doesn’t return, I’ll die.
But because I have the spirit and I’m a believer in him, that means I will be in the rising,
the gathering together.
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I Corinthians 15:51-54
Only with the return of Christ will the full fullness of the believing perfection and oneness
union with Christ be completely complete in practice.
Romans 8:11
He not only quickens it now, gives you more life here and now, but he also guarantees to
give you life throughout all eternity.
Romans 7:24
Romans 8:2
That word “sin” is the one I want to handle and show you a number of these words so you
get a greater understanding of the Word of God.
The Greek word is hamartia.
In Romans 1:1-5:11, that word “sin” is used only 4 times. In Romans 5:12-8:39 it is used
40 times.
In Romans 9-16 it’s only used 3 times.
Pisteuō, meaning to believe, in Romans 1:1-5:11 it’s used 9 times. In Romans 5:12-8:39
it’s used only once. That section is where everything is done for us by Jesus Christ. But in
Romans 9-16 it’s used 11 times.
The verb form pistis in Romans 1:1-5:11 is used 26 times. In Romans 5:12-8:39, it’s not
used at all. In Romans 9-16 it’s used 13 times.
The word “death” is used once in Romans 1:1-5:11. It’s used 20 times in Romans 5:12-
8:39. It’s used not at all in Romans 9-16.
In this inner section of Romans 5:12 which ultimately ends with Romans 8:39 where these
fantastic truths are set forth, this word “to know” and “to know for a certainty” are used.
One word is ginōskō, which is to know personally. Eideo, which means to know for a
certainty. These are combined in Romans 7:7.
Romans 7:7
Literal translation according to usage:
I would not have had a personal experiential knowledge of sin (Known is ginōskō) and its
influence on mankind except by the law, for I would never have been certain (Not known –
eideo, to know for a certainty) it was lust had not the law been given that stated, Thou shalt
not covet.
We’re dealing with one of the most confusing sections in God’s Word.
What I want to do for you tonight is to put that thing together that there will be no question
in your mind, that you do understand it and all the great truths that go with it.
Romans 1:1-5:11 believing, or to believe, or believe is intimately and dynamically
presented for salvation and righteousness, while in Romans 5:12-8:39 is the practical
application thereof.
There are five words that appear in this great section that you’ve got to have. We’ve
already covered knowledge and certainty.
Romans 6:11
Reckon
Romans 6:12
Romans 6:13
Yield
Romans 7:6
Serve
To serve, to yield, to reckon, to know and to be certain; those words are tremendous. That
gives you the believing as intimately and dynamically presented for salvation and
righteousness in the first section. But in the second section you have the practical
application of that believing through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:15
But, for, much
Romans 5:16
“And” = but
But, for, much – That’s not the “for” I’m looking for.
Romans 5:17
Verse 16 the first word is “but” which corresponds to 5:15. The “for” in Verse 17
corresponds to the “for” in 5:15 and the “much more” in Verse 17.
Verse 15 begins a parenthesis. Verses 12, 13, 14 are not a parenthesis. Verses 15, 16, 17
are a parenthesis. In Verse 16 we will have a parenthesis within a parenthesis.
In these verses, 15-19, I have again given you a literal translation according to usage,
believing that it will bring great understanding.
Romans 5:15
Literal translation according to usage:
But not as the one offence by the one man Adam, so likewise grace only once for if by and
through the one offence of the one man Adam all mankind is dealt death, much more the
grace of God and its gift (dōrea) in the grace made available by the one man Christ Jesus
has abounded unto the many of mankind who believe unto righteousness.
It’s so simple. God talked to Adam. God gave him the Word. Then Adam blew it, he broke
it, he sinned, he did not obey God’s Word. God’s Word was no longer God’s will for him.
That’s why the one offence. He had only one commandment. Only one law.
Romans 5:16
Literal translation according to usage:
But not like the one man Adam who sinned is the gift (dōrēma). (double parenthesis – go
to Verse 17) (for if by one man Adam’s single offence against God).
Here it is.
But not like the one man Adam who sinned is the gift (dōrēma) for the one man Adam
who sinned and all mankind was judged and all mankind condemned to death but the free
gift (charisma) of God’s grace through Jesus Christ covers many offences falling because
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of his righteousness.
Romans 5:17
Literal translation according to usage:
For if by one man Adam’s single offence against God. (Read that Genesis 2:16, 17 again.)
Genesis 2:16, 17
Romans 5:17
For if by one man Adam’s single offence against God. Only one commandment that God
gave Adam, and he blew that one. That’s why by one man Adam’s single offence.
Couldn’t offend twice because there wasn’t another law. Just one will of God.
