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    From Death to Life
    From Death to Life
    From Death to Life
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    From Death to Life

    By F. Wayne Mac Leod

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    Some of the most important teaching in the Bible about salvation and victorious Christian living is found in Romans 5-8. In this passage, the apostle Paul details the plan of salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the inner work of the Spirit. Paul shows us the purpose of the triune God in planning, securing and enabling His children to obtain and live triumphantly in the wonderful salvation offered them.

    The attempt of this study is to reveal the plan of God for salvation and forgiveness and His means of living in the fullness of that salvation.

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    PublisherF. Wayne Mac Leod
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9780463327425
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    F. Wayne Mac Leod

    F. Wayne Mac Leod was born in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada and received his education at Ontario Bible College, University of Waterloo and Ontario Theological Seminary. He was ordained at Hespeler Baptist Church, Cambridge, Ontario in 1991. He and his wife, Diane served as missionaries with the Africa Evangelical Fellowship (now merged with SIM) on the islands of Mauritius and Reunion in the Indian Ocean from 1985-1993 where he was involved in church development and leadership training. He is presently involved in a writing ministry and is a member of Action International Ministries.

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      From Death to Life - F. Wayne Mac Leod

      From Death to Life

      What Romans 5-8 Teaches about the Plan of God for Salvation and a Life of Victory

      F. Wayne Mac Leod

      LIGHT TO MY PATH BOOK DISTRIBUTION

      Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, CANADA B1V 1Y5

      From Death to Life

      Copyright © 2018 by F. Wayne Mac Leod

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - The Universal Problem of Sin and Death

      Chapter 2 - A Free Gift

      Chapter 3 - One Act

      Chapter 4 - Baptized into Christ

      Chapter 5 - Dying with Christ

      Chapter 6 - Do Not Let Sin Reign

      Chapter 7 - Under Grace

      Chapter 8 - The Fruit of Sin and the Free Gift

      Chapter 9 - Free from the Law

      Chapter 10 - Is the Law Sinful?

      Chapter 11 - The Law and the Flesh

      Chapter 12 - The Battle Within

      Chapter 13 - The Law of the Spirit of Life

      Chapter 14 - The Flesh and the Spirit

      Chapter 15 - Life in the Spirit

      Chapter 16 - No Obligation to the Flesh

      Chapter 17 - Children and Heirs

      Chapter 18 - The Bondage of All Creation

      Chapter 19 - The Groaning of the Spirit

      Chapter 20 - All Things Work Together for Good

      Chapter 21 - God's Great Purpose for the Believer

      Chapter 22 - Who Can Be Against Us?

      Chapter 23 - Who Shall Separate Us?

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      CHAPTER 1 - THE UNIVERSAL PROBLEM OF SIN AND DEATH

      Read Romans 5:12-14

      [12] Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— [13] for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. [14] Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. (Romans 5)

      Romans 5-8 contains some of the most significant theological teachings about salvation and the Christian life in the Bible. These chapters merit much more than I can give in this brief study, but this will be a beginning for us. My prayer is that the truths we examine here will have an impact on the spiritual life of the reader and help him or her to grasp more fully what the Lord Jesus Christ has done on their behalf.

      I want to begin with the words of the apostle Paul in Romans 5:12-14:

      12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. (Romans 5)

      Notice that these verses begin with the word therefore. The word implies that what follows is based on what the apostle has already said. I will not go into detail about this here. Suffice it to say that the apostle has been presenting the Romans with the truth that they could have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ and His work on their behalf. What follows is the development of this wonderful truth and is the focus of this study.

      In Romans 5:12-14 the apostle Paul presents the Romans with some fundamental truths. Let’s take a moment to consider these truths by way of introduction.

      Sin Came into the World Through One Man

      Paul begins by telling us that sin came into the world through one man. Paul’s statement brings us back to the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3 and the story of how Eve, tempted by Satan, picked fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and brought it to her husband. God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from this tree. By partaking of its fruit, Adam and his wife disobeyed God. Through them, sin entered the world for the first time.

      When God created the world, He approved of all He had made:

      31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1)

      Before sin, creation was perfect. Adam lived in communion with His Creator. With the entrance of sin, however, everything Adam and Eve knew would change.

      Death Came into the World Through Sin

      Paul moves on in these verses to make a second point. He tells us that death came into the world through sin. What we need to understand is that the word death does not just refer to Adam and Eve but to all of God’s creation.

      Genesis is quite clear about the effect of death on creation. We see for example that the moment sin entered the world, Adam and Eve experienced its deadly consequences in their relationships. First, Genesis 3:7 tells us:

      7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (Genesis 3)

      With the entrance of sin came shame. For the first time, Adam and Eve hid from each other. The innocence of their relationship disappeared. What was true in their relationship with each other was also true in their relationship with God. Genesis 3 recounts the first encounter with God after sin entered the world:

      8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? 10 And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. (Genesis 3)

      When Adam and Eve heard the sound of God walking in the garden, their response was to hide from Him. When asked why they were hiding, Adam responded by telling God that he was naked and afraid. Sin brought both shame and fear. This shame and fear separated them from fellowship with God.

