Waverly Church of Christ

All of us have been the recipients of grace at one time or another from our parents, our teachers, our employers or supervisors, or a police officer. Hopefully, we realized the undeserved kindness shown to us and responded appropriately. Those of us who are Christians here today are the recipients of the greatest kindness ever shown to any human being, which is the salvation we have received because of what Christ did for us on a Roman cross outside the city of Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. The apostle Paul described this kindness in his second letter to the saints in Corinth (2 Corinthians 5:21), stating, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him". Likewise, the apostle Peter referred to it as our healing in his first letter to the Christians in Asia Minor (1 Peter 2:24): "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed". In our text this morning, Paul speaks about two men—Adam and Jesus Christ. Through one, sin entered into our world and changed life as it was intended to be, while through the other came salvation and the offer of life unlike any we have ever known, a life which is abundant and eternal. As we look at what Paul has to say to us, I ask that you seriously consider what God has made available to us through His Son—nothing else will ever compare.