May 5, 2025 • 9 mins
We all, every human of all time, are in Adam. This should cause you great despair for we get all of our physical and psychological attributes from Adam. This means our sin nature and desires. And yet this also provides us access to salvation due to the work of one Man.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The background of this is the sin problem, or is
it sin problems plural?
99% of the time, when we talkabout sin, what we're talking
about is personal sin.
We talk about sin.
What we're talking about ispersonal sin Lying, thinking,
covetous thoughts, doingsomething sinful it's all
(00:37):
personal sin.
The Bible actually has threecategories of sin, however, only
one of which is personal sin.
Now we already know again aboutthe doctrine of sin because we
studied it in the Old Testamentevent of the fall, so it's
already been introduced.
It's not a new concept for us,but it is setting up the
problems that the Lord JesusChrist has to somehow avoid.
(00:58):
I mean, if he has sin personalor either of the two other
categories of sin then does hequalify to pay for our sin?
No, because he then falls underthe condemnation of sin and he
needs someone to die for him,okay, and pay his sin penalty.
So you've got three categoriesof sin or sin problems that he
(01:20):
has to overcome, and the virginbirth is linked to these as part
of the solution for how he didnot come under any of the
penalty of sin related to thesethree categories.
So another doctrine that'sbehind this is who God is,
particularly that God isrighteous and just right.
Because if there's no standardof righteousness, then you can't
(01:42):
have a doctrine of sin.
You cannot define sin, becausesin is defined as being
something contrary to God'srighteousness.
Right, so without a God there,there's no such thing as sin.
It's just mistakes, I guess.
But sin is basically entirelyrooted on the concept that God
is righteous and we already knowabout God.
(02:04):
So we've got God, we've got sin.
And now we come to the problemis that's, how does the one born
of a virgin, how is he,avoiding these sin issues?
So the three categories areimputed sin, inherited sin and
personal sin.
Those are the three categoriesimputed, inherited and personal.
(02:29):
So let's talk a little bitabout imputed sin and go to some
important passages, the legalreckoning of sin.
This is what imputed sin is.
It's the legal reckoning of sinto those who participated in
the sin of Adam, though not inthe likeness of Adam, and we'll
go to Romans 5.12.
So let's go to Romans 5.12.
This is the first objectionyou'll hear whenever you tell
(02:50):
somebody well, you're a sinnerin Adam and they'll say well, I
didn't eat the fruit, I didn'tdo that, it's not my fault, it's
his fault.
I've had people say to mebefore you know, get mad at him,
you know, for doing that, youknow, and stuff like that.
It's like well, the divineanswer for that is if you were
(03:13):
Adam, you would have eaten.
So you know, people can sayforever, why did he do that?
But the reality is, if you werehim, you would have done the
same thing.
(03:33):
Okay, romans, chapter 5, verse12, is what's called a
theological watershed.
People have been discussingthis for centuries and centuries
.
This section, and particularlythis verse, notice our
participation in the sin of Adam, though not in the likeness of
Adam, in other words, meaningyou weren't physically there,
you know, and your wife wasn'tthere handing you a piece of
fruit saying eat this, but youdid participate in it.
Therefore, just as through oneman, sin entered into the world,
(03:56):
who is the one man?
Adam?
Sin entered into the world anddeath through sin.
So death spread to all men.
Why?
Because all sin, you say.
But I didn't sin like Adam did.
Well, verse 14 admits that.
(04:17):
It says nevertheless, deathreigned from Adam until Moses,
even over those who had notsinned in the likeness of the
offense of Adam.
But somehow we did participatein sin, in Adam, and that's
obviously a reference to eatingthe fruit that the Lord said not
to eat of.
Right Now I'll say a few thingsabout this one man.
(04:39):
His name is.
We always say Adam, originallyIsh, right, ish and Esha.
Man and woman.
Adam, adama.
His name means man, okay, um.
But when I say man, let me askyou a question am I referring to
(05:00):
one person or am I referring tomore than one person?
I could be, it could be eitherway.
It depends on the context,because man can be a word that's
referenced to mankind, okay,and that's where that's a
biblically rooted word mankind,because God created different
kinds.
So you have mankind, okay, andam I excluding women there?
(05:22):
No, okay, any more than if Isaid alligator kind, I would be
excluding female alligators.
No, you're talking about aspecific kind that incorporates
both the male and the femaleside of these kinds.
So his name means man, but italso means mankind, adamah, and
(05:44):
he is both one man.
But guess what, at the time hewas also all of mankind, was he
not?
He was also all of mankind, washe not?
So it's set up peculiarly, onpurpose.
So we see the solidarity of thehuman race in the one man who
(06:06):
is mankind, that is, adam.
Where did Eve come from, cameout of the side of him, taken
out of him.
The woman is made from the man.
Is that theologicallysignificant?
Did he make the giraffes thatway?
Did he make mice that way?
Did he make dogs that way?
No, he didn't make one dog andthen make another dog out of
(06:30):
that dog to make the femalecounterpart.
