𝚃𝙷𝙴 “𝚁𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃𝙴𝙾𝚄𝚂𝙽𝙴𝚂𝚂” 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙻𝙴𝚂

𝟭𝗝𝗻 𝟯:𝟰 𝗞𝗝𝗩 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄: 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄.

Today’s Devotional…

If sin were solely the transgression of the law, then the Gentiles should have been righteous since they were never given any law as Moses did to the Israelites.

Romans 4:15 says: “… where there is no law, there is no transgression…” So, it is possible the Gentiles who didn’t have any laws to transgress would erroneously conclude that they were righteous. But were they?

Remember, according to Romans 3:20 no Israelite was ever justified by the law but the law only revealed their sin. So, if the Gentiles had no law, they could have possibly lived guiltless (assuming they were sinless,) since they had no law to condemn them.

And while Moses was busy heaping laws upon laws on the Israelites, giving them an almost endless list of dos and don’ts, the Gentiles walked free even when they committed the same offenses as the Israelites.

But see what Romans 3:9-10 says:  “What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one”

This simply means that the absence of the law amongst the Gentiles and even their guiltlessness did not make them any less of sinners than the Israelites who had all the burdensome laws that condemned them every day.

So what then is sin? Surely, it should be much deeper than just the transgression of the law. And rightly so, sin is a nature – the nature of the fallen Adam.

It was this sinful nature of the first sinner Adam, that was passed down to all humankind (whether Jews or Gentiles,) who lived before the cross.

When Jesus Christ brought salvation, He brought it upon all men, both Jews and Gentiles, for they were all sinners. And He indeed saved the entire world from sin eternally.

In conclusion, Corinthians 12:13 affirms: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit”

May the Holy Spirit open the eyes of your understanding to see that sin was the involuntary nature of the old man in Adam, and that righteousness is equally an involuntary nature of the new man in Christ. In His holy name I pray. Amen

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