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The Rest of the Story

Posted by Dr. Dale Meyer on February 29, 2016

Ctrl+Alt+Delete DAILY DEVOTION

Our regrets can be traced back to the serpent twisting the natural desires of Adam and Eve. “Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin” (Romans 5:12). Such an inheritance!

“The rest of the story,” as radio personality Paul Harvey used to say, is the undoing of sin and death by Jesus Christ. The Bible calls Jesus the “second Adam.” “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” (Romans 5:17). From the first Adam at the first tree come regrets. Repentance looks to the second Adam on the cross, so that, as an ancient line from church ritual, says, “the serpent who overcame by the tree of the garden might likewise by the tree of the cross be overcome.”