Have you been inacculated yet?

Every year in the United States they recommend getting a flu shot.  However, they are never fully sure if the innaculation is going to be what you will need to avoid getting the flu.  So, many people get the flu shot and still get the flu because the wrong strain was given.

The flu is kind of like sin.  When we sin, it does not only affect us, but those around us as well.  Take for instance someone who drinks way too much and then drives.  They drive impaired which can cause them to run into another vehicle or over a pedestrian.

Sin has spread down through the ages as Paul mentions in Romans 5:12.

Rom 5:12 — Rom 5:18
Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.
[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law [to transgress].
Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse,the former destructive, the Latter saving].
But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.
Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man’s] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (an act of righteousness).
For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men.

But there is hope.  Verse 18 says by the way sin entered into the world by one man's disobedience, another man stepped into the world and gave it an innaculation.  

Much like the innaculations for the flu, it includes a little part of the flu virus so that the body can build a resistance to the flu.  Jesus had to have a part of the sinful nature so that when He died it would give us the ability to overcome sin in our lives.  However, it is up to us to take on the spiritual nature that Jesus has.  

Thank you Lord for coming to this earth and putting on this sinful nature to show us how we are to live in a spiritual way while having this sinful nature.  Thank for your death, burial and ressurection that I too might know how to die to my flesh and rise again in your Spirit.  Help me today to live as you lived here on Earth.