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BIBLE STUDY| MIRACLES OF JESUS SERIES |THE FOURTH MIRACLE OF JESUS pt.44 | THE FEEDING OF 5,000 MEN WITH 5 LOAVES OF BREAD AND 2 FISHES| CHIMDI OHAHUNA Welcome back to another inspiring episode of the GRACELIFECOMI PODCAST as we continue our series on the Miracles of Jesus. In today's thought-provoking episode titled “God's Economy of Sharing,” we explore the profound truth that true blessings unfold when we share what we have been given. Have you ever considered that some people possess an abundance yet remain hesitant to distribute their blessings? The reality is, the more we give, the more we receive. This episode reveals the miraculous connection between a young boy with five barley loaves and two small fish, the disciples (Andrew and Philip), Jesus Christ, and the enormous crowd that was fed. From the very beginning, God established a divine mandate for humanity: as described in Genesis 1:28, He empowered us with the Blessing to be distributors of His goodness to the world. We will unpack how this concept of distributorship was initiated with the first Adam and culminated with the last Adam—Jesus Christ—highlighting how these relationships play a crucial role in our understanding of service and giving. We will also dissect the distribution line that connects us to God's plan: - The Father God as the Producer - Jesus Christ as the Wholesaler - His Disciples as the Retailers As modern-day disciples, we have a vital role to play as retailers of the gospel—each possessing unique gifts to reach diverse audiences. We mustn't get caught up in the temptation of chasing after congregations or denominations, but rather focus on serving those who need the message of Christ's love and grace. Join us as we emphasize that every believer, regardless of their perceived size or influence, is an essential outlet for God's miraculous work. Remember, no disciple received a whole loaf or a full fish from Jesus; instead, we are all entrusted with broken pieces destined to nourish the masses around us. Tune in to this transformative episode and discover how the principles of Miraculous Distribution can ignite a powerful ministry in your life and empower you to be a conduit for divine blessings. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to effectively distribute the abundance of God's love and grace in your life! Subscribe, share, and let's embark on this journey together! Now, let's cast our nets wide and begin this soul-nourishing journey together, right here on "the GRACELIFECOMI podcast." Any questions arising from this study can be submitted to chimdiohahunaministry@gmail.com. Check our bio to know how to give your love offerings to the ministry. Grace to you. Jesus is Lord.

There are some days when all the readings provoke thoughts that are very meaningful and personal.  In Genesis we have the words of Joseph to his brothers after their father died.  The brothers are fearful that Joseph, in his position of great power in the land, will now take vengeance on them for the time they threw him into a pit, ignoring his pleas (Psa. 105 v.17-20 which shows it was also a testing time for Joseph) and sold him to be a slave.  But Joseph now fully sees the events from God's perspective.  “Joseph said to them, ‘Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? …you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about …” [Gen.50 v.19,20] The lesson for us! – to look ‘into' all strange and unexpected events to see whether the hand of God is there in – allowing or causing – the setting in motion of a chain of events for some divine purpose. But we usually perceive this only later as the events unfold. Also, we can say this is the case with our endeavours to understand much of apparently fulfilling prophecy in these days.  In the Psalms we have that most meaningful Psalm (51) which reveals David's total remorse and repentance after his sin with Bathsheba – a powerful example for all who become belatedly awake to what a mess they have made in some part of their lives – but the awakening must be from the heart and create a prayerful seeking of God's guidance. Then in Paul's letter to the Romans we have his most powerful portrayal of the impact that the sacrifice of Christ must have on us, as it obviously had on him. This impact may not come to begin with, but it must surely come if we are to be people whom our Lord can really use in his service.  Paul writes of how “the free gift of grace of that one man (in contrast to Adam) Jesus Christ abounded for many.”[5 v.15]  Yet, because it is “free” – do we really appreciate it in the right way? There seems to be a lot of glib talk around (spoken and written) in some religious circles about ‘grace' – that it is always abounding – regardless of what we might ever do.  In ch. 6 Paul makes a really special point, or so it seems to us, “We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.  For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Then he makes this powerful point to his readers, those in Rome and of all ages. After saying, “you also must consider yourselves dead to sin” he pleads, “ Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.” [v.11,12]  Let us all see ourselves to be “dead” to sin.  And if we cannot see that – then draw closer to Christ, our mediator. in earnest prayer. Also making sure we constantly meditatively read God's word – to inspire us in seeing.  