Romans 5:17
Literal translation according to usage:
For if by one man Adam’s single offence against God, death has dominion and has reigned
over mankind, much more then mankind who believes shall manifest the abundance or
God’s grace charisma) and His gift (dōrēma) of righteousness shall reign in this life now
by the one man, Christ Jesus, who is in each believer.
End of parenthesis.
Romans 5:18
Literal translation according to usage:
Therefore because of the one act of offence of one, the first Adam, all mankind was
condemned to death, even so because of the one act of righteousness of one, the second
Adam, all mankind who believe are justified and righteous in this life.
If the one act of Adam is true, and we have a history of its truth, then the one act of the
second Adam has to be equally true, which is that all are justified and righteous in him in
this life.
Romans 5:19
Literal translation according to usage:
For as by one man, the first Adam’s disobedience, all mankind was declared in sin and
death, so as by one man, the second Adam’s obedience, all of mankind who believe are
declared righteous and live, having a life of righteousness.
I was interested in working the word “offence.” That word seems to be a variance of sin.
Hamartia, or sin, means missing the mark, and thereby committing a serious error.
(Example of missing the mark – football)
“Offence” – paraptōma; translated “fall.” It is also called transgression.
Romans 5:14
“transgression” – paraptōma
A little child that died in infancy, could it have blown it before it was old enough to make a
decision? So it could not have sinned after the similitude of who? Yet the child died.
Mental derangements, other stuff, all in here. It’s called transgression because it was not a
sin of ignorance. He had a rule book and the rules were known. God had told him (Genesis
2:16, 17). He had a rule book. Like you and I have the Word of God.
That original sin was a transgression because it was not a sin of ignorance. It says that Eve
was deceived.
I Timothy 2:14
The woman was deceived, but not Adam, for he walked into it with his eyes wide opened.
She blew it and he went down the drain. It was not a sin of ignorance. Adam did not get
deceived by the Adversary. The Adversary used Eve, Eve’s voice, Eve’s appearance, Eve’s
everything to trick the man into it, but he walked into it with his eyes wide open. The
Adversary did not deceive Adam.
Here you have a wonderful friend. Wrong spirit talks to him. And you go by that, then you
deliberately blow it because as Adam’s was not a sin of ignorance, you know better than
that. But the Adversary will use your best friend to try to get you to live below par or to
reject the Word. Eve got Adam to reject the truth of God’s Word by disobedience. Adam
was not stupid. It was not a sin of ignorance. The rule book was there.
Genesis 2:16
He commanded the man, Adam. Adam is Hebrew; English Adam, translated many times
“man.” Did he have the rule book? Yes. And he had the rule.
That’s why this word “transgression” and the noun form of it is parabasis. It is translated
“transgression,” “sin,” and “fault.” Parabasis is a very simple Greek word which I believe
declares very simply at least to my mind, off base. Para – basis; para, along side. If you’re
running to second base in a baseball game and you slide over it, you are off base. That’s
parabasis. You can be beside it and still not on it. Or another great translation of this
parabasis would be off the basis. What’s the basis? The rule book. The rule book for us
today is our basis, the Word of God is our basis. He had the basis. The Lord said to the
man. So when he sinned is when he by the freedom of his will chose to not play by the rule
book. That’s why the word is transgression, parabasis, off the basis of the rule book.
The verb form is parapiptō, which means to fall. It means off the wall, as Humpty
Dumpty. It’s used in the Bible in the essence of as a house falls off its foundation. If you
have a hurricane or earthquake, that is parapiptō, the verb form. The noun form translated
transgression, sin, fault. The verb form as a house falling off its foundation. It’s used in the
scriptures when the seed falls to the ground or when a man walking along and he falls into
the ditch in the Word, or he falls on his face. Stumble and fall, and also to fail.
The word “disobedience” is the word parakoē, which means to hear aside. You don’t hear
to the end you obey.
Not that you can’t hear. Adam he could hear, but he didn’t hear to the end of obeying,
which means he knew the Word but he didn’t stay put on the Word. He deliberately
walked off of it. It just goes clear through because you will by your choice not to believe.
Believing means obedience to God’s Word.
Romans 10:17
Hear to the end of acting on it. Hearing to the end of acting on God’s Word by believing.
Adam heard aside. That is given exactly in Genesis 3:17.
Genesis 3:17
“hearken” = parakoē, to hear aside, meaning disobedient because he listened. He listened
to the voice of the Adversary which came by way of his wife. The Adversary deceived her,
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not Adam. That’s the word parakoē there. Para meaning along side with or beside.
