𝙍𝙤𝙢 2:12 𝙆𝙅𝙑 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙬: 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬;
Today’s Devotional…
The law was only given to the Jews and not the Gentiles; and this might have made the Gentiles to wrongly assume that they would never be condemned since they had no laws to break.
But no, the same fate awaited both the Jews and the Gentiles, because God’s judgment was completely independent of the laws of Moses. To God, they both had the identity of Adam’s fallen nature.
While the Jews thought the law was to justify them, it was actually intended for their condemnation, so that both Jews and Gentiles should appear the same before God.
So, whether without the law or in the law, the same condemnation loomed over both camps because the grasp of sin had no boundaries.
This boundless influence of sin over all mankind was simply a projection of what God’s influence of righteousness would be like – that both Jews and Gentiles should be justified in the same way.
And if both the Jews who had the law and the Gentiles who didn’t, were both condemned for sin, it was simply proof that the law was neither a cause nor could be a solution for sin. Ponder…
This was simply pointing to the future where God would justify both Jews and Gentiles, apart from the law.
In fact, the same fate of justification awaited both Jews and Gentiles, just as the fate of condemnation awaited them both in the past.
To God, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, but the one man before the cross (Adam,) and the one man after the cross (that is, the last Adam, or Jesus Christ).
Just as all men in Adam were condemned to death, all men in Christ are justified for eternal life – the same fate. Ponder…
May the Holy Spirit help you to see with all clarity, the common fate of the men before the cross, and the common fate of the men after the cross, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
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