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A therapist and expert shares what to do when kids interrupt "ping pong" (aka special adult time). Both Adam and Allison have hot takes on this one! You can DM us your thoughts here!

Both Adam and Allison have boycotted businesses for the dumbest reasons! And turns out we are not the only ones!

This week, Adam and Tiana take a break from looking at individual classes to take a broader view at the class design ethos as a whole. Both Adam and Tiana have ideas for how to dig deep into overall class design, but first, how did we get to where we are now? History and idea document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1EQbgnXd7eFFffN_H9H6M2st6FPsITwChXZ_dWzVXo/edit?usp=drive_linkDeath Campaign: https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

When it comes to gifts, do you prefer a surprise, or do you want to know? Both Adam and Allison have some unhinged takes

Why Are We Lonely?This week, Adam and Tom discuss a rarely discussed but deeply impactful topic: the loneliness of being a business owner. Both Adam and Tom share personal anecdotes about their journeys and the unique challenges they've faced as they've grown their businesses. They explore how feeling lonely can be a natural part of being exceptional and how growth can often distance us from those who haven't walked the same path. Through a lively discussion, they unpack the importance of commitment, fulfillment, and finding the balance between work and personal life. Whether you're an entrepreneur feeling isolated or someone interested in the dynamics of business ownership, this episode offers valuable insights and practical advice for overcoming those lonely moments and finding your true purpose. Tune in for a thought-provoking session that just might change the way you view your own business journey.Timestamps00:00 Loneliness from responsibility and feeling exceptional.05:29 Loneliness in work; careers often consume lives.06:39 Businesses dominate lives, hindering fulfillment and satisfaction.09:54 Enjoying life and company after hard work.13:04 Vacation every 90 days for rejuvenation.16:58 It's a spectrum: introversion and extroversion balance.We invite you to join our community, Project 2740. This is a community where you can be your true self and find the support you need to succeed. This unique platform offers live sessions, courses, and a network of like-minded individuals who are committed to personal and professional growth. Check out our Skool Community: Project 2740: https://www.atomicbusinesscoaching.com/project2740

In Episode 229 of the Small Scale Life Podcast, my friend Adam Rick joins me as we discuss the importance of getting away on a short vacation or short trip. Both Adam and I went away this weekend. One of us had a get-away with his spouse; the other had a get-away with his son and friends (and their sons) on a fishing trip. There are a lot of benefits to getting away for the weekend. We'll talk about those, and maybe we'll have some funny stories along the way. We'll also talk about Adam's livestock, my garden, maybe pass a recipe and discuss new things, skills or efforts we are trying this week. As always, remember to learn, do, grow and be a little better everyday. And that's a good thing! ~ Tom LINKS: This live-stream is brought to you by A Modern Frontier Farms: https://www.amodernfrontier.com Get all your pasture-raised beef, pork and chicken from A Modern Frontier Farms! Grass Fed; Grass Raised; 100% Delicious!

Bible Reading: Genesis 3:9-13Aria flipped open a small manual that had come with their new toaster and started reading. "Some of these warnings are funny!" she said to Mom. "Listen. 'Do not put under water. Do not touch hot surfaces. Do not put fingers in slots.' Anybody with any sense at all would know not to do those things. Why do they write them in the instructions?" "They do seem pretty silly, but you might be surprised how many people would do some of those things," replied Mom. "Then if the toaster breaks or they get hurt, they might blame the manufacturer if those warnings weren't in the manual. Sometimes people even go to court and sue for a lot of money." "Even though it's their own fault?" asked Aria's brother Aidan.Mom nodded. "It's human nature to blame somebody else. Both Adam and Eve did it in the Garden of Eden, and people have been doing it ever since. Who do you think gets blamed more than anyone else?""I do!" declared Aidan."You do not," said Aria."I'd say it's God," said Mom. "He often gets blamed for bad things that happen, even though it was Adam and Eve's disobedience that brought sin into the world and made a mess of everything. Yet God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to save us from sin, and He gives us detailed instructions on how we should live, but people often ignore them. Then when something goes wrong because of something they did, they blame God even though they're the ones who didn't follow His instructions." "Like when Aidan fell out of his window and broke his leg trying to sneak out of the house when he was grounded last year," said Aria. "Hey!" said Aidan. "I didn't blame anyone for my fall--I admitted it was my fault and accepted responsibility." Aidan grinned at his sister. "And now I'm a model son." Aria and Mom both laughed.Mom picked up the toaster manual. "I'll put this away for now, but God's instructions to us shouldn't be left in a drawer. Let's all read something from our Bibles each day so we can remember what God has done for us and how He wants us to live. Instead of playing the blame game, we can confess our wrongs to Him and He will forgive us." –Heather TekavecHow About You?Do you accept responsibility for what you do? Or do you look for someone to blame when something goes wrong? Life is never free from pain or problems. Sometimes our difficulties come from living in a sinful, broken world, but other times they're caused by our own wrongful actions. When you mess up, don't play the blame game. Accept responsibility for your actions, remembering that God loves you and is always willing to forgive. Today's Key Verse:People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy. (NLT) (Proverbs 28:13)Today's Key Thought:Accept responsibility

About the Guest(s): **Adam Millman and Danny Neeson** are the co-founders of De Nada Tequila, a pioneering brand in the spirits industry, particularly known for being the first to package tequila in aluminum containers. Both Adam and Danny hail from the New York City area and met at Tulane University. Their entrepreneurial journey began with a sustainable clothing line called "Pine Outfitters." They are passionate about creating high-quality, sustainable products and have deep roots in sustainability-focused business practices.Check them out at DeNadaTequila.com Specright has some amazing things happening! Please check them out below and help support the podcast!* Specright eBook - How to define sustainable packaging strategies!* Gartner Report* Packaging Pros eBook* Home Page* Book a demo with SpecrightMeyers has some incredible sustainable packaging options!* Get the 2023 Sustainability Report* Meyers Packaging EPR eBook - it is FREE!!Get the dopest Packaging shirts at www.packagingfashion.comBook a demo with Trayak (LCA's on demand!)SmartSolve has water soluble label and paper materials. Learn more!The Scrapp App is going to revolutionize home and corporate recycling. Download for your device today!Episode Summary: In this engaging episode, Adam Peek interviews Adam Millman and Danny Neeson, co-founders of De Nada Tequila, to dive deep into their journey from college entrepreneurs to pioneering the first aluminum-packaged tequila brand. The conversation starts with their backgrounds and how they met at Tulane University, where their mutual interest in sustainability and business ideas took root. They discuss their first business venture, Pine Outfitters, which utilized recycled materials for clothing, setting the stage for their future endeavors in sustainable product development. The episode delves into the intricacies of developing De Nada Tequila, highlighting the challenges and innovations that came with sourcing high-quality, additive-free tequila and packaging it in an environmentally conscious way. Adam and Danny elaborate on their choice of aluminum packaging, emphasizing its sustainability benefits such as lower carbon emissions, lightweight nature, and ease of recycling. This focus aligns with their brand ethos of promoting sustainability and quality. The engaging conversation also touches on the benefits of aluminum in lifestyle scenarios, such as poolside enjoyment and its protective properties for the product. Key Takeaways: - Sustainable Entrepreneurship**: Adam and Danny's journey from a sustainable clothing line to creating an eco-friendly tequila brand. - Innovative Packaging**: The decision to use aluminum packaging for tequila, highlighting its sustainability and practical benefits. - Additive-Free Tequila**: The importance of crafting tequila without additives and the processes involved in maintaining quality. - Market Impact**: How De Nada Tequila's unique packaging and sustainable practices are influencing the spirits industry. - Future Plans**: Insights into De Nada Tequila's distribution plans and aspirations for wider market presence. ### Notable Quotes: 1. "We felt there was no tequila in the market that stood for craftsmanship and sustainability and our ethos as well." - Danny Neeson 2. "Aluminum is infinitely recyclable... It also lowers emissions considerably when you think about the entire value chain." - Adam Millman 3. "Sip in the right direction. We want to make as many improvements as possible to move our brands and the industry in the right path." - Adam Millman 4. "It took a few years in the market and developing De Nada to kind of get a sense of where we were at... and what our brand ethos stood for." - Danny Neeson 5. "We believe we want our bottles to be enjoyed in the areas in nature that people enjoy them in." - Adam Millman This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.packagingisawesome.com/subscribe

In this episode Adam discusses his time in Paris for the start of the Olympics. Both Adam and Gavin explore their own Olympic dreamsand what could have been. We also make the case for bringing cross country running to the Olympics. Gavin then reports back on this week's activities for Monross Trailblazers including celebrating 5 years of Park Run at Ross on Wye. As always we also give a cheeky plug to Blaze the Biblins, the Wye Valley's muched loved trail race - Entries now open for October 2024: https://monross-trailblazers.co.uk/blaze-the-biblins/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A therapist has a two date minimum if you are looking for love. Both Adam and Allison say who has time for that, but CJ says it's right on the money!

Psalm 51:5-6 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.  Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. There's a strong similarity between the story of David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and Adam & Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden.  Both Adam and David have a God-given position as ruler and representative of the people (although in Adam's case the people who he represents haven't been born yet). Both saw something that they wanted, that God said they shouldn't have, and both took it anyway. Both then try to cover up their sin. But there is at least one way in which David is different - when he is confronted with his sin, he 'owns' it. When God speaks to Adam and Eve after they've eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they are quick to try and pass the buck, blaming each other, the serpent and even God himself ('if you hadn't put that woman here with me, none of this would have happened ...') David, on the other hand, knows that his sin is his fault. It's not just a momentary lapse of judgement, totally out of character, prompted by someone else's behaviour. He knows that he sinned because, deep down, he is - and always has been - a sinner. Sinful from birth. In fact, even from before birth.  I don't think he's using that as an excuse - 'It's not my fault, God, I was born this way.' It's an acknowledgement that his sin problem goes right to the very heart of his character. It's who he IS. But, wonderfully, it's not ALL he is. He is also a man made and known and rescued by God. Even when his unborn body was being made in the womb, God was there with him, relating to him. At that point, God already knew that David would grow up to be a murderer and an adulterer, yet he still taught him wisdom. Our sin problem is just as deep-rooted. We aren't basically good people who occasionally sin by accident. We are sinners by nature, from our earliest days. Yet the God who made us knew us and loved us before the universe was made. And so he sent us Jesus, the only man ever born without sin. The perfect representative of his people who resisted all temptation. Let's confess our sin to God today without making excuses or passing the blame. And let's thank him for Jesus, through whom we have been given new birth and new hearts.

Episode 457"American Rust"Showrunners: Dan Futterman and Adam Rapp.Dan Futterman is a two time Academy Award nominated writer. Having been nominated in 2006 for #capote and again in 2015 for #foxcatcher As an actor he has appeared along side #robinwilliams in #thebirdcage and #angelinajolie as  Daniel Pearl in "A Might Heart"Adam Rapp is an excellent writer who is a big part of American Rust in both as a writer and Executive Producer. Both Adam and Dan make for a wonderful team. They are both gifted storytellers who are very good at what they do.American Rust premieres March 28th on #primevideo #interview #fyp #shorts #podcast #showrunner #writer #movie #drama #academyawards #oscars https://linktr.ee/mondaymorningcritic

This week started with the sad news that longstanding activist and Founding President of the Victorian AIDS Council (now Thorne Harbour Health) Phil Carswell OAM died peacefully at his home in Brisbane. Phil leaves behind a remarkable legacy of advocating for the health, wellbeing, and the rights of our LGBTIQA+ communities. In particular, Phil played a vital leadership role in Australia's role in responding to HIV and AIDS. Joining Cal Hawk in the studio for this episode is Dr Adam Carr. Both Adam and Phil were a part of the Community Living Legends series last year as Thorne Harbour Health (formerly the Victorian AIDS Council) celebrated 40 years. Adam speaks to his 50-year friendship with Phil and reflects on Phil's legacy as we listen to clips of Phil's speech at the Ruby Red Ball in July of 2023 as well as part of his interview on JOY. Click here to hear Phil's full interview as part of the Community Living Legends series.  Click here to listen and watch Phil's speech at Thorne Harbour Health's Ruby Red Ball. 

Both Adam and Allison woke up this morning locked out of Facebook!

