Rom. 5:12 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—

Rom. 5:13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Rom. 5:14 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.

Main Point: All people share both the guilt and the corruption of Adam’s first sin, and this imputed guilt and inherited corruption reveal why we need Christ’s righteousness and grace—because only in the second Adam can our guilt be forgiven and our nature renewed.

Outline:

1. Original Guilt
2. Original Corruption