JESUS RIPPED THE HEAVENS OPEN WITH THE CROSS   I am suspicious of the school systems today on how much detail they give our students to our history and the development it took to get where we are.  How many of our youth, and even our adults, remember what the English Mag-na-car-ta was all about? In the year 1215, King John was forced by the land barons to sign a compact guaranteeing them more freedom, giving them the right to voice their opinions, etc. It was 100 years later when that compact went into force, changing the whole political and social climate in England. From the seed of that compact, we gained our freedom as an American nation and have enjoyed over 200 years of self-rule. What is part of the political confusion today is that a mass of our citizens have no idea what it means to be under the bondage of a dictator. The American experiment is one of a kind that has never happened in the history of the world. But another compact or covenant, signed and delivered, brought the entire world out of darkness into light. None of us can imagine what it would be like living before the cross, where the evil spirits and the gods of the nations ruled it with a hand of terror and punishment. It had been 400 years since the Israelites had heard the prophets give a word from God himself. The Bible states that there was darkness on the land. Matthew 4 tells us that the people sit in darkness, and a great light comes. The cross of Jesus Christ ripped an eternal hole in the heavens that will never close. When that happened, the gods of this earth came under the domination of the name of Jesus and lost their power to rule over the human race. The entire human civilization came under the bondage and the curse of sin when Adam committed high treason. The world and all that were in it lost their innocence. But praise God, another man came called the second Adam Jesus Christ. When he went to the cross and died for us, we died with him and rose again to new life. The entire human race, under the curse, suddenly, by the action of Jesus Christ, became innocent again and was returned to the Father's heart. Jesus said he would make a way where there has been no way. He did it with the cross. ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM!   YOU CAN GIVE HERE: http://www.georgewatkinsministries.co...   WEBSITE= http://www.georgewatkinsministries.co...   FACEBOOK=https://www.facebook.com/FaithProduce...   Faith Producers address: PO Bx 1006 Mt Vernon, WA 98273   FAITH PRODUCES AN INTERNATIONAL PODCAST https://faithproducers.podbean.com/   You can 'WALK' with George Watkins daily @ youtube.com/faithproducers  faithproducers.com twitter.com/faithproducers facebook.com/faithporducerstv   faithproducers.com   faithproducers@gmail.com

Please consider becoming a supporter of Exposit The Word. Your one-time gift or regular monthly giving will help us reach more people with the Gospel and to help us equip people with sound bible teaching via online media and the production of physical Gospel tracts. https://exposittheword.com/support-us/ ABOUT THE INTERVIEW Without the First, There Would Have Been No Need for the Last. The First... Supernaturally created by God, given dominion over Creation, enjoyed a brief, unique, unbroken relationship with the Creator, but his disobedience to the Creator's command brought sin into the world, and he and his wife were driven from the garden in Eden, into the darkness of a sin-cursed world. The Last... The eternal Son of God, born of a virgin in a sin-cursed world, truly God made flesh, the last Adam — Jesus Christ — obeyed the Law of God perfectly, yet gave His life as a ransom for sin, so that we could obtain salvation — reconciling the broken relationship with God, caused by the first Adam. Buy the book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adam-First-L... Leading them out https://leadingthemout.com/ Simon on AIG https://answersingenesis.org/bios/sim...

The biblical book of Jude discusses the last Adam: Jesus Christ. Discover how the message of the last Adam will put you in God's orbit and solve all your problems.

The biblical book of Jude discusses the last Adam: Jesus Christ. Discover how the message of the last Adam will put you in God's orbit and solve all your problems.

