rom 5:
19For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Its plain from scripture that Christ did not die for everyone without exception, for the simple reason that His death produces positive results or effects.
Christ obedience, as in His obedience unto death[The cross] Phil 2:
8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
This obedience, the death of the cross, without a doubt, without the possibility of failure, shall make many righteous ! Its just as sure as the disobedience of one made many sinners.
And this apart from from their obedience being a condition, because, it is by the obedience of ONE, that ONE being Christ Jesus, that they shall be made righteous.
The word righteous here is the greek word:
dikaios:
righteous, observing divine laws
in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
innocent, faultless, guiltless
approved of or acceptable of God
used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
All these definitions are applied to those whom Christ died and made righteous by His obedience.
Notice in our text rom 5 19, that by the obedience of one, NOT TWO
This Testimony can only be received by God given Faith, because 99.9 % of religious people cannot believe they can be righteous before God without personal obedience of some kind, in other words, in their mind, one can only be made righteous by the obedience of two, Christ and theirs. Its odd because we were made sinners by only one without yet personal disobedience ! The effects of Adam is given more respect than the effects of Christ, man serves the creature more than the creator !
This means that a person of God given Faith understands that their being constituted righteous is apart from their obedience of Faith. Did you know that Faith in Christ is obedience ? Lets look at rom 1:
5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
16:26But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
Now, is Faith obedience ever required ? Yes, its required in order to make manifest that one has been made righteous by the Obedience of ONE , Jesus Christ the righteous, The one who makes righteous.
BUT it obedience is not required to be made or constituted righteous .
If you or even myself believe today that we are or was made righteous by Faith in Christ, the obedience of faith, then we are deceived, because that is rejecting, disregarding the Truth of scripture that many shall be made righteous by the obedience of ONE , that Being Jesus Christ.
If we add to His obedience our obedience of Faith, we add our obedience to His, we therefore claim we are made righteous by the obedience of Two instead of one, which contradicts the word of Truth.
Those Jesus died for shall be made righteous. The word made is the greek word:
kathistēmi and means:
to constitute, to render, make, cause to be
to set down as, constitute, to declare, show to be
Christ obedience will show us to be righteous because of imputed righteousness, it will also cause us to be righteous.
This is confirmed by Heb 5:
9And being made perfect [Unto Death], he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; or those obeying Him.
If we are obeying Christ, it proves that He hath or is the author of that obedience, its the fruit of His obedience !
