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In this morning rant we begin our series about why the Spirit of Man needs to be heal and what is the way that God has provided for that healing to take place. The three functions of the spirit are the conscience, the fellowship, and the intuitionColossians 1:21-22 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.Jeremiah 17:14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.Proverbs 20:27The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord that sheds light on one's inmost being.John 3:5-8Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.1 Corinthians 15:45So it is written [in Scripture], “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].John 1:12-13 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.Romans 8:14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.2 Timothy 1:7For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.Galatians 5:22-23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.John 6:63It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.1 Corinthians 6:17But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.Romans 8:14-17For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.Zechariah 12:1This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares:Galatians 5:25If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/622a9079e8fb640012cb94f3. I pray that God would "give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. 18I, pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance" https://plus.acast.com/s/blueprint-of-faith. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast is the second of two parts covering Chapter 19 of The True Christian's Faith and Experience concerning the doctrine of perfection.Today, it is common to misunderstand the meaning of the words “perfect” and “perfection” as they were used in Shewen's time.  These words most often meant “fully developed” (complete) and “full development”, specifically with reference to the Spirit.  The true Christian has traveled through the work of the new creation.  He witnesses his transformation, regeneration, true self-denial and resignation.  He can speak of perfection in truth and righteousness.  Let all who speak of perfection with their tongues see that they are in that faith.   This state the apostle Paul was in when he said “when I am weak then I am strong… “.  Such words are riddles to the carnal mind but revealed to those who are weaned from this world.  Therefore, anyone who wishes to become “perfect” must become as new born babes, divorced from all self-will, thoughts, imaginings and the like. In Eden, Adam was to tend the garden in the will, wisdom and power of God, with no covering other than God's spirit.  His happiness stood in this, and likewise the true Christian's happiness now.  But when Adam let his own will and desire come forth, and he desired to know and be wise for himself, this let temptation in.  He disobeyed God under a hope of bettering his state, believing the serpent who said, “You shall be as gods, you shall not die”.   Death then entered in.  He lost the inward and spiritual life and image of God.  Now he was aware of his nakedness and shame and attempted to cover himself.  This is true among all the children of men who remain in the transgressing state of the first Adam.  The state of “perfection” that the children of the second Adam (Christ) are in is a true self-denial and resignation (i.e., submission) to the will of God.  He is a “perfect” man in Christ, being now in a state of innocence, harmlessness, and uprightness.  He has given up his own mind, will, thoughts, and desires for the will of God.  His mind is now the mind of Christ, is stayed upon Him where there is perfect peace.  In this state of true resignation and unity with the Father's will, stand the true Christian's safety and “perfection”.  And as he lives and remains in this state of perfection, he is clothed with the spirit of glory and humility.   Among these true Christians there is no strife over who shall be the greatest.  Though they are elders and have crowns on their heads, they throw them down at the feet of Him who sits upon the throne, and they give glory to Him forevermore (Rev 4:10-11).    References:The True Christian's Faith and Experience Briefly Declared.  The quote in our introduction was paraphrased from the fourth chapter of William Penn's No Cross, No Crown,  Page 30 in the Harvey & Darton 1842 edition. Visit us on our website at ohioyearlymeeting.org. Any who might be interested in joining any of the Ohio Yearly Meeting Zoom online studies should check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. All are welcome!We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website, or email us at OYMConservative@gmail.com.

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Adam, Christ, and Me" preached at St. James, La Grange, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com

A homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent Year A 2/26/2023 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frmatt-nagle/message

In this message Chris Tortorici speaks on what real demonic oppression looks like.“The first Adam lost his perspective, the last Adam (Christ) restored it"  - Chris TortoriciToday we read from:Ex 19:2-5Isa 55:8-91 Cor 6:19-20John 10:27-28Rom 8:35-39

A new MP3 sermon from Evangelical Presbyterian Church Brisbane is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Adam, Christ and Justification Speaker: Isaac Peters Broadcaster: Evangelical Presbyterian Church Brisbane Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/28/2022 Bible: Romans 5:12-19 Length: 60 min.

Sermon: 恩典的力量 The Power of Grace Series: 神的公義 God's Righteousness Speaker: Rev. Jeremiah Cheung Scripture: 羅馬書 Romans 5:12-21 Translated to English by Bro. Daniel Go 羅馬書 5:12-21保羅告訴我們誇口神的理由, 神將基督賜給我們, 基督就是恩典, 帶領勝過罪惡與死亡的恩典。羅馬書 5:12-21是保羅將基督與亞當作了一個對照, 在神眼中世界只有二人, 第一個亞當與末後的亞當(基督); 這二個人有相似的方面也有不同的方面。V12-14亞當與基督相似的方面; V15-17亞當與基督不同的方面; V18-21亞當與基督相似的方面。 Adam brought sin into the world while Christ ushered in grace. This week, Rev. Jeremiah Cheung explains the similarities and differences between the first Adam and the last Adam (Christ) and how this affects our lives. Discussion questions at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TzTPYC2t62sHCPDaYqiVwEMQcya_4iCr/view?usp=sharing On our website: https://cbcp.org/blog/2022/06/12/the-power-of-grace/ Join a Life Group: https://cbcp.org/lifegroups Find an event: https://cbcp.org/events Learn how to give: https://cbcp.org/giving Website: https://cbcp.org Facebook: https://facebook.com/cbcponline YouTube: https://youtube.com/cbcponline Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/cbcponline Instagram: https://instagram.com/cbcponline

Romans - Week 12 Romans 5:12-21 Sermon notes available at http://bible.com/events/48866372

The Only True Adam - Christ

Semon Archive of The Bible Educator - George W. Southwick

Semon Archive of The Bible Educator - George W. Southwick

Two-age Sojourner is hosted by is Michael Beck, the pastor of Gracenet Community Church, Wellington, New Zealand (www.gracenet.co.nz). Each week (well, most weeks) Mike is joined on his pilgrimage by three co-hosts. Nick Clevely is the pastor of Covenant Grace Baptist Church in Timaru, New Zealand (www.covenantgracebaptist.church). André Beck (yes, he's Mike's brother), is pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church in Felixstowe, UK (www.bethesdafelixstowe.com). Music on this podcast was written by Jeremy Casella and performed by Indelible Grace. You can listen to more from Indelible Grace and Jeremy Casella by searching on Spotify or Apple Music." For more info, check out www.twoagesojourner.com The book we are talking about can be found here (chapters 3 and 4): chapter 3 - https://www.amazon.com/Covenant-Theology-Theological-Historical-Perspectives/dp/1433560038