Ash WednesdayForty-six days before Easter Liturgical Color: VioletWithout God we are a tiny pile of crumbsThe marauding pirates of the high seas had their tough skin inked with tattoos. Roman soldiers smothered their bodies in oil before a battle. Primitive peoples ritually paint a warrior's face before a fight, stretch earlobes with hoops, or pierce noses with large rings. When American Indians wanted to emulate the ferocity or speed of an animal, a sharp bone fragment was used to carve that creature's outline into their skin, where it was stained with dye or soot. Traditionally, when a simple man wanted to announce what tribe he ran with, what nation he would die for, or what woman he would defend, he didn't need to say a word. He just lifted up his shirt a bit, rolled up his sleeve, or pointed to a mark on his neck. Clothes, hairstyle, and cosmetics communicate status, origin, belonging, and commitment well. But they can all be removed or changed. Tattoos, scalpings, piercings, brands, paints, and scars use the body as their canvas to permanently convey what words cannot.On Ash Wednesday, Catholics receive a temporary ash “tattoo” of a cross just above their eyes and nose. This primal gesture evokes the raw, uncomplicated, religious devotion at the core of our otherwise sophisticated theology. The Church consecrates the body externally with water and oil in Baptism, Confirmation, and Anointing of the Sick. The Church reads Saint Thomas Aquinas, sings refined Latin chant, and prays before luminous stained glass. And it also smudges black ashes on our faces. Real religions do things like this. A real religion has priests who smear your face with dirty ash as they whisper, “You're gonna die.”Man's earthly end, the separation of soul and body, could have come about in many ways. But due to original sin, this end always comes through death. Death is a punishment for Adam and Eve's sin of pride in eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. This sin is not original in the sense of being authentic or unrepeatable, but in that it occurred at our common origin. As a permanent repercussion of His punishment, God made work burdensome and instituted death as the mysterious doorway through which all must walk to exit earthly life. God told this to our common parents in Genesis 3:19: “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The last of these words are repeated to the faithful as the ashes are placed on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday.But as these words of death and destruction, of returning to the ground, are spoken, the priest does not trace an ash circle or a black question mark on our foreheads. He traces a cross. In this sign we shall conquer. In no other sign will we conquer. So with death comes a promise. With the old Adam there comes a new Adam—Jesus Christ. This is how Jesus was first understood in the early Church. Mary was the New Eve. Christ was the New Adam. They untied the knot our remote ancestors had tied. They were faithful where Adam and Eve were unfaithful. They kept the promise Adam and Eve had broken.The start of the forty days of Lent is a practice run. One day, we will all have to give an accounting of our lives. The balance sheet will have to be settled, the good and the bad weighed in their columns. Ash Wednesday is a reminder of something we know but don't call to mind often enough. Without God all that remains of our greatness is a little pile of dust. We are, in a sense, marked with ourselves today. The tiny black crumbs of ash will fall away in a matter of hours, to be forgotten for another year. And life will go on. Such is our destiny. With God, everything. Without God, nothing.God of all, we ask that we live a fruitful Lent starting on this Ash Wednesday. Help us to be faithful to our promises of penance, sacrifice, and repentance for past sins. May we see in the ashes of today our true nature without You. May we see in the cross our true destiny with You.

I would love to share God's wonderful thought and plan towards you today. Do you know that God created you and I to reflect His nature? Do you ever wonder how possible it is to truly live your life as God ordained- to be like Him? Do you ever wonder how to be conscious and truly live the life God has called you to live- to be like Him- having the nature of God. Thank you for stopping by And welcome to Detox with Abi where you get a daily dose to encourage change within by God's way of thinking.  Thank you once again for stopping by to listen to my podcast.  “God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature… he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female… ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭26‬-‭28‬ ‭MSG‬‬ “Then God said, ‘We will make humans so that they are very much like us… God made humans. He made them to be like himself. He made some of them males and some of them females.” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭26‬-‭27‬ ‭EASY‬‬ Dictionary meaning of nature: the particular combination of qualities belonging to a person, animal, thing, or class by birth, origin, or constitution; native or inherent character: God's purpose and plan is for us His children to be like Him. The first Adam could not live in the reality of what God intended, however, by the help of the second and last Adam- Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord, we can live victoriously as God intended. 