The word “hearken” in the Old Testament is synonymous with obedient. Parabasis;
transgression, stepping aside. Paraptōma means a falling aside. Parakoē means a hearing
aside.
Then there is a word paradidōmi, which is to give unforced from one’s self into the hands
of another, to give over for power or use. This is the word used when Jesus Christ laid
down his life.
Parabasis – transgression, a stepping aside
Paraptōma – a falling aside
Parakoē – a hearing aside
Paradidome – a giving unforced from oneself into the hands or another aside, to give over
for power or use
Then you have one more word used, paredōken, and that is delivered up.
Romans 8:32
Delivered him up for us all. “Delivered up” is paredōken. That word form is paradidome,
which is to give unforced from oneself into the hands or another aside.
God did not possess him. That word here tells me that. He did not control him. But Jesus
Christ always did the will of God. He willed to die. He talked to God about it in
Gethsemane.
They could never have crucified him had he not done it. He had legions of angels at his
command. Remember? That puts all that Word together.
Romans 8:32
The free gift of God through Christ Jesus goes far beyond undoing all Adam did. With
Adam came death; with Christ came eternal life, not only in the future but in the here and
now that we can reign even now before we reign throughout all eternity– That’s Romans
5:12-21.
I wrote this. With Adam condemnation; with Christ justification. With Adam disobedience;
with Christ obedience. Always did the Father’s will. I and my Father are one. Where
once all mankind fell in Adam, in Christ all believers of mankind stand and walk in God’s
grace.
The word law was given and law was given along side of. The Greek word is pareisēlthen.
The law was given to indicate beyond a shadow of a doubt the impossibility of the flesh
doing any righteousness except to sink deeper and deeper into utter despair. Through the
years of my life arid ministry, the men and women that I’ve watched who are so-called
Christians who live by their works, the harder they work at trying to please God, the
deeper and deeper they get into utter despair. They become critical, they always want to
fight. It’s so damnable that it’s almost impossible to live with them.
I would like to close this session by just you relaxing and listen to me read this translation
according to usage beginning with Verse 12-21 and see if you just can’t feel the impact,
the greatness of it, so you understand the meaning of the greatness of the revelation that
God gave.
Romans 5:12As by one man, Adam, sin entered into the world and death by, or because
of, or through this man, Adam’s sin, and so death, physical but much more than physical,
spiritual passed upon, unto, along to all men for actively resting upon, that all without
exception sinned in Adam, head of the human race.
Romans 5:13
For until the law of Moses, sin was in the world, because of Adam’s transgression, but sin
is not imputed, laid to one’s charge when there is no law.
Romans 5:14
Nevertheless but death reigned from Adam until the law was given to Moses and upon Eve
and over all them that had not sinned who had not the law after (according to) the likeness
of Adam’s transgression that Israel, like Adam, transgressed the commandment of God,
who is a type of him, Jesus Christ that was to come, the coming one.
Romans 5:15
But not as the one offence by the one man Adam, so likewise grace only once for it by and
through the one offence of the one man Adam all mankind is dealt death, much more the
grace of God and His gift in the grace made available by the one man Christ Jesus, has
abounded unto the many of mankind who believe unto righteousness.
Romans 5:16
But not like the one man Adam who sinned is the gift for the one man Adam who sinned
and all mankind was judged and all mankind condemned to death, but the free gift of
God’s grace through Jesus Christ covers many offences falling because of his
righteousness.
Romans 5:17
For if by one man Adam’s single offence against God (Genesis 2:16, 17) death has
dominion and has reigned over mankind, much more than mankind who believe shall
manifest the abundance of God’s grace, and His gift of righteousness shall reign in this life
now by the one man, Christ Jesus, who is in each believer.
Romans 5:18
Therefore because of the one act of offence of one, the first Adam, all mankind is
condemned to death, even so because of the one act of righteousness of one, the second
Adam, all mankind who believe are justified and righteous in this life.
Romans 5:19
For as by one man, the first Adam’s disobedience, all mankind was declared in sin and
death, so as by one man, the second Adam’s obedience all of mankind who believe are
declared righteous and live having a life of righteousness.
Romans 5:20
The law to Moses came in along side that Adam’s offence, sin, might be the more plainly
visible, but where sin, Adam’s condemnation, sin and death abounded, grace, the grace of
God through Jesus Christ did super abound. Sin and death reigned, past tense, in Adam,
but now in the second Adam grace and life reign.
Romans 5:21
That as sin Adam’s and all mankind reigned unto death and condemnation, even so
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nowgrace reigns unto eternal life through the righteousness of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Corps, to reign in life we must believe, accept and hold onto the abundance of the grace
and the free gift of righteousness. Personal overcoming is always associated with reigning.