Sermon: Christ Our Redeemer

Christ Our Redeemer (Romans 5:12-17)
Pastor Nathan Currey
April 14, 2006

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What do we make of the crucifixion of Christ?

How do we understand it?
What is the Purpose for such cruelty?
Why do we as a church celebrate this terrible day? And call it a good day?

Why do we view the death of an innocent man as something good?
Who was this historical Jesus?
Why did He come?

What effect does the story of Jesus Christ have on us today?
Why is it important?

Romans 5:12–17
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 17 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.