For This Sin Too

For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:22b-26

At times we may wonder what happened to this person or that from the Old Testament stories. All those who died years and centuries before Jesus came did not have the chance, it would appear, to be saved. Paul answers this question for us in the passage that we would call a run-on sentence in our present age. And yet in this sentence Paul sets down for us that one then and one now has the same condition of sin and falling short of God's glory. All have the same Savior and all may be redeemed in Christ by His grace through faith in Jesus.

To God be the glory by our faith in His Son Jesus!

Bucky