1) The passage discusses the biblical concept of Passover and how it represents Christ's victory over death.
2) It asserts that God's law, as outlined in the Ten Commandments, is immutable and has not changed over time. It states that the wages of sin is death according to this eternal law.
3) The passage traces the origin of sin and death back to the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and introduced sin into the world, condemning all of humanity to eventual physical death. It argues this shows that even children are born with sin in their nature.
4) However, it claims that through Christ's victory over death by his resurrection, he offers
Evelyn Pointer Explores the Victory of Life Through Passover and Christ's Overcoming of Sin and Death
1. E V E L Y N P O I N T E R A U T H O R
Victory of
Life
2. Passover
Pas s ove r i s t h e v i ct o r y o f
Christ which is the victor y of
life over death. The law of
God is immutable--which
means it cannot change. The
law of God says t hat t he
wages of sin is death. What is
sin?Sin is the transgression of
the law. God is not vague--
t hat would be cruel and
unfair. Because the wages of
sin is so high God made his
l a w c r y s t a l c l e a r. O f t e n
people speak of making
mistakes, perhaps doing
wrong, more often they talk
of choices of lifestyles. God’s
law does not change even guiltless? Society changes, man changes. God does not
though society changes. That change. This is why we can be confident in God. So, what
would be unfair. How could is the unchangeable law. It is the law that was given from
one man a thousand years the beginning the only thing that was written directly by
ago be guilty of transgressing the hand of God. The law is the ten commandments and
the law when another man a these commandments never change.
thousand years later is
3. In the Garden
From the beginning, from
the Garden man took sin
to himself. And the taking
hold of sin was also the
taking hold of death.
Deat h is not a natural
par t of life. Just like
wickedness is not a
natural part of
righteousness. Death is
alien. God did not create
man to die. but made man
above t he animals and
gave him a will and the
ability to choose good or
evil. When Adam and Eve
sinned they made a
Weeds like this thistle are just a small part
choice for all of their of the curse from the garden.
4. Sin and Death
future children. A slow they may studiously avoid the things in this world and to live
moving plague was born in old testament, they may elect righteously before God if we
all of us, and as surely as the to believe that keeping the are already guilty and
sun rises and sets, man is commandments are condemned to die? Though
born and man dies, over and unnecessar y. Even for them God’s law does not change,
ove r, f r o m g e n e r a t i o n t o God does not change his law. and though god’s law is
generation. The effect also of sharp and piercing like a two
sin is that each generation And man though created edge sword, God’s mercy and
appears more wic ked t han above t he animals, given God’s love triumphs over all.
the last. power to subdue the earth,
built great cities, manufacture It is the blood of Christ that
What a terrible predicament wo n d ro u s t h i n g s a n d b u i l t saved us. It is only the father
we are in. We did not eat the weapons of great destruction, of us, Christ that could save
fruit in the garden but we even with all of man’s us, just as the father of us all
were still born with death in supposed greatness, he is not Adam condemned all of us.
our flesh and subject to sin. God! He cannot make a new But we are not given a free
And do not think that children law, nor change an eternal pass into the kingdom of
are innocent. The law of God law. heaven. Adam is the father of
does not change. Before we all man based on biology. But
came to know God we have So since we have all sinned, is Christ the father of all men
already sinned! Sin , whether we have a sentence of certain born on this earth? No! So
you know it is a sin or not is deat h. What t hen is t here Christ came to save all of his
guilty of death. It is a death hope? Why do we continue to children and none of the
sentence. Many adults may struggle? Why do we make devils’s children.
choose not to read the bible, sacrif ices to give up t he
5. So how do you identify a child of God--what are
their characteristics--ever y child has traits similar to
their parents. What are the c haracteristics of
Christ’s children? In order to be a child of your
parents you were born from your mother’s body
having being planted their by your father. To be a
child of God you must be born of God. The
resulting new person would then have the traits of
God. So what then are God’s characteristics? He
wrote them with his own hands thousands of years
ago on two tables of stones. When Christ walked
this earth the first time he taught us in what manner
to keep these commandments and in what a perfect
way to exhibit this law of love. He taught us to
keep the peace, to be merciful and meek, to turn
the other cheek, to give to the poor ect. But most
importantly, he did something for us that we could
not do for ourselves. he took upon himself the
death sentence for all of his children, and being
perfect and having the power over all things in
heaven and in earth he overcame this world and
the sin in this world. He rose up in three days
having gotten the victor y over death. Therefore, the
first death that each man goes through is not the
sentence that we must fear. Like Christ this is only
6. temporar y. When Christ went down to the grave in man’s body and came back up then
man’s body was given the same opportunity. But the sentence of death that Christ
overcame for all of his children is the second death! This is the hope of all the
generations of the righteous, that just as Christ overcame, we who are one with Christ,
who are part of his body, will also overcome! I Corinthians 15:51-57.