For just as by an offense came the judgment of all for condemnation, so came an act of justice, and grace came upon all men for an invigorating justification. For how, by the disobedience of a man, did many become sinners?, then would many become righteous? Romans 5,18,19
What is an act of justice? Of Christ in this text?Anyway, it’s a d?Obedience act? And he defeated Adam’s injustice and disobedience.
- A natural answer would be his death on the cross.
- Especially since this is the approach of Romans 5:6-11.
- However.
- If all that was needed to save a people from old humanity in Adam to the new humanity in Christ was the sacrifice of himself on the cross.
- Why did Jesus live a full human life?Why have you loved.
- Served.
- Administered.
- And taught for thirty-three years?Don’t all the other righteous acts of Jesus count in your life?Was it just the cross?.
In a way, I think the answer to that question is, “Yes. “Yes, did Jesus come to offer himself on the cross and by this death?Is obedience to love? It nullifies the sin of the first Adam and becomes the true definitive Adam of our race. However, this does not ignore the rest of his earthly life. I do not think it is right to divide the life of Jesus into several acts of obedience (i. e. , feed the five thousand, teach his disciples, love the poor, die on the cross); on the contrary, the whole incarnate existence of the Son of God (and indeed his eternal existence) is a unique and continuous act of obedience begat by the love of the Father.
We see this in Philippians 2. 6-9: From your eternal equality with God, your incarnation as a servant, your death on the cross? The whole life of Christ is an act of obedience to the Father (or, again, more clearly, in John 5: 19-20). In this sense, the cross is not a unique example of obedience, but the culminating act of the life of Jesus, in which the total character of his life is perfectly manifested; it is the melody in which every moment of your life has been a note; it is the name under which each act of your life has been a syllable; Is really? How was he eternally in glory with the Father (John 17: 5), how was he in each moment of his incarnation? it is proclaimed in its entirety. And, therefore, it is his Father proclaimed in him (John 8. 28; 14. 6; 17: 1, 26).
The Son loves the eternal Father, infinitely and perfectly, so the Son obeys the Father eternally, infinitely and perfectly to the Father (and it seems to me that it is by this eternal, infinite and perfect obedience born of the love of the Father that the Son is the eternal, infinite and perfect image of the Father, in whom we see the Father, John 5. 19, 12. 45, 14. 6 ?, but it is for another moment) When Paul speaks of Christ’s obedience for which many are righteous facts , yes, it speaks of the cross, but cannot the cross be separated from the whole existence of the Son (and even before the incarnation)?on the contrary, Calvary is the supreme, culminating and definitive historical manifestation of the Eternal Obedience of the Son.
And by this obedience, many are justified. If we trust in Jesus Christ as Lord, God, and Savior, then he is our head, he is our true Adam, he is the husband in which we are hidden, for whose righteousness we are considered righteous, as the name of a man and class communicate to his wife when they are married, is it the righteousness of Christ?Christ’s eternal act of perfect obedience is told to his wife, the Church (individually and collectively) when she is united to him by faith. We wait while we go through this life and move on to the next one.