Are you “Acquitted” or still “Condemned”?
As a result of Adam’s sin, human death entered the world. Death became the common lot of all Adam’s descendants because they had all sinned in him. It is true that they all committed individual acts of sin. Paul’s point is that Adam’s sin was a representative act, and all his posterity are reckoned as having sinned in him.
Man is condemned on three grounds: He has a sinful nature, Adam’s sin is imputed to him, and he is a sinner by practice. But his crowing guilt is his rejection of the provision which God has made for his salvation.
All those who put their faith in the Lord were saved eternally. But they died physically just the same, and the reason they died was because of the sin of their federal head, Adam.
There is another important contrast between Adam’s sin and Christ’s gift. The one offence of Adam brought inevitable judgment, and the verdict was “Condemned.”
The free gift of Christ, on the other hand, dealt effectively with many offenses, not just one, and resulted in the verdict “Acquitted.”
Every person born in this world will hear a verdict. Are you “Acquitted” or still “Condemned”?
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