Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible.

So we've got a phenomenal passage to look at here this morning and for those of

you who are watching around the world wherever you are,

I've never been more aware of people being a part of the study

than on this around the world tour.

And unannounced, people just come up and are unprompted and just say hey

we're a part of the study and they know exactly you know we just finish Romans 5 verse 11 and they know exactly, we just finished Romans 5 verse 11, and they know exactly where we are.

So it's amazing the influence that the Lord would allow us to have to share with others beyond this. So thank you for

being here. We've come to Romans 5, verse 12 and this really begins an extraordinarily profound passage of

scripture that just to put three words over this section it's Adam and Christ.

And if you understand Adam and Christ, you basically understand human history

and you basically understand

salvation and condemnation and everything that you need to know. And from God's

perspective there's only two men who have ever lived, Adam and Christ. And everyone's

in either Adam or is in Christ. And they were two representative men and Adam represented the entire human race and

whatever Adam did affected you, affected me,

affected everyone who ever lived.

And Jesus Christ is the second Adam.

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