Is there any Christ in your Genesis? The book of Genesis is often mishandled. Peripheral things are over-emphasized and the main point is lost. Jon and Justin talk about Genesis from a redemptive-historical, covenantal, and Christ-centered perspective.Semper Reformanda Podcast: Jon and Justin take a deeper dive into covenant theology and the book of Genesis. It is our perspective that Genesis cannot be rightly understood apart from a covenantal framework. We aim to explain how and why.Resources:Our Covenant Theology teaching seriesBook study on Sam Renihan’s bookOur episode: Is Your Theological System Any Good?Ask Theocast: GENESIS: About Creation? A Science Book? NEITHER?!?! Book Giveaway: “Grace in Despair” by Dianna CarrollSUPPORT Theocast: https://theocast.org/give/ FACEBOOK: Theocast: https://www.facebook.com/Theocast.org TWITTER: Theocast: https://twitter.com/theocast_org INSTAGRAM: Theocast: https://www.instagram.com/theocast_org/  Podcast TranscriptJustin Perdue: Hi, this is Justin. Let me begin by asking you a question: is there any Jesus in your Genesis? Today on Theocast, Jon and I are going to be talking about the book of Genesis, the ways that it is often mishandled, and how we often miss the main point of that wonderful book. We’re going to look at Genesis today from a redemptive-historical perspective, from a covenantal perspective with Jesus at the center. We hope it’s encouraging for you.We’re going to take a deeper dive into covenant theology over in Semper Reformanda, and how that relates to our understanding of Genesis. We hope all of this is helpful and encouraging to you. Stay tuned.For those who listen to us all the time, you might be ready for what I’m going to say: we talk about redemptive-historical theology and the redemptive-historical framework of the Bible. We talk about covenant theology and we talk about a very Christ-centered way to understand the entirety of Scripture.Today, we’re going to put some of those tools to work, and we’re going to have a conversation about the very first book of the Bible—and that’s obviously none other than the book of Genesis. There are many takes on the book of Genesis in our day. There are a lot of things said about it that, we don’t want to bury the lead here, that Jon and I find to be a little bit less than helpful and confusing. And the main point of Genesis, we fear, is often lost because of some of these peripheral things that often become the focus. In particular, what we want to do today is be able to talk about Jesus from the book of Genesis.The episode title, if you’ve already looked at it, is There is No Jesus in Your Genesis, Sir, which is a reference to a Charles Spurgeon quote, a paraphrase of the Charles Spurgeon quote, where he said, “No Christ in your sermon, sir? Go home and never preach again until you have something worth saying.”So we’re going to talk about the book of Genesis today on a number of levels. We’re going to begin by just talking about some of the things that are often the focus of evangelicalism when it comes to the book of Genesis and hopefully have a little fun; we have a little fun in a gracious way and point out how that’s less than helpful.And then we’re going to pivot and talk about the ways that we think we should understand the book. I hope that this is mega encouraging for the listener as we think about how God the Son is all over the place in the book of Genesis.Jon Moffitt: What is the book of Genesis about? I asked this to my kids the other day just to test them out. Justin has his hands way up in the air. And the common answer is…Justin Perdue: Creation.Jon Moffitt: Creation. That’s right. What is interesting is Justin, you’re preaching through the book. I’ll throw you on the spot here. How many chapters are in Genesis?Justin Perdue: 50.Jon Moffitt: 50. And how many of those chapters are in reference to creation?Justin Perdue: Two.Jon Moffitt: That’s right.Justin Perdue: I’ve got my hand raised. Can I make some comments? Ask me what Genesis is about.Jon Moffitt: We’ll get there. We’ll get there.I grew up influenced by what’s called an evidentialist apologetic. For those of you that are new to Theocast, or maybe new to this whole idea, apologetics is to give an answer. You’re not apologizing for something because you feel sorry, but it’s to provide an answer. And there are two different categories of apologetics: you have evidentialist, meaning that with enough evidence you can provide solid truth so that someone can make a logical decision to follow Christ. So apologetic through evidence. And then Justin, what would be the opposite of an apologetic perspective?Justin Perdue: Presuppositionalist perspective? That means we understand that there are presuppositions that must be maintained and held if one is going to see these truths as legitimate and valid, and ultimately, given that we understand that God is the one who grants us true wisdom and sight by His grace, we understand that we’re not going to reason anybody into the kingdom of God and that God must do a work in someone’s life in order to cause them, help them, by His grace to see these things as true.Jon Moffitt: Right. Those are the two perspectives. The one I came from was an evidentialist perspective. We’re going to be as kind as we can be here, but this is the reality. We always try. We’re sinners and we often need to repent.Anyways, what you end up getting into is an evolution/creation debate, and we use the Bible—specifically the book of Genesis—as a science textbook, or as you like to say, a documentary on creation. We then go through and we try to prove the legitimacy of creation, which I understand and I would agree with, that we can look at science to see the glory of God and to strengthen and encourage our faith. There’s nothing wrong with that. But as we do with any text of the Bible, we need to always ask two very important questions: who is the audience and what’s the author’s intention of writing to that audience? And that will tell you the purpose of the book.Justin Perdue: And alongside that, as the divine Author of the entire Bible, what is God meaning for us to understand here too? And I know you agree.Jon Moffitt: Right. The hard part about when we’re thinking about Genesis is that we immediately focus on the scientific/historical side of it—and it is important. If you don’t have a historical Adam and Eve, you’re going to be falling off into heresy after chapter 2. So we have a problem.We understand the debate; this is not what this debate is about. We hold to a historic understanding of Adam and Eve, but when it comes down to our understanding of Genesis, because we have created such an evidentialist/this is an evolution-creation debate, we miss the whole point of why Genesis was written and the purpose of Genesis in modern day life. Our life today, as a believer—what is it supposed to be for us? There’s the Creation Museum, we’ve got the big ark over in Kentucky, and people would ask me what my thoughts are on that. I think there are some helpful things there for Christians. They can go there and be encouraged. It’s a lot of money. I don’t know if I would have spent all that money on that. So if someone wants to give me multi-millions of dollars, I probably will use it for something else. But I’m not here to judge—I don’t live far from Kentucky, so probably one day I’ll take my kids to go see it.Justin Perdue: I’ll even go so far as to say, in a slightly more joke-ish, punchy way, that if the initial thought bubbles that go up from your head when the book of Genesis is mentioned is creation versus evolution, if you immediately think Creation Museum and you immediately think Ark in Kentucky, then this podcast is for you. With all due respect, not that those things are bad. And like Jon said, there’s a time and a place for some of these debates and conversations. There are useful things, I’m sure. Going to the Creation Museum or going to the ark in Kentucky could be a great experience to have with your family. I also don’t think that Christians that don’t go are going to be missing out on something that is somehow just essential to our faith because the point of the book of Genesis is something entirely different.I’ll go ahead and say this really quickly before we get into more of the meat of the episode. When you read Genesis 1 and 2, your mind should immediately go to Revelation 21 and 22. Because in reading the account of creation, we are reading that in light of God’s promise of the consummation of redemption and restoration at the end of it. There are striking parallels between those respective chapters at the beginning and end of the Bible. I think this episode is going to maybe flesh out for us why and how that’s the case.It’s sad that we have sort of gotten lost in the weeds—and the concerns that are peripheral at best have become the main focus of our conversation about this book of the Bible. And we miss the main point and are robbed of really edifying and encouraging stuff.Jon Moffitt: Justin, if you don’t mind, I’d like to give the context to Genesis and why it was written, and then we’ll move from that to try and give us a fuller explanation, comparing to what most commentaries and what most people do with Genesis. Then, I think, we’re going to argue the way in which the Bible has used the book of Genesis and we’ll go from there.We need to think about the historical context at this point. I know that this is a little bit snarky, but Genesis was not written the day after creation. Adam didn’t have a pen out and was tracking along.Justin Perdue: It was actually written millennia after.Jon Moffitt: Yes. 2,500 plus years is the estimate of how much recorded history had passed in Genesis before it was given us. So you have to understand why then was it written so far down the line? Let’s just think about the history. To understand Genesis, I would say Genesis is the prologue to Exodus, and in many ways you would want to go read Exodus first because it explains why Genesis exists. I know that the order of the books come in Genesis, Exodus, but it is for this very reason: Moses is the author of the Pentateuch. Moses’ life and story explain the necessity of why these books were written. This is, I would say, the really fast prologue introductions to the whole explanation of Genesis. The people of Israel who had been enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, they have not only been there that long, but there is no recorded history other than the verbal history that’s been handed to them about Abraham and the promises of Abraham, and they have become flat out polytheists, and it becomes the plague of the nation for the rest of their existence. It’s just horrible. God talks about whoring after other gods and idols constantly with the prophets and even Moses. When they’re brought out, Moses is up on the mountain. He comes back and what are they doing? They’re worshiping another golden calf. So you have an issue of polytheism. When Moses leaves and he goes up on the mountain and brings back the 10 commandments, what’s the first commandment? “You should have no other gods before me”, which is the issue Israel is going to face. When Moses begins to write this, he’s not writing this with the absence of reality. In Egyptian history, the tradition was that there wasn’t one god who created everything; there were multiple gods.Justin Perdue: And that was true of all the ancient Near Eastern creation accounts.Jon Moffitt: So Moses is writing in such a way that it’s shocking to say that in the beginning, Yahweh, one God, created all things. You have to understand that there is definitely an apologetic going on. It’s polytheism, not evolution, that he’s going after. This is a monotheistic religion that Moses is introducing to a polytheistic people.Justin Perdue: Sure. A few comments here on not only Moses writing it, but what he’s doing. As we’ve already said, Genesis is historical and Moses is writing redemptive history, and it’s really important that we understand that. That’s why I say it’s not a documentary, it’s not a history textbook. It’s not written like that.Two things can be true at the same time, and I think this is worth mentioning: we can uphold the fact that even the account of creation is written in a very beautiful and literary way, and at the same time, uphold its historicity. Those things are not mutually exclusive. I know sometimes people lose their minds when we start to talk about the literary elements of the way Moses wrote the book, but he is writing redemptive history for the people of Israel. And like you said, Jon, if anything, the creation account in Genesis is written as a polemic against not only polytheism generally, but also specifically against other creation myths that would have existed. It’s very clear as you study it because there are very interesting distinctions between Genesis and these other accounts of creation, and those distinctions make all the difference. They’re too coincidental to be a coincidence. So Moses knows what he’s doing.Now, is Genesis—and the Bible in general—useful in speaking to atheism? Yeah, because in the Bible, it’s very clear that people have denied the existence of God forever. The fool says in his heart that there is no God and all that. So we’re not saying that one can’t use the Bible to argue against an atheistic worldview, but understand why Genesis was written to the people of Israel originally. I think it does matter.Jon Moffitt: I do not feel the necessity, at any moment, when I am dealing with unbelievers or even the atheist to prove to them the evidence of science or use science to prove Scripture. And the reason I have to say that is Paul is very clear that the fool has said in his heart that there is no God. That’s Proverbs. But Paul has also said that the unbeliever will look at the Word of God, specifically the gospel, and call it foolish.Justin Perdue: And the unbeliever will suppress the truth about God and unrighteousness. Romans 1. So, clearly, God has to do a work in a person’s heart and mind in order for the person to ever see God’s existence is true and good.Jon Moffitt: Now, does that mean that any efforts at apologetics, when it relates to creation and all that, is of no value? No.Justin Perdue: We want to clear up misunderstanding.Jon Moffitt: That’s right. I just think we need to be very careful that we don’t use Genesis in a way it was not intended to be used. If you think that God wrote that so that we could prove to the evolutionists they’re wrong, evolution didn’t come around until many, many, many years later.Justin Perdue: Let’s talk about Genesis and what it’s about. What is Genesis about? Short answer: Genesis is about redemption. Because that’s what the whole Bible is about. It is also more specifically about redemption accomplished through God the Son who took on flesh, and that is in view all throughout the book of Genesis.Let’s begin with the account of creation in Genesis 1:1 and following. Is Jesus in Genesis? Is God the Son in Genesis, even Genesis 1? Absolutely. He is. We should not read Genesis one without thinking of some other passages of Scripture. So when we read in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God…” our mind should immediately go to John 1. “In the beginning,” the exact same construction, “was the Word,” who is the divine Word, God the Son, “and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” So in that sense, God the Son is the beginning of all things in terms of this world, and he is the agent of creation through whom the whole thing is made.Jon Moffitt: I would say that we need to, I would say as the Reformers do, but I would argue as the apostles do, they use the New Testament in order to interpret and explain the Old Testament. This is a great example of that.Justin Perdue: A couple of other texts just for our encouragement: Colossians 1:16 about Jesus. “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”Jon Moffitt: Did the readers of Genesis, when Moses wrote the Pentateuch, fully understand that?Justin Perdue: Of course not. Did Moses understand it fully?Jon Moffitt: Probably not.Justin Perdue: This is an epic thought: the writer of the Hebrews, at the beginning of his letter, he says that God has spoken to us at various times in various ways through the prophets, etc. “But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. . . through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Think about that thought, that the one through whom all things were made is the very one who takes on flesh to go and live in that world, suffer in that world, bleed in that world, and die in that world in order to save sinners. I think it’s legit that we see that from the opening tip of Scripture. Genesis 1:1—there it is. “In the beginning, God….” We have God the Son present, and we need to think about God the Son and his redemptive work that he would do, connecting it to these other passages in the Bible.Jon Moffitt: I would say there are two ways in which Genesis has been read, but they come to the same conclusions. When the children of Israel would hear the law read over them constantly and they would memorize it, they would write it upon the tables of their heart—all of the commands that we have given to us and Deuteronomy—they would hear it as the same way: it is the history of redemption. The reason is that in Exodus, they just entered into a covenant with a God they really don’t know much about. And Moses says, “Here’s the God you just entered into covenant with. He is the creator. He’s also the one who made the promise to restore that which was broken.”So Moses, through the inspiration of the Spirit, is explaining how they got from creation to Egypt, and explaining the faithfulness of God along the way. I will say that the most important part of the story of Genesis is the fall, because the question then becomes, one, we know that there is sin because everyone experiences it. Moses just explains how it got here. And then the greatest part about Genesis is that you have the Creator of the universe, and now you’re going to have the restoration by the Creator.Justin Perdue: He’s the Restorer of the universe.Jon Moffitt: In the mind of the reader, the question has to be, “Who is the seed of Eve?” Because when he shows up, then all will be made right. That’s the question the reader has.Justin Perdue: And we’re going to get to that promise in just a minute. But I think you’re right. I think it’s important for people to see that the work of redemption is effectively the work of re-creation. That’s what God is about. We’re just going to pepper some stuff in here from the early chapters of Genesis. Even in verses three through five where God creates light, I think this is significant. And I think it preaches a sermon about Christ. Because there is light in the universe now, and light only comes from God—without God, there’s darkness—but there’s light that exists without the sun being created yet. And people sometimes lose their minds and wig out. How is there light without the sun? Have you read the book of Revelation? Have you read Revelation 21 where we’re told that the Heavenly City has no need of sun or moon to shine on it for the glory of God gives it light and its lamp is the Lamb.Jesus, also according to John’s gospel, in him, in the Word was life, and that life was the light of men, the true light that enlightens everyone who is coming into the world. So Christ is described that way. He’s going to literally be the light of the new heavens and the new earth. So we ought to see that in the early chapters of Genesis: there’s light that exists apart from the sun. It’s preaching Christ to us.Last thing, if you’ll allow me from the creation account early there. The seventh day, the Sabbath day; it’s a very unique day because all the other six days have this common refrain of “there was evening,” “there was morning,” “the first, second, third, etc. day.” The seventh day doesn’t have that refrain. Many Christians through history have understood that to be a pointer to Christ because that seventh day is awaiting its fulfillment, and that seventh day of our Sabbath rest finds its yes and amen in Christ. In particular, it’s fulfilled when Jesus would lay in a tomb outside Jerusalem. 