THEME: THE LEGAL TRANSITION FROM CONDEMNATION TO ABUNDANT LIFE 

There is a spiritual setting in man’s life, life experience, and expectations on earth.  Man’s life and the world setting is a spiritual phenomenon, requiring understanding for peaceful, progressive, and fulfilling existence. 

In short, man’s life is set in a spiritual environment in which he has but little control.  Man is born in sin, is bred in iniquity; as a result, he is confined to suffering, hopelessness, death, corruption, mortality—with extinction as the ultimate end.  Death and possible extinction is the inevitably reality of man. As human experience has revealed to “err is human,” and human error has consequence.  Pain, suffering, sickness, and death is the inevitable human reality. 

To end this (sad) reality, Christ came to save man from sin and death.  Create him anew and establish A New Human, Spiritual, Social, and the everlasting heavenly Kingdom Order on earth. Jesus said this in John 10: 9-10 

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” 

Essentially, man is confronted with sin, death, condemnation, curses, weaknesses, and hopelessness.  All the leaving, all the efforts of philosophy, history, and science have not found many more solutions.  Who and what can set man free from this inevitable end?  The Spirit of the Lord des reveal the way of life and beauty. For this cause, Christ came to save man from sin.  Christ has come to set man free from the captivity of the otherwise reigning and ruling law of sin and death, weakness, condemnation, hopelessness, and eternal damnation. (Rom. 7: 18; 8: 9) 

Now, we must understand these three pillars of spiritual reality: 

i. God does not condemn man because of sin.  It is Satan who condemns man because of sin. 

ii. It is Satan who takes advantage of the sin of man to condemn man – to curse 

iii. First sin and death have taken man into captivity.  The wages of sin is death.  Because man is born in sin, is sinful, weak, and powerless—and therefore subject to death.