Join Swami Padmanabha and Father Adam Bucko, a contemplative author, Episcopal priest, founder of the Reciprocity Foundation and The Center for Spiritual Imagination, and committed voice in the movement for renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement, come together to share their experiences of Radical Activism. Quote From Radical Personalism that opens the discussion:“In connection to the above point, social action and involvement should be encouraged in the Gaudiya community for those so inclined, and they should be properly educated by the elders as to how to engage in compassionate social action. We call this Radical Activism…'A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion, will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.'* Properly executed and complemented, every action can become prayer and every prayer can become action that influences the world in ways beyond our imagination.”* (Andrew Harvey) Adam shares what Radical Personalism is to him: that each and every one of us should respond to the cry of the world - whether that is people struggling with housing insecurities or people who are being oppressed—that we need to respond in a personal way and not wait for institutions. It also points to the Ultimate Reality, a reality that personally loves us. As discussed in Adam's latest book, Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation, he brings to question WHAT HAS FOLLOWING OUR BLISS resulted in? Instead FOLLOW OUR HEARTBREAK. Continuing to go deeper into this, they discuss the profound relationship between joy and suffering; not the kind of joy that encourages us to avoid life, but the kind of joy that can face the difficulties and the suffering and still survive. Allowing the pain of others to touch of deeply (this was also spoken about during Ilia Delio and Swami Padmanabha's conversation of Ilia's podcast, Hunger for Wholeness), gives the space for the spirit of god to flow thru us and leads us into a life of compassionate service. Approaching people in need as if they are a project to be solved was not working for Adam. He realized that he needed to show up for people as he shows up in prayer. Being receptive and breaking with people, accompanying them through their suffering reveals the healing presence. Both Adam and Swami share how their traditions speak of praying as not limited to one act, but that every action can be prayer. Action not just RELATED to contemplation, but action AS contemplation. The paradox of Individuation in Service: on one hand, the goal is to find your purpose and mission in life and on the other hand, becoming an empty vessel in which God can live. It is our conception of ourselves, even our specialness, that has to die and in the process we discover the most of ourselves we have ever been. Swami asks Adam to share his experience in transitioning from monastic life to married life for him and his wife, who was a Buddhist nun for 15 years. Adam shares his profound response about love, vows, and reflecting god's unconditional acceptance. and much much more… ▶ WATCH ON FACEBOOK ▶ WATCH ON YOUTUBE ▶ PURCHASE RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion in hardcover, paperback, and/or Kindle formats on Amazon ▶ WRITE your REVIEW of RADICAL PERSONALISM ▶ CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION: Gaudiya Reform Forum on Facebook. ▶ FOR MORE INFO: SwamiPadmanabha.com

In this episode, I am joined by my good friend, Adam Nelson. Adam's done some cool stuff like making special gin using wild seaweed. Now, he's working on a medicine for Parkinson's. We chat about confidence, vulnerability, and how to take meaningful actions in our fast-changing world.Adam and I talk about how confidence grows when we try new things and learn from them. He tells his story of moving from tech to making medicines, and how he learned along the way. I share some of my past mistakes and how working with different people helped me see things differently.We dive deep into the importance of being honest about how we feel. It helps us connect with others and think of new ideas. I used to be pretty guarded, but now I see how good it is to admit when I don't know something. Adam talks about the times he felt like he didn't belong and what he learned from those moments.We also discuss how today's big problems can feel overwhelming, but breaking them down into smaller steps can help. We believe in understanding and connecting with others to solve these challenges.Wrapping up, I want to say thanks to everyone listening to our podcast. Sharing these personal talks with the world means a lot. Both Adam and I think that by doing things step by step and learning along the way, we can all make the world better.Join us at "How We Work" for more real talks about different life paths.Connect with us:Website: howwe.workEmail: iso@howwe.workInstagram: @howwe.work

Adam welcomes comedian Michael Yo and they both begin with some industry wisdom they've gleaned along the way. Adam shares early career advice from Jimmy Kimmel. Both comedians talk about childhood and their upbringing, with Michael divulging how he'd try and avoid beatings from his father. Both Adam and Michael say they've tried to be better parents than what they experienced growing up. Hilarity ensues as they debate certain black vs white criminals where some NFL players are discussed as well as the Danny Masterson debacle. Chris starts the news beginning with some controversy around NASA and the naming of an extraordinary new telescope, which despite a petition, NASA will not rename this new ‘James Webb Space Telescope'. Next, we find Kanye back in the news alongside his new ‘wife', as they vacation in Italy, and Italians are up in arms over the provocative manner in which the two are dressing. Lastly, a lengthy discussion ensues concerning a new method being used for the death penalty in Alabama. We finish the show with Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson and mom Kay Robertson to discuss their new movie and talk about the show that made them famous. Mom and son banter back and forth and discuss Kay's early life with details on being a teen mom and how she obtained her high school diploma. Adam entertainingly informs everyone of the path to his diploma, and why being a ‘nerd' wasn't a good thing on a construction site. PLUGS: See Michael Yo live: Boston, MA - Laugh Boston - September 14th to 16th Cleveland, OH - Hilarities - September 22nd & 23rd Parker, CO - PACE Center - September 30th And see more dates at MichaelYo.com Watch Michael Yo's new special, ‘Michael Yo: I Never Thought' available for free on Youtube Listen to ‘Yo Show with Michael Yo' wherever you find podcasts And follow Michael on Twitter and Instagram, @MichaelYo Watch ‘The Blind' in theaters September 28 Find out more at TheBlindMovie.com THANKS FOR SUPPORTING TODAY'S SPONSORS: LectricEBikes.com Shopify.com/Carolla Angi.com OReillyAuto.com

We're back after a 3-week break!  Both Adam and Dave have been on vacations in that time, and this week we discuss highlights of what they did and where they went...and they also pick their favorite professional Quidditch team!  Sounds like another "normal" episode!

This month we're discussing what it means to have life move fast, grow older, adjust expectations, and what has changed (or stayed the same) in our running journey! Both Adam and Alicia turned 40 years old this year and they each took some time to adventure ... in totally different ways. Join us in processing change and how running / activity can be a great touchpoint for the other things that are actually (much more) important.

Actor Kirk Cameron joins Adam as they enthusiastically deliberate on a diverse range of subjects including homeschooling vs public school, the Colorado wedding cake controversy, government censorship, hippies and global warming. We learn about Kirk's clashes with the American Library Association concerning his children's books. In addition, Kirk refers to himself as a, “Recovering Atheist”, and they both agree the world would be a better place if we all followed The Golden Rule. Both Adam and Kirk also discuss growing up in the San Fernando Valley. Next, Professional Drummer, Phil Leavitt joins Adam to review Phil's music and we hear about an epic career highlight as he remembers his music being featured in a spicy scene from the movie, “The Wolf Of Wall Street”. PLUGS: See Phil Leavitt play live with 7Horse plus a featured set by DADA and special guests Mike Dawson and the Smokin Kills at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, CA August 19th Listen to 7Horse's album ‘The Last Resort' wherever you find music And learn more at 7HorseMusic.com Check out Kirk Cameron's new children's book ‘Pride Comes Before the Fall' wherever you find books THANKS FOR SUPPORTING TODAY'S SPONSORS: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp BetterHelp.com/CAROLLA Turo.com LearAdam.com or call 800-489-6450 Trust Us Documentary on YouTube Angi.com OReillyAuto.com

It's been a while since the podcast has been all about that RPG life, but Master Detective Archives: Rain Code is here to fix that. Both Adam and Chris have been playing Rain Code and have a lot to say about it: some good, some bad. But hey, being a detective (a good one) takes time, right?   Meanwhile Lyle has been catching up on Jack Jeanne, and likes it a lot, and Chris Hyde only went and bought Dave the Diver, didn't he! Nice one, Chris: add that pile of GOTY contenders!   ► Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/EGQUs9d9 ► Support us via Patreon: http://Patreon.com/GodisaGeek SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=GodisaGeek

Tune in to hear Adam Muncy share the inspirational story of building Samson's Haircare!Follow/subscribe to be the first to know when new episodes are released. Like what you hear? Leave us a review!KEY TAKEAWAYS:Samson's Haircare is the manufacturer, marketer, sales, and admin of their own product line.From banking to haircare, Adam met his partner at church and built a relationship from there.Both Adam and his partner are foster parents of children with textured hair so they created Foster The Curl so they and others can provide haircare to their children with textured hair.They started with one product, a pomade, that they loved, but they did not do the research to find out that barbers wanted a water-soluble product which theirs wasn't.The lesson they learned was to have more product diversity for various customer types and do some research to understand your audience.COVID almost devastated their business because they are a small business with little to no employees, and COVID relief was based on older businesses with large payrolls.Building a business relationship is nerve-racking, and you should get used to the discomfort because it doesn't go away.Leverage and be honest with each of your partners to figure out each other's rolesAspiring Business Owners: Pay for a good CPA and Lawyer; would you pick the cheapest hairdresser? No, so spend money on an accountant and lawyer or suffer the consequences.Fighting for each account is a reality you should be prepared for... No hacks will take you to the point where you will be a legacy brand that is known and loved around the country or world.If you focus on sales and not the relationship, they are just buying your pitch and that is not as valuable of a relationship that will stand the test of time.Grassroots and analog development will have a strong base for your business.You must have a pixel (a piece of code to track all IP addresses that come to your page) in order to retarget your efforts and take advantage of going viral or good social media implications!MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:-- Follow Samson's Haircare on Instagram-- Check out Samson Haircare's website

This episode is a bonus cross post of my conversation with Nick Pendergrast⁠⁠ and Adam Cardilini on their 3CR Freedom of Species podcast about conspiracism, misinformation and disinformation in the vegan and animal advocacy movements and how to communicate effectively with those caught up in them. Of course, we also talk about Sentientism⁠⁠'s commitment to naturalistic epistemology via "evidence and reason". You can subscribe to 3CR's ⁠⁠Freedom of Species wherever you listen. ⁠3CR is a community radio station based in Melbourne⁠⁠, Australia. Nick, Adam and the other co-hosts have a fascinating range of guests, conversations and also music with a message. Both Adam and Nick have been guests on Sentientism too - have a listen to episode 106 and ⁠episode 88⁠⁠ if you'd like to hear their thoughts about what's real, who matters and how can we make a better world. You might also want to check episode 55 with Christopher Sebastian and episode 92 with Lee McIntyre as we discuss their research and writing here. Here is Christopher's Euronews piece about "What do veganism and conspiracy theories have in common?" Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at ⁠Sentientism.info⁠. Join our ⁠"I'm a Sentientist" wall⁠ via ⁠this simple form⁠. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is ⁠here on FaceBook⁠. Come join us there!

To approach God, we must be honest. He sees our dishonesty anyway, through our lies and excuses just like Adam and Eve. The serpent is the only one who did not offer an excuse. In fact, never replied to God and note God never asked the serpent a question. Both Adam and Eve had excuses for their sinful behavior. Yet, God's love was abundantly apparent. He gave them-eternal hope that day in the garden, that they would be extricated from their circumstances and it would come through a Savior.

The guys kick things off discussing Julian Love and his George Young "Good Guy of the Year" award. Both Adam and Andy have to acknowledge that they were uncertain of the role Julian would have inside a rebuilding organization, but it turned out a little Love is exactly what the Giants needed. Under Wink Martindale Love emerged as a a veteran leader, team captain and consistent performer each and every week for Big Blue. Beyond the feel good vibes, the guys also look at week 18 and why the performance of the back ups could prove more critical than any starter. Each host provides a couple of key names who could give themselves a confidence boost just in case their number gets called during the playoffs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onegiantpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/onegiantpodcast/support

Psalm 51:5-6Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.  Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.There's a strong similarity between the story of David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and Adam & Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden.  Both Adam and David have a God-given position as ruler and representative of the people (although in Adam's case the people who he represents haven't been born yet). Both saw something that they wanted, that God said they shouldn't have, and both took it anyway. Both then try to cover up their sin. But there is at least one way in which David is different - when he is confronted with his sin, he 'owns' it. When God speaks to Adam and Eve after they've eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they are quick to try and pass the buck, blaming each other, the serpent and even God himself ('if you hadn't put that woman here with me, none of this would have happened ...') David, on the other hand, knows that his sin is his fault. It's not just a momentary lapse of judgement, totally out of character, prompted by someone else's behaviour. He knows that he sinned because, deep down, he is - and always has been - a sinner. SInful from birth. In fact, even from before birth.  I don't think he's using that as an excuse - 'It's not my fault, God, I was born this way.' It's an acknowledgement that his sin problem goes right to the very heart of his character. It's who he IS. But, wonderfully, it's not ALL he is. He is also a man made and known and rescued by God. Even when his unborn body was being made in the womb, God was there with him, relating to him. At that point, God already knew that David would grow up to be a murderer and an adulterer, yet he still taught him wisdom.Our sin problem is just as deep-rooted. We aren't basically good people who occasionally sin by accident. We are sinners by nature, from our earliest days. Yet the God who made us knew us and loved us before the universe was made. And so he sent us Jesus, the only man ever born without sin. The perfect representative of his people who resisted all temptation. Let's confess our sin to God today without making excuses or passing the blame. And let's thank him for Jesus, through whom we have been given new birth and new hearts.

Her doğan çocuk zer aleminden gelir. Hz. Adem de tüm insanlar da zer aleminde vardır. Oradan dünyaya geliyorlar. İnsanın aşama aşama oluşması diye bir şey yoktur.Every born child comes from the zer realm. Hz. Both Adam and all human beings exist in the realm of zerk. They are born from there. There is no such thing as a gradual formation of man.