      We see the effect of sin and death in relationships today in the breakup of marriages and families. We see it in the betrayal of friendship and in the wars that ravage our earth. We see prisons filled with people who have shown disrespect for other human beings by stealing from them, abusing them, or taking their lives. Sin brought death to relationships.

      Broken relationships were not the only effect of sin and death. Pain and suffering also entered the earth, and for the first time Adam and his wife would know what it was like to hurt physically:

      16 To the woman he said, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you. 17And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life (Genesis 3)

      There would be suffering in childbirth for the woman. Adam would experience the back-breaking work of tilling the ground. Pain and suffering on this earth are the result of sin and death. This curse of death comes in the form of the many diseases that plague us throughout our lives. Our hospitals are filled with people who suffer the effects of sin and death. Diseases strip us of our loved ones and end the lives of countless people each day. Again, this is the effect of sin and death that came to this earth as a result of sin that entered the garden of Eden.

      The earth itself would also experience death because of sin. Listen to the words of God to Adam in Genesis 3:17-19)

      17 … cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread… (Genesis 3)

      The earth would no longer produce fruit without a struggle. Thorns and thistles now compete with the fruit of the land. Adam would be required to work hard to bring life out of the ground. Sin brought a curse on the earth. This curse has brought great physical tragedies through floods, famines, earthquakes, violent storms and many other natural disasters.

      Notice finally in Genesis 3 that God told Adam and Eve that they would return to the dust in death.

      19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." (Genesis 3)

      From the moment sin entered the world, Adam and Eve began to die. That process of death would take its toll on their body over the years. They would weaken with age. Their body would slowly shut down until it could no longer function. Death would come to both Adam and Eve.

      From the moment sin entered the world everything would begin to age. Human bodies would grow old and die. The earth became sick and poured out diseases upon its inhabitants. Natural disasters and devastation plagued the planet. Relationships were broken, and grief and suffering was the result. Nations would rise against nations in battle. Husbands would betray wives. The once perfect earth would be cursed and riddled with sin and death. Children would be born to die. They would live in a painful and fallen world. Despair and hopelessness would abound.

      Death Spread to all Men

      Paul continues in these verses to tell us that death was not localized to one region or one family. It would not be contained in one generation but would spread throughout the world and to every generation that followed Adam and Eve. Sin filled the earth—no one escaped its infection.

      We see the effects of sin in our day in broken relationships and crimes of all kinds. We see its impact on our earth as we struggle with pollution and natural disasters. We stand by helplessly as diseases wipe out large numbers of people. Our struggle with cancer or AIDS and other such sicknesses show us that death is around us.

      We need to look beyond these obvious signs of sin and death in our society to its impact on our own hearts and minds. We feel the attraction to sinful ways and practices. We wrestle with sinful thoughts on a daily basis. We can see the deadness of sin in our relationship with our Creator. We too tend to hide from Him, like Adam and Eve not wanting Him to see us in our naked and sinful state. Deep down, like them, we feel shame.

      Not one of us who can say that we have not sinned against God. Paul makes it clear that we have all sinned (Romans 5:12). Sin and death surround us. Sin and death define us. Like a deadly disease, sin and death have been passed on to every man and women—no one escapes its fury.

      Sin was in the World Before the Law

      In Romans 5:13 Paul brings another two important details to our attention. The first is that a person cannot break the law if it does not exist. The second is that before God gave the law through Moses, the punishment of death fell on the descendants of Adam even though they had not personally eaten from the forbidden tree.

      13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam (Romans 5)

      This statement of Paul merits some consideration. Adam Clarke, in his commentary on Romans 5:13 says the following:

      Ro 5:13 For until the law sin was in the world - As death reigned from Adam to Moses, so also did sin. Now, as there was no written law from Adam to that given to Moses, the death that prevailed could not be the breach of that law; for sin, so as to be punished with temporal death, is not imputed where there is no law, which shows the penalty of sin to be death. Therefore, men are not subjected to death for their own personal transgressions, but for the sin of Adam; as, through his transgression, all come into the world with the seeds of death and corruption in their own nature, superadded to their moral depravity. All are sinful - all are mortal - and all must die. (Clark, Adam, Commentary on the Bible by Adam Clark (1831), Commentary on Romans 5:13, Laridian: Marion, Iowa, 2015).

      What Adam Clarke is telling us is very important. If death reigned, as Paul tells us, from Adam to Moses (before God gave His law), then it leads us to understand that the curse we are under is not because we personally disobeyed the law. Even those who never ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil suffered the effects of sin and death in their lives. We are under the curse of God not because of what we do but because it has affected us from birth and is part of our very nature.

      Writing in Psalm 51, the psalmist David would write:

      5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalm 51)

      The apostle Paul would tell the Ephesians:

      1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. (Ephesians 2)

      Notice that the apostle told these believers in Ephesus that they were by nature children of wrath. The sin of Adam and Eve had repercussions on every person who would ever be born as a descendant of their seed—all would

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