1. Easter Reversal God’s Answer to the Human Predicament! Romans 5

2. Easter Reversal Romans 5 On a day when so much is happening… …why think about Easter so early?

3. Easter Reversal Romans 5 We need to think about the human predicament…

4. Easter Reversal Romans 5 The dilemma of God's Righteousness & Man's Willful Disobedience

5. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Romans 5:18-19 “Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.”

6. Easter Reversal Romans 5 The Genesis Problem “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:16-17

7. Easter Reversal Romans 5 God's Righteousness Establishes a Standard “It is sometimes said, ‘Justice requires God to do this,’ referring to some act we know He will perform. This is an error of thinking as well as of speaking, for it postulates a principle of justice…

8. Easter Reversal Romans 5 …outside of God which compels Him to act in a certain way. Of course there is no such principle. If there were it would be superior to God, for only a superior power can compel obedience. The truth is that there is not and can never be anything outside of the nature of God which…

9. Easter Reversal Romans 5 …can move Him in the least degree. All God’s reasons come from within His uncreated being. Nothing has entered the being of God from eternity, nothing has been removed, and nothing has been changed.” (A.W. Tozer)

10. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Man's Willful Disobedience Brings Forth Death & Alienation “Sweet innocence was lost forever. Remember, there was no man in the garden but the two of them. But they were ashamed to face each other…

11. Easter Reversal Romans 5 …without clothing. Not only could they not face each other as they had before, but they dreaded facing God. When He came to have sweet fellowship with them, they hid themselves in fear.” (Bob Deffinbaugh)

12. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Easter Reversal Jesus Demonstrates the Standard: Obedience

13. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Jesus Demonstrates the Standard: Obedience “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking…

14. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Jesus Demonstrates the Standard: Obedience …the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point…

15. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Jesus Demonstrates the Standard: Obedience …of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every…

16. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Jesus Demonstrates the Standard: Obedience …knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord…

17. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Jesus Demonstrates the Standard: Obedience …to the glory of God the Father.”

18. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Jesus' Obedience Brings Forth Life “But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said.” Matthew 28:5-6

19. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Easter Reverses the Damage Done through Adam!

20. Easter Reversal Romans 5 Easter Established the New Life Possible Through Christ!

21. Easter Reversal God’s Answer to the Human Predicament! Romans 5