Heavy retail armor, being treated as a musician, not a liability, and choosing not to work with gatekeepers are part of Hilary's conversation with Jennifer Turpin and Adam Brilla from Stompbox Sonic. Plus, preventing tokenism in hiring.Huge thanks to this episode's sponsors!EarthQuaker Devices- extra special effects pedals made by hand in Akron, OH!Holcomb Guitars- custom guitars and mobile guitar repair in RI/MA!Demonic Machines- LGBTQ+ owned, small-batch, handmade pedals in San Diego, CA!STOMPBOX SONIC's BIOSTOMPBOX SONIC provides musicians with an extensive tonal palette for auditory exploration.Specializing in effects pedals (aka “stompboxes”) built by companies large and small, some locally crafted, some collected from around the world.Our goal is to ignite the creative spark and help you navigate all those switches and blinking lights to bring your music to life.Since 2009 guitarist, songwriter, and noise maker Adam Brilla (he/him) and artist, musician, facilitator Jennifer Turpin (she/her) have been working with sound-based artists and musicians helping them discover their sound.Jen has been an active member of the GRCB community since 2013, leading effects pedals workshops, teaching guitar and bass, and coaching bands. Most recently she has been drumming in a feminist punk band Pitstain as well as Babes of Mutilation.Adam began his musical journey in 1988. This expedition brought him opportunities to perform, record and tour with a variety of New England area bands including Lockgroove, Broken River Prophet, Animal Hospital Ensemble, Seana Carmody, Tiny Amps, Bicker, Argo Arkestra, Me Jane, Charlene, Fury Things, and Kansas City based Your Reflection.Together they have provided Boston area musicians the opportunity to explore new sounds and create new music through 1:1 soundtastings as well as interactive effects exhibits, at the Museum of Science and Microsoft for the New England Synth Fest.Both Adam and Jen have new, as of yet, unnamed musical projects in the works, each debuting in 2023.STOMPBOX SONIC's MENTIONSSeana Carmody / The Swirlies / Syrup USA / Black Sabbath / Iron Maiden / Low / Pixies / Girls Rock Campaign Boston / NAMM / Barnstorm / TT the Bear's / Middle East Club / Empire Guitars / Mike Samos / Boston Synth Fest / New England Synth Fest / Beats by Girlz / Hagstrom / Epiphone / EarthQuaker Devices / Hovercraft / C&C Drums / Paiste Cymbals / Dream Cymbals / Montoya / HondoSTOMPBOX SONIC's LINKSOnline ShopInstagram200 Pedals at Once!PitstainSeana CarmodyAnimal Hospital Ensemble

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Coming to the end of the Ephesians 5:22-24 sermon series we come to affirm as it is stated in the Danvers statement that distinctions in masculine and feminine roles are ordained by God as part of the created order, and should find an echo in every human heart (Gen 2:18, 21-24; 1 Cor 11:7-9; 1Tim 2:12-14). We there echo as a body of believers that; 1. Both Adam and Eve were created in God's image, equal before God as persons and distinct in their manhood and womanhood (Gen 1:26-27, 2:18) Therefore , WE AFFIRM that God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church. WE DENY that God has designed marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous relationship. We also deny that marriage is a mere human contract rather than a covenant made before God. And to that end, WE AFFIRM that God's revealed will for all people is chastity outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage. WE DENY that any affections, desires, or commitments ever justify sexual intercourse before or outside marriage; nor do they justify any form of sexual immorality. We submit to the testament of the Word of God that the Fall introduced distortions into the relationships between men and women (Gen 3:1-7, 12, 16). o In the home, the husband's loving, humble headship tends to be replaced by domination or passivity; the wife's intelligent, willing submission tends to be replaced by usurpation or servility. o In the church, sin inclines men toward a worldly love of power or an abdication of spiritual responsibility, and inclines women to resist limitations on their roles or to neglect the use of their gifts in appropriate ministries. This we state while maintaining that distinctions in masculine and feminine roles are ordained by God as part of the created order, and should find an echo in every human heart (Gen 2:18, 21-24; 1 Cor 11:7-9; 1 Tim 2:12-14). We Give Praise to God for His Sovereign Grace that we know that redemption in Christ aims at removing the distortions introduced by the curse. o In the family, husbands should forsake harsh or selfish leadership and grow in love and care for their wives; wives should forsake resistance to their husbands' authority and grow in willing, joyful submission to their husbands' leadership (Eph 5:21-33; Col 3:18-19; Tit 2:3-5; 1 Pet 3:1-7). o In the church, redemption in Christ gives men and women an equal share in the blessings of salvation; nevertheless, some governing and teaching roles within the church are restricted to men (Gal 3:28; 1 Cor 11:2-16; 1 Tim 2:11-15). Therefore it's not true, as some feminists charge, that Christianity is anti-female and horribly oppressive to women. In fact, nothing has elevated the status and value of women as biblical Christianity.

Jr. Tree of Life Creation: Part 2 Adam and the Woman Disobey Before you begin this Bible study, If you have never believed in Jesus Christ as your Savior, John 3:16 tells us: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life.” Simply have faith that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins, and you will have eternal life and be saved. If you have believed in Jesus Christ as your Savior, then 1 John 1:9 tells us: “If you confess your sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Simply, privately tell God the Father your sins to be filled with God the Holy Spirit and He will teach you Bible truth. (Rebound) Promise Memory Verse “Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted.” Romans 13:2a Genesis 2:7-3:7-Time Period-Age of the Gentiles God created Adam, who was the first man, out of dust, and breathed the breath of life into him. Can you imagine anyone else who has the power, wisdom and humor to take a dust bunny and make a living person? Adam had a soul and a human spirit. He didn't have an old sin nature like we do. God taught him Bible Doctrine every day. God placed Adam in a beautiful garden, called Eden. Adam didn't need a winter coat, or an umbrella, because the weather was perfect there. God gave Adam the job of naming all of the animals. There was only one rule that God made for him to follow: Do not to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” God never told us what kind of fruit this tree had growing from its branches. One day, God decided to make Adam a helper. He put Adam into a deep sleep, and took one of his ribs, and created a beautiful woman. She had a soul and a human spirit, and no old sin nature. God gave her the same rule as He gave Adam. There was an evil, sneaky serpent in the Garden of Eden, who was really Satan in disguise. He wanted the woman to disobey God, so he came up with a plan to trick her into eating fruit from the forbidden tree. When Satan saw the woman, he talked from inside the serpent, and asked her if God made a rule that said she couldn't eat from any tree in the garden. She told him that God only told her that she couldn't eat or touch the tree in the middle of the garden. Satan is the father of all lies. He lied to the woman and told her that she wouldn't die if she ate the fruit, and that if she ate it, she would be just as smart as God. The woman believed Satan, and she disobeyed God and ate the fruit. She even gave some to Adam, who ate it as well. Both Adam and the woman said no to God by sinning. They didn't obey or respect God. They are now known as the first sinners. Oh no! Guess what happened? They lost the human spirit that God had given them. Now they had old sin natures living in their bodies and a soul, and they understood what sin was. Next week, we will see what happens. This is called the fall of man. Last week, we learned that we all have to respect and obey God. He wants kids to respect and obey their parents, teachers, coaches, police, and others in authority over them. You may hear from your teacher about something called, The Theory of Evolution. Theories are just guesses. They are not truth that we always hear from God. He is veracity. The Bible is God's Word, and it tells you to obey. When your teacher is wrong, you still have to respect them. It would be wrong to jump up and start yelling at your teacher and call them a liar. This would show disrespect to them, which is never ok to do. If you act like Adam and the woman, and don't obey, you need to make sure that you tell God the Father privately what you have done wrong. Pamela Huffman 2021

