Two Adams

our lesson today and I'm going to Jump Right In brother Spa charged me with a lesson on in the context of what he's been teaching about in Genesis so my contribution as it were um is about two atoms um it's kind of a study in contrast and also a a study in commonalities so from Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 . so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them and the and verse 7 of chapter 2 and the Lord God formed man of the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul from Matthew chapter 1 verse 18. now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Ghost contrast one from the dust of the earth another of the Holy Ghost First Corinthians chapter 15 and then this entire chapter is a great chapter God knows how to make a body he knows how to make a body that's suited to a particular environment he just knows how to do it verse 15 or chapter 15 and verse 45 of First Corinthians and so it is written the first man Adam was made everybody say it was made a living soul the last Adam and this is a parenthetical portion but was made a quickening spirit verse 46 says how be it that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual

verse 47 the first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord From Heaven

the unique creation this hybrid creation that God created in Adam from The Clay of the Earth so that there was this indisputable and inescapable connection that all of us have with the world in which we live God made this body and connected us with the Earth we came out of that and and so to to Adam this Terra Firma he's the only one who really can call this Earth Mother it was Mother Earth to him because he came from the earth and Paul's inside in verse 47 indicates that Adam was from the earth and therefore he was Earth-like the problem and and the I guess both the advantage and the benefit and the issues that we have derived from the fact that we are of the Earth this flesh it creates a connectedness to the Earth but it also gives us a lot of grief doesn't it amen but this is how God formed this human being the word the Hebrew word there is yatsar it means that he formed him he molded him like a Potter would mold a vessel and I believe that that in this original creation at least when God created um Adam let me let me just put this disclaimer out there right now the the opinions expressed by the person on this platform right now is not necessarily those of the management okay so I remember when brother brother um Marvin tree started writing books he said he was reluctant to do so because once you put it out there it's written in stone I mean you can't retract it so uh once you write something so I'm just going to say that the opinions expressed today are not necessarily those of the management I believe that when God created Adam that that Eve was in him and so when he addressed them when it talks about he blessed them that Eve was in him I don't think it was a simultaneous Act of Creation because there was a point in time that God looked at Adam and said it's not good for you to be alone well how was he alone if they were created simultaneously so Eve was in him at the time of his creation even if it was uh just a short time afterwards we know how God created Eve or formed Eve I believe that the male and female were created together in in that body then the Miracle of Life now it talks about natural life a puff of breath God breathed into Adam into this body this lifeless body and and animated that form that he had created and that became a living Soul this was the first of the human kind okay a living Soul these are ambiguous terms and I I'm not going to get really complicated about this I'm just going

to give you a simple illustration have you ever seen those Balloons with the little uh little prize inside that's blown up and it's got maybe a teddy bear inside of them anybody ever see those the prize inside a balloon that's kind of the way God created man body soul that that little bear on the innermost part is the soul and what fills the balloon is Spirit okay now if the if what's in the spirit is has the capability of being causing the flesh to rise like helium for example if you put helium in it it that balloon is going to go up but if the balloon is weightier than what's on the inside the balloon is going to stay down that's the way it is with the soul and the body and spirit whatever is on the inside is going to determine how high you rise in the kingdom of God so we are filled with it when you're filled with his Spirit that's Transcendent it it lifts you up you're you're no longer Just In the Flesh you are now something that is capable of rising higher and above the Flesh and simple illustration but uh I think it's effective in in trying to communicate what Body Soul and Spirit is they are very when you get into the Bible it's ambiguous they're very ambiguous terms they can mean one thing they can mean another thing so to me that's just a little illustration that that indicates how God created man body Soul and Spirit

but with this impartation of life now when God breathed into Adam the breath of life he gave him life it was a gift it wasn't something that was uh that was imputed or reckoned to Adam it was a gift to Adam so God gave adam this life and so with this life came the potential for human reproductive capability okay because God says I want you to populate the Earth but he looks at him and he says you're alone you can't do that it's not good for you to be alone because you can't do what I want you to do by yourself he gave him reproductive capability let me just say this you didn't get your life from your mother you got your life from your father you get your form from your mother and the simple biology Bears this out a woman in her reproductive years will produce hundreds of eggs not one of them miraculously comes to life because it's it it's just the form everybody follow me you're until the male gets involved there is no life so to anyone who believes in abortion let me tell you life begins at conception when life is imparted from the male into the form that the woman provides for that that baby uh this is simple biology 101 right here you didn't get your life from your mother you got your life from your father the form was given to you your human form was in that egg and and that's how you got your human form I'm not being pure in here I'm just being a very very direct about this so at some point God seeing Adam was alone he formed a female human like him Adam could not by himself fulfill the purpose and the plan of God of populating the earth and and we're not going to recount the entire story

