As we consider the greatness of God, we may be inclined to think of events or miracles that
have happened to ourselves or others or the great love of the Father to offer His Son as a
sacrifice for our sins. Maybe we would consider His creation of the human body with all its
complex and intricate elements and its DNA code that is 67 billion miles long—the same as
about 150,000 round trips to the Moon. To think of all He has created is mind-boggling.
Consider the earth’s beauty and majestic wonders that cause us to stand in
awe of His creation. Or consider the universe with over a billion known galaxies; planets
that are so large that they make the earth look like a golf ball next to them. Wow!
A light year is a measure of time, that is how far light travels in a year, which is 5.88
trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers. The observable universe is 93 billion light-years across.
To most of us, that is an incomprehensible number, yet the universe goes beyond that.
How far, only God knows. As enormous as the universe is — God is bigger. God created the universe, therefore it
cannot contain Him. He is far greater than His creation.
God tells us that His thoughts and ways are beyond us. They are beyond our human
minds to grasp or understand.
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Our Two-Fold Problem: Sins and Sin
God makes it quite clear in His Word that He has only one answer to every human need; His Son Jesus Christ. In all His dealings with us, He works by taking us out of the way and substituting Christ in our place. The Son of God died for our forgiveness, He lives for our deliverance. It will help us greatly and save us much confusion, if we keep constantly before us this fact, that God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only, namely, by showing us more of His Son.
Our problem is twofold: sins and sin. To better understand this let us look at the first eight chapters of the Epistle to the Romans. It will be helpful first to point out a natural division of this section of Romans into two and note certain striking differences in the subject matter of the two parts.
The first eight chapters of Romans form a self-contained unit. The four-and-one-half chapters from 1:1 to 5:11 form the first half of this unit and the three-and-one-half chapters from 5:12 to 8:39 the second half. A careful reading will show that the subject matter of the two halves is different. In the first section, we find the word “sins” given prominence. In the second half, the word “sins” hardly occurs once, however, the singular word “sin” occurs repeatedly and is the subject mainly dealt with. Why is this?
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