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Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.The title of the sermon is Reign of Grace in Life. A few questions to start things off. Why are people the way they are? You ever ask that question? Why are we the way we are? Why is everyone so selfish? Why is it that everyone condemns others for things that we do ourselves? Why is it that everyone violates the very standards of behavior we hold up as good and right? Why is the most universal experience of humans an uneasy conscience? We know we've done things that we shouldn't have done, and we have not done the things that we should have done. Why have we never been able to educate sin out of the human heart? Why haven't we been able to punish sin out of the human heart? Why haven't we been able to cancel sin from the human heart? Why have all of our efforts to address human problems by the government, it all leaves us with the same sinful humanity and just more problems.Why is it at nowhere at any time ever in world history, a sinless people has existed?? Why is evil so easy to fall into, but true goodness is so difficult to rise to? Why is our desire so strong for unchastity, fornication, adultery, and why is chastity so difficult? Why is it that with all of our technological advances, we haven't been able to curb moral degradation, we've only exacerbated because people have more opportunity to sin? Why is it universally and historically a case that the best people in the world morally speaking are the most conscious of their failures and acknowledge they're bent toward what is unworthy, unloving, dishonest, and pure? And why is that already in infancy, we can see clearly the pride, envy, selfishness of human life beginning to appear?Well, we find all of the answers to all those questions in Romans 5:12 through 21. Would you look at the text with me? "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. For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 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. 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. 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.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. Therefore as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience, the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."This is the reading of God's holy inerrant, infallible authoritative word may He write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Three points to frame up our time. We'll look at ruin, rescue, and reign. First, ruin starting at verse 12. Therefore. The therefore alerts us that Paul is making a brand new point. It's flowing from his prior discussion. Last week, we talking about reconciliation, that we are reconciled with God because of the work of Jesus Christ. Therefore just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death spread to all men because all sin. He's talking about two undeniable, indisputable facts of life, sin and death. They're universal. Universality of sin, universality of death. We can't deny these. Everywhere we look, we see evidence upon evidence upon evidence of these two. And we're victims of the twin evils of sin and death.Tanya and I, when we were in seminary in North Carolina, working through the MDiv. The seminary was next to a cemetery and we would go on nice romantic strolls in the evening at the cemetery. There was a little pond there, and I spent all day studying the holy scriptures. And then every evening it was just a reminder, I'm going to die. We're all going to die. It puts things into perspective. So death spread to all men because all sinned, all sin, that's past tense. So Adam's sin in some sense becomes our sin and our guilt. We are sinners by choice because we are sinners by nature. We're born sinners. We sin because of our nature. This is the doctrine of total depravity that every single one of our faculties in some sense is corrupt to the core. And we've inherited this corruption.So how does this inform parenting? Well, children are born as little sinners and unless you parent and disciple and teach them and correct them and rebuke, and exhort, that nature is going to take over. This text is about the fall of the entire human race through Adam. The penalty for sin is death and death reign from Adam to Moses. So in a sense, everybody in the world somehow broke the law in Adam, we're guilty for Adam's act of rebellion. Adam's sin brought condemnation upon the entire human race. We are related to Adam through one man's sin and death came into the world. This is the doctrine of original sin. Blaise Pascal said the doctrine of original sin is beyond our ability to explain, but without it, you can't explain anything.What's the difference between original sin and actual sin? Actual sin is when we do something that transgreses God's law. And that requires a conscious awareness that there is right and wrong and a conscious awareness of actual violation. This is why children are not held accountable for their sin until the age of accountability. Paul talks about that later. But when a baby's born, there's a period of time, conceived, born, there's a period of time between birth and accountability before the baby actually commits a sin. But then why do people still die? Before the infant even sinned, why do infants sometimes die? Why do babies die in infancy if death is the penalty for sin, but the baby hasn't sinned. Well, he continues in verse 13.For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those sinning, those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. Now to understand what he's saying in verse 13, you've got to go back to chapter four, verse 15, where he says for the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, there is no transgression. So here he delineates, separates, sin and transgression. Verse 13, for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given. So there was sin before the law was given. After the law was given, now there's transgression of the law, but the sin was present before the law.Paul says the sin was present pervasive in the world from the time of Adam until the time of Moses, even though the specific commandments of law of Moses with their corresponding penalties hadn't been revealed yet. So how can it be if there was no law until the time of Moses? Why did people die? The same with the question with infants? Well, death reigned from Adam to Moses, he says, because of the imputation of Adam's sin to us. God gave Adam a covenant of works. I put you in the garden to work it and keep it, to have dominion over it, to protect the garden. God told Adam, do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Do anything, everything else, but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good ne evil. That was the covenant of works.And Adam and Eve, in their created perfect nature, they had the ability to not sin. They also had the ability to sin. They could have lived eternally or they could have died, and they did because of disobedience. So now we have to deal with an objection. And I waited long enough until this objection. This objection rises in every single human heart. The objection is this. How can God blame me for Adam's sin? I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I don't even like apples that much. How is that fair? I was born this way. I am just following my nature. How can God hold me responsible for a sin nature? I didn't choose any of this. Also, doesn't the Bible itself teach that man isn't punished for his father's sins? Yes, it does teach that, though obviously the rules that apply to civil government and jurisprudence don't necessarily apply it to the divine government.The answer is just, we send an Adam. That's the answer to that scripture. Gives. How can God hold people responsible for what Adam did when we weren't in the garden? The classical reformed theology, the category that's given to describe how all of this fits together is federalism.Adam was the federal head of the human race. He was the biological head, everything started with him, but he was also a representative. Adam, his name means mankind, and he was the representative of mankind. And Adam's actions didn't just impact Adam, but they impacted everyone he represented and God appointed him to act for himself and his progeny. And still that doesn't satisfy, that answer, but I didn't choose Adam as my representative. I didn't get a vote. I didn't get a vote. God didn't ask. Well, you also didn't choose your parents. I didn't choose my parents. You didn't choose your grandparents. It's simply a fact of life that a great deal of what determines our lives is the consequence of the people that we are connected to. Is there a bird in here?Yes.That's awesome.Praise God. That's fun. That's fun. We all know this, no man is an island. It's an inescapable fact of human existence, that parents have a tremendous impact on their children and child inherit so much from their parents, both good and bad. This is why scripture so often emphasizes parents walking faithfully with the Lord as the primary means by which children are discipled. Children listen kind of to their parents, but they're more likely to do what their parents do. And if parents follow Jesus Christ, children are more likely to follow as well. Remember the story of Aiken, the whole household was destroyed because of Aiken's sin. And remember the deliverance of Rahab. Her whole household was saved from destruction because of her faith. Remember Israel's deliverance from the Philistines because of David. One day, he couldn't stand God being defamed by Goliath. 40 days and 40 nights, Goliath came out and just cussed God out, the God of Israel, Yahweh, and David had enough and David went and fought him. And David's victory was the victory of all the people as an imputed victory.Nations fall, and their population suffer, sometimes terribly, because of foolish rulers, just like children's lives are ruined because of the dereliction of their parents. So much of what determines the course of our lives we had nothing to do with. I'm fully aware I am very much the person I am in many ways, because of the work of my parents. The Lord is teaching us something.Matthew six. Don't be anxious. Look at the birds. They're just showing off. In many cases, these things were determined for us before we were ever even entering the world. It's like that with so much of our lives. It is what it is, that's what the text says. Like it or not, it's just the truth. This is the doctrine of imputation. We sin in Adam because Adam sinned and Adam's sin is imputed to all of us. It's reckoned. It's transferred to everyone in the human race. And honestly, the only satisfying answer I've found for myself regarding original sin and how is this fair, the only answer I found is, if we can't be held responsible for Adam's act of rebellion, if we don't like that imputation, then we can't be imputed the righteousness of Jesus Christ.The sin is imputed to us to get us to a place of hopelessness and helplessness. And then Jesus shows up and says, repent, believe in me, and my righteousness is gifted to you, not because of anything that you've done. So if you push back on Adam's sin being imputed to you, then you don't get Christ's righteousness imputed to you. You can't have it both ways. Second point is rescue, and this is verse 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. The sin of Adam brought death and the death is a decaying degenerative force, but Christ brings in grace, which has a dynamic power to bring in life and restore that which has been destroyed.Jesus Christ fulfills the covenant of works, which the first Adam disobeyed. Christ's perfect obedience is now imputed to all those he represents under the covenant of grace, just by a gift. It's a free gift. And all we have to do is receive it. If someone right now gave you a check for a trillion dollars, and you can do whatever you want with this. No stipulations. That gift would be a drop in the ocean of the gift that God that gives us in Christ. Doesn't even come close. It's a free gift. It's a free gift. It's free. What did you do to earn the gift of grace and righteous? Nothing, nothing at all.This is the only way I can understand birthday gifts because birthday gifts should not be given to the child. They did nothing. Every single birthday of a child, everyone should bring gifts for mom and dad. That's what should happen, because they did all the work. But the gift is free. Not because the child did anything, it's just a free gift. This is what he's saying. It's grace, just receive it. Both Adam and Jesus are alike in certain ways. There's parallels. That's what he's doing here. Obviously, Jesus is far superior to Adam, but in both they're federal heads. In the sense, they're both fathers. Adam is the father of humanity, of everybody. And Jesus is the father of a new humanity. And each man determines the outcome of the lives of those who belong to him.If you study theology, there's a theology called covenant theology. And a lot of people think covenant theology is just all the covenants that God ever made. But basically covenant theology is just that there's two main covenants. There's a covenant God made with Adam, which is a covenant of works. And there's a covenant that God made with his son, Jesus Christ. In each case, the one man stands and acts as a representative of the race. This was never the case with Abraham. Abraham's faith was not given to his descendants, the descendants had to believe themselves. It wasn't true of David. David, his faithfulness as a king was not given just by virtue of them being connected to the other Kings. But the contrast is clear here that Adam's one act of sin, as bad as it was, is inferior to God's act of grace. Christ's obedience trump's Adam's disobedience.There is two teams, Team Adam and Team Jesus. Scripture talks about this in many ways. This kingdom of light, kingdom of darkness, that apart from Jesus Christ, we're naturally children of Satan. And then when we're reborn, adopting to the family of God, we're children of God, but it's either ... There we go. Just everyone, just repent. Just everybody repent, trust in Jesus Christ. That's what the bird is trying to tell everybody.Verse 16, 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. So thanks to Adam, we get condemnation. Thanks to Jesus, we get justification. And that brings us to point three is reign in verse 17. For if, because of one man's trespass death reigned through the 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. There's a huge contrast here that the gift is gracious. From justification in verse 16, Paul turns his attention to reigning in life. And this is really what I want to focus on for a little bit. Adam's sin, and because Adam sinned now, every single one of us, we inherit a sin nature.Adam died, and because Adam died, death is now just part of life. But Jesus Christ comes and he submits perfectly to God. The king of Kings submits perfectly to the law of Moses, the law of God, the moral code. And because he does all of this, we can be saved from the dominion of sin and death, from the power of sin and death. And we receive the abundance of grace, the free gift of righteous, just by faith. To do what? Look at verse 17 closely with me, the second part. Much more will those, who's the those, that's believers in Christ. Much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness. Do what in life? Reign. Reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Reign in life. What does it mean to reign? What does it mean to reign?R-E-I-G-N not like reigns on a horse. That's R-E-I-N. R-E-I-G-N. That's reign. Reigning how? Reigning as a king. Reigning as queens. When, where certainly in the future, scripture says that we will rule with Christ, that we will judge even angels. Scripture teaches that we are a kingdom of priests proclaiming the excellencies of Christ, that we're prophets, priests, and kings. Prophets proclaiming Christ, priests, we're priesthood. We're also kings in some sense, but scripture doesn't say that here in this text that we will reign just in the future, that's part of it. But he says, we start reigning in life here now in the realm of reality. So what does the text mean when it says that we will reign in life? Well, reigning, what does reigning do? Reigning as kings in the realm of life, meaning God is given us a dominion and authority. And where do kings and queens rule? In their domain, sphere of influence.I've actually tried. I started doing this at home. I started calling my wife queen just to see if it works. Works wonders. It works wonders. Good morning, queen. Oh, wow. Good morning, king. Ooh, that feels good. My wife and I, we were talking about this and she's like, yeah, I call our girls princesses all the time. But it's our job to make sure that they don't grow up to be drama queens. Queens in submission to the Lord. What does it mean? It means that we have spheres of influence and we are to reign in those spheres of influence. First, you got to reign over yourself, that God does give you an authority over yourself when you are in submission of Jesus Christ.So here's how it works. And we're going to talk about this in chapter six next week. In chapter six, when he talks about the fact that we have a power over sin. We have a sin nature, but because of Jesus Christ, we are freed from the domain of sin, the power of sin in our flesh over us. Meaning we have the authority to tell sin, no. Do you live like that? Do you really believe that you can tell sin no? That you can stop whatever sin that you are enslaved to, you can stop it by saying no to it.Sin comes, rears his ugly head and you have a choice to make prior to this. And the temptation comes, you have a choice to make. Am I going to give in? And the way that you fight the chaos, inside the chaos of our lives, of our bodies, of our souls, of our lives is by submitting every part of your life to Jesus Christ. The more you submit to Jesus Christ, the more power you have over yourself. And our culture's kind of waking up to this, that, yeah, we need to take responsibility for ourselves.This was Jordan Peterson with the 12 Rules For Life. He has a chapter on making your bed. He's like, you want to change the world, just make your bed. And what he's getting at is, there's chaos in our lives and we think we're going to solve all the problems out there, but we haven't created order in our lives. He says we can reign in life by submitting to Jesus Christ by following him, by reading God's word and saying, look is my life in submission to the word of God. And when I do submit, that's how I reign over myself, reign in life by physically submitting to him. If any of this sounds strange to you, if you're like, I have been going to church for a long time, and I've never heard of anyone talking about reigning in life, of having dominion over ourselves, dominion over our souls, dominion over our bodies, dominion over our finances, dominion over our time, dominion over how our relationships are going, dominion over marriage, family, children.If any of this sounds strange, perhaps it's because you have been fed a watered down gospel that says that grace is only for forgiveness, that you just need to come to Jesus' grace when you sin and Jesus forgives you. And then you just go on your with your life. That's not how grace is presented in the holy scripture. St. Paul has been drumming this obedience of faith, obedience of faith, obedience of faith. The grace isn't given to us just for forgiveness, it's given to us for transformation. So if there's areas in your life that you are dissatisfied with, patterns of life, habits, rhythms, if you're enslaved, if there's addictions, you can find freedom in Jesus Christ. Addictions from whatever, from substance abuse, from pornography, from social media, from your phone, from whatever, you could be absolutely freed by submitting to Jesus Christ and then reigning over your sin.This is a responsibility. The righteousness is given to us. We are righteous in Christ. We are given this salvation through justification by grace, through faith. And then God says what? Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, that there are things that we have to do to fight sin, to reign over sin, reign over addiction, reign over anxiety, reign over sorrow, reign over doubts, reign over apathy, reign over sloth. Adam lost the garden because he didn't work it and keep it. By the way, Adam's blamed for Eve's sin. Adam is responsible for Eve's sin. That's why this whole chapter isn't about Eve.This whole chapter is about Adam. That's why when Adam and Eve sinned, God came to look for whom? Adam, where are you? Adam, where are you? So men, you are to lead yourself to follow Jesus Christ. If you're married, it is your responsibility, it is your responsibility to guard your wife from the whispers of the evil ones. Adam should have protected the garden from the serpent. He should have killed the serpent. He didn't. And then Jesus Christ came and he did smash the head of Satan. Jesus did reign and he gives us grace and righteousness to reign in life.Verse 18. Therefore as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. Since Christ surpasses Adam, the sin of Adam is overcome by the righteousness of Christ. The curse of Adam is overturned by the grace of Christ and Christ bestows a life that swallows up death. So one act of righteousness, he says, leads to justification in life for all men. What does he mean by all men? Does he mean everyone's going to get saved no matter what? No. He's referring to the many in verse 15. And the many that receive righteousness in verse 17 and the same phrase is used in verse 19, for it's by one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. Who's the many? That's everyone who trusts in Jesus Christ. Everyone who repents of sin and trusts in Christ. The many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience, the many will be made righteous.Adam and his disobedience, what was longing for? What did Satan tempt him with? What did Satan tempt Eve with? He tempted them with a godless life, a godless universe where God was not God and God wasn't in charge. Adam was grasping for equality with God. You don't have to listen to God. But Christ comes and he obeys and he obeys perfectly. Philippians 2:5 through 11, have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. So that at name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth. And every tongue confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. So on the one hand, we see the greatness of our ruin through our Adam solidarity. But if we are in Christ, our Christ solidarity far exceeds our ruin and results in our rescue and ultimately means that we can reign in life.Verse 20. Now the law came to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So he says one purpose of the law, why was the law given, is to demonstrate to humans just how sinful we are, to reveal to the human conscious, our hopelessness apart from the grace of God. The impossibility of sinners being made righteous by their own effort, and that we need a righteousness from God. The law came to increase the trespass.The crucial function of the law is to turn our original sin, that we're sinners by nature, into actual transgressions. This is why when we study the law, and it's so important to study law, it just reveals to us how sinful we are. Apart from the knowledge of the law, we know there's something wrong with us. We know that there's a selfishness, a bend towards selfishness. We know that there's a bend toward corruption. We know we do things that we shouldn't do even by our own standards. And then we study the law of God. The first four commandments, even if we skip those, no one naturally has loved God with all of their heart, soul, strength, and mind. No one's done that. No one does that.But then you look at the other commandments, commandment number 10 thou shall not envy. Oh, that's a sin? I just thought it was an ambition. No. Envy is a sin. To be envious of another person's lot in life, that's sin. Thou shall not commit adultery. Oh, that's a sin. And then Jesus is like, even if you commit adultery in your heart, you've lusted, that's a sin. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not murder. And Jesus said, whoever even hates a person in their heart has already committed murder. So what the law does is it just reveals how sinful we are. We're guilty in Adam, sinful by nature. The law then confronts us with specific will of God. Don't steal, don't lie, don't covet, don't commit adultery. And the law turns sinful nature into specific acts of transgression. And in this sense, the law makes little Adams of each one of us.I don't know if you're mad at Adam. Sometimes I get mad at Adam. If you just look at the world, you look at sin, you look at corruption, you look at the death and decay and the suffering, and you're like, Adam, you had one job. You had one job, just build a fence or something, something. Build something around the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That's it. Just pretend it's not even there. But there is something in every single one of us where, when we are told, don't do it, it's kind of all we can think about. You see this with little kids. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't. Don't, don't even touch the cupcake. Don't touch it. Cupcake's gone. And had you said, eat the cupcake, do not touch the broccoli. Don't touch the broccoli. Don't touch the broc. I'd be tempted by the broccoli. I would.I see this in my own relationship with my wife. I think if my wife told me, Hey, you have to be a carnivore. That's all you can eat. All you can eat is meat. I would be sneaking in salads. I'd get some hummus and carrots going. There's something in us where it's like, you tell me something to do, not going to do it. That's what happened with Adam. That's what happens with every single one of us. And what the law does is it brings sin to light of day. That's why it's so important to read the culture and be like, these messages from the culture, they're false. This is how I disciple my daughters. No, it's false to tell a child, do you feel that you're a boy or girl?I don't care how you feel. None of that matters. Are you straight? Are you gay? Are you bi? Feelings are not infallible. And in our culture, the culture does say, follow your heart. What do you feel? And the feelings rule us. Feelings are the only infallible truth left. Whereas scripture says, look, the heart is deceitful above all things, desperately sick. And sometimes you need to tell your heart, no. Sometimes you have to rule over your own desires and say, that desire is not from God. Let's shut it down. And how do you shut it down? You stop thinking about it.The battlefield for the soul is the mind. You start thinking about something else. You start thinking about the truth of God's word, thinking about God. The law can only condemn us. It gives us no enabling power to help us fulfill its demands. Galatians 3:19 through 24 is helpful. Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made. And it was put in place through angels, by an intermediary. Now, an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not, for if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the scripture, imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.Now, before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then the law was our guardian until Christ came in order that we may be justified by faith. Here, I just want to focus on this phrase. The scripture imprisoned everything under sin. Scriptures imprisoned everything under sin. So it's like, we're locked in a prison of our sin. The scripture is the prison. It locks us in. If you like it or not, it's true. That God's word is infallible and it does lock us. And this is why people want to push God's word out of their lives. We want to push God's word out of our schools, out of the public sphere. Get Christianity out, out, out, out, out. Because if you get rid of Christianity, you get rid of God's word. You get rid of the 10 commandments. You got rid of the law, now you can refashion morality any way that you want.Scripture says, no, no you're locked in the prison. And when you try to break out of the prison of God's scripture, it's like the scripture is in the watch tower with a spotlight on you and a sniper sniping at your sin. Sin, sin, sin, sin. And your conscience just doesn't let you live. And this is why people struggle with depression and substance abuse, you're trying to shut your conscience down. But Jesus comes in into that prison and he covers us with his righteousness. Just covers us completely. It's as if the spotlight only sees the glorious righteousness of Jesus Christ. So when we are breaking free from this prison of sin covered in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, it's like the spotlight and the sniper, they don't see us and we're out. And that's how you get out of enslavement to sin by receiving this gift of Christ's righteousness.Verse 20 and 21. Now the law came to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. He's saying the sin that's revealed by the law, it increases and abounds and abounds and abounds. And then God sends his son, Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law, completely fulfills the work of the covenant of works. He's the only one that did that, obeyed God perfectly, and then goes to a cross to present himself as a substitutionary sacrifice to atone for our sins. And he is the propitiation for our sins, absorbing the wrath of God for our lawbreaking, our condemnation. All of that is poured out on Christ on the cross. And then he dies and he's raised to life.He puts his life down. He picks it up. And that right there is proof that God accepts his sacrifice and that Jesus Christ has vanquished the power of sin and death. And he extends grace to us. A grace, that super abounds. It's a grace that abounded all the more, increased all the more. It's scarcely translatable, you can say super increased or super abounded, but the picture is just an unending overflowing grace that knows no bounds. Grace is always more abundant than sin. Charles Spurgeon has a wonderful sermon on this called Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin, that God has more grace than we have sin. The super abounding grace is intended to reign triumphantly over death and sin in hell.So the good news for each one of us is no matter how great your sin in quantity or depth, God's grace super abounds to you.My daughter Milana, she's four. Every evening she prays the following. She says, Lord, may our church grow bigger and deeper, bigga and deepa. She's not good with R's yet. We are to grow in this understanding of grace ourselves, in both depth and breadth of God's grace, that no one is beyond the grace of God. And this abounding grace is what reigns. Grace, also, he says, in the same way that death reigned over everything, may grace also reign through righteousness leading to eternal life. Grace is not just for forgiveness of sins, but for this reigning. Grace reigns in our life.Does grace reign in your life? Are you a person that is in complete submission to the grace of God? Does grace reign in your life? Is it lording in your life? Part of why, in English, the word reign doesn't really make sense because we haven't had kings in a while, which doesn't make any sense. King George the third was the last one and it didn't work out for him. We don't like kings. We like anything reigning over us. But we should want grace to reign over us, that grace is king in our lives. That grace is king in our spheres of influence, that grace reigns through righteousness. Paul, isn't just talking about the presence of sin, he's talking about its reign. The sin had a reign, but grace can take over that reign by dethroning sin.So in closing, what are we to do? We are to receive God's grace. If you haven't received God's grace yet, you can do that today. Lord, forgive me for all of my sins. There are many. Lord, I receive your grace. And Lord, I also repent that the many times I've received your grace, I've received it in vain. It's not been a power that has transformed. Lord, I repent of that as well, so that we can be people that are strengthened by grace, empowered by grace. Like St. Paul said, he said, I am what I am by the grace of God. But the grace of God in me was not in vain. Instead he says, I worked harder than all of them. That's all of the other apostles. He said, I worked harder than all of them. But it wasn't me, it was the grace of God in me.This is why I love, I love new converts. I love them. When someone just comes from the world from a sinful lifestyle, just broken and beat up by sin, they understand grace in a way like many of us have forgotten. When you're walking with the Lord for quite some time, and you're walking faithfully, you begin to look at grace. They're like, yeah, that's for beginners. That's like how you enter Christianity. Okay, all right. That's like the booster rockets on the main rocket. Good for you. From here on out, it's just hard work. You just got to suck it up. White knuckle it and just be faithful. That's not how it works. The way that you continue in your life on a daily basis is, you revel in the grace of God, receive God's grace. Once you do, make sure that grace reigns through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.And this is the question I would like you to meditate on this week. Does grace reign through righteousness in your life? Does grace reign through righteousness in your life? Amen. Let's pray.Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time of the holy scriptures. And we thank you Lord for the gift of grace, the free gift of righteousness. And I pray, Lord, that it does transform us. I pray that you give us power to reign in life. Whatever things in our lives are just out of control, wherever we are enslaved to sin and wherever pride and ego and selfishness, self-absorption is reigning, I pray, Lord, trounce all that with the power of the grace, the cross of Jesus Christ, that we are saved by the blood of the lamb and that we can be victorious over Satan's sin and because the work of Christ, even over death itself. And we pray all this in Jesus' name, amen.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. The title of the sermon is Reign of Grace in Life. A few questions to start things off. Why are people the way they are? You ever ask that question? Why are we the way we are? Why is everyone so selfish? Why is it that everyone condemns others for things that we do ourselves? Why is it that everyone violates the very standards of behavior we hold up as good and right? Why is the most universal experience of humans an uneasy conscience? We know we've done things that we shouldn't have done, and we have not done the things that we should have done. Why have we never been able to educate sin out of the human heart? Why haven't we been able to punish sin out of the human heart? Why haven't we been able to cancel sin from the human heart? Why have all of our efforts to address human problems by the government, it all leaves us with the same sinful humanity and just more problems. Why is it at nowhere at any time ever in world history, a sinless people has existed?? Why is evil so easy to fall into, but true goodness is so difficult to rise to? Why is our desire so strong for unchastity, fornication, adultery, and why is chastity so difficult? Why is it that with all of our technological advances, we haven't been able to curb moral degradation, we've only exacerbated because people have more opportunity to sin? Why is it universally and historically a case that the best people in the world morally speaking are the most conscious of their failures and acknowledge they're bent toward what is unworthy, unloving, dishonest, and pure? And why is that already in infancy, we can see clearly the pride, envy, selfishness of human life beginning to appear? Well, we find all of the answers to all those questions in Romans 5:12 through 21. Would you look at the text with me? "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. For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 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. 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. 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. 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. Therefore as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience, the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." This is the reading of God's holy inerrant, infallible authoritative word may He write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Three points to frame up our time. We'll look at ruin, rescue, and reign. First, ruin starting at verse 12. Therefore. The therefore alerts us that Paul is making a brand new point. It's flowing from his prior discussion. Last week, we talking about reconciliation, that we are reconciled with God because of the work of Jesus Christ. Therefore just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death spread to all men because all sin. He's talking about two undeniable, indisputable facts of life, sin and death. They're universal. Universality of sin, universality of death. We can't deny these. Everywhere we look, we see evidence upon evidence upon evidence of these two. And we're victims of the twin evils of sin and death. Tanya and I, when we were in seminary in North Carolina, working through the MDiv. The seminary was next to a cemetery and we would go on nice romantic strolls in the evening at the cemetery. There was a little pond there, and I spent all day studying the holy scriptures. And then every evening it was just a reminder, I'm going to die. We're all going to die. It puts things into perspective. So death spread to all men because all sinned, all sin, that's past tense. So Adam's sin in some sense becomes our sin and our guilt. We are sinners by choice because we are sinners by nature. We're born sinners. We sin because of our nature. This is the doctrine of total depravity that every single one of our faculties in some sense is corrupt to the core. And we've inherited this corruption. So how does this inform parenting? Well, children are born as little sinners and unless you parent and disciple and teach them and correct them and rebuke, and exhort, that nature is going to take over. This text is about the fall of the entire human race through Adam. The penalty for sin is death and death reign from Adam to Moses. So in a sense, everybody in the world somehow broke the law in Adam, we're guilty for Adam's act of rebellion. Adam's sin brought condemnation upon the entire human race. We are related to Adam through one man's sin and death came into the world. This is the doctrine of original sin. Blaise Pascal said the doctrine of original sin is beyond our ability to explain, but without it, you can't explain anything. What's the difference between original sin and actual sin? Actual sin is when we do something that transgreses God's law. And that requires a conscious awareness that there is right and wrong and a conscious awareness of actual violation. This is why children are not held accountable for their sin until the age of accountability. Paul talks about that later. But when a baby's born, there's a period of time, conceived, born, there's a period of time between birth and accountability before the baby actually commits a sin. But then why do people still die? Before the infant even sinned, why do infants sometimes die? Why do babies die in infancy if death is the penalty for sin, but the baby hasn't sinned. Well, he continues in verse 13. For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those sinning, those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. Now to understand what he's saying in verse 13, you've got to go back to chapter four, verse 15, where he says for the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, there is no transgression. So here he delineates, separates, sin and transgression. Verse 13, for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given. So there was sin before the law was given. After the law was given, now there's transgression of the law, but the sin was present before the law. Paul says the sin was present pervasive in the world from the time of Adam until the time of Moses, even though the specific commandments of law of Moses with their corresponding penalties hadn't been revealed yet. So how can it be if there was no law until the time of Moses? Why did people die? The same with the question with infants? Well, death reigned from Adam to Moses, he says, because of the imputation of Adam's sin to us. God gave Adam a covenant of works. I put you in the garden to work it and keep it, to have dominion over it, to protect the garden. God told Adam, do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Do anything, everything else, but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good ne evil. That was the covenant of works. And Adam and Eve, in their created perfect nature, they had the ability to not sin. They also had the ability to sin. They could have lived eternally or they could have died, and they did because of disobedience. So now we have to deal with an objection. And I waited long enough until this objection. This objection rises in every single human heart. The objection is this. How can God blame me for Adam's sin? I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I don't even like apples that much. How is that fair? I was born this way. I am just following my nature. How can God hold me responsible for a sin nature? I didn't choose any of this. Also, doesn't the Bible itself teach that man isn't punished for his father's sins? Yes, it does teach that, though obviously the rules that apply to civil government and jurisprudence don't necessarily apply it to the divine government. The answer is just, we send an Adam. That's the answer to that scripture. Gives. How can God hold people responsible for what Adam did when we weren't in the garden? The classical reformed theology, the category that's given to describe how all of this fits together is federalism. Adam was the federal head of the human race. He was the biological head, everything started with him, but he was also a representative. Adam, his name means mankind, and he was the representative of mankind. And Adam's actions didn't just impact Adam, but they impacted everyone he represented and God appointed him to act for himself and his progeny. And still that doesn't satisfy, that answer, but I didn't choose Adam as my representative. I didn't get a vote. I didn't get a vote. God didn't ask. Well, you also didn't choose your parents. I didn't choose my parents. You didn't choose your grandparents. It's simply a fact of life that a great deal of what determines our lives is the consequence of the people that we are connected to. Is there a bird in here? Yes. That's awesome. Praise God. That's fun. That's fun. We all know this, no man is an island. It's an inescapable fact of human existence, that parents have a tremendous impact on their children and child inherit so much from their parents, both good and bad. This is why scripture so often emphasizes parents walking faithfully with the Lord as the primary means by which children are discipled. Children listen kind of to their parents, but they're more likely to do what their parents do. And if parents follow Jesus Christ, children are more likely to follow as well. Remember the story of Aiken, the whole household was destroyed because of Aiken's sin. And remember the deliverance of Rahab. Her whole household was saved from destruction because of her faith. Remember Israel's deliverance from the Philistines because of David. One day, he couldn't stand God being defamed by Goliath. 40 days and 40 nights, Goliath came out and just cussed God out, the God of Israel, Yahweh, and David had enough and David went and fought him. And David's victory was the victory of all the people as an imputed victory. Nations fall, and their population suffer, sometimes terribly, because of foolish rulers, just like children's lives are ruined because of the dereliction of their parents. So much of what determines the course of our lives we had nothing to do with. I'm fully aware I am very much the person I am in many ways, because of the work of my parents. The Lord is teaching us something. Matthew six. Don't be anxious. Look at the birds. They're just showing off. In many cases, these things were determined for us before we were ever even entering the world. It's like that with so much of our lives. It is what it is, that's what the text says. Like it or not, it's just the truth. This is the doctrine of imputation. We sin in Adam because Adam sinned and Adam's sin is imputed to all of us. It's reckoned. It's transferred to everyone in the human race. And honestly, the only satisfying answer I've found for myself regarding original sin and how is this fair, the only answer I found is, if we can't be held responsible for Adam's act of rebellion, if we don't like that imputation, then we can't be imputed the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The sin is imputed to us to get us to a place of hopelessness and helplessness. And then Jesus shows up and says, repent, believe in me, and my righteousness is gifted to you, not because of anything that you've done. So if you push back on Adam's sin being imputed to you, then you don't get Christ's righteousness imputed to you. You can't have it both ways. Second point is rescue, and this is verse 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. The sin of Adam brought death and the death is a decaying degenerative force, but Christ brings in grace, which has a dynamic power to bring in life and restore that which has been destroyed. Jesus Christ fulfills the covenant of works, which the first Adam disobeyed. Christ's perfect obedience is now imputed to all those he represents under the covenant of grace, just by a gift. It's a free gift. And all we have to do is receive it. If someone right now gave you a check for a trillion dollars, and you can do whatever you want with this. No stipulations. That gift would be a drop in the ocean of the gift that God that gives us in Christ. Doesn't even come close. It's a free gift. It's a free gift. It's free. What did you do to earn the gift of grace and righteous? Nothing, nothing at all. This is the only way I can understand birthday gifts because birthday gifts should not be given to the child. They did nothing. Every single birthday of a child, everyone should bring gifts for mom and dad. That's what should happen, because they did all the work. But the gift is free. Not because the child did anything, it's just a free gift. This is what he's saying. It's grace, just receive it. Both Adam and Jesus are alike in certain ways. There's parallels. That's what he's doing here. Obviously, Jesus is far superior to Adam, but in both they're federal heads. In the sense, they're both fathers. Adam is the father of humanity, of everybody. And Jesus is the father of a new humanity. And each man determines the outcome of the lives of those who belong to him. If you study theology, there's a theology called covenant theology. And a lot of people think covenant theology is just all the covenants that God ever made. But basically covenant theology is just that there's two main covenants. There's a covenant God made with Adam, which is a covenant of works. And there's a covenant that God made with his son, Jesus Christ. In each case, the one man stands and acts as a representative of the race. This was never the case with Abraham. Abraham's faith was not given to his descendants, the descendants had to believe themselves. It wasn't true of David. David, his faithfulness as a king was not given just by virtue of them being connected to the other Kings. But the contrast is clear here that Adam's one act of sin, as bad as it was, is inferior to God's act of grace. Christ's obedience trump's Adam's disobedience. There is two teams, Team Adam and Team Jesus. Scripture talks about this in many ways. This kingdom of light, kingdom of darkness, that apart from Jesus Christ, we're naturally children of Satan. And then when we're reborn, adopting to the family of God, we're children of God, but it's either ... There we go. Just everyone, just repent. Just everybody repent, trust in Jesus Christ. That's what the bird is trying to tell everybody. Verse 16, 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. So thanks to Adam, we get condemnation. Thanks to Jesus, we get justification. And that brings us to point three is reign in verse 17. For if, because of one man's trespass death reigned through the 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. There's a huge contrast here that the gift is gracious. From justification in verse 16, Paul turns his attention to reigning in life. And this is really what I want to focus on for a little bit. Adam's sin, and because Adam sinned now, every single one of us, we inherit a sin nature. Adam died, and because Adam died, death is now just part of life. But Jesus Christ comes and he submits perfectly to God. The king of Kings submits perfectly to the law of Moses, the law of God, the moral code. And because he does all of this, we can be saved from the dominion of sin and death, from the power of sin and death. And we receive the abundance of grace, the free gift of righteous, just by faith. To do what? Look at verse 17 closely with me, the second part. Much more will those, who's the those, that's believers in Christ. Much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness. Do what in life? Reign. Reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Reign in life. What does it mean to reign? What does it mean to reign? R-E-I-G-N not like reigns on a horse. That's R-E-I-N. R-E-I-G-N. That's reign. Reigning how? Reigning as a king. Reigning as queens. When, where certainly in the future, scripture says that we will rule with Christ, that we will judge even angels. Scripture teaches that we are a kingdom of priests proclaiming the excellencies of Christ, that we're prophets, priests, and kings. Prophets proclaiming Christ, priests, we're priesthood. We're also kings in some sense, but scripture doesn't say that here in this text that we will reign just in the future, that's part of it. But he says, we start reigning in life here now in the realm of reality. So what does the text mean when it says that we will reign in life? Well, reigning, what does reigning do? Reigning as kings in the realm of life, meaning God is given us a dominion and authority. And where do kings and queens rule? In their domain, sphere of influence. I've actually tried. I started doing this at home. I started calling my wife queen just to see if it works. Works wonders. It works wonders. Good morning, queen. Oh, wow. Good morning, king. Ooh, that feels good. My wife and I, we were talking about this and she's like, yeah, I call our girls princesses all the time. But it's our job to make sure that they don't grow up to be drama queens. Queens in submission to the Lord. What does it mean? It means that we have spheres of influence and we are to reign in those spheres of influence. First, you got to reign over yourself, that God does give you an authority over yourself when you are in submission of Jesus Christ. So here's how it works. And we're going to talk about this in chapter six next week. In chapter six, when he talks about the fact that we have a power over sin. We have a sin nature, but because of Jesus Christ, we are freed from the domain of sin, the power of sin in our flesh over us. Meaning we have the authority to tell sin, no. Do you live like that? Do you really believe that you can tell sin no? That you can stop whatever sin that you are enslaved to, you can stop it by saying no to it. Sin comes, rears his ugly head and you have a choice to make prior to this. And the temptation comes, you have a choice to make. Am I going to give in? And the way that you fight the chaos, inside the chaos of our lives, of our bodies, of our souls, of our lives is by submitting every part of your life to Jesus Christ. The more you submit to Jesus Christ, the more power you have over yourself. And our culture's kind of waking up to this, that, yeah, we need to take responsibility for ourselves. This was Jordan Peterson with the 12 Rules For Life. He has a chapter on making your bed. He's like, you want to change the world, just make your bed. And what he's getting at is, there's chaos in our lives and we think we're going to solve all the problems out there, but we haven't created order in our lives. He says we can reign in life by submitting to Jesus Christ by following him, by reading God's word and saying, look is my life in submission to the word of God. And when I do submit, that's how I reign over myself, reign in life by physically submitting to him. If any of this sounds strange to you, if you're like, I have been going to church for a long time, and I've never heard of anyone talking about reigning in life, of having dominion over ourselves, dominion over our souls, dominion over our bodies, dominion over our finances, dominion over our time, dominion over how our relationships are going, dominion over marriage, family, children. If any of this sounds strange, perhaps it's because you have been fed a watered down gospel that says that grace is only for forgiveness, that you just need to come to Jesus' grace when you sin and Jesus forgives you. And then you just go on your with your life. That's not how grace is presented in the holy scripture. St. Paul has been drumming this obedience of faith, obedience of faith, obedience of faith. The grace isn't given to us just for forgiveness, it's given to us for transformation. So if there's areas in your life that you are dissatisfied with, patterns of life, habits, rhythms, if you're enslaved, if there's addictions, you can find freedom in Jesus Christ. Addictions from whatever, from substance abuse, from pornography, from social media, from your phone, from whatever, you could be absolutely freed by submitting to Jesus Christ and then reigning over your sin. This is a responsibility. The righteousness is given to us. We are righteous in Christ. We are given this salvation through justification by grace, through faith. And then God says what? Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, that there are things that we have to do to fight sin, to reign over sin, reign over addiction, reign over anxiety, reign over sorrow, reign over doubts, reign over apathy, reign over sloth. Adam lost the garden because he didn't work it and keep it. By the way, Adam's blamed for Eve's sin. Adam is responsible for Eve's sin. That's why this whole chapter isn't about Eve. This whole chapter is about Adam. That's why when Adam and Eve sinned, God came to look for whom? Adam, where are you? Adam, where are you? So men, you are to lead yourself to follow Jesus Christ. If you're married, it is your responsibility, it is your responsibility to guard your wife from the whispers of the evil ones. Adam should have protected the garden from the serpent. He should have killed the serpent. He didn't. And then Jesus Christ came and he did smash the head of Satan. Jesus did reign and he gives us grace and righteousness to reign in life. Verse 18. Therefore as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. Since Christ surpasses Adam, the sin of Adam is overcome by the righteousness of Christ. The curse of Adam is overturned by the grace of Christ and Christ bestows a life that swallows up death. So one act of righteousness, he says, leads to justification in life for all men. What does he mean by all men? Does he mean everyone's going to get saved no matter what? No. He's referring to the many in verse 15. And the many that receive righteousness in verse 17 and the same phrase is used in verse 19, for it's by one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. Who's the many? That's everyone who trusts in Jesus Christ. Everyone who repents of sin and trusts in Christ. The many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience, the many will be made righteous. Adam and his disobedience, what was longing for? What did Satan tempt him with? What did Satan tempt Eve with? He tempted them with a godless life, a godless universe where God was not God and God wasn't in charge. Adam was grasping for equality with God. You don't have to listen to God. But Christ comes and he obeys and he obeys perfectly. Philippians 2:5 through 11, have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. So that at name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth. And every tongue confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. So on the one hand, we see the greatness of our ruin through our Adam solidarity. But if we are in Christ, our Christ solidarity far exceeds our ruin and results in our rescue and ultimately means that we can reign in life. Verse 20. Now the law came to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So he says one purpose of the law, why was the law given, is to demonstrate to humans just how sinful we are, to reveal to the human conscious, our hopelessness apart from the grace of God. The impossibility of sinners being made righteous by their own effort, and that we need a righteousness from God. The law came to increase the trespass. The crucial function of the law is to turn our original sin, that we're sinners by nature, into actual transgressions. This is why when we study the law, and it's so important to study law, it just reveals to us how sinful we are. Apart from the knowledge of the law, we know there's something wrong with us. We know that there's a selfishness, a bend towards selfishness. We know that there's a bend toward corruption. We know we do things that we shouldn't do even by our own standards. And then we study the law of God. The first four commandments, even if we skip those, no one naturally has loved God with all of their heart, soul, strength, and mind. No one's done that. No one does that. But then you look at the other commandments, commandment number 10 thou shall not envy. Oh, that's a sin? I just thought it was an ambition. No. Envy is a sin. To be envious of another person's lot in life, that's sin. Thou shall not commit adultery. Oh, that's a sin. And then Jesus is like, even if you commit adultery in your heart, you've lusted, that's a sin. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not murder. And Jesus said, whoever even hates a person in their heart has already committed murder. So what the law does is it just reveals how sinful we are. We're guilty in Adam, sinful by nature. The law then confronts us with specific will of God. Don't steal, don't lie, don't covet, don't commit adultery. And the law turns sinful nature into specific acts of transgression. And in this sense, the law makes little Adams of each one of us. I don't know if you're mad at Adam. Sometimes I get mad at Adam. If you just look at the world, you look at sin, you look at corruption, you look at the death and decay and the suffering, and you're like, Adam, you had one job. You had one job, just build a fence or something, something. Build something around the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That's it. Just pretend it's not even there. But there is something in every single one of us where, when we are told, don't do it, it's kind of all we can think about. You see this with little kids. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't. Don't, don't even touch the cupcake. Don't touch it. Cupcake's gone. And had you said, eat the cupcake, do not touch the broccoli. Don't touch the broccoli. Don't touch the broc. I'd be tempted by the broccoli. I would. I see this in my own relationship with my wife. I think if my wife told me, Hey, you have to be a carnivore. That's all you can eat. All you can eat is meat. I would be sneaking in salads. I'd get some hummus and carrots going. There's something in us where it's like, you tell me something to do, not going to do it. That's what happened with Adam. That's what happens with every single one of us. And what the law does is it brings sin to light of day. That's why it's so important to read the culture and be like, these messages from the culture, they're false. This is how I disciple my daughters. No, it's false to tell a child, do you feel that you're a boy or girl? I don't care how you feel. None of that matters. Are you straight? Are you gay? Are you bi? Feelings are not infallible. And in our culture, the culture does say, follow your heart. What do you feel? And the feelings rule us. Feelings are the only infallible truth left. Whereas scripture says, look, the heart is deceitful above all things, desperately sick. And sometimes you need to tell your heart, no. Sometimes you have to rule over your own desires and say, that desire is not from God. Let's shut it down. And how do you shut it down? You stop thinking about it. The battlefield for the soul is the mind. You start thinking about something else. You start thinking about the truth of God's word, thinking about God. The law can only condemn us. It gives us no enabling power to help us fulfill its demands. Galatians 3:19 through 24 is helpful. Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made. And it was put in place through angels, by an intermediary. Now, an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not, for if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the scripture, imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Now, before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then the law was our guardian until Christ came in order that we may be justified by faith. Here, I just want to focus on this phrase. The scripture imprisoned everything under sin. Scriptures imprisoned everything under sin. So it's like, we're locked in a prison of our sin. The scripture is the prison. It locks us in. If you like it or not, it's true. That God's word is infallible and it does lock us. And this is why people want to push God's word out of their lives. We want to push God's word out of our schools, out of the public sphere. Get Christianity out, out, out, out, out. Because if you get rid of Christianity, you get rid of God's word. You get rid of the 10 commandments. You got rid of the law, now you can refashion morality any way that you want. Scripture says, no, no you're locked in the prison. And when you try to break out of the prison of God's scripture, it's like the scripture is in the watch tower with a spotlight on you and a sniper sniping at your sin. Sin, sin, sin, sin. And your conscience just doesn't let you live. And this is why people struggle with depression and substance abuse, you're trying to shut your conscience down. But Jesus comes in into that prison and he covers us with his righteousness. Just covers us completely. It's as if the spotlight only sees the glorious righteousness of Jesus Christ. So when we are breaking free from this prison of sin covered in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, it's like the spotlight and the sniper, they don't see us and we're out. And that's how you get out of enslavement to sin by receiving this gift of Christ's righteousness. Verse 20 and 21. Now the law came to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. He's saying the sin that's revealed by the law, it increases and abounds and abounds and abounds. And then God sends his son, Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law, completely fulfills the work of the covenant of works. He's the only one that did that, obeyed God perfectly, and then goes to a cross to present himself as a substitutionary sacrifice to atone for our sins. And he is the propitiation for our sins, absorbing the wrath of God for our lawbreaking, our condemnation. All of that is poured out on Christ on the cross. And then he dies and he's raised to life. He puts his life down. He picks it up. And that right there is proof that God accepts his sacrifice and that Jesus Christ has vanquished the power of sin and death. And he extends grace to us. A grace, that super abounds. It's a grace that abounded all the more, increased all the more. It's scarcely translatable, you can say super increased or super abounded, but the picture is just an unending overflowing grace that knows no bounds. Grace is always more abundant than sin. Charles Spurgeon has a wonderful sermon on this called Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin, that God has more grace than we have sin. The super abounding grace is intended to reign triumphantly over death and sin in hell. So the good news for each one of us is no matter how great your sin in quantity or depth, God's grace super abounds to you. My daughter Milana, she's four. Every evening she prays the following. She says, Lord, may our church grow bigger and deeper, bigga and deepa. She's not good with R's yet. We are to grow in this understanding of grace ourselves, in both depth and breadth of God's grace, that no one is beyond the grace of God. And this abounding grace is what reigns. Grace, also, he says, in the same way that death reigned over everything, may grace also reign through righteousness leading to eternal life. Grace is not just for forgiveness of sins, but for this reigning. Grace reigns in our life. Does grace reign in your life? Are you a person that is in complete submission to the grace of God? Does grace reign in your life? Is it lording in your life? Part of why, in English, the word reign doesn't really make sense because we haven't had kings in a while, which doesn't make any sense. King George the third was the last one and it didn't work out for him. We don't like kings. We like anything reigning over us. But we should want grace to reign over us, that grace is king in our lives. That grace is king in our spheres of influence, that grace reigns through righteousness. Paul, isn't just talking about the presence of sin, he's talking about its reign. The sin had a reign, but grace can take over that reign by dethroning sin. So in closing, what are we to do? We are to receive God's grace. If you haven't received God's grace yet, you can do that today. Lord, forgive me for all of my sins. There are many. Lord, I receive your grace. And Lord, I also repent that the many times I've received your grace, I've received it in vain. It's not been a power that has transformed. Lord, I repent of that as well, so that we can be people that are strengthened by grace, empowered by grace. Like St. Paul said, he said, I am what I am by the grace of God. But the grace of God in me was not in vain. Instead he says, I worked harder than all of them. That's all of the other apostles. He said, I worked harder than all of them. But it wasn't me, it was the grace of God in me. This is why I love, I love new converts. I love them. When someone just comes from the world from a sinful lifestyle, just broken and beat up by sin, they understand grace in a way like many of us have forgotten. When you're walking with the Lord for quite some time, and you're walking faithfully, you begin to look at grace. They're like, yeah, that's for beginners. That's like how you enter Christianity. Okay, all right. That's like the booster rockets on the main rocket. Good for you. From here on out, it's just hard work. You just got to suck it up. White knuckle it and just be faithful. That's not how it works. The way that you continue in your life on a daily basis is, you revel in the grace of God, receive God's grace. Once you do, make sure that grace reigns through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. And this is the question I would like you to meditate on this week. Does grace reign through righteousness in your life? Does grace reign through righteousness in your life? Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time of the holy scriptures. And we thank you Lord for the gift of grace, the free gift of righteousness. And I pray, Lord, that it does transform us. I pray that you give us power to reign in life. Whatever things in our lives are just out of control, wherever we are enslaved to sin and wherever pride and ego and selfishness, self-absorption is reigning, I pray, Lord, trounce all that with the power of the grace, the cross of Jesus Christ, that we are saved by the blood of the lamb and that we can be victorious over Satan's sin and because the work of Christ, even over death itself. And we pray all this in Jesus' name, amen.