but the sordid story of the fall of Man unfolded while Eve had likely learned from Adam that that command that God had given to him now again in the Hebrew language I can prove to you that God was speaking to Adam when he said in the day that you eat of that tree you will die now either Eve was not with him or she was still in him at the time when God gave him the command not to eat of that tree Everybody follow me so when Satan tempted Eve he created a doubt but he did not create death in her she did not die because she was in doubt and deception and so death did not come into the world through Eve's taking of that fruit she didn't get the command so she hadn't broken the law that God had given directly to Adam she was simply in deception which produced doubt but it didn't produce death Adam on the other hand looked at Eve and he was in now disbelief I can't believe nothing happened because she ate of the fruit of the tree that we were not supposed to partake of and in Adam It produced disobedience and when he disobeyed It produced death So Adam was in disbelief now unbelief always manifests itself in disobedience let me just inject this right here really the Bible read the Bible don't base your eternity on a book that you don't know what it contains some people are basing their entire eternity on a book that they've never read don't do that you better know what's in the book because your entire eternity depends on the pages or what's on the pages the truths contained in the pages of that book so Adam was in disbelief and It produced his Disobedience and then it produced death now the question always comes up am I are we going to hell because of Adam's sin no you're not going to hell nobody's going to hell because of Adam's sin but you are going to die because of Adam's sin everybody nobody gets out of here alive you know death is 100 generational nobody gets out of here alive you are subject to death because of Adam's sin every man is going to be judged according to his own works but the thing the Legacy that Adam left us was that of death so God is willing what this story illustrates is that God is willing to deal with your doubts but unbelief is a deal breaker Jesus could do no Mighty miracles in Capernaum because of their unbelief but Thomas says I won't believe until I see him and touch him for myself that was a doubt and and he says to Thomas come and touch my wounds put your hand in my side and and and and it's and understand I want to resolve your doubts God will resolve your doubts but he won't deal with your unbelief he won't deal with that unbelief is a deal breaker with God

so while Adam's Legacy to humanity was the propagation of natural life in that life was contained the seeds of its own destruction the nature the sin nature Called Death most of us are not going to die because somebody murders us most of us are going to die because of something that's going on in the flesh that's the Legacy that Adam passed on to us than sin nature the characteristic of death Romans chapter 5 verse 12 says it this way wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men because all have sinned I want you to note something about this verse here the both sin and death are articulated they have a thee in front of them wherefore as by one man the sin entered into the world and the death by sin so it articulates something there are two distinct Concepts that are given here first John 1 8 says it this way if we say that we have no sin everybody say have no sin if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in US and then he goes on in verse 10 to say if we say that we have not sinned everybody say have not sinned you get the contrast here on the one hand he says we have sin and on the other hand he says we do sin two different things so we both have sin and because of that we commit sin brother Clark and I have been studying somebody sent him a Bible study about along these lines and we've been studying this person uh doesn't believe in it's kind of an agnostic heresy of all over again they they believe that evil is in the flesh but it's not in the spirit I'm telling you there are some evil spirits out there the things what's presented on the outside is generally what's going on on the inside so we both have sinned what is that that's that's what Adam gave us the sin the nature of sin and do you realize that sin nature in that combination is not even in the Bible sin nature is not there not not in that combination what what is the nature of sin it's death because anybody who sins is uh we're given this Legacy from Adam of the the sin nature we have death residing in us we've got in our bodies right now from the time that we're born we begin to die that's a part of the flesh that we that we have in us so I have sinned and and I do sin I don't make it a practice anymore those of us who have been saved by the by the Holy Ghost we don't make a practice of sinning that's the distinction do you make mistakes do we fall do we falter do we fail yes we do all of us do that but we we confess our faults we confess our sins confessing simply means listen confessing is not repentance confessing means that you admit to you can confess to something and have no mind to change uh your ways you can confess to it but you're not going to amend your ways repentance means you're going to turn away from that and stop doing we no longer practice sin amen we've been saved out of that lifestyle but instead of God looking at Adam and saying man I'm going to rip everything up I'm going to start all over again all new again instead of scrapping everything God allowed humans the opportunity to redeem themselves so he activates a conscience and we know how well that worked out because Cain's standing over his brother's body and he feels No Remorse at all for killing his brother the conscience is flawed unless it's activated by the spirit of God and and there were so so God God let man he he tried to let him pull himself up by his bootstraps as it were and some actually did better than others the Bible talks about job he was a perfect and upright man and he reverenced God and he declined to do evil there was Enoch who had this testimony that he actually pleased God that's that's a big statement right there there was Noah who was a just man and perfect in his generations and he found Grace in the eyes of the Lord Abraham believed in the Lord and he counted it unto him for righteousness there were even those who did not participate in a lifestyle of sin after Adam's example but they suffered death anyway because death is a part of Adam's Legacy to us Romans chapter 5 tells us in verse 13 and 14 for until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law what does that mean it means that they were not accounted it wasn't laid to their charge it wasn't written in a book somewhere the sin that they committed why because there was no law the only law that they had was the original law that was given to Adam by God when he said don't eat of that tree now they were cut off from the tree but they had no law except for conscience or human government and and so nevertheless in verse 14 nevertheless death reigned from Adam all the way to Moses even over them which had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression who is the figure of him who that was to come so God gives man a chance to redeem himself but overall man is a an overwhelming failure and even in the best of conditions man proved himself unable to redeem himself hmm