But he does this with mankind,and people brush over this as if
this is somehow not significant.
But this is entirelysignificant.
She is part of and descendedfrom, essentially Adam, so that
(06:54):
the whole human race, becauseshe becomes the mother of all
living, right, when she'srenamed Eve, that name means
mother of all living.
She becomes the female head, soto speak, of the whole human
race.
But she stems from Adam, sothat all humans were somehow in
Adam, including Eve, right?
That's why a statement likeRomans 5.12 is very important.
(07:17):
Just as through one man, sinentered into the world we all
know that's Adam Death throughsin also entered, and so death
spread to all men.
Why?
Because all sinned.
Well, how did we sin?
By our participation.
Because we were in him.
There is one individual fromwhom all individuals in this
(07:38):
entire world, let's just say itred and yellow, black and white,
whatever skin shades come from,there is one human race, so to
speak.
In that sense, right, there'snot different human races.
We're all descended from oneindividual Adam.
Do you know what that means?
(07:58):
All descended from oneindividual Adam?
Do you know what that means?
That means the entirety of thegene pool of the entire human
race was in him and anyvariation, diversity that we see
amongst ourselves was in himoriginally.
The capacity for whatevervarious traits that we might
have, of course, in himoriginally.
(08:18):
Him originally unfallen, sothere wouldn't be any problems.
But now fallen, so there are,of course, genetic issues,
including all the dna that madeup eve.
Okay, this corporate solidarityof the human race, so that when
he sinned, we all sinned.
People say that's not fair.
Okay, but god was settingsomething up that is described
in the rest of this chapter.
If we all fall in the one man,adam, then we can all be saved
(08:43):
in the one man, jesus Christ.
God was setting it uptheologically and a lot of
people say, well, I'm notreligious, yeah, but the whole
situation has been set uptheologically.
It doesn't matter if you'rereligious or not, that's
irrelevant.
Whole situation has been set uptheologically.
It doesn't matter if you'rereligious or not, that's
irrelevant.
You are a descendant of Adam,so that you can be saved in the
(09:03):
one man, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with
Jeremy Thomas.
If you would like to see thevisuals that went along with
today's sermon, you can findthose on Rumble and on YouTube
under Spokane Bible Church.
Can find those on Rumble and onYouTube under Spokane Bible
Church.
That is where Jeremy is thepastor and teacher.
We hope you found today'slesson productive and useful in
(09:25):
growing closer to God andwalking more obediently with Him
.
If you found this podcast to beuseful and helpful, then please
consider rating us in yourfavorite podcast app.
And until next time, we hopeyou have a blessed and wonderful
day.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The background of this is the sin problem, or is
it sin problems plural?
99% of the time, when we talkabout sin, what we're talking
about is personal sin.
We talk about sin.
What we're talking about ispersonal sin Lying, thinking,
covetous thoughts, doingsomething sinful it's all
(00:37):
personal sin.
The Bible actually has threecategories of sin, however, only
one of which is personal sin.
Now we already know again aboutthe doctrine of sin because we
studied it in the Old Testamentevent of the fall, so it's
already been introduced.
It's not a new concept for us,but it is setting up the
problems that the Lord JesusChrist has to somehow avoid.
(00:58):
I mean, if he has sin personalor either of the two other
categories of sin then does hequalify to pay for our sin?
No, because he then falls underthe condemnation of sin and he
needs someone to die for him,okay, and pay his sin penalty.
So you've got three categoriesof sin or sin problems that he
(01:20):
has to overcome, and the virginbirth is linked to these as part
of the solution for how he didnot come under any of the
penalty of sin related to thesethree categories.
So another doctrine that'sbehind this is who God is,
particularly that God isrighteous and just right.
Because if there's no standardof righteousness, then you can't
(01:42):
have a doctrine of sin.
You cannot define sin, becausesin is defined as being
something contrary to God'srighteousness.
Right, so without a God there,there's no such thing as sin.
It's just mistakes, I guess.
But sin is basically entirelyrooted on the concept that God
is righteous and we already knowabout God.
(02:04):
So we've got God, we've got sin.
And now we come to the problemis that's, how does the one born
of a virgin, how is he,avoiding these sin issues?
So the three categories areimputed sin, inherited sin and
personal sin.
Those are the three categoriesimputed, inherited and personal.
(02:29):
So let's talk a little bitabout imputed sin and go to some
important passages, the legalreckoning of sin.
This is what imputed sin is.
It's the legal reckoning of sinto those who participated in
the sin of Adam, though not inthe likeness of Adam, and we'll
go to Romans 5.12.
So let's go to Romans 5.12.
This is the first objectionyou'll hear whenever you tell
(02:50):
somebody well, you're a sinnerin Adam and they'll say well, I
didn't eat the fruit, I didn'tdo that, it's not my fault, it's
his fault.
I've had people say to mebefore you know, get mad at him,
you know, for doing that, youknow, and stuff like that.
It's like well, the divineanswer for that is if you were
(03:13):
Adam, you would have eaten.
