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I. SIN'S REIGN is —

1. An usurpation — God is the only rightful ruler.

2. Rebellion — opposition to God and His authority.

3. Unnatural — contrary to men's better judgment and sense of right.

4. Despotic — compelling men even unwillingly to obey it.

5. Tyrannical and oppressive — the source of present suffering.

6. Cruel and destructive — ends in eternal death.

7. Deceitful and seductive — promises ease and gratification.

8. Resistless — all human attempts to terminate it in vain.

9. Powerfully supported — justice and a broken law its strength (1 Corinthians 15:56).

II. THE REIGN OF GRACE.

1. Grace exercises a power corresponding with that of sin.

(1)  Mighty.

(2)  Extensive.

(3)  Supported by law.

2. It not merely acts, but reigns.

(1)  In the world, therefore, men are salvable.

(2)  In each believer, therefore, a believer is actually saved.

(T. Robinson, D. D.)

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KJV: Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

WEB: The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;