so God does something for man he does for man what he did for Adam he provides a way for covering sin and that was instituted in the sacrifices now God instituted this sacrificial system just as he had with Adam when he closed him the life of an innocent animal kind would stand for the life of a guilty humankind so you see the problem here you got a an animal whose blood is acceptable to God because the animal is innocent and you've got a guilty humankind whose blood is impure and and he goes free what kind of system of justice is that where innocent is killed and guilty go free but the the fact is that humans were guilty and could never produce a life or blood pure enough to atone for the sins of its own kind animals were innocent but it was blood of a different kind and could not take away the sin and the guilt let me ask you a question here you can go study on this later do you think that God was pleased with the sacrifices of the Old Testament absolutely right he was not you can go to the book of Hebrews and it will tell you in several places that the blood of these sacrifices he was not pleased he was merely appeased let me read it to you Hebrews chapter 10. verse 1 for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers there into perfect for then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshipers once purged should have no more conscience of sins but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made again of sins every year for it is not possible everybody say it's not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins couldn't do it so the concept of atonement is an Old Testament concept from the beginning of man's sin this principle of guilty escaping judgment because a substitutional sacrifice of an innocent was made and it merely covered those sins let me ask you something here Paul asked the question in the New Testament a different way but let me ask you something did the law in the Old Testament actually favor the rich because they could look at their flocks and herds and say I can afford to sin because I've got plenty of sacrifices to cover it the poor couldn't they they really couldn't afford much of anything I I dare say that there were those who who couldn't afford much and and so Paul would phrase the question this way because Grace is abundant does that give you a license to sin there are people and I think brother Spahn mentioned it last week it's easier to get forgiveness than it is permission there are people that believe that the grace of God they can just go do anything they want and the grace of God is going to cover everything that's like the rich man with the flocks and herds that has plenty to sacrifice

for example Solomon do you realize the debauchery that Solomon was involved in in his lifetime but it was okay because he had plenty of flocks and hers he would never deplete his sacrifices and he could just do whatever he wanted to do some people treat the grace of God that way that that we can do anything we can live any way that we want to live because the grace of God is so expensive Paul said meganoito may it not be so God forbid that you should think in such terms as this that you can abuse the grace of God to the point where you think that you can do anything and get by with it because it's Rich enough to cover all your sins may it not be so so what shall we say then shall we continue in sin that Grace May abound God forbid so we we must understand that that Israel this is an Old Testament concept again Israel soon found that if they continued to sin that which was covered could be uncovered remember the story somebody mentioned maybe Brother Brad uh Pastor Brad the other day preaching mentioned about the parable of the ten thousand talents the the Lord who called his servants into account that is highly Old Testament in context that was before the New Covenant because that ruler reinstated the debt that he supposedly had forgiven and God told Israel this in in Lamentations 422 this is just one example but he said oh daughter of Edom he will discover thy sins what does that mean the things that's been covered he can uncover them again because why because those sins are merely covered they were never taken away so what he covered he just throws the cover off of and reinstates all of that that which is against them

thanks be to God the New Covenant is different the blood of bulls and goats could not take away the sin but the blood of a lamb is able to remove take away as though they never existed the sin of humanity amen so in order to affect a cure for instead of managing sins there was within the divine order the principle of what I call the second born Paul noted this in First Corinthians 15 46 how be it that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural remember he told Nicodemus you got to be born again son that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born Spirit of spirit you must be born of the water and of the spirit that would that which is first is uh not not spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual this is the principle of the second born but it literally says it this way but not first the spiritual but the natural afterward the spiritual