1 Corinth 15:45-49 (Please study it) “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “In other words, just as condemnation came upon all people through one transgression, so through one righteous act of Jesus' sacrifice, the perfect righteousness that makes us right with God and leads us to a victorious life is now available to all. One man's disobedience opened the door for all humanity to become sinners. So also one man's obedience opened the door for many to be made perfectly right with God and acceptable to him.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭TPT‬‬ In rounding up, God created us to be like Him- in His image. God created us to reflect His nature. Believe His Word and declare to yourself God my Father is holy, creative, loving, I have the nature of God I reflect the nature of God I am righteous I am holy I am patient I am loving I am thought I am creative I am wonderful I am beautiful Please prayerfully study these verses, ponder on it. I pray the Sun of righteousness will shine His light in your heart to see your position in Him, in Jesus' name. Amen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/abimbola-arawande/message

Ash Wednesday, First Day of LentLiturgical Color: VioletWithout God we are a tiny pile of crumbsThe marauding pirates of the high seas had their tough skin inked with tattoos. Roman soldiers smothered their bodies in oil before a battle. Primitive peoples ritually paint a warrior's face before a fight, stretch earlobes with hoops, or pierce noses with large rings. When American Indians wanted to emulate the ferocity or speed of an animal, sharp bone fragments were used to carve that creature's outline into their skin, where it was then stained with dye or soot. Traditionally, when a simple man wanted to announce what tribe he ran with, what nation he would die for, or what woman he would defend, he didn't need to say a word. He just lifted up his shirt a bit, rolled up his sleeve, or pointed to a mark on his neck. Clothes, hairstyle, and cosmetics communicate status, origin, belonging, and commitment well. But they can all be removed or changed. Tattoos, scalpings, piercings, brands, paints, and scars use the body as their canvas to convey what words cannot.On Ash Wednesday, Catholics receive a temporary ash “tattoo” of a cross just above their eyes and nose. This primal gesture evokes the raw, uncomplicated, religious devotion at the core of our otherwise sophisticated theology. The Church consecrates the body externally with water and oil in Baptism, Confirmation, and Anointing of the Sick. The Church reads Saint Thomas Aquinas, sings refined Latin chant, and prays before luminous stained glass. And it also smudges black ashes on our faces. Real religions do things like this. A real religion has priests who smear your face with dirty ash as they whisper, “You're gonna die.”Man's earthly end, the separation of soul and body, could have come about in many ways. But due to original sin, this end always comes through death. Death is a punishment for Adam and Eve's sin of pride in eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. This sin is not original in the sense of being authentic or unrepeatable, but in that it occurred at our common origin. As a permanent repercussion of His punishment, God made work burdensome and instituted death as the mysterious doorway through which all must walk to exit earthly life. God told this to our common parents in Genesis 3:19: “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The last of these words are repeated to the faithful as the ashes are placed on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday.But as these words of death and destruction, of returning to the ground, are spoken, the priest does not trace a circle or a question mark made of ashes. He traces a cross. In this sign we shall conquer. In no other sign will we conquer. So with death comes a promise. With the old Adam there comes a new Adam—Jesus Christ. This is how Jesus was first understood in the early Church. Mary was the New Eve. Christ was the New Adam. They untied the knot our remote ancestors had tied. They were faithful where Adam and Eve were unfaithful. They kept the promise Adam and Eve had broken.The start of the forty days of Lent is a practice run. One day, we will all have to give an accounting of our lives. The balance sheet will have to be settled, the good and the bad weighed in their columns. Ash Wednesday is a reminder of something we know but don't call to mind often enough. Without God all that remains of our greatness is a little pile of dust. We are, in a sense, marked with ourselves today. The tiny black crumbs of ash will fall away in a matter of hours, to be forgotten for another year. And life will go on. Such is our destiny. With God, everything. Without God, nothing. God of all, we ask that we live a fruitful Lent starting on this Ash Wednesday. Help us to be faithful to our promises of penance, sacrifice, and repentance for past sins. May we see in the ashes of today our true nature without You. May we see in the cross our true destiny with You.

Genesis 2 & 3 reveals a covenant of works and grace. Adam, as humanities' covenant representative, disobeyed God and brought death to all. But God, being rich in mercy, promised a new representative, the better Adam–Jesus Christ–who would fulfill the covenant of works and through whom we inherit the promises of God. This message was preached by Gabe Medina on November 28, 2021.

