God's grace and obedience to Him (part 3)

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Jesus' life which preached of God's grace and mercy was given to us by God for our salvation, so that we know it's only through his grace we are saved, His walk was our hands-on training manual. His death reconciles us. Notice that the reconciliation precedes the salvation. So we must accept that His blood reconciles us to God and the participation or following His teachings are our life line to being secure and safe in God. Not necessarily safe from troubles but then this world is not our home. Realize this is not a work, it is merely a walk by faith.

Romans 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Jesus exchanged Himself for us and because of this we are reconciled to God and in that we rejoice.

Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Sin and death passed down to man from Adam because there is nothing new under the sun. We are no different from one another as we have all sinned, and all of us have that capacity and capabiliity to sin and we shall all die because death is also part of this nature.

Note that 5:13 through 5:17 are in parentheses. It means these 4 verses are an explanation or an aside to the above verses

Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Sin cannot be charged where there is no law, meaning where there is no knowledge or actually no contract in writing of wrongdoing and no instruction given to man by God even though sin exists in the world, and is the reason men die

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. Death still came to everyone, even those who were not considered sinners since there was no law to define sin. Death was the result of sin entering the world through Adam.