you can read it in the Old Testament you can read the divine order of things there was first Ishmael who was born of Hagar who was after the Flesh and then there was Isaac the son of promise there was first Esau the man of the field the Hunter and then there was Jacob the son of promise there was first Manasseh and then there was Ephraim whom God called my firstborn there was Aaron and then there was the deliverer Moses after Aaron Humanity needed something more than the blood of bulls and goats Humanity needed a rebirth that is to be born again so listen to me God Drew from the original concept the word the word in that in that word just the simple logos it means the reasoning or the rationale the concepts of God so God didn't go back to Adam to start again he went back to the concept to start again the word the logos that pattern by which he had created the Prototype I'm talking a little bit in Detroit automobile terms right now but a person gets an idea and they create a concept vehicle which is a non-functioning vehicle and then they create a prototype from which all the production models are made follow that so God's Concept in the beginning was the word he had this idea about what man could be in His image in glorifying him so he didn't go back to the failed Adam he went back to the word the concept that was and and so now with this characteristic flaw in humanity which God did not design as a part of humanity God still envisioned man as he could be thank God he saw not what I was he saw what I could be he didn't see us as we were he saw Fallen Humanity but in his mind in his concept he still had a vision of a people that would glorify him who would be made in His image and bring glory and honor to him the plan had been in place from the foundation of the world and so the original concept was brought into material reality the need was not for a new kind he didn't create a new race of humans but the original concept by which the first Adam was created Hallelujah you'll have to ruminate on some of these things for a while I know I did

he would not be like the others in certain respects but in his Humanity he would be like humankind of the kind that needed Redemption and the Paradox is yet he didn't need Redemption because of what was inside of him without the characteristic nature of sin that is death he did not have death in him John said in him was life and the life was the light of men he didn't have death as you and I have death because he was not of Adam's seed he was given form by his mother but on his father's side he was life Jesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life there's no death in this man that you're looking at and he said no man comes to the father but by me another Adam but without the characteristic flaw that was passed from Adam's life down through generations the Creator would become a partaker in his own creation as a born human being Hallelujah this must have been a shock when Satan first encountered him a shock to his psyche when he looks at him and says what are you doing in my world listen from the time of the first Adam Satan had reigned as an illegitimate prince in this world he had possession of the kingdoms of the world but he did not have the authority to hold them so when God robes himself in flesh and becomes born into this world Satan looks at him and wonders what are you here for this is my world there are two telling statements Monumental statements that we we may have glossed over at times because when Satan encountered God in a body he found that he couldn't break him like he did the first Adam the last Adam would not break Jesus says now shall the prince of this world be cast out why he said because all power is given unto me in heaven and in Earth Satan you may possess but you don't own because you have no legal authority to possess what you are in rulership of right now and he casts him out and he became the prince of the powers of the air I gotta watch my time here got a couple of minutes so the reason is stated in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 through 16. for as much then as the children are partakers everybody say partakers of Flesh and Blood he also like himself likewise took part he took part he took part he took part what did what part didn't he take he didn't take the sin nature he took the form so children are partakers you and I we're partakers of the same thing but not him because he had a different Daddy and when you're born again your father you you get adopted into the family you get born again into the family says that he himself took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil and deliver them through fear who through fear of death all were all their lifetimes subject to bondage for verily he took not on him the nature of angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham

so while he got his human form from his mother he got his life from his father and that life wasn't subject to death like other men it wasn't and what the law couldn't do that is be fulfilled In the Flesh because of the weakness of the flesh Jesus did while in the flesh through the power of the spirit I I got to quit here but he became the Prototype that first Adam was the prototype for Humanity in the last Adam he became the Prototype of what you and you and you and you can be when you're born again of the water and the spirit for as by one man's Disobedience many were made Sinners Hallelujah so by The Obedience of one shall many be made righteous Hallelujah we are not we are not any longer of this world we are in this world but we are not of this world we have taken on the nature of our father I'm so glad God is for me Jesus is with me the Holy Ghost is in me I said I'm glad that God is for me Jesus is with me and the Holy Ghost is in me I've taken on the nature of my father and my sole purpose you may not like it you may like look at me as cancer but that's okay my whole purpose is to glorify him my Father which is in heaven he hears me he comforts me he is with me

let's Stand Together God bless you for your patience and your Indulgence this day and there's so much to this if we understand what it means to be in Jesus Christ what does it mean we think of it as an abstract concept Paul didn't think of it that way it was a living reality he said for me to live that's Christ wherever I go that's where Christ goes if I participate in sin I'm dragging the body of Christ with me if I'm in Christ aren't you glad today let's just thank him for the fact that we have been born again of the water in the spirit thank you Lord thank you privilege that we have in Jesus Christ we are in you God bless you