Romans 5: 15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! --NIV
In the name of the One Man, Jesus Christ, amen.
Our first ancestors made a choice. That choice was to rebel against God and do something that they thought would make them like God. They were right, it did make them like God, but only in a warped way. They came to know what evil is, but in a way that even God Himself does not know it. God knows evil in the sense that He has experienced evil being done to Him. Man, however, came to know evil intimately because he himself had done evil.
Because of the choice of Adam and Eve, evil has been passed on from generation to generation, infecting every person ever conceived with one notable exception: Jesus Christ was conceived by God, and so the disease of sin did not infect Him.
What is perhaps even more meaningful to us is the fact that Jesus is true God as well as true man. This is meaningful because it enabled His sacrifice to apply to all people. We read in the Psalm 49: 7, "No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him." If Christ were not God, His sacrifice could not save us. But since He is God, His sacrifice has infinite value, and redeems an infinite number of people. Thanks be to God Who saw fit to give His Son into death for us. Amen.
Prayer:
Dear heavenly Father, in Your wisdom You gave Your only Son into death for us, because the sacrifice of a mere man could never save the soul of another. We thank and praise You for Your great Wisdom by which you worked salvation for us, amen.