Again we are borrowing the title for my message from Milton's book,Paradise regained, he writes,
By one man's disobedience lost,
Now sing,/ Recovered Paradise,
To all mankind,by one man's
Firm obedience.
That man was Jesus, Romans 5 v 19, reads,'For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so also through the one man the many will be made righteous'. Hodge writes,'The disobedience of Adam....was the ground of being placed in the category of sinners' and' the obedience of Christ was the ground on which the many are to be placed in the category of the righteous'.When we trust Christ as our Saviour by faith, in His finished work on Calvary, everything is changed. We are no longer excluded from a relationship with God, we are now His children (John 1 v 12), we have free excess into His presence. The barrier of sin has been removed. In our old state we lived under the wrath of God (John 3 v36 ) that is gone, no longer are we facing judgement ( Hebrews 10 v 27 ) Paradise has being regained through Christ, we can look forward to that new heaven and new earth where all things will be new.( 2 Peter 3 v 13 )
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