Why We Need the Ransom

 "Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?"  - ROMANS 7:24.

IMAGINE the scene. A building collapses. trapping a man in the rubble. He is alive, but he cannot remove himself from the wreckage. All he can do is cry out for help and hope that he can be rescued. 

Each one of us is in a comparable situation. In what way? When Adam rebelled against his Creator, he became a sinner. Later, he passed on his sinful condition to his children. As a result, the entire human race became trapped in the rubble of inherited sin, and we cannot remove ourselves from its effects. The apostle Paul well described our sinful condition in his letter to the Romans. (Read Romans 7:22-24.) He begged to be rescued "from the body undergoing this death. "Paul was trapped by inherited sin, which unavoidable leads to death. (Romans 6:23) We are in that same predicament. We need to be rescued. 

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