Exactly What I Need - A Champion - February 22, 2026

Romans 5:12-19The Winter Olympics remind us what it means to have a champion. The best of the best step onto the ice or snow wearing their nation’s colors. When they win, we say, “We won.” Their victory feels like ours.But what happens when the medal is silver instead of gold? If you watched the medal ceremonies this week, you saw it — the tight smiles, the fixed stares, the unmistakable disappointment. Second place, even on the podium, still feels like loss.Romans 5 tells a far more serious story. Humanity already had a representative — and he fell. Adam’s defeat became ours. Sin spread. Death reigned. The scoreboard of history leaves no room for denial.But God did not leave us on the losing side.A second Adam entered the arena. A true Champion stood where the first failed. His obedience counts for us. His righteousness is credited to us. His victory over sin and death is not silver — he is our perfect gold-medal Champion!And that is exactly what we need.