So you know, people can sayforever, why did he do that?
But the reality is, if you werehim, you would have done the
same thing.
(03:33):
Okay, romans, chapter 5, verse12, is what's called a
theological watershed.
People have been discussingthis for centuries and centuries
.
This section, and particularlythis verse, notice our
participation in the sin of Adam, though not in the likeness of
Adam, in other words, meaningyou weren't physically there,
you know, and your wife wasn'tthere handing you a piece of
fruit saying eat this, but youdid participate in it.
Therefore, just as through oneman, sin entered into the world,
(03:56):
who is the one man?
Adam?
Sin entered into the world anddeath through sin.
So death spread to all men.
Why?
Because all sin, you say.
But I didn't sin like Adam did.
Well, verse 14 admits that.
(04:17):
It says nevertheless, deathreigned from Adam until Moses,
even over those who had notsinned in the likeness of the
offense of Adam.
But somehow we did participatein sin, in Adam, and that's
obviously a reference to eatingthe fruit that the Lord said not
to eat of.
Right Now I'll say a few thingsabout this one man.
(04:39):
His name is.
We always say Adam, originallyIsh, right, ish and Esha.
Man and woman.
Adam, adama.
His name means man, okay, um.
But when I say man, let me askyou a question am I referring to
(05:00):
one person or am I referring tomore than one person?
I could be, it could be eitherway.
It depends on the context,because man can be a word that's
referenced to mankind, okay,and that's where that's a
biblically rooted word mankind,because God created different
kinds.
So you have mankind, okay, andam I excluding women there?
(05:22):
No, okay, any more than if Isaid alligator kind, I would be
excluding female alligators.
No, you're talking about aspecific kind that incorporates
both the male and the femaleside of these kinds.
So his name means man, but italso means mankind, adamah, and
(05:44):
he is both one man.
But guess what, at the time hewas also all of mankind, was he
not?
He was also all of mankind, washe not?
So it's set up peculiarly, onpurpose.
So we see the solidarity of thehuman race in the one man who
(06:06):
is mankind, that is, adam.
Where did Eve come from, cameout of the side of him, taken
out of him.
The woman is made from the man.
Is that theologicallysignificant?
Did he make the giraffes thatway?
Did he make mice that way?
Did he make dogs that way?
No, he didn't make one dog andthen make another dog out of
(06:30):
that dog to make the femalecounterpart.
But he does this with mankind,and people brush over this as if
this is somehow not significant.
But this is entirelysignificant.
She is part of and descendedfrom, essentially Adam, so that
(06:54):
the whole human race, becauseshe becomes the mother of all
living, right, when she'srenamed Eve, that name means
mother of all living.
She becomes the female head, soto speak, of the whole human
race.
But she stems from Adam, sothat all humans were somehow in
Adam, including Eve, right?
That's why a statement likeRomans 5.12 is very important.
(07:17):
Just as through one man, sinentered into the world we all
know that's Adam Death throughsin also entered, and so death
spread to all men.
Why?
Because all sinned.
Well, how did we sin?
By our participation.
Because we were in him.
There is one individual fromwhom all individuals in this
(07:38):
entire world, let's just say itred and yellow, black and white,
whatever skin shades come from,there is one human race, so to
speak.
In that sense, right, there'snot different human races.
We're all descended from oneindividual Adam.
Do you know what that means?
(07:58):
All descended from oneindividual Adam?
Do you know what that means?
That means the entirety of thegene pool of the entire human
race was in him and anyvariation, diversity that we see
amongst ourselves was in himoriginally.
The capacity for whatevervarious traits that we might
have, of course, in himoriginally.
(08:18):
Him originally unfallen, sothere wouldn't be any problems.
But now fallen, so there are,of course, genetic issues,
including all the dna that madeup eve.
Okay, this corporate solidarityof the human race, so that when
he sinned, we all sinned.
People say that's not fair.
Okay, but god was settingsomething up that is described
in the rest of this chapter.
If we all fall in the one man,adam, then we can all be saved
(08:43):
in the one man, jesus Christ.
God was setting it uptheologically and a lot of
people say, well, I'm notreligious, yeah, but the whole
situation has been set uptheologically.
It doesn't matter if you'rereligious or not, that's
irrelevant.
Whole situation has been set uptheologically.
It doesn't matter if you'rereligious or not, that's
irrelevant.
You are a descendant of Adam,so that you can be saved in the
(09:03):
one man, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with
Jeremy Thomas.
If you would like to see thevisuals that went along with
today's sermon, you can findthose on Rumble and on YouTube
under Spokane Bible Church.
Can find those on Rumble and onYouTube under Spokane Bible
Church.
That is where Jeremy is thepastor and teacher.
We hope you found today'slesson productive and useful in
(09:25):
growing closer to God andwalking more obediently with Him
.
If you found this podcast to beuseful and helpful, then please
consider rating us in yourfavorite podcast app.
And until next time, we hopeyou have a blessed and wonderful
day.
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