24 Dream 1 and 1 Corinthians 15:22
Last week, I began a discussion on the first of three connected dreams. As part of the dream, I told the people who had gathered to read.
1 Corinthians 15:22. This week, the focus will be on this Bible verse.
Dream 1 with Message
Experienced in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 3, 2002
When I began to doze off, I started thinking about a young boy on the street. This boy appeared to be very sad and he was saying no one cares about me. I went over to him and started to talk with him. I told him about Jesus and how Jesus cares. As I continued talking to the boy, people and more people gathered around us. Then, I turned toward the crowd and told them to read 1 Corinthians 15:22.
It was about 2 a.m. that Sunday morning when my curiosity became so great that I turned on the light and looked up 1 Corinthians 15:22 in the Bible. It reads:
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (KJV)
>>>For as in Adam all die —
“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” – Romans 3:23
The above verse summarizes not only the sinful condition of humanity, but the devastating effects that sin has on our relationship with God. Only until the sin is taken away is fellowship with God, who is holy, possible.
The wall of sin that separates us from God was first erected by Adam and Eve (Genesis 3). This historical account describes for us just how destructive sin is to our relationship with God. The garden of Eden was a place of blessed fellowship with God. Yet once Adam and Eve chose to sin, they were banished from the garden and from God’s holy presence.
SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD- “So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.” – Genesis 3:24
Everyone since Adam and Eve has “fallen short of the glory of God” including you, including me!
Do you consider yourself to be a good person, perhaps even good enough to go to heaven? Most everyone believes that he or she is a good person and basically “good enough” to enter Heaven. Yet compared to whom? And what does it mean to be good anyway?
Only GOD, in the truest sense of the word, is GOOD!
“So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.” – Mark 10:18
Every single person who has ever lived has fallen short of God’s standard for what it means to be truly good. We have violated God’s law, no amount of our good works can make up for it. We cannot “bribe the judge” (Deut. 10:17). Our good deeds cannot compensate for the bad we have done. God will not change His verdict of “guilty” to “not guilty” by our small effort to be good.
God as our Judge will hold us accountable for breaking His law. To not punish lawbreakers for sin would be to compromise who God is. The Lord’s righteous judgment is just as much a part of who He is as His love for us
God originally created us so that we would have fellowship with Him. Though men may try, there is no denying our innate, spiritual need to commune with the One who created us. To be without God is to be missing out on the most important relationship there is! We are not truly happy or complete without God.
>>>>Even so in Christ shall all be made alive —
What does it take to be reunited with the Lord our God?
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” – John 14:6
The Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ the Savior
God understood our need for a Savior from the very beginning (Genesis 3:15), even before the foundation of the world was created. Only “the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” could atone or make amends for the sins we have committed against God and make us right with Him (1 Peter 1:17-21).
“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 3:23-26
Those who have “faith in Jesus” are made just or righteous by “the justifier” – In Christ, we are able to stand before God the Judge, acquitted of all our sin:
To be reconciled to God, who is perfect in holiness and goodness, our sin has to be taken away. For God cannot and will not have fellowship with anyone who is still in their sin. By the saving power of the blood of Christ, we can be justified and therefore reconciled to God.
Only the blood of Christ can provide the way of forgiveness and reunite us to God. Only through the Lord Jesus Christ do we “now receive the reconciliation”!
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ. . . (2 Corinthians 5:17-18)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (KJV)
Testimony of Dorothy von Lehe
Post 24 2025
Reference used in preparation for post: https://www.reborninchrist.org/reconciliation