Have you ever wondered why the Father didn't send the Son immediately to redeem mankind when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit?  In this episode, Apostle Shon answers this mysterious question and begins to explain how God began to upgrade humanity by creating a new species in the last Adam (Jesus Christ).   To connect with and or financially support Shon A Mitchell Ministries, visit the following links: Give: www.paypal.me/samministries Website: www.sam-ministries.org KC Website: www.newcovenantlifekc.org Facebook: Shon A Mitchell Ministries Instagram: www.instagram.com/samministries1 Twitter: www.twitter.com/samministries1 

The Apostle Paul said in Romans 1:16-17 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”  In this episode, Apostle Shon lays the foundation of the gospel through the perspective of the Last Adam creating in himself a new humanity. Tune in and be enlightened with apostolic revelation. To connect with and or financially support Shon A Mitchell Ministries, visit the following links: Give: www.paypal.me/samministries Website: www.sam-ministries.org KC Website: www.newcovenantlifekc.org Facebook: Shon A Mitchell Ministries Instagram: www.instagram.com/samministries1 Twitter: www.twitter.com/samministries1   

We begin by summarizing how we ended our last teaching, in order to connect it with this concluding segment on the resurrection of the dead. A seed dies first to bring forth life to grow.  That is why resurrection can be seen in nature in the seeds planted because through the death of the seed, it brings forth the life of the tree and later brings forth the fruit. God sowed in them (in us) the seed, which was Christ, and because they (we) obeyed the gospel. Christ died in their (our) place and they (we) died in Him, and this has allowed that seed to grow them (us). Day by day they (we) grow more and more conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. This is a description of what will happen to us at the resurrection of the just (righteous). We will be changed: from mortal to immortality, from corruptible to incorruptible, from earthy to heavenly, from the first man Adam a living soul to the last Adam (Jesus Christ) a quickening spirit, from a natural body to a spiritual body, from weakness to power, from dishonor to glory. We want to be found accepted by Him so when the time comes will be clothed in that eternal body from heaven.​This is the resurrection of the dead.https://www.ourfathersheart.org/resurrection-of-the-dead Website: ourfathersheart.orgPodcast: https://www.ourfathersheart.org/podcastYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4PEL5CenmViSz2zjH3M6wRumble Channel: https://rumble.com/c/c-877845Please visit Our Father's Heart for more information and if you would like to support our efforts you can do so through Paypal (Paypal.me/jbenjesus), Cash App ($jbenjesus), or Venmo (@jbenjesus).  Support the show (https://paypal.me/jbenjesus?locale.x=en_US)

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Hear now the word of the Lord from Hebrews 2:5-9. 5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. 6 It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man, that you care for him? 7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, 8 putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:5-9, ESV This is the word of the Lord. One evening several weeks ago, Lori and I sat down and we watched a short documentary on the Netherlands. Netherlands being a country in northern Europe, if you didn't know where that was. Much of the documentary focused not on the history of the Netherlands, although I suppose that would be interesting, but rather on how human ingenuity in the present is overcoming a number of challenges presently facing that country. The Netherlands is a rather small country; it's about a fifth the size of Nebraska. I did my research on this. It also contains roughly eight and a half times the population of Nebraska. So, a lot of people packed into a relatively small space, at least by the Nebraska standards. Moreover, something like about a third of the Netherlands sits below sea level, as well as 90 percent of the second most populous city, Rotterdam. Therefore, flooding is always a persistent threat for the population of the Netherlands. Yet despite all of these challenges facing this really small northern European country, the documentary highlighted how human ingenuity is at work in overcoming a number of these obstacles. It focused on some of the incredible water management strategies and facilities that literally cordoned off the North Sea, thus preventing devastating floods. It showed how technology in farming, specifically lettuce farming, was leading to exponentially higher yields in a given year than might otherwise have been expected for the amount of land being farmed. It also showed how the Netherlands is addressing some of their space issues by simply creating more land. They've been draining flooded lands for the last few decades, if not the last century, and they've also been taking sand from the North Sea and creating more land off the coast. In fact, 17 percent of the Netherlands is in fact reclaimed land of this sort. So, in summary, this documentary highlighted how humans in the Netherlands are overcoming, over the past century or so, some really big obstacles with some monumental engineering marvels, an attempt to subdue nature, to get control over things, and increase the quality of life as the population grows. Now there's something to be said, I think, for creativeness and human industry of this sort. It's incredible, I think, to see these various projects that, by the common grace of God, human beings have successfully undertaken