Romans 5 Commentary
Chapter 5 takes us to the creation as we have it in Genesis. Adam is the first man and the father of the life we know. Humanity has its source in Adam. Humanity is faulty on the production line. The factory produces a faulty product – faulty at the source. Adam has children in his image; they are all faulty.
But the LORD intervenes. The factory is re-engineered. The production line is fixed. Jesus becomes the first product. He is the mold and every good product comes from that mold. Jesus has children in His image; they are all perfect!
This picture can only be bad. Products in each case, regardless of source (Adam or Jesus), can decide to be bad or good. Images can only explain parts of the story.
Bad products die; it follows that good products shouldn’t die. But both bad and good products die. This mystery is solved by the man Jesus Christ. “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.” John 11 verses 25 and 26.
Life isn’t a state, condition, or existence but the person of the LORD Jesus Christ.
The scripture constantly disturbs the thought that God’s creation consists of things, elements, or even emotions. For example, love isn’t an emotion but it is the person of the Holy Spirit. Verse 5.
Jesus is the life and the means to life. He is the reality of life – the Way (means), the Truth (reality), and the life (the actual object we call life). He is also the resurrection – in this way, death is flattened and doesn’t have its hold anymore.
The chapter explains how Jesus becomes the Way – the means. He died for the wicked. This is love in the person of the LORD Jesus Christ! But He also lived a life that we should live.
The point is that Jesus is life. We can only have life if we have Jesus within us. Without Jesus, we are dead; we don’t have to wait until physical death. Death, therefore, is the absence of Jesus.
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