1500 years after Moses wrote these words, he’s going to lay in a tomb outside Jerusalem on the seventh day of the week because his work is done. Redemption is over. Sin is atoned for. Righteousness fulfilled. And he’s going to get up from the dead on the next day to usher us into the new creation. And then the writer to the Hebrews picks up on that and tells us that we have entered into God’s Sabbath rest when we cease from our working, like God rested from His. And we know that Christ is the fulfillment of that rest that we are promised forever, but it’s already ours in Him.Genesis 1 and the early verses of Genesis two—we should read these in light of Christ and what God is going to do through him if we’re going to read Genesis like Christians.Jon Moffitt: Genesis is a Christian book, just to be clear. The Old Testament is a Christian book. I mentioned there are two ways to read it: first of all, it’s treated as an Israelite who understands that God is the one redeeming them and they’re looking forward to the seed of Eve, and then it comes through the seed of Abraham, and so we gain clarity. You have the promise and then you have the narrative of humanity about how they just constantly prove they are in desperate need of restoration, or I would say rescuing. You get to the flood and God says no one is righteous, and so He abolishes the world. And then just like anybody would ever think, if we could start all over and just get rid of all the bad people, God proved that won’t work. Because the problem is not with the current people on the earth; the problem is that it’s in the heart or in the seed of man—it’s passed down.Justin Perdue: If we’re going to talk about Adam and Noah, Noah is a type of Adam. God wipes humanity off the face of the earth because He sees that the inclinations of man’s heart is only evil continually in Genesis 6. After the flood, God has hit the reset button but the problem with Noah is that he’s too much like Adam. Basically, sin remains. We even see one of Noah’s sons is cursed, like God cursed humanity, the snake, and the whole creation in the garden. Just hitting the reset button and wiping people off the earth is not going to fix this. There’s something more fundamentally at issue here.Jon Moffitt: The second way it’s read, as modern day Christians, is that we have the whole Canon now, and we allow the New Testament interpretation of the book of Genesis to be the filter by which we then go back and read and say with full confidence that Genesis is the introduction of Jesus to us, not only of the Father, but Jesus, the Creator and Sustainer of the world. And not only that, but the Spirit that moved upon the water. So we allow the New Testament to be read now as redemptive as well, but we read it as seeing that it’s the fulfillment of Jesus and how we get Jesus to this point. I think, as an Israelite or as a modern day Christian, we both read Genesis from a redemptive historical understanding of Scripture because it’s how we get Jesus.Justin Perdue: It’s a great observation. You have the Trinity in the first two verses of Genesis 1, because you have the Father, and then the Son is the agent of creation, and the Spirit hovering over the face of the deep. That’s a pretty cool thought, too.Going back to the garden and thinking about Adam and Eve, covenants and promises, and the like… Jon, let’s not bury the lead here. We are convinced, and we’re going to talk about this in Semper Reformanda in detail, that it is impossible to rightly understand Genesis apart from a covenantal framework—and that’s a big deal. More on that over in Semper Reformanda. We’re going to talk a little bit about some of this stuff right now. So God makes Adam and Eve in His own image, and then God makes a covenant with Adam where He gives him things that he is to do, and He gives him prohibitions—one prohibition in particular that there’s a particular tree that he’s not to eat of, and He gives a sanction: “If you break this covenant that I’ve made with you, then in the day that you break it, you’ll surely die.” Adam, in that sense, is serving as the representative of the entire human race. And when he falls into sin, he plunges all of humanity and all of the creation into sin and ruin along with him.How do we know this is true? We could go a number of places, but we can go to the book of Romans where Paul connects all of these things for us, and we see that through one man’s disobedience, all of this wreckage and ruin has come upon us. But then through the obedience of the new Adam, the second Adam—Christ—that many will be made righteous. And so we can connect Adam and Christ that way, and see that God intended that if Adam had obeyed and had been righteous, that all would have been well with humanity. But because he fell and we fell in him, there now has to be another one who can represent us before God and actually accomplish all of the terms of the covenant that God made with Adam. He is perfectly obedient, he is sinless, he is completely righteous, and then his work is counted to us and he represents us for all of those who are united to him in faith. I don’t think it’s overstating it to say that that promise that God makes to Adam and Eve in the aftermath of the fall, that there will come a seed of the woman who will step on, who will crush the serpent’s head—that is the proto-euangelion, the first promise of the gospel, as it’s often referred to—that is the promise we would say of the covenant of grace.The rest of the entire Bible—it’s a big book, and Genesis 3:15 is only a few pages in—the rest of the entire Bible is the unfolding and the accomplishment of that promise.Jon Moffitt: That’s right. Yes, creation is a big part of it. But I would say I agree with Justin: the covenant of works, and I would call it the first Adam and the last Adam, or he’s also described as the second Adam in that Christ is the fulfillment where Adam failed. And you have Paul mentioning this language and using this language that Jesus is the second Adam. In many ways, that’s what you’re waiting for. You’re waiting for the federal head, meaning the representative of humanity. Federal head is a language that I was introduced to by Reformed theology, and a lot of people struggle with the concept of a federal head, but federal means representative. Because Adam sinned, we are all sinners. We inherited his sin. He is the representative of humanity. If you reject that theology, it’s kind of dangerous because that’s the very thing that Paul says: in Adam all died because he is the original human and his disobedience is now passed on to us. But it also says in Christ, all are made alive.So, you want federal headship because if you don’t have it, then Christ can’t be your representative for righteousness. This doctrine is introduced in the very beginning, in the very first book, and it really becomes the theme. Because you see the federal head and the representative of the effects of it in Genesis 3:16 and following, and all of a sudden, you see the curses that come forward, you see the fallout, and then you also see the promise of the federal head of Christ, the second Adam, which is in the seed. And you see the story of the two seeds, which we would argue is the two covenants—covenant of grace versus covenant of works—Christ being the promise of the covenant of grace. If you want to know what we mean by that, we did a whole five-part series on the covenant of grace or covenant theology. It’ll be in the show notes. So go down there and find that it’s free. Go listen to it. There’s a whole handout. We encourage you to do so.The reason why we mentioned this is that it helps you understand and really flow the narrative, where you’re not trying to find one evidence to prove somebody wrong about history. Number two, you’re not trying to find moral application. Can you find moral application in these texts? Sure. Don’t be like Adam and Eve and disobey God. But you’re missing what’s really happening and the superstar of the story, which is God using Jesus to redeem sinners. That’s the superstory, and there are these stories under that.I will say this: in the dispensational-evidentialist world, it seems like the superstar of the story, which should be Christ, is put down as a subset and everything else becomes a priority, whether it’s the evidence of creation or moralism, the “be like” whoever…Justin Perdue: I would argue that it’s not just in the evidentialist-dispensational world. I agree completely with what you assessed about that world, but I think in other streams within evangelicalism, there are still things that are inappropriate, like there’s an off-centered emphasis. For example, even in thinking about Genesis 2 and the covenant God makes with Adam, I think people are happy in a general sense, to say that Adam represents us and that in his fall he represents us. But there’s not always that obvious connection made with how everything that was lost in Adam and then some is going to be gained for us in Christ. We miss that connection or we emphasize things that are secondary application as though they’re the main takeaway. In Genesis 3 and the account of the fall, how many times have you heard sermons where the emphasis is Adam and Eve doubting God’s word? And that’s the problem. Or Adam didn’t lead Eve like he should have, and that’s the emphasis.I’m not saying that all of that is illegitimate to say at all, but the point of that text is the fall of humanity into sin because our first covenant head and federal head fell and failed in the covenant that God had made with him. And there was a promise immediately upon sin entering the world, and immediately upon us in Adam blowing it—there’s the promise of grace, there’s the promise of Christ in the gospel. And God went, “I’ve got this. I’m going to save a people. You guys, because you have such a thing as freedom of choice, right in the garden, you have blown this. But I’m a Redeemer and I always have been, and I’m good. And there’s one who’s coming.” that needs to be what we preach from Genesis 3. And then as we make our way through the rest of the book, we’re tracing those two lines of the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.And the question that you often will ask, Jon, that I think is a really good one: as we’re reading the rest of the Bible, we’re thinking who that promised seed is. When is he coming? That’s what we’re finding out as it unfolds through farther steps in Revelation, unfolds through the rest of the Old Testament, where we are primed and ready by the time the angels announce to Mary and to Joseph that there’s one coming who’s going to be named Jesus, because he’s going to save his people from their sins. Thank God he’s coming. He’s here.I think that we do people a tremendous disservice when we do not emphasize the redemptive plan of God accomplished through Christ, that has always been the plan not just from Genesis 1, but from before the world began.Jon Moffitt: I would even say what is great when you start having a Christocentric understanding or a redemptive-historical understanding of Scripture, you begin to see the connection. There’s a flow. There’s a cohesiveness to the text. One of the things I love about the grace that’s in the New Testament is absolutely seen in the Old Testament. Here’s a great example: God comes into the garden and says, “Hey, Adam! Where are you?” As if God does not know. It’s like, “Hey, buddy. I know you’re hiding. I know what you just did.” It’s like you caught the kid with the hand in the cookie jar, but it’s far worse than that. You caught them with a bloody knife and he just murdered. What does God do when He promises the seed? What requirement did He put on Adam and Eve?Justin Perdue: Nothing.Jon Moffitt: Nothing. He did one thing: He separated himself from their presence and then said, “Oh, and by the way, not have anything to do with you, but through my providence and my promises, I will then restore your presence back to me.” That’s grace, right? To receive unmerited favor. And it was seen right in the beginning. God not only promises Jesus, but promises Jesus with no strings attached. That’s good news.Justin Perdue: I could talk about this for a long time, but we got to get over to Semper Reformanda. I’ll make a couple of brief comments about something you just raised.What we’ve done today, I hope, with Genesis is maybe begin to show people how they can and should read their entire Old Testament. Because I do think a lot of people approach the Old Testament in a number of ways that are bad. We’ve touched on several. One, for many people, the Old Testament is just like a wasteland: it’s hard, it’s full of law and threats. There is maybe an occasional oasis because there’s a prophecy about the Messiah or some promise of grace or comfort or restoration. But generally speaking, the Old Testament is just hard. We ought not see it that way if we’re looking at it through this Christocentric, redemptive-historical lens. You already talked about our tendency to moralize the Old Testament, where we follow around these Old Testament saints and figure out how to be like them. That’s not a good way to approach the Old Testament.Lastly, I think people tend to approach the Old Testament, and this is probably especially true in a dispensationalist framework with an almost completely law-centered mentality. What are you doing with that? You’re mining through every text to find the things that we need to be doing or the things that we need to not do, and that becomes the point of the message. Here’s the issue: none of that squares with how Jesus understood the Scriptures and none of that squares with how the apostles understood the Scriptures. And remember that for Jesus and the apostles, the Scriptures were the Old Testament. That was their Bible at that time. They understand that whole thing, the Old Testament, to be a testimony about Christ. And so we should certainly understand the book of Genesis that way. And I think we’ve tried to do that this morning as we’ve recorded.So we’re about to make our way over to Semper Reformanda, which is a podcast for those who have partnered with Theocast and have joined the Reformation, as we like to say, to see this message and this theology spread as far and wide as possible. Because Jesus really is enough for us to have peace with God now and forever, and we want as many people to know that rest and that peace is possible. If you don’t even know what Semper Reformanda is, you could find out more information about it and the ways that you could partner with our ministry over at our website, the URL for that is theocast.org. We encourage you to go check out everything we got over there on the site, including how to become a member of Semper Reformanda.Jon Moffitt: And a big part of the membership is online and local groups where you can get together and discuss the podcast each week. So don’t miss out on that.Justin Perdue: Not only are you partnering with us, but we’re trying to create a community where you can love on each other and encourage each other and sharpen each other. So if that sounds good to you, go check it out.We will talk with many of you over there on SR. I think that’s the lingo we’re using these days.Jon Moffitt: And what are we talking about?Justin Perdue: How a covenantal framework is essential to our understanding of Genesis, and in a lot of ways the Bible, but especially Genesis.All right. We’ll see you over there guys. 