Lady V's Devotional Episode  Ephesians 2:8-9 (AMP) says:  For it is by grace [God's remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].  Ephesians 2:8-9 (AMP)  Devotional  For God so loved the world that HE gave HIS only Son, that whoever believes in HIM should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16, ESV)  That is such a powerful statement of God's nature.   And to think—HE who is LOVE demonstrated HIS love through the greatest sacrifice of all time. HIS love is revealed through HIS Son on the Cross displaying—goodness, mercy, grace, and truth.   Nothing would stand in the way of redeeming humanity. The Heavenly Father did what was necessary to provide for the ones HE dearly loves.  You see...when God created the heavens and the earth, He also created the first man Adam, and the first woman Eve. God gave them everything they needed from the start of it all.   God provided what was necessary for the ones HE loved.  Yet, they were convinced by the serpent/Satan, that God hadn't given them enough. That was the first time Adam and Eve had ever sinned by an act of unbelief, which was disobedience. This proved to be deadly for all humanity.   Imagine if a trial had of taken place at that moment in a heavenly court. Both Adam and Eve would have been found guilty--in the eternal degree.  But this is the GOOD NEWS! God had provided a plan of GRACE that would save humanity from a horrific eternal sentence.  Instead of seeking vengeance for the sins of the world, God sought to show HIS most INFINITE LOVE. God introduced the world to GRACE-- the unmerited, abounding provision of the unrestrained operation of God's infinite love through Jesus Christ; on behalf of man, especially those who depend on HIM (Creflo Dollar, WCCI).  God came down to our level, wrapped HIMSELF in human flesh by being born into a physical body through Mary. And at the moment Jesus was born, HE became the SAVIOR of the world.   Romans chapter 5 and verses 18-19 (NLT), says “Yes, Adam's one sin brings condemnation for everyone, BUT Christ's one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But, because ONE other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.”  JESUS came to pardon humanity from a guilty sentence because of sin. He declares us NOT GUILTY by reason of HIS atoning sacrifice on the CROSS for the sins of the world.  Thus, for all who would BELIEVE in JESUS by faith, would receive forgiveness of sins for eternity.   Now that's the Good News!  Beloved, our performance doesn't stand before God—our faith in Jesus does. Jesus alone makes all things new—even you! Depend on the Grace of God as we partake of the blessings of THE GOOD NEWS!   For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast! (Ephesians 2:8-9, ESV)   God's gift of salvation for all who would believe.   THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS!  Let's pray...  Heavenly Father,   We come to you in the Name of Jesus with thanksgiving in our hearts. Father God, we thank YOU for YOUR goodness in our lives. We thank YOU that we can always depend on YOU.  Father God, I lift up every believer in Christ, that their dependency will always be upon YOU. I pray that every heart of the believer is eagerly awaiting the return of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS!  Father God, I lift up every person on this earth that does not know Jesus as the SAVIOR of the world.

