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It is true that all have sinned

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and fall short of the glory of God.

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It's true that Paul has been arguing

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that there is none good - no not one.

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Not by nature.

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When a person is saved,

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Jesus makes them His workmanship.

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He makes them

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those who are zealous of good works.

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Saved people are capable of good.

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But in a lost state, man is bad.

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Man is under the condemnation
and the wrath of God.

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But you know what?

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In these verses before us 
(Romans 5:12-21)

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what the apostle does is he says

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man has even a more basic problem

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than even his own sin.

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He is condemned because of Adam's sin;

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because of the sin or the trespass

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or the offense of the one man,

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we are under condemnation.

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And we are under the sentence of death.

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Brethren, I know, right away,

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you start talking this way

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and immediately somebody wants to say -

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I mean, what do you say

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when somebody says,

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"You're guilty because of his sin."

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Unfair.

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Let me ask you this.

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What do we say to this?

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"You are righteous because 
of that man's righteousness."

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I don't hear anybody say, "unfair."

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But I'll tell you this,

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God deals with men

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according to their head.

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There are two most important men

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in all the history of mankind.

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It is Adam and it is Christ.

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And Christ, by the way, is called

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the second man and the last Adam.

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You know why?

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Because He is the representative

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of all those in Him

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and Adam is the representative

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of all those in him.

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And if you're in Adam, you die.

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If you're in Christ, you live.

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If you're in Adam, you are condemned.

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If you're in Christ, you are justified.

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Brethren, this is the reality.

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Man at the basic level,

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his greatest problem

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is that he is identified with Adam.

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And you've got to get out 
of that family tree, folks.

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You've got to get into another family.

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You've got to leave that head behind

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and come under a new Head.

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And the way to do that is by faith

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in what Jesus Christ 
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And brethren, the thing about this

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is when you go back there

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and you can see in your mind -

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and I'll tell you this was 
such a stumbling block

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for the Jew -

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that their Messiah went to that cross.

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And it was utter foolishness

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to the Greek and to the Roman.

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They said what can a dead Jew do for us?

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But I'll tell you, brethren,

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we have to understand what happened

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on that cross

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there outside of 
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What happened on that cross -

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just this week, I was looking at footage

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of Indians and Chinese.

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Massive countries of just lostness

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throughout Asia,

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looking at the vast, teeming multitudes,

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faces of people.

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And brethren, when you trace their lineage

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and our lineage,

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the lineage of the Jews, all of us,

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the Chinese,

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that Hindu bowing down

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to his multitude of gods.

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You know what? You trace our lineage back

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and you know where it all goes?

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We're all related.

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Not very long ago, brethren,

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you can trace your heritage.

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You've got parents and 
you've got grandparents.

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And they had grandparents 
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And you can trace them back

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and ultimately we all 
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We can all hang our heads and say,

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"Adam, Adam, what have you done?"

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From what Adam did,

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he took a fruit.

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He took the forbidden fruit.

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He took the fruit from the tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil

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which God had told him not to eat of,

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and He said, "In the day you eat thereof

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you shall surely die."

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And the thing we need to 
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is when God was speaking,

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what the apostle tells us

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is when those words were spoken,

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they weren't spoken 
simply for Adam's sake.

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That those words were spoken

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representative of the entire human race.

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When they were spoken to Adam,

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Adam represented every one of us.

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And that condemnation 
promised for taking it

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would go upon all of his posterity,

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all of his children, 
all of his grandchildren.

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Brethren, if we're connected with him,

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we're in trouble.

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And the beauty of what Christ 
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is to undo what Adam did

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and it applies to all of us.

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That's why the writer of Romans

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keeps saying over and over and over,

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it's not just to the Jew, 
it's to the Greek too.

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There's no partiality.

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Brethren, the fact is

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all men have the same problem.

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It's all the same everywhere.

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Sometimes we think about -

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I don't know if you guys 
are even up on this,

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but I can remember one 
of the missionary trips

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that I took and how they talk about

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in the seminaries today,

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they talk all about this syncretism.

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If you don't know 
what that is, that's fine,

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but it's basically this idea

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that you go into other cultures

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and you try to work their 
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into the Gospel message

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and into your ministry.

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And obviously, we've got 
to be culturally sensitive

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when we go in, but I'm 
telling you, brethren,

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there is no place when it 
comes to the Gospel message

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to try to distort any of this

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or make it suitable to certain cultures

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or certain societies

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or certain countries.

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Brethren, you know what, ultimately,

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I can remember hearing 
a message on missions -

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again from our same 
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and he was saying basically man's problem

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is essentially the same no 
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They may look different.

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Their eye shapes may be different.

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The Chinese have a certain 
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Or you go down to Africa, 
or you go wherever,

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but man's problem is ultimately the same.

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He's bound up with a connection

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and a heritage that lies in Adam,

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and he is under condemnation

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and he faces the wrath of God.

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we don't need to be ashamed of it,

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and it's the same in 
every country we go into

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because man's need is 
the same everywhere.

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Man is depraved. Man is corrupt.

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Man lacks the righteousness that he needs

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to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.

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He doesn't have it.

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He doesn't possess it.

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And he in his own power can't get it.

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The righteousness of God is revealed

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and man needs it

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because of his identity with Adam.

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He's in Adam and he's in trouble.

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And that is the reality 
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It applies to all men.

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You saw that there. All men.

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One offense.

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And it says condemnation came upon all.

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It is not a small thing.

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What Adam did in the garden

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condemned all mankind.

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And Christ came to rescue

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those who are in Adam.

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He came to rescue us out of it.

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And the thing is, I know,

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I know we have a problem

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in our culture

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identifying with how we can be responsible

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for our father's sin.

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But you know, in Scripture,

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I don't know how Middle Easterner's think.

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They obviously think different.

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Some of these concepts

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are more readily understandable

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or conceivable to them.

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Like, you know how Scripture says

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"that Levi yet being in 
the loins of Abraham..."

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It's like, what?

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We don't even think that way.

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You know when it was said

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Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek.

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So the writer of Hebrews reasons,

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well, because Levi would 
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like four generations,

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it's really like saying that Levi

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gave tithes to Melchizedek.

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We're like what?

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How can you say Levi did it

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when Abraham did it

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and Levi wasn't even born yet?

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You see, but that's the way the 
Middle Eastern mind thinks

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because there's a reality there

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you and I have a hard time grasping.

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I have a feeling for the Jewish mindset,

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they don't have near the problem

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handling that reality

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that because of Adam's sin,

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condemnation comes upon us.

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To us, that seems like injustice.

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But brethren, let me remind you,

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we're talking types here.

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Adam is a type of Christ.

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And if the universal federal headship

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of Adam doesn't work,

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if it falls apart,

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then so too does Christ's justification

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of all those who are in Him.

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So, before you get too hostile

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about thinking what?

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I'm guilty and condemned for Adam's sin?

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Just remember two things.

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You have enough of your own sin

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to run you deep into hell

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before you get overly concerned

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about the imputation of Adam's sin to you.

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But the second thing is,

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be grateful that God 
deals with man that way.

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Because since He does,

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if you're in Christ,

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then He deals with you

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under the federal headship of Christ,

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which means everything Christ deserves,

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you get.

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Don't complain because 
everything Adam deserves,

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you get, being in him.

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Just get out of Adam and into Christ.

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And you do that by trusting

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what Christ did on that cross.

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Look to Him in faith.

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Don't complain. Don't argue.

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Be glad.

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And see in it the way of your salvation.