throughout human history. The efforts in the Netherlands are just one example of this kind of human genius at work. Yet even with all of these great human achievements in mind and the various projects that literally seek to bring creation under control, I think in our day-to-day experience we are more often than not confronted with just how many things continue to be frustratingly out of our control. Despite our best efforts, we apparently can't keep a virus from infecting people in our world, nor could we prevent death even with the incredible medical advances of the past century or so. Though we can build dams and pumps like they do in the Netherlands to control nature to some extent, nature doesn't cooperate endlessly. Those man-made things eventually break down and often disastrously so. Even if we fooled ourselves into thinking, even just for a moment that we could usher in some kind of utopia, some kind of heaven here on earth ,well I think those dreams come crashing down to earth the moment we accept how much trouble we have to simply control our own tongues or to keep our emotions in check or our desires from being sinfully inflamed. You see, by God's grace, humans have accomplished much in this world and it's all by God's grace. More often than not, I think we're frustrated by the fact of so many things remaining outside our control. All of these frustrations over this control is a problem we have which can be traced down to a singular issue and that issue is sin. Sin which is what led to brokenness in our world in the first place. Sin which frustrates nearly everything we do. Sin which puts us at enmity with God. Sin which, apart from God's intervention, we are powerless to do anything about. Friends, we have a serious control problem and that control problem brings a whole lot of frustration in our lives, but that control problem is ultimately rooted in a sin problem. The good news of the gospel and the good news of our passage is that the Lord for us and for our salvation has dealt with our sin problem. He has rectified our control problem by placing all things in subjection of his perfect and sinless Son, Jesus Christ, who took upon himself human flesh and in the fullness of time to pay for our sins and to represent us in his humanity in a way that Adam should have but failed to do so. Our big idea this morning is simply this, all things are subject to the Son. As we work through our passage we'll see that despite these present frustrations we encounter in our lives and in our world that often boil over when we face our present lack of control over things that are both seen and unseen, that the Lord himself has and will frustrate sin, death, and the devil on our behalf through his Son. Through his Son who brings a new world, who became a new Adam, and who was brought low and broken. Those are our three points we're going to work through as we work through this text. 1. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, Brings a New World 2. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, Became for Us a New Adam 3. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, was Brought Low and Broken The Son of God, Jesus Christ, Brings a New World If you're looking at your text, in verse 5 we read this, 5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. Hebrews 2:5, ESV Notice that in this verse there's an implied contrast that's set up for us immediately, a contrast between two worlds, if you will. There's the world to come, and that's what's explicitly stated in our text. In that there's also an underlying assumption that the coming world, when it comes, will replace another world which we might refer to as the present world. So, we have a contrast here in verse 5, in our opening verse. A contrast between this present world and the world to come. When we consider what the Scriptures have to say about this present world and when we consider our own experiences of this present world ,well I think we can understand why there'd be a desire for another world to replace this present world. After all the Scriptures teach us that this present world in which we live is a world that continues to be, and always has since Adam, been corrupted by sin. It's a world where things aren't as bad as they could be. Where human achievements, much like they have in the Netherlands, are still possible but nevertheless a world in which sin and evil persists. A world where human beings are by nature corrupted by sin and depravity. It's a world of conflict too. Notice that in our text our author tells us that this coming world isn't subject to the angels, but there is a sense, the Scriptures teach us, that this present world, in God's sovereignty, has been subject to angels. Paul tells us for instance in Ephesians 6:12 that in this present age we're steeped in spiritual conflict, in that we wrestle, “against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Now to be sure there was never a time in world history when all things weren't subject to God in the sense that he was always and always will be the sovereign, ruling and reigning over all things spiritual or otherwise. Yet in this present age we see, in God's sovereignty, that rule contested by spiritual powers of all sorts, joined together by human sin and rebellion. So, this present age is an age of conflict, it's an age of frustration, and this was the present world that the original audience to the Hebrews were familiar with too. It is a world at odds with God, a world frustrated by corruption and toil. A world frustrated too with any who would ally themselves with the Lord. This is the present world of our experience, as well it's a world where things far too often seem outside of our