In this episode, we get really heavy into some comically unfortunate details about Adam and his ex-wife. Both Adam and his ex waited to have sex until they were married like good Christian virgins, but it didn't turn out like youth pastors led them to believe. There were no sunshine, rainbows, or orgasms in this holy matrimony. We delve even deeper into his struggles with purity and self-esteem, his disastrous wedding night, his incompetent marriage counselor, as we try to answer the question: what kind of monster loses their virginity and commits adultery at the same time? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, I am joined by returning guests Anthony Passamonte and Lindsey Corak. Both Adam and Lindsey are Strategic Lifestyle and Fitness Planners who want to help others "stack up" positive, consistent habits in order to level up their lives. Anthony and Lindsey dedicate their time to serving others and cultivating strong relationships. By leveraging strengths and weaknesses, they help individuals achieve their goals, regardless of their fitness level. The last time they were on the show, we talked about their business, Stacked Up Fitness, and how the fitness industry is constantly changing. With those changes, Anthony and Lindsey are back to discuss their latest project, StackTrax Fitness. StackTrax Fitness is a new way to "lock in" your fitness and provides a convenient training solution for all fitness levels. This releasable and portable equipment creates a space-saving, versatile, and cost-effective workout space at home and beyond. Through patent research, dedication, and networking, Anthony and Lindsey pivoted from coaching online through the pandemic and brought this new concept to life. Topics Discussed: Creative Design Process: From the First Model to the Finalized Product Keeping a positive mindset to help push through the challenges The power of networking and sharing your mission with others Continual growth & strong communication as keys to a successful business Connect with StackTrax Fitness : Website: https://stacktrax.shop/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stacktraxfitness/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacktraxfitness/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/l.a_trax/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theburnboss/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stack_trax YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjtzKtvqU2eQM37vcZTH3sw/about Additional Resources: Medium - Authority Magazine: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/lindsey-corak-of-stack-trax-the-power-of-flexibility-how-i-was-able-to-pivot-to-a-new-exciting-e2034df5e6c6 Contact StackTrax Fitness: Call: 508-523-1123 Email: info@stacktraxfitness.com Address: Framingham, MA Connect with Mark Condon: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BostonsBestPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bostonsbest_podcast/ About Boston's Best: “Highlighting successful businesses in and around Boston, MA.” Go behind the scenes with financial planner Mark Condon as he asks industry-leading experts to talk about their businesses throughout the state of Massachusetts. Through each episode, Mark finds what sets these different businesses apart from their competition and how they rose above the inevitable challenges they faced along the way to their ultimate success.

