Inherited Sin and Actual Sin

 VI.        Inherited Sin

  A.        Biblical Testimony

·         All sinned(somehow in Adam)

·         People died from Adam to Moses, though there was no written law

 

One man's sin brought condemnation and death's reign

·         Many are condemned and died for the trespass of the one man, Adam:

·         Death comes through the sin of the one man:

 

One man's disobedience made all men sinners

·         We are condemned for the trespass of the one man

·         We are made sinners through the disobedience of the one man

 

  B.        Transmission of Guilt

  1.        Realistic view

We somehow existed in him before we were even born:

We were all "in the loins of Adam" when he sinned.

 

  2.        Representative view

God appointed Adam to represent the human race as a whole, so that his decisions are "imputed" to us"

God declares Adam 's decisions are ours

 

  C.        Transmission of Corruption

     ·            We are born sinful in the root of our being, the heart, and it is from that sinful heart that come all our thoughts, words, and deeds.

 

     ·            Nature of Corruption(total Depravity)

  1.        Pervasiveness: Sinfulness pervades to every aspect of human nature.

·         Corruption extends to reason and will as well as to appetites and impulses.

 

  2.        Spiritual inability: Even good deeds are not prompted by love to G, or done in voluntary obedience to the will of G.

  3.        Universal : all have sinned.salvific

 

 

VII.        Actual Sins

Sins we commit day by day

     ·            They do not affect our legal standing with G

     ·            They neretheless disrupts our fellowship with G

     ·            As we repent, those sins become an occasion for growth.

 

 

 

     ·            Covenant

     ·            Basic concepts

     ·            Definition: Relation between G and chosen people

     ·            Covenant is a relations between the Lord and a people he has sovereignly consecrated to himself.

 

     ·            Nature : Lordship

·         As Lord G…

 - initiates the relationship unilaterally

 - rules over them by his grace…

 

     ·            Purpose : G will be with us

·         He is committed to us to walk with us, entering into our life, loving, guiding, discipling. In response he calls for our trust and obedience, e.g., Enoch(Gn 3:24)

 

     ·            Charactristics

  a.        G's covenant is a personal relationship, for he begins by giving us his name. His name is Lord, and he is the Lord our G(DT 31-34)

  b.        Law follows grace. G by grace sovereignly chose. Is and then gave the Ten commandments

 

 

  d.        Law of love motivates us to keep other laws: don't make graven images to bow down to them; don't take my name in vain; remember the Sabbath; honor your parents etc.(Dt 6; Ex 20)

  e.        Keeping the law brings blessing disobeying it brings misery.

   f.        Covenant intimacy gives greater responsibility, and it can lead to greater judgment

 

  5.        Overview of covenants in Biblical history Adam

  a.        With the breaking of the commandment G does not put Adam and Eve to death immediately, but he delivers from death and gives them years of life.

  b.        The cultural mandates given before the fall continues, and G promises blessings of Seed and land.

   c.        And with these blessings is give the command to believe G's promise of redemption: Gn 3:15

Noah

  a.        Covenant with Noah accompanies a great deliverance form the flood

  b.        Noachic covenant renews …

   c.         

 

 

 

Abraham

  a.        G delivers

  b.        Cultural mandate

   c.        redemption

 

Moses

  a.        Deliverance

  b.        Cultural mandate

   c.        Redemption

 

David

  a.        Delivers

  b.        Cultural mandate

   c.        Redeemer J comes the Son of David(2 Sm 7:16)

 

New covenant

  a.        Deliverance from condemnation: J' blood is the blood of the new covenant, shed for us, so that no other …..

  b.        The cultural mandate is affirmed when he sends the Apostles to make disciples to make people not only to the land Canaan but to the whole earth.

   c.        Christ accomplishes our final redemption in the resurrection

 

 

Summary of covenants in Biblical history