In Adam all die.
Shai Linne
The Atonement
There are very very few songs, Christian songs that I listen to, ’cause for me the words in a song are very important for proper worship of the Lord. Unfortunately, not all known, actually the majority of the worship songs of today have missed the mark and lowered the bar for worship. But this song by Shia Linne is different. Yes, though it isn’t really a song for worship, God is really glorified in this one. What surprises me is that it is doctrinally sound and well thought of, especially it being a lyrical song. Hope you guys would appreciate this one like I did.

At the end of the song he includes a clip from John Piper’s sermon “Adam, Christ, and Justification Part 1? where Piper makes the amazing statement…

“So the problem with the human race is not most deeply that everybody does various kinds of sins – those sins are real, they are huge and they are enough to condemn us. Paul is very concerned about them. But the deepest problem is that behind all our depravity and all our guilt and all our sinning, there is a deep mysterious connection with Adam whose sin became our sin and whose judgment became our judgment. And the Savior from this condition and this damage is one Savior, who stands in Adam’s place as a kind of second Adam (or “last Adam,” 1 Corinthians 15:45). And in one great life and death of obedience he undoes what Adam did. In Adam all men were appointed sinners (verse 19), but all who are in Christ are appointed righteous. In Adam all received condemnation (verse 18), in Christ all receive justification.”

And an excerpt from article at Monergism, “Justification by Faith and its Consequences”

“In Romans 5:12-21, Paul illustrates the gospel method of justification through a comparison of the saving work of Christ with the condemning work of Adam.

Paul’s design is to show that just as the race was condemned on the ground of the imputation of Adam’s one sin, even so believers are justified on the ground of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. The central idea of the passage is that men are saved in precisely the same manner in which they were lost — through the act of another. As Adam, by his one transgression, brought condemnation to all connected with him, so Christ, by His act of righteousness (His sinless life and substitutionary death) brought justification to all connected with Him.

The works of the two differ (verses 13-17) in that Christ did much more for his people than just to remove the imputed guilt of Adam’s one sin; He also made complete satisfaction for all of their personal sins and in addition imputes to them perfect righteousness as a free gift, thus causing them to reign in life.

The heart of the argument of Romans 5:12-21 is contained in verses 12, 18 and 19. These three verses should be given special study. The point of the argument is to show that men are justified on the ground of the imputed righteousness of Christ just as they were condemned on the ground of the imputed sin of Adam. By means of the comparison between the fall of the race in Adam and the recovery of believers in Christ, Paul illustrates the gospel method of justification.”