Dr. David Barry joins us to speak about his book, The Exile of Adam in Romans: The Reversal of the Curse against Adam and Israel in the Substructure of Romans 5 and 8 (Fortress Academic, 2021). In this book, Barry investigates the “divine son” motif in Romans 5 and 8 through the lens of exile and restoration. Both Adam's exclusion from Eden and Israel's exile from Palestine are, for Paul, a divine son falling short of God's holiness and forfeiting the divine inheritance and presence. The themes of Adam and Israel are complementary examples of sin and separation from God, which Paul argues are reversed in Christ and for believers in union with him. This theme of “divine sons” provides a framework for interpreting Paul's use of restoration prophecies in Romans 5 and 8. Dr. Barry is pastor at Midway Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Powder Springs, Georgia and Visiting Lecturer in New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in New Testament from Westminster Theological Seminary (2018). Prior to his doctoral work, he studied at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, (M.Div, 2013), and Clemson University (BS, 2009).

We interviewed Adam Roberts and Emily Cortright, co-owners of AE multifamily. Emily started her real estate investing journey in 2013, purchasing single-family flip and rental properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Adam has recently joined Emily in July 2018 to help run their real estate business in a full-time capacity. Prior to then, he worked in roles of increasing responsibility within the GE Aviation and Transportation businesses. Since being introduced to multifamily investing in July 2017, Emily and Adam have invested passively in 6 multifamily properties throughout Texas and have co-sponsored 2 deals: Cooper Park Apartments, a 180-unit apartment complex in Arlington, Texas, and Northaven Terrace, a 208-unit complex in Northwest Dallas. Both Adam and Emily come from an engineering background. Climbing the corporate ladder was all they knew before they were exposed to passive income and real estate. In this episode, we cover several key topics including: Overcoming limiting beliefs on raising capital for multifamily How they built strong relationships with brokers in their market What to think about before you raise rents on a property And More… Connect with Adam and Emily: Website - https://www.aemultifamily.com/ Email - adam@aemultifamily.com And if you want more tips and guidance, sign up to our weekly newsletter at www.donisinvestmentgroup.com/monopoly. Follow Us: @donisbrothers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @Donis Investment Group on Linkedin Website --> www.donisinvestmentgroup.com

We interviewed Adam Roberts and Emily Cortright, co-owners of AE multifamily. Emily started her real estate investing journey in 2013, purchasing single-family flip and rental properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Adam has recently joined Emily in July 2018 to help run their real estate business in a full-time capacity. Prior to then, he worked in roles of increasing responsibility within the GE Aviation and Transportation businesses. Since being introduced to multifamily investing in July 2017, Emily and Adam have invested passively in 6 multifamily properties throughout Texas and have co-sponsored 2 deals: Cooper Park Apartments, a 180-unit apartment complex in Arlington, Texas, and Northaven Terrace, a 208-unit complex in Northwest Dallas. Both Adam and Emily come from an engineering background. Climbing the corporate ladder was all they knew before they were exposed to passive income and real estate. In this episode, we cover several key topics including: Overcoming limiting beliefs on raising capital for multifamily How they built strong relationships with brokers in their market What to think about before you raise rents on a property And More… Connect with Adam and Emily: Website - https://www.aemultifamily.com/ Email - adam@aemultifamily.com And if you want more tips and guidance, sign up to our weekly newsletter at www.donisinvestmentgroup.com/monopoly. Follow Us: @donisbrothers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @Donis Investment Group on Linkedin Website --> www.donisinvestmentgroup.com

In this passage Paul unpacks the doctrine of Original Sin -or better, Original Death- from 5 different angles as he compares and contrasts universal death through Adam's sin and superabundant grace through Christ's obedience.--The differences between Adam's sin and Christ's righteousness, and how they affect their people, are explained in verses 15-17- the similarities are highlighted in verses 18-19.--Both Adam and Christ represented others before God. That is where the similarity ends. But Christ cleans up after Adam. He succeeded where Adam failed. His obedience resulted in life for all who are -in Christ,- whereas Adam's disobedience resulted in death for all -in Adam-.--The free gift of righteousness and life in Christ is freely offered and freely bestowed upon all who simply -receive- it.

In this passage Paul unpacks the doctrine of Original Sin -or better, Original Death- from 5 different angles as he compares and contrasts universal death through Adam's sin and superabundant grace through Christ's obedience.--The differences between Adam's sin and Christ's righteousness, and how they affect their people, are explained in verses 15-17- the similarities are highlighted in verses 18-19.--Both Adam and Christ represented others before God. That is where the similarity ends. But Christ cleans up after Adam. He succeeded where Adam failed. His obedience resulted in life for all who are -in Christ,- whereas Adam's disobedience resulted in death for all -in Adam-.--The free gift of righteousness and life in Christ is freely offered and freely bestowed upon all who simply -receive- it.

Adam and Sarah have a communication problem. While they feel that they don't communicate well, the reality is that their communication is crystal clear, they just don't like what is being communicated. Both Adam and Sarah entered the marriage with rigid ideas of what their relationship would look like, and when those expectations went unfulfilled, the resentment they felt for each other began to grow. In this episode, listen in as Dr. Finlayson-Fife works with Adam and Sarah to help them learn to become less dependant on each other while creating a relationship with more compassion and deeper honesty in the process.

In this episode, Adam invites Dr. Kojo Sarfo, a mental health advocate, psychoterapist, and a social media content creator. They discussed how he boomed in social media and how it became a powerful tool in promoting his ideals, and many more. Both Adam and Dr. Kojo use their platform to promote medical related information and mental health, respectively.