Talk 8. The Promise of Victory over Death   In Talk 3 we saw that the resurrection of Jesus was a key part of the fulfilment of God’s promises (Acts 13:32-33). We also took a brief look at 1 Corinthians 15 and saw that Christ’s resurrection guarantees ours. Today we’re going to examine this in more detail. Focusing our attention largely on 1 Corinthians 15, we’ll be considering:   Why we can be sure about Christ’s resurrection Why we can be sure about our resurrection What our new bodies will be like The certainty of final victory over death   Why we can be sure about Christ’s resurrection   The basic answer to this question is found in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8:   For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.   Note that the verb here also means ‘he was seen’. He appeared to, and was therefore seen by:   Peter (v5) (cf. Luke 24:34) the Twelve (v5) (a title rather than a number) 500 brothers (v6) (cf. Matthew 28:7,10, 16) James (v7) (referred to only here in NT) - James the Lord’s brother who ‘did not believe in him’ during his earthly ministry all the apostles (v7) (including Thomas? Or does this refer to a wider company than the 12?) me also (v8) (note the importance of personal experience)   Paul goes on to argue that, if Christ did not rise from the dead, their faith was futile, their sins were not forgiven, they were of all people the most to be pitied, the apostles must be liars and there was no point in all the persecution he had just suffered. Much has been written on the evidence for the resurrection - see, for example, the relevant chapter in You’d Better Believe It - but the argument can be summarised as follows:   There can be no serious doubt that Christ died. There are numerous witnesses who state that they saw him alive after he had died. The reliability of these witnesses is evident in that many of them died rather than deny the truth of their testimony.   But Paul’s purpose in 1 Corinthians 15 is not only to establish the fact of Christ’s resurrection. In verses 20-26 he goes on to show that Christ’s resurrection guarantees ours.   Why we can be sure about our resurrection   1 Corinthians 15:20-28 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.   The firstfruits referred to in vv 20 and 23 is an allusion to Leviticus 23.  The first sheaf of the harvest was brought as an offering to God. It was representative of the full harvest that would follow. This happened on the day following the Sabbath after the Passover, which was the day Christ rose from the dead!  Christ is the firstfruits of resurrection.  We are the harvest that will follow.   So in vv21-22 Paul says:   For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.   What does this mean?     Genesis 1:26-28 God gave humanity dominion over creation. Genesis 3 indicates that at the Fall that authority was diminished and humanity became subject to death. Romans 5:12-17 tells us that because of Adam’s sin death spread to all humanity because all sinned, but that those who through God’s abundant grace receive his free gift of righteousness will reign in life through Jesus Christ.   Paul sees Christ as the last Adam (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:45) Christ succeeded where Adam failed (temptation) Adam is the representative head of unredeemed humanity (those in Adam) Christ is the head of a new redeemed humanity (those who are in Christ) These are the only two groups of people in the world. Either you are in Christ or you are still ‘in Adam’. But when you receive Christ as your Lord and Saviour you are no longer in Adam. You are in Christ. You have become part of the new redeemed humanity. Christ’s resurrection is the guarantee of yours!   Paul develops this further in 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 which we’ll look at in a moment. But what does he say next in vv27-28?   For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.   All things have been put under Christ’s feet 27 (cf. Ephesians 1:19-22) Christ is reigning and must continue to reign 25 He must continue to reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet 25 He will destroy every rule, authority and power 24 The last enemy to be destroyed is death 26 Then the end will come 24 Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, to whom the Son will be subject, that God might be all in all 24+28   So our physical bodies are subject to death because we have inherited them from Adam. Death has been conquered by Christ but not yet destroyed. But if we are in Christ, when Jesus returns we will be given a new spiritual body just like Jesus’ resurrection body.   Paul goes on to explain this in vv35-50. What our new bodies will be like (1 Corinthians 15:35-50)   They will be Necessary I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.   Note the words cannot and must. Our present bodies will be totally unsuitable for life in the coming kingdom of God.   They will be Different But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.   They will be Spiritual It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.   The natural body we inherited from Adam is as different from the spiritual body which will be our inheritance in Christ as Christ is different from Adam himself.  Adam is of the earth, earthly.  Christ is the Lord from heaven (vv 45-50). The natural earthly body from Adam is mortal and perishable. It is ‘sown’ (when we are buried) in weakness and dishonour. The spiritual heavenly body we receive from Christ will be immortal and imperishable and will be raised in glory and power (vv42-43). It will be incapable of sickness and death.   They will be like Jesus’ resurrection body But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.   You might like to read again the accounts in the Gospels of Jesus’ resurrection and consider the implications of this. The certainty of final victory over death (50-58) The closing verses of the chapter form one of the most powerful passages to be found in the Bible.  When the trumpet sounds at Christ’s coming, Christians still alive will be changed in a split second.  Their corruptible, mortal bodies will become incorruptible and immortal.  The dead, too, will be raised with incorruptible bodies.  So will be manifested the final victory over death.   “The long chain of decay and death inaugurated by the first Adam will finally be irrevocably broken by the last Adam” (Fee p 803).   Final victory is ours, over law and sin and death - through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Our labour is not in vain.  Christ is risen.  Because he lives we shall live also.  The knowledge of these certainties should inspire us to practical Christian discipleship.   I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labour is not in vain.  