control and just when it seems that we have a handle on one problem, well another problem blows up in our faces. It's a world of sin, a world of conflict. So, in view of all of these problems brought about by human sin and rebellion that we read about in the Scriptures, and that's so true of our experience as well, we can understand why a new world might be appealing, why a new world might be hoped for. This is exactly the hope that's held out for us here in verse 5. Notice again that in contrast to this present world, this present evil age subject to sin and evil spiritual activity, is the world to come. Now this is a world, this coming world that's described in the book of Hebrews, and actually a few different ways. In Hebrews 6:5 the author of Hebrews refers to this as, “the age to come.” In Hebrews 13:14 it's called, “the city that is to come.” Collectively these phrases, though each term communicates something a little bit different, they all work together to point us forward to a world which, in contrast to the present one, is free from sin and corruption. A world in which competing evil spiritual forces have been entirely subdued. A world without the frustrations that characterize our existence in the present world. A world that's subject to one uncontested king, Jesus Christ. A world where the people of God enjoy what we were created and redeemed to do and enjoy from the very beginning; that is have unconstrained fellowship with the Lord. So ,to review, we have two ages, or we might call them two cities or two worlds or two kingdoms. There's the present one and there's the one to come. At the same time as we look forward, as the people of God, to this coming world to supplant the present frustrating one, the way the New Testament explains this relationship between the two worlds is that the coming world has already broken into this present one through Christ and through his church. The New Testament teaches us elsewhere that when Christ came into this present world, when he the eternal Son of God took upon himself human flesh to become for us the better second Adam, that he inaugurated this coming world. Even though this coming world won't be fully realized until the end of the age, when this present world fades away, this coming world is really already in a sense present. We enter into this world, we enter this kingdom, we take up citizenship in this city very simply when we come to believe in Jesus. When we believe on Jesus, we are told in the Scriptures, that we belong no longer to this world of frustration and sin. We live in it of course, but that's not where we belong, that's not where our true home is. Instead we belong to another one and a bit later in Hebrews when our author mentions the age to come, (again all these terms age to come and kingdom come and city to come and world to come they're all kind of parallel with each other) our author tells us that we, in the present, have actually already begun to taste the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come. Now brothers and sisters, it's unquestionably true that we live in an age of frustration, an age where things just seem out of control, an age where even our best accomplishments come up short and are always far outnumbered by our failures. As Christians for instance, we repent of our sin and then the very next moment we're struck by another angle of our sin that we have to repent of, and that cycle continues in perpetuity over and over again. This is an age of frustration, but friends, in Jesus Christ our citizenship isn't in this world. In fact, it belongs to another world and to another city. By the grace of God we have the privilege of tasting the powers of that world even now every time we come into this assembly, for instance, with our brothers and sisters, and we sit under the ministry of the Word, and we partake of very simple bread and wine, we partake of sacraments. When we do that the Spirit transforms our minds and hearts by taking every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ. In all of those ways we experience the powers of the age to come in the here and now. Though we do not see this coming world and all of its fullness in all of its splendor or in all of its glory, friends know that it's already broken into the present world and we experience a foretaste of it now and will one day be all that we know. So, the first answer to our control problem, if you will, our lack of control which is rooted again in our sin problem and all of the frustrations that spring from it, is a new world, a cosmic renovation project. It's a world that Christ has already inaugurated and a world that will one day supplant the present evil age in its entirety. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, Became for Us a New Adam Now as we approach the next part of our passage the focus shifts from this coming world itself to the man who brings this new world to fruition, that is the Son of God Jesus Christ who became for us a new Adam. So, beginning in verse six our author cites for us a portion of a psalm, it's actually Psalm 8:4-6. If you're following along with me in your Bible you may notice that beginning here in verse six, and then through verse eight, that the text is indented a little bit. Typically, in the New Testament, that tips you off to the fact that our authors are quoting something out of the Old Testament. That's exactly what we find here, our author citing Psalm 8:4-6. He's picking up this Song with the goal of showing us, very simply, that Jesus is the ideal man of whom this psalm speaks. In short that Jesus Christ the Son of God is the one who fulfills this psalm by taking human flesh, by becoming man, and then representing you and me in the flesh perfectly. To understand the force of the argument that our author is making at this point, I think it's wise that we back up for a moment and we actually understand Psalm 8 in its entirety, in its original context. So, if you have your Bibles with you, I'd invite you to turn with me briefly to Psalm 8 and I'm going to read for you the entirety of it. It's not very long, it's only 9 verses or so, but I think it's important for us to understand it, to understand ultimately what our author is getting at here in Hebrews 2:6-8. So, let me read for you Psalm 8:1-9, O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the Son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:1-9, ESV So, in this psalm David, and it's King David who's probably the author of this psalm, we notice that he's worshiping the Lord, he's engaged in worship and he worships in view of the Lord's majestic works of creation. Notice that the entire psalm of Psalm 8, if you're looking at it, it's framed by these dominant notes of praise that begin the psalm and end the psalm. We read, “Oh Lord, our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth.” Then in the center of the psalm David recounts God's works of creation that prompts David to worship the Lord. You see it's only fitting and right that when we consider the beauty and the design of creation as we gaze upon this world that the Lord has created, that should lead us to worship the creator and the designer of all things, the Lord. This is what David does too. You know although the contemplation of creation should lead all of us, I think, to worship the Lord, notice that David's focus in this psalm is drawn specifically to the creation of one being in particular. That being is mankind, human beings. That the Lord would stoop down to create insignificant beings like us, that he would then care of us, that he would give us the privilege and honor of being his image bearers, that he would grant us dominion and authority over creation for his glory, all of that gives David pause and propels him to worship the Lord. Now ultimately this psalm, Psalm 8, is a reflection on another text of Scripture, Genesis 1:26-28. So, if you're following along Hebrews 2, then we have Psalm 8, then Genesis 1:26-28, kind of three layers to this. Genesis 1:26-28 is the text about the creation of one man, that is Adam, in the image and likeness of God. We learn in that text, Genesis 1:26-28, that Adam was granted dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every creeping thing on the earth. Adam had the privilege and the honor of being created in the image of God and then of ruling and subduing the creation for the glory of God. That is, of extending God's rule and reigns throughout the entire earth as God's servant and Son. That was his original purpose in creation, just like it was the original purpose of mankind in creation to do that. That we should have perfect fellowship with the Lord like Adam, and that we would steward all things under his kingly rule for his glory. That was the original intent of creation and that's what Genesis 1:26-28 envisions in the creation of Adam, and that's what David envisions in Psalm 8 that is cited here in Hebrews 2. Yet although that glorious privilege of being created in the image of God and ruling and doing all things for the glory of God was granted to Adam in the garden, shortly after creation we know that Adam rather than fulfilling that vocation, rather than ruling and subduing all of creation for the glory of God, was instead ruled and subdued himself by the creation. By a serpent he fell into sin, and then he brought the entire world into sin with him. Ever since that point in human history, the original creative purposes of mankind have been frustrated. Such that we don't have dominion over that which we were originally supposed to have dominion. The world fell out of subjection to Adam after the fall. The world isn't subject to us because of our sin and the brokenness of the world. Although we still have dignity and worth as image bearers, frustration and failure has tainted our creative purposes to rule and subdue for the glory of God ever since that point. Thanks be to God that into that predicament entered God himself in the Son of God Jesus Christ. Teturning to our text Hebrews 2 with this background in mind, when the author of Hebrews cites Psalm 8:6-8 all of this stuff is in the background, but his focus, the author of Hebrews' focus, rests no longer on Adam, as Genesis 1:26-28 did, nor on mankind in general as Psalm 8 in its original context did. Instead it now rests on how the Lord Jesus Christ has fulfilled this psalm, together with the creative purposes of mankind found in creation, by becoming for us a new Adam. It's as if the author of Hebrews at this point in our text is saying that while in Adam all of humanity has been frustrated by sin and death, and because of Adam humanity has never known the creative purposes for which we were made, there's new Adam, a better Adam who fulfilled everything Adam should have been, everything we should have been but failed to be, namely Jesus Christ our Lord. Whereas Adam fell and we fell in Adam and we have followed in the footsteps of Adam ever since through our own sin and transgressions, Jesus Christ is the new Adam who took upon himself human flesh to represent us in a way that Adam failed to do. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the true man, he's the ideal man that Adam never lived up to. The one who responded to God in his 30 year in the flesh ministry some 2,000 years ago as an obedient Son and servant. Who, in light of what he accomplished, will bring us not into death any longer but into a glorious new world