Why Do We Need a Savior? Genesis 2-3Adam and Eve were like God because they were created in God's image, had dominion over all living things, and had everything they needed. God had placed them in the beautiful garden of Eden which was full of fruit-bearing trees. Both Adam and Eve, husband and wife, were naked and they were not ashamed. Among the trees were the “tree of life” and the tree of the “knowledge of good and evil.” God told Adam that they could eat of every tree except from the tree of the “knowledge of good and evil”. God said to Adam that the day he eats of the fruit he/they would surely die.Now among the beasts in God's creation was the serpent who was the smartest of all the beasts and could speak. He spoke to Eve and asked a question. He asked Eve if God had really said that they could not eat the fruit of every tree in the garden. Eve replied that they could eat from all the trees in the garden except for one. She said they could not eat nor even touch the fruit of the tree of the “knowledge of good and evil,” or they would die. The serpent went on to say that they “would not surely die because God knows that the day they eat of the fruit of that tree they will become like God having their eyes opened to know both good and evil.”Eve looked at the fruit, seeing it was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise. She took off the fruit and ate and gave some to her husband Adam who was with her and he ate of it as well.  Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves and when they heard the sound of the Lord God walking through the garden in the cool of the day, they hid themselves.  God called out to Adam and asked where he was. Adam said he hid himself when he heard His voice because he was afraid and was naked. God asked him, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat of the tree that I commanded that you should not eat?” Adam quickly blamed Eve, the woman Whom God had given him. He said she gave the fruit to him and he ate it. God asked Eve, “What is this you have done?”  Eve quickly blamed the serpent and that he had deceived her and she ate of the forbidden fruit.God cursed the serpent so that it would crawl on its belly all of its days. God told the woman that she would have pain and sorrow in conception,  bring children into the world with pain, her desire would be for her husband, and that he would rule over her. For Adam/man, the earth would be cursed and he would have to work and sweat for his/their livelihood.God said that mankind had become like Himself, knowing good and evil. To keep Adam/Eve from going to the “tree of life” to eat of its fruit and live forever, He drove them out of the garden and had a winged angel with a flaming sword guard the entrance. God also made tunics of skin and clothed them. God gave Adam free will to choose to obey and live forever or disobey and die. Since God gave the commandment to Adam before He created Eve from Adam's rib, it was Adam's responsibility to make sure that neither he nor his wife disobeyed God. God created Adam both male and female but took Eve from Adam's side to be his equal complement. Eve knew that they were not to eat of the forbidden fruit, but listened to the serpent as he lied to her. She gave the fruit to Adam who was with her. Sin was introduced into the world, the emotion of fear became real,  and the process of physical death became a reality. The Bible says that we are all born into sin because of Adam's disobedience. How could God save mankind when His creation chose to disobey?The Bible calls Satan, the Devil, the old serpent, and makes many references from the book of Genesis to the book

This episode could've been called the college grads.....because that's what it is about.  Adam and Brynne both just graduated from college.  And while we've been focused on what's going on in elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools this year....most of us haven't been concerned about college students.  What is it like to finish your final year of schooling during a pandemic? It's not easy....it's not normal...and in this episode we talked about everything dealing with the end of their college experience.  Both Adam and Brynne do a great job of describing and explaining their final year of college,  and both past and current students will appreciate their candor and sincerity.  Added bonus...one of Adam's questions for me ends up in a talk about relationships and marriage.  You won't want to miss it.  From high school to college to grads, these two have impressed....and you'll be glad you met them. Remember...you can listen to The Mic is Ahn wherever you get your podcasts from!  Please Rate and Review!!!!!!Instagram: adam_chatoff                     Instagram: bkeyserEmail: themicisahn@gmail.comInstagram: ahniebpe

Emily hosts longtime gardeners and nature enthusiasts, Adam and Jenn O'Neal, owners of Pepperharrow Farm, a twenty acre flower farm. PepperHarrow offers customers the ability to order their fresh flowers online weekly, available for pick-up each Saturday during the growing season, or at Gateway Market and The Downtown Des Moines Farmers Market. PepperHarrow also hosts several unique classes and events on the flower farm, geared towards people looking for an amazing experience.The dream for Pepperharrow Farm began twenty years ago in 2001 after Adam read a magazine article about permaculture and sustainable agriculture. For the next ten years the couple dreamed and journaled their desire to one day transition to farm life. During this time Adam, still working full time in the oil industry, took up gardening. He had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best gardeners in Tennessee; ultimately becoming a master gardener. Finally, in 2011 the O'Neals made the decision to leave their urban life behind and return to Madison County, Iowa (where Jenn grew up) to fulfill their farm dream. New to the community, the couple knew they needed to establish brand recognition and introduce themselves and their product. They worked with a local artist to design a logo and Adam hit the streets to promote Pepperharrow Farm. With the support of the local farmers market, surrounding community, and area grocers, Adam and Jenn were quickly being sought out by customers. Over the years the couple has learned what works best for them and what their customers desire. They have continued to make upgrades to the farm, add new products and offerings, and began inviting guests to the farm in 2015. All the while, both Adam and Jenn remained employed full time outside of the farm. Adam eventually left his previous career in the oil industry five years into owning and operating Pepperharrow Farm. Jenn remained in her medical equipment sales role for another five years and recently made the transition to full time on the farm after nine growing seasons. Both Adam and Jenn are thrilled to be working together full time on their dream; Pepperharrow Farm.It's no shock from the way this couple intentionally dreamed, envisioned, and grew their farm from the ground up that they are blooming exceptionally well (pun intended

The first episode on Lidia Zamenhof will focus on why and how her father invented the language Esperanto which would change not only her life but the world. TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to Who was she? Podcast. I am your host, Tara Jabbari. After a decade working in documentaries, marketing and all things digital media, I found that podcasting is a strong medium to share stories. After years of producing for others, I decided to start my own biographical podcast. Who was she? Podcast will focus on the stories of women throughout history that were active in the Baha'i Faith. This season is about the life of Lidia Zamenhof, a woman who traveled through three continents between World War one and two to teach languages in an effort to bring unity to humankind. Using the biography, Lidia by Wendy Heller, learn about who made an impact in Lidia's life and how she impacted others.  Her father was the inventor of the language Esperanto and like the language, Lidia won the hearts of many who encountered her despite numerous skeptics and biases.  In order to understand Lidia, you have to know more about her father Ludwick Zamenhof. Esperanto began because Ludwick witnessed many challenges and he concluded that the language barrier was the most common reason for these challenges.  Ludwik Zamenhof was born in 1859 to Markus and Rozalia Zamenhof. He was the first of nine children and  grew up in Bialystok, Lithuania. At the time, the town became a crossroads for people of diverse cultures and nationalities. Families from Russian, Polish, German and Jewish backgrounds all lived in the same area but kept to themselves, sticking to their own familiar languages and were suspicious of others. Based on the example set in the Old Testament's Tower of Babel and from his own experiences, Ludwik believed the mistrust and confusion among the people were brought upon them because they did not speak the same language and would not learn each others. Since choosing one existing language would require people to agree that this was the superior language, he decided to create a whole new one that would make it easier for people to communicate and therefore unify.  When he was 15 years old, he began creating this new universal language and over the next several years, he shared with his brother and friends who began to learn it. As he progressed on the new language, his father, Markus, a professor of linguistics was worried. A few of his friends expressed concern to Markus that Ludwick was showing signs of insanity by trying to make a so-called universal language. Father and son butted heads until they reached a compromise. Ludwick would study medicine and postpone his work on creating a new language. In return, Markus would keep all of his work safely while Ludwick went to Moscow University. When he kept his end of the bargain, Ludwick asked his father for his notebooks but was heart broken to hear that Markus burned it all. Ludwick would have to work from scratch all over again. The result was a torn relationship between father and son that would take many years to heal.  Ludwick moved to Warsaw, Poland and eventually opened his own ophthalmology practice. In 1887, Ludwick married Klara Zilbernik. Klara's family  was very fond of Ludwick and his passion to create a universal language. Her  father even agreed to use half the money from her dowry to allow Ludwik to publish the first book entirely written in the new language. The forty page book included translations of poems as well as a vocabulary of nine hundred words with a Russian translation. Ludwick signed his first book with a pseudonym, “Dr. Esepranto.” Esperanto means, “He who Hopes” The book was a success and many people started to learn Esperanto. With the continued help and support of his in-laws, Ludwick was able to write another series of books translating the works of Shakespeare and parts of the Old Testament into Esperanto.  Ludwick and Klara's  family grew with the birth of Adam,in 1888 and Zofia, in 1889 and by 1903, with the popularity of Esperanto on the rise, they were expecting their third  child. Count Leo Tolstoy received a copy of the first book and reported that he learned the language, quote, “after not more than two hours study”.  On January 29th 1904, Lidia was born. By 1905, the First International Congress of Esperantists was held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. These annual congresses would be a huge part of Lidia's life growing up and would introduce her to other passions and purposes.  As the youngest child, Lidia's siblings were considerably older than her and her parents were in their 40s. Both Adam and Zofia followed in their father's footsteps and went to medical school. Lidia was homeschooled until the age of 10. Her parents taught her the importance of honesty and while she had a lot of their attention, they never spoiled her. Klara, her mother, described a 6 year old Lidia as a quote, “very able, bright and hard-working.”  Though The family lived on Dzika Street in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw but the family did not practice Judaism. Therefore, they were regarded with hostility by other Jews and because they were of Jewish background, they were still victims of anti-semits.  Ludwick in particular, wrote his wish that there was either no religion or one religion that all people belong to. He believed that language as well as religion were the great barriers for people to regard each other as friends and family.  But during the Esperanto Congresses, Lidia would witness unity for the first time and she observed how much respect and adoration people had for her father.  Over the years, there was a growing interest in Esperanto. In an interview with a progressive religious magazine, the Christian Commonwealth, the interviewer asked Dr. Zamenhoff his thoughts on how much the language spread and about a new religion, the Bahai Faith.  The Baha'i Faith started in Persia, what is now present day Iran in the mid 19th century. Its Prophet Founder, Baha'u'llah was exiled to Akka, Palestine, present day Israel. He wrote principles and laws to allow humanity to progress including the equality between men and women, elimination of prejudice and the concept of a universal language. The achievement of one universal language, He affirmed, would be the sign of the ‘coming of age of the human race.' Baha'u'llah died in 1892 and His Family was still incarcerated in Akka until the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Now free, Abdu'l-Baha, Son of Baha'u'llah traveled throughout Europe and North America in the 1910s. In February 1913, Abdu'l-Baha spoke about Esperanto in Paris which was reported in the Baha'i magazine, Star of the West. He said:  ‘In the world of existence an international auxiliary language is the greatest bond to unite the people. Today the causes of differences in Europe are the diversities of language. We say, this man is a German, the other is an Italian, then we meet an Englishman and then again a Frenchman. Although they belong to the same race, yet language is the greatest barrier between them. Were a universal auxiliary language now in operation they would all be considered as one…‘Now, praise be to God, that Dr. Zamenhof has invented the Esperanto language. It has all the potential qualities of becoming the international means of communication. All of us must be grateful and thankful to him for this noble effort, for in this way he has served his fellow-men well. He has invented a language which will bestow the greatest benefits on all people. With untiring effort and self sacrifice on the part of its devotees it will become universal. Therefore every one of us must study this language and spread it as far as possible so that day by day it may receive a broader recognition, be accepted by all nations and governments of the world and become a part of the curriculum in all the public schools. I hope that the language of all the future international conferences and congresses will become Esperanto so that all people may acquire only two languages - one their own tongue and the other the international auxiliary language. Then perfect union will be established between the people of the world.'Abdu'l-Baha encouraged Baha'is all over the world to learn Esperanto. The interviewer from Christian Commonwealth asked Zamenhof his thoughts on Abdu'l-Baha's recent talk, to which he replied: ‘I feel greatly interested in the Baha'i movement, as it is one of the great world-movement which, like our own, is insisting upon the brotherhood of mankind, and is calling on men to understand one another and to learn to love each other. The Baha'is will understand the internal idea of Esperanto better than most people. That idea is, “on the basis of a neutral language to break down the walls which divide men and accustom them to see in their neighbour a man and a brother”.'Eventually Esperanto was taught in Persia and continued to grow in other countries. As the years continued, Ludwick's health declined. On April 14th, 1917, Dr. Zamenhof peacefully passed away in his home.His family found some of his essays sprawled around his desk. One read: “I do not remember exactly in which year of my life I lost my religious faith, but I remember that I reached the highest degree of my unbelief at around the age of 15 or 16. That was also the most tormented period of my life. In my eyes, life lost all meaning and value...All seemed so senseless, useless, aimless, so absurd!“I came to feel that perhaps [death is] not disappearance, perhaps death is a miracle...that something is guiding us for a high purpose…” He never finished the essay. How did she cope with her father's death? What happened to the Esperanto movement? We will find out in the next episode of Who was she? You can also find more information on our Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest @whowasshe podcast. And please, rate and subscribe wherever you listen to this podcast. Logo was designed by Angela Musacchio. Music was composed and performed by Sam Redd. I am your host, Tara Jabbari.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Morning Raves, self love and books are just few of the things Adam and I speak about in this episode of The Fit Vegan Podcast. Both Adam and I are not only like minded, but have very similar points of view of the common issues surrounding the plant based vegan lifestyle. Adam (@theplantpwoeredpt) is on a mission to educate men and women how they can get fit, strong and healthy, whilst eating a plant-based, vegan diet, transforming their bodies and the planet in the process. He has been Personal Training since 2009 and in November 2014 I adopted a plant-based vegan diet after eating meat his whole life, for ethical and environmental reasons. Changing the world starts with changing yourself first, and the one thing you can have complete control over each day is the food you eat. Please take the time to have a listen, as we teach how to build muscle, stay fit, and save the planet all in one jam packed 45mins! Please share and like if you enjoyed this podcast!!