All of Grace in Modern English: With Scripture Texts from the English Standard Version (ESV)

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our fall did not begin as a personal one. We fell first in Adam who represented all humanity. Therefore, it became possible for us to be recovered by a second representative. And we know that second representative is the Lord Jesus Christ who, as the Leader of his people, volunteered to become the second Adam. I saw that before I had actually sinned I had already fallen by my first father’s sin; and I rejoiced when I came to see I could be legally rescued by a second representative. The fall by Adam left a legal loophole, a way of escape. Another Adam can undo the damage done by the first. I was worried about how a just God could pardon a guilty sinner. Then I understood and saw by faith that the Son of God became a man and in his own blessed person he paid the price of my sin in his own body on the cross. He was pierced for my transgressions; he was crushed for my iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought me peace. The wounds inflicted on him healed me.

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