Romans 5.12-21

When you’re a kid one of the first lessons in life you learn is that one person can ruin it for everyone else whether it is in the classroom or on the fields and courts of recreational sports. One kid can annoy the teacher so badly that the whole classroom suffers. One kid can drop the ball that causes the whole team to lose. The passage we look at today is based on the principle of the effect of the actions of one person upon many other persons. Paul contrasts and compares Adam and Jesus and how a singular act by each man affected others.