Friday 2nd April: The Power to Start Again - The Tale of Two Adams All over the world Christians celebrate this week as Easter and today is specifically as Good Friday. The story of Easter is the story of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is the story of the triumph of life over death, of love over hate, of righteousness over sin and of the blessing over the curse. More importantly Easter is a reminder to us that even God Almighty believes in starting again. God created the first human male specie and gave him responsibility over the Garden of Eden, this first man was called Adam. Adam and his wife disobeyed God and lost their fellowship with God and control over the Garden and the earth. God almost immediately implemented the plan to get mankind back. He told Satan that, even though it seems he has won by making mankind fall into sin and separation from God but the offspring of the woman that he deceived would destroy his plan, that offspring is Jesus the last Adam. (Gen.3:15) This is where the story of Easter begins, it's the tale of two Adams. “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].” 1 Cor. 15:45 AMPC God wasn't afraid or ashamed to admit that something went wrong with the first Adam, No! He simply confronted the issue addressed it and started again. So that we are not in doubt that God started again, the scriptures refer to Jesus Christ as the last Adam. Your last attempt at doing what God told you to do might not have worked, start again. That is one many lessons of Easter. God bless you, enjoy your day

On this episode, Pastor/Dr. David Murphy shows us how the believer is taken out of the first Adam and placed in the second Adam, Christ.

On this episode, Pastor/Dr. David Murphy shows us how the believer is taken out of the first Adam and placed in the second Adam, Christ.

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I made the decision not to record them, not sure if it was the correct one, but it’s what I went with. I also didn’t record any 2 player games This has been a rough year for everyone, and I know a lot of folks might not have kept up with recording their games, just because it was just too much, and I’m sure many of our listeners out there just plain didn’t get to play very much magic this year. I know Ryan Peneff has internet consistency troubles, and that just made playing for him (at least much of the year) not very feasible. All that is to say, I hope that going over my stats for the year can maybe help folks at home live vicariously I compiled the data into a spreadsheet (huge shoutout to @dpkrausejr !) This was actually kinda fun, as it let me re-live some of the cool moments of the year.  I recorded all the games on my phone, and then pretty much took 3-4 days to transfer them over in the last week. 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The Bible is a book of contrasts. We see it in the people of the Bible- Caine - Abel, Saul - David, Adam - Christ. We also see it in the original creation and the new heavens and earth. One contrast that can be easily overlooked is that between two prominent couples, perhaps the most prominent couples ever.

Hear now the word of the Lord in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. We will be beginning our reading in verse 35. 35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:35-49, ESV Well, each year around Christmas time we remind ourselves of the importance of Christ's birth. Why did Christ have to be born? We remind ourselves that God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, very God of very God, Light of Light, from all of eternity past, he actually stepped into human history and took upon himself a human nature that is like ours in every respect, yet without sin. Also, that he was born in weakness and frailty too, as a little baby just like we were, to a human mother, the Virgin Mary. That story alone is extraordinary and it's right that we should celebrate it and remember it. Each year we also have to ask the question, why the story of Christ's birth is not just about a baby. The story of Christ's birth is also what that baby came to do and what he eventually did accomplish. So, the first part of the answer as we think about what Christ came to do is that Christ came to live a perfect life and to die on the cross in our place for our sins, so that by dying on the cross we could be reconciled to God. Indeed, that's a critical part of the answer. There is no gospel hope unless we can first be reconciled with God. We sing this in one of our Christmas hymns, “peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconcile.” What the Bible talks about when it talks about this forgiveness is that that isn't the end goal. Forgiveness is the means to an end. When the Bible talks about the importance of forgiveness, it describes it as something of a foundation that Christ had to first lay in order that everything else Christ is coming to do may be built on top of that critical essential foundation. So, forgiveness is essential, but God is actually bringing us into something even greater and even more through Christ Jesus. So, when we think about this question of why Jesus had to come, why did he have to be born, the passage we are studying today is actually one of the clearest passages in all the Bible to answer that question. This tells us not only that we are forgiven of our sins, but also where Christ is bringing us and how Christ is going to do that. That was impossible without him coming into this world and taking upon himself a human nature like ours. Our big idea this morning as we study is this, Christ equips us for full fellowship with God. Paul has three points, although they're kind of all recapitulating the same idea. The first point as we go will be a bit longer. 1. Christ Exalts Our Nature 2. Christ Endows Us with Life 3. Christ Equips Us for Full Fellowship with God Christ Exalts Our Nature So, let's start with our first point that Christ exalts our nature. In verses 42-44 now we read a larger chunk of Scripture, so let's re-read those verses in verses 42-44 to get our bearings a little bit. 42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, ESV So, in these three verses Paul is contrasting what is sown versus what is raised. What do you mean by this, what's he getting at? Well Paul introduced this subject a little bit earlier in the passage we looked at last week, if you want to look back at verse 36 and let me actually start in verse 35. Paul asked, 35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 1 Corinthians 15:35-36, ESV Part of what Paul is talking about by this sowing and raising is the way that our bodies, when we die or are planted like seeds in the ground, they will grow up. When they grow up, they are raised up. We will be raised up in the resurrection to overcome the sin and the death that has plagued our bodies. Christ will raise us imperishable and all the rest of it. Really that's only part of what Paul is talking about here. Certainly, this has an application for us, certainly this has to do with what will happen at our resurrection, certainly this answers that original question with what kind of body will the dead be raised. Yet in verses 42-44 Paul is actually addressing a deeper issue than what will happen to us. What's key to understanding this passage verses 42-44 is that Paul is not actually contrasting fallen sinful human nature and talking about the need for fallen sinful human beings who eventually die to be raised from the dead. That's true, but he's addressing something much bigger. He is actually addressing and comparing not only resurrected Christ against us in the current form in which we are as sinners, but he's really addressing the resurrected Christ against Adam as he was originally created before he fell into sin. It's the perfection of Adam's creation against Jesus Christ at his resurrection. Now that's hard to see in verses 42 through 44 but let me show you where Paul makes this clear, it's in verse 45. We're going to peek ahead a little bit into the next section then we'll come back to figure out what Paul is doing in verses 42 through 44. So, look at verse 45. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 1 Corinthians 15:45, ESV “Thus, it is written”, now the word “thus” there I want to point out that's actually the same word that Paul used in verse 42. It means, “what I'm about to say explains everything that I just wrote”. Essentially, it's, “thus what I just wrote in verses 42-44, let me explain to you what I'm talking about. Now what passage is Paul quoting there, what Scripture text is he pointing us to? Well, if you have if you have a footnote like I do you can look down and actually see exactly where Paul's quoting from, it's Genesis 2:7. Now remember the fall into sin does not happen until Genesis chapter 3. Genesis 2:7 is actually a verse that describes Adam originally when he was created, God breathes into him the breath of life. We read the first man Adam became a living being or a living soul. What Paul is saying is look what happened to Adam is that he was created in a certain way. That was not to actually be perpetual forever and that's what this sowing and raising language gets at. Adam's creation was like the sowing of a seed, it was the first form. Remember in the previous paragraph Paul talked about how the seed is not the final form, the seed is a form, and it grows up out of the ground into a final form to be the plant perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. Well, when Adam was created, he was sown in one form, his human nature had a particular form, but when Adam is raised, he will be raised beyond that form to a different final form. So, in verses 42-44 what is sown, this language of what is sown doesn't refer primarily to our bodies. When we die, buried as seeds in the ground. Certainly, this would apply to that, but Paul is talking about the creation of Adam. That just as a seed when sown eventually grows up into the plant, so God intended that Adam would eventually grow into a new form of human nature. Now this doesn't mean that Adam was created flawed or that he was created defective and it certainly doesn't mean that Adam was created sinful, he wasn't. Adam was created perfectly but the issue is that Adam's body was created to be equipped for earthly life only and not yet for heavenly life. He was equipped for earthly life, he was equipped to eat and to drink and to breathe and to sleep and to reproduce. He was equipped for earthly life, not yet for heavenly life. Now I'm going to talk about heavenly life a lot in this sermon, so let me just explain up front that when I talk about heavenly life, I'm not talking about floating on a cloud and playing a harp. When I'm talking about heavenly life I am talking about face to face, complete full fellowship with God forever and ever. As we were originally created and certainly as we are today after we've been infected by sin and death, we could not bear up under the full weight of the glory of God, not even Adam in the garden. Adam had a perfect relationship with God, but he had a partial relationship with God. God intended that Adam would rise from his initially created form to a higher form in order to gain full fellowship with God in a heavenly life. Now Adam's already talked about this difference, the difference between earthly glory, that's how Adam was created with earthly glory, versus heavenly glory. Look back at verse 40. Paul wrote, 40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 1 Corinthians 15:45, ESV Now there Paul is talking about the heavenly bodies, like the sun, the moon, and the stars, but he's writing all of this as an analogy. Remember in verse 42 he starts off by saying, let me tell you what I'm talking about. It's the contrast between the earthly glory in which Adam was created, versus the heavenly glory in which we will be raised up. So, Adam's body then was sown perishable, even though he was created immortal. Adam's body was sown in dishonor, even though he was created in the glorious image of God. Adam's body was created, sown, in weakness, even though he was created in perfect strength. The reason was because Adam was given a glory, a perfect glory, but it was an earthly glory. It wasn't the full complete perfect glory of the heavenly glory. So, here's the thing, if Adam had not sinned, this passage is not teaching that he would have died at some point. No, if Adam had not sinned, he would never have died, he would have never experienced true dishonor, and he would have never tasted of true weakness. But he would not have remained in the same form. The point was that Adam was created in perfect earthly glory with the intention that he would grow out of that form into a new form. This is actually one of the clearest passages in the Bible to tell us what would have happened if Adam had been obedient to God's word. If Adam had not sinned, he would have never died, but he would not have stayed in the same form. He would have been transformed, he would have been exalted, he would have been raised. He would have been sowed one way, raised another way, above the original form of his nature into the final form of his nature. Like a seed growing into a plant. Again, not that he was created defectively, certainly not that he was created sinfully. He was created in one form with the intention of growing into a more mature form. Now the original form, again that that earthly glory versus the heavenly glory, that Paul talked about in verse 40, for that original form Paul uses a word in verse 44 “natural”. To describe that final form, the heavenly form, Paul uses the word “spiritual” to describe it there. Those two words “natural” and “spiritual” are words that get at this earthly and heavenly distinction. Now these two words in verse 44 are difficult to translate, really hard to get at what it's talking about, but essentially the word natural means equipped for earthly life. The way we know this is that that phrase, Adam became a living being or a living soul, that wasn't applied only to human beings as it was in Genesis 2:7 which is what Paul is quoting here in verse 45. It was also applied to the animals. The animals were also called living souls, the animals were also living beings in Genesis chapter 1:24. Now what's the point of similarity? Animals and humans alike are both created for earthly life. Our bodies are equipped for earthly life. Now certainly human beings have a higher existence above the animals, and we'll talk about that a little bit more later, but the point of comparison is that both of us were created for earthly life. A spiritual body on the other hand, Paul talks about the spiritual body in verse 44, understand this does not refer to a non-physical body. We're not talking about becoming like ghosts. When Jesus was raised from the dead that was one of the things that he labored to prove. He was showing, I'm not a ghost. Look at me, you can touch me, you can put your hands in my flesh, and in the scars in my body. I am not a ghost. He's not a ghost, he has a physical body. Our spiritual bodies will be physical bodies, but these bodies will be equipped for heavenly life. They will be equipped for full face to face union and communion with almighty God, in all the infinite splendor and majesty and weight of his glory forever and ever and ever. This will be as Paul talked about earlier in chapter 15, that at that point that is what it will mean for God to be all in all. At creation God originally created Adam to be equipped for earthly life like the animals, again higher than the animals but like the animals in the sense that we were equipped for early life. But God did not intend Adam to remain in that form permanently. His body wasn't equipped to live forever, his body was perishable. Instead, the Bible tells us that God gave Adam a probationary test. Now I want to be clear about what I talk about with that word probationary. Sometimes we think about probation as what you do when you get out of prison. You commit a crime, you sin in some way, you go after a punishment, you go to prison. Then after that you have probation before you can sort of enter into life. Well, it's not like that. It's more the probation period that you might get when you're starting a new job. You haven't done anything wrong, in fact they're excited to have you in the company probably, but that probation period is where you're given a restricted set of privileges and they want to see how well you do with the responsibilities you're given, the privileges you're afforded. If you do well, if you pass the test from that probation period, then you will be raised up to a higher level. You will be given more privileges and more responsibilities once you pass that probationary test. In the garden God did this for Adam. He commanded Adam, gave Adam a simple test saying not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Now this command wasn't about what food Adam was going to eat, really it was about whether Adam would obey the word of God. Would Adam obey, would he give personal perfect and perpetual obedience to God's word? If Adam disobeyed, he would fall from his innocence. He would enter into a state of sin and misery and he would be given over to his perishability. On the other hand, if Adam had obeyed, then God would have rewarded Adam with everlasting life. Not in his original form, he wouldn't have remained in seed form, he would have been transformed. He would have grown like a plant. The way we see this is in what God does after Adam sins. God says we have to stop him from reaching out now in the form that he currently is, marked by sin, and reach out and take from the Tree of Life and live forever. So, because of that Adam was expelled, kicked out of the Garden of Eden, so he couldn't yet eat from the Tree of Life. What Adam was supposed to do he failed to do, but if he had obeyed God would have raised him up. He was sown one way, he would be raised another. God would have raised him up to that kind of life, to imperishability, to glory, into power. God would have given Adam at that point the spiritual body that we're talking about, that Christ now possesses. He would have given Adam a spiritual body fitted not just for earthly life, but for heavenly life and full fellowship with God forever. We, as his descendants, would have received that body instead of the lowly and sinful body that we received after the image of Adam. So, this transition, again what I want to show you is that this transition was always God's intention. To transform from the seed form of humanity, from that original creation of Adam, all the way up to a higher form of having spiritual bodies. If there is a natural body, verse 44, there is also a spiritual body, one leads to the other. The problem of course is Adam's sin. He didn't exalt himself, and in fact he reduced himself, he plunged the whole human race into death, dishonor, and weakness because of his sin. So, what we need then is for someone else to raise us up to the final spiritual heavenly form of our nature. This is why Christ had to be born. Christ came into this world to raise us from our original humanity up to the higher form of the spiritual bodies that he himself now possesses by his resurrection. Christ came to exalt our nature, to lift it up, to raise it up. It was sown one way, Christ came to raise it up to another. How does Christ do this? Well, this leads us to our second section that Christ does this by endowing us with life. Christ Endows Us with Life So, our second section in verses 45 is that Christ endows us with life. Look at verses 45 and 46. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:45-46, ESV So here Paul is clarifying, as we talked earlier, that his comparison and contrast is between Adam and Christ, between the forms of their bodies, one equipped for earthly life and one equipped for heavenly life. So, when Paul calls Christ a spirit or spiritual, he's not denying that Christ's physical or he's not denying the existence of Christ's physical body. He's not saying that well natural is physical, but spiritual is non-physical. Again, the natural is in the sense of earthly the spiritual is in the sense of heaven. One is equipped for life on earth and the other is equipped for face-to-face fellowship with God forever. The natural came first though and the spiritual came second. In verse 46 Paul says you can't have the spiritual first, that's not what comes first, There's a progression to this. God created Adam, not defectively, but in a seed form with a natural body in order that he might grow up into his final form, the spiritual form. What we need to see here, the way that Paul is presenting us with the promises of the gospel, is that when he talks about the last Adam Christ in verse 45, he doesn't say that Christ was merely a life possessing spirit. It isn't that Jesus Christ was raised for himself alone to have this new life for himself and to hoard it to himself. He became a life-giving spirit to endow or to give others life too. Christ endows us with life. How do we attain what Adam failed to attain? It's because Christ gives it to us. Christ Equips Us for Full Fellowship with God In this final section, in verses 47 through 49, we see that Christ equips us for full fellowship with God. Though we were one way made after the image of Adam, the gospel promises that we will be, for all those who trust in Christ, made into another image, the image of Christ. Look at verse 47, as we go into our third section. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:47, ESV Now these almost sound like the way they're translated here to talk about origin that Adam came from the earth whereas Christ came from heaven. There are a lot of people who look at it that way. I think a better case can be made based on how this is written that Paul is still talking about that quality. The earthly man was made for earthly life, the man of dust was made for living in the dust, whereas the heavenly man is fitted for the quality of heavenly life. Not on a cloud playing a harp, but the heavenly life where we have full face-to-face fellowship with God forever. We are already equipped for earthly living. It's important to understand that when we talk about our natural bodies, those aren't bad bodies, those are good bodies that are well equipped for earthly living. We are equipped to breathe and to eat and to sleep, but what Paul is saying is that transition is that we need to be equipped for living forever with God in the world to come. This is what Christ came to do for us. Look at verses 48-49, 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:48-49, ESV Christ came to equip us for a full fellowship with God. Christ came as the life-giving spirit, at his resurrection, to give us this life so that we can be equipped for face-to-face communion with God forever. We will still have physical bodies and we will in fact not live in the clouds but on the earth, on the new heavens and a new earth. When we do so, I love the way the Westminster Larger catechism question 90 puts this, when that happens, when we're transformed from the natural to the spiritual, from the earthly bodies to the heavenly bodies, when we are remade after the image of the man of heaven, then we will be filled with “inconceivable joys, we will be made perfectly holy and happy, both in body and soul, we will be in the company of innumerable saints, and holy angels but especially in the immediate vision and fruition of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit to all eternity. And this is the perfect and full communion which the members of the invisible church shall enjoy with Christ in glory at the resurrection and day of judgment.” That is our hope that Christ will equip us for full fellowship with God for the immediate vision and fruition of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit to all eternity. Application But let's consider now what we should do with this text. Today we've seen all the way from the very beginning of the Bible, all the way to the very end of time, just summarized in a few short verses here. What about between those two times? What should we do living our lives today? 1. Well our first application is this, consider that you were created not only for an earthly life but for a heavenly life. You were created not only for life on the earth, but you were created for a heavenly life of full fellowship with God, face to face forever. Now see here's the thing, the Bible says that we were indeed created for earthly life and that's a good thing. In fact, the Bible says that we were created like the animals in many respects. Not only are human beings created as living beings, living souls, but animals as well, Genesis 1:21-24. So, when God created the world, he equipped all his creatures, animals and humans alike, for earthly life. He gave us lungs equipped to breathe earthly air, he gave us stomachs equipped to eat earthly food, he gave us bodies that are refreshed by earthly sleep. The natural is good. It's good for us to have these bodies. But the Bible teaches that human beings are unlike animals in two important respects. First, human beings alone were created in the image of God. We weren't just created natural, we were created to reflect God's glory in a way that no other animal is. Second, human beings were created not only for earthly life, here's what I want us to consider, but also ultimately for heavenly life, verse 44. It is sown a natural body, that's how we were created, it will be raised a spiritual body, like Christ's own spiritual body. So, I want us to think about and evaluate what we hear from the world. What is the good news, as the world would put it, what is the earthly gospel? Well, the earthly gospel, the gospel of this world is not that we can live a higher life, but if you really think about what the earthly gospel proclaims it is that we can live like the animals. The worldly gospel, the earthly gospel doesn't call us to a higher level of living, it actually calls us down to live like a beast of the field. The highest hope this world can offer is that if we could just give up ourselves and just live like the beasts. So, the world teaches that it is survival of the fittest, so you need to do whatever it takes to get ahead. You need, like the beasts, to find your pack, to become the alpha, to defend your territory, how animals live you should live. However, you want to live, pursue whatever you want to pursue, sleep with whomever you want to sleep with, do whatever your natural instincts drive you to do. Live like the beasts of the field, that's the highest gospel that an earthly gospel can provide. But you are more than an animal. Your life has transcendent meaning, significance, and value. You were created after the image of God himself. So, yes God equipped you to live in this world, but he wants you to live in this world as you were looking for the next world. He wants you to live a natural life that is guided by the fact that you will one day be raised up to live a heavenly life in full fellowship and communion with God. The fact that we are equipped for earthly life is actually part of the ongoing problem that we have, because this world has such an allure to us, because it just so easily appeals directly to our natural faculties. Now those natural faculties are good, but they are twisted by sin so that to us nothing feels more natural than living a natural earthly life now. So, to some extent this is good. Your biological instincts should tell you when to eat, when to drink, and when to sleep. Yet it means that the spiritual faculties are something that don't come naturally, in fact we need God's grace to be lifted above this world, above the sun to the Lord Jesus Christ who came into this world to transform us. We need spiritual instincts to teach us how we should live in this world if we are going to be living one day in another. These spiritual faculties, these spiritual instincts cut against what feels natural. It is only God's Spirit, speaking through God's word, who can guide us spiritually, to teach us how to love, how to worship, how to live, and even how to die. Where then do you take your cues for living in this world? Do you just let your natural instincts carry you wherever they will, or is all of your bodily life guided and shaped and uplifted to the heavenly life that we are called to live by faith in Jesus Christ? Consider that you were created not only for an earthly life, but for a heavenly life. 2. Here's a second application, believe in Jesus Christ who has conquered death. At Christmas we remember that the Son of God took upon himself a lowly body like ours. When Jesus was born his humanity was like Adam's original humanity at his creation, before Adam fell into sin. So, he was capable of dying, he was perishable, but Jesus Christ was not guilty and liable to the curse of death. He wouldn't have died if he hadn't been put to death. He was perishable but he had to be put to death in order to die. He was without honor. Christ came into this world having veiled the glory of his divine nature and he was born in weakness, suffering under all the frailties of a human nature. Christ took upon himself a natural body that was equipped for earthly life and again that's good. Natural bodies equipped for earthly life is good, but it's only the seed form. So, as we sing in our Christmas hymn this is one of the reasons, we praise God, “mild he lays his glory by, born that man no more may die.” We celebrate this about Christ, but why did he do this? Why did Jesus have to be born? Well Jesus did this in order to succeed where Adam failed. To elevate, to exalt, to raise our nature from what we were sown as. What we were originally created to be versus what we are raised up to be in the full form of our human nature, what God always intended. You see if Adam had obeyed, and he had the ability to obey, but if he had obeyed Adam would have been raised to the final fullest mature form of human nature. God created him able to obey, he turned against that. If Adam had been successful, he would not have stayed in that seed form, he would have been raised imperishable. He would have been raised in glory, he would have been raised in power, he would have been raised to a spiritual body. Adam would have been fitted for heavenly life and not only would he have received a spiritual body, but all of us descended from Adam would too. Tragically, of course, Adam chose to disobey God so that our bodies fell into death rather than being raised up to life. Christ however came to give personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience to his Father in Heaven, even to the point of death on the cross. Where Adam failed his probationary test, Christ succeeded. So, when Christ was raised from the dead he was exalted from the lowly natural earthly human body, the seed form in which he was born, into a glorified spiritual heavenly body in order that he might raise us up, so that we might have that higher life too. Again, we sing about this very idea at Christmas that he's, “light of life to all he brings, risen with healing in his wings.” Christ came to bring life and healing today. Jesus Christ is no longer perishable, he declares in Revelation 1:18, 18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. Revelation 1:18, ESV No longer can Christ die, no longer is Christ without honor, or will he ever be without honor. In Philippians 2:10-11 we read, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:10-11,ESV Therefore, because Christ humbled himself in obedience all the way to death on a cross, therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. No longer is he perishable, no longer is he in dishonor, no longer does he live in weakness. Revelation 5:12 says that those around the throne cannot help but to sing, 12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” Revelation 5:12, ESV Jesus Christ is the mighty king. He is alive and he lives forever more, and he is reigning at his Father's right hand now. One day king Jesus will return and when he comes again, he will sweep away in judgment the enemies who have so far resisted his reign. But today the gospel is that the king who is about to return at any moment, the king offers a peace treaty. “Joyful all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies”, is the invitation he offers. A peace treaty that for all those who turn from their sin and turn to Jesus Christ in faith. Trusting in him to not only to forgive you of your sins, to raise you up from Adam's sin, but also to lift you up in resurrection life on the last day. If your faith is in Christ to do that, then Christ personally assures you the king makes a treaty with you, promising forgiveness and newness of life now. A heavenly quality to our inner man, even as our outer man is wasting away all the time. Then finally he promises you resurrection on the last day, to be raised up into spiritual bodies. Jesus Christ was, “born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth. Hark the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.” Brothers and sisters, as we think about Christ being born and why he was born during this Christmas season, let us keep in mind the ultimate goal. Not just to be a baby as important as that was. Not just to live a perfect life, as critical as that was. Not just to die for our sins on the cross, as essential as that is for our salvation. Not just to be rise so that he personally possessed a spiritual body, but to become the life-giving Spirit who gives light and life to all those who turn to him in faith. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we pray that you would give us Christ. We pray that you would lift us up in Christ, to know and love the Lord Jesus Christ, so that on the last day we would be raised up with him to resurrection life. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

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RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours 42 MinutesHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: S2 E35 (08/27 - 09/02) Looking back at a memorable '77 WWWF MSG match and feud between Superstar Billy Graham vs Ivan Putski. Pat Patterson becomes the first ever WWWF Intercontinental Champion.  Looking back at a memorable '79 tournament for the Mid Atlantic NWA US Title featuring Ricky Steamboat, Jimmy Snuka, Bruiser Brody, Buddy Rogers, and more.  The Big Event: WWF draws 64,000+ fans for a house show in Canada.  Looking back at World Class Labor Day 'Star Wars' event (1985, 1986). Summerslam Highlights: 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000.  Audio: Ultimate Warrior def Honkytonk Man for IC Title and MSG fans go bananas.  When wrestling gets too real: Memphis Police called after Jerry Lawler is hit by a car (driven by Eddie Gilbert).  Audio: Macho Man Randy Savage vs Ric Flair; a rare WWF Superstars match that featured a World Title Change.  Audio: Vince McMahon vs USWA Saga Continues.  Looking back at AAA La Revancha event (1993). Audio: Harley Race introduces Yoshi KHAN to the Cactus Jack / Big Van Vader feud. Audio: ECW becomes Extreme: ECW leaves NWA as Shane Douglas throws down newly won NWA Heavyweight Title and debuts ECW Heavyweight Championship. Tag Team gold for HBK and Diesel, and PG-13.  Audio: As The Dudleys exit ECW (for WWF), Raven makes a memorable surprise return after quitting WCW.  Audio: The Rock and Sock Connection is formed and immediately leads to Tag Team Gold.  Audio: Steve Austin tosses Kurt Angle's Gold Medals into the Detroit River.  Mini Hardys and Mini Dudleys make Raw appearance.  XPW 'Hostile Takeover' of Philadelphia and ECW Arena begins. DT shares some never told before personal stories on camera and behind the scenes from that August 2002 weekend. 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Join host Scott Willingham for our first ever solo-cast, as we start a mini-series on some of the contrasting elements of the bible. This week we will take a look at the two Adams found in the Bible and how, through the second Adam (Christ) we inherit what Christ merited. 

Because there are many scripture references that are not read in the sermon, I have included the notes. Who Was Crucified       Philippians2:5-8; Acts20:28 Today, a little over a week before the date we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, let us consider an aspect of the miracle that took place in Bethlehem that made possible our salvation. God took on the form of man to accomplish what could be accomplished by no other means.   GOD IS: Holy Habakkuk 1:13a; Psalm 5:4; 1John 1:5-6 Invisible Colossians 1:15;John1:18;4:24 All Powerful / All Knowing / Ever Present Eternal Genesis 1:1; Hebrews 7:3 Sovereign Isaiah46:9; Romans11:34 Worthy Of Worship Matthew4:10 JESUS IS MAN (FULLY) Born Of Woman – Particularly A Virgin Seed of woman Genesis 3:15 Uniting God And Humanity To be born without sin Humanity inherits sin nature from first father, Adam >>> Christ did not descend from Adam  Luke1:35 Human Frailties Born >>> grew >>> increased in wisdom (Luke2:40) Hunger / thirst / physical weakness / lost human life Mind >>> obeyed parents / increased in wisdom / things he did not know “of that day…not even the son…” Mark 13:32 Emotions >>> sorrow / wept / marveled (at faith) People saw his humanity Yet Without Sin Hebrews 4:15 Always did what pleased Father John8:29 Yet, he knew temptation [Winning weight lifter knows the weight better than those who tried and failed] Showed Obedience / Example Perfect Substitute / Perfect Mediator Sympathetic High Priest >>> Human For Ever JESUS IS GOD (FULLY) “God (Theos)” Is Used Speaking Of Jesus Christ John1:1,18; Romans9:5; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8;   2Peter1:1; Isaiah9:6 “Lord (Kyrios)” Is Used Speaking Of Christ Jesus Luke2:11,18; 1:43; Matthew22:4; 1 Corinthians8:6 Jesus’ Claim To Deity John8:57-58 - Before Abraham…/ John3:16,36; 20:31 - Gives eternal life / John3:17; 5:23; 10:36 - Existed before he came into the world / Hebrews1:2 – Creator and heir of world / Heb.1:3 – Exact duplicate of the nature/essence (hupostasis) of God … his power upholds the universe Omnipotent >>> calms storms / multiplies food to feed thousands / turns water into wine Omniscient >>> Nathaniel under fig tree / Knew what was in men’s hearts / Knew who would betray Omnipresent >>> not between manger and cross >>> However: Promised “there am I” Matthew 18:20; “I am with you always…”  28:20 Immortal >>> “I will raise it (temple/his body) up again” John2:19; I lay down my life… no one takes it” John10:17-18 Worthy of worship >>> Philippians 2:9; Hebrews 1:6 Sovereign >>> “I say unto you” vs “Thus sayeth the Lord”; Reveals the Father to whomever he chooses Matthew 11:27; All authority/ power in heaven and earth  Matthew 28:18 So Jesus Christ Could Bear The Sin Of Man To Save Man “Salvation is from the Lord” Jonah 2:9 To Be Mediator 1Timothy 2:5 TO SHOW THE AMAZING LENGTH TO WHICH GOD WENT TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR SALVATION Invisible God Became Visible [Even grotesquely so] Who Is Not Flesh And Blood Sacrifice Blood That Was His Who Cannot Sin, Became Sin >>> So That We Might Become The Righteousness Of God  2Corinthians 5:21 This and more about the deity and humanity of Christ can be found in Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem   Zondervan press  

Allison leads us through the terrain of Romans 5, and the Adam/Christ typology. Although gender is nor our primary concern here, it does come up in regards to how we understand Adam as "anthropos." What will we conclude? You will have to listen and find out!

Recorded in Franklin, TN 1 Corinthians 12:1 could literally be read as: “Now concerning spiritual operations, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.” We are looking for “revival” or “reformation “based upon what “we” have heard or studied… Isaiah 43:19 – “Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” I believe this “thing”, this new thing (not a Revival, not a reformation but a REVOLUTION) will be “triggered” by an evolution! The evolution of Kainos Sapien going from one level of glory to another level of glory! (2 Cor. 3:18) Evolution then Revolution! 1 Corinthians 15:45 AMPC – “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit restoring the dead to life.” You too will BECOME what is needed!

We welcome Dr. Brandon Crowe to speak about his book, The Last Adam: A Theology of the Obedient Life of Jesus in the Gospels, in which he sets forth the soteriological significance of the life of Jesus in the Gospels. He offers an exegetical case for understanding the Adam-Christ parallel in the Gospels themselves, and thereby allows us to see the great glory of person and work of Christ as he is revealed in all of Scripture. Other episodes with Brandon Crowe Deuteronomy and Christology in the Gospel of Matthew The Virgin Birth of Christ The Message of the General Epistles The New Testament Foundations of Trinitarian Theology

Consider the phase from Adam to Christ. Irenaeus believed every human is capable of salvation. He saw all of humanity in one category in Adam. Adam represents all of humanity and in Adam, all humanity is earthly – we are created from the ground. In Adam, all humans are created in the image and likeness of God. Adam was made “very good”, but it is not the same as being made perfect. Consider Augustine’s idea of the creator God as “Watchmaker”. For Irenaeus, the plan of salvation was set from the beginning. God does not have to inject something new into the plan. For Irenaeus, in Adam, all humanity sinned. In Adam all humanity died. For Irenaeus, death is actually a gift because there is a consistency to God’s plan. If humanity lived forever we could not grow to be like Christ. What is the focus of salvation? Humanity is not just souls but bodies also. God redeems creation to himself. This brought Irenaeus to a belief in the physical resurrection and the earthly kingdom of Christ. What about the means of salvation? Consider Christ as the second Adam – Christ accomplishes salvation. The whole process for Irenaeus is as “fitting” and “beautiful”. Irenaeus states, “Where there is dovetailing, there also there is harmoniousness, and where there is harmoniousness, there also there is appropriateness, and where there is appropriateness there also there is suitability.” What God creates reflects His beauty and we can see error because it does not conform to the beauty around us.

Brandon Barker preaches a sermon on Adam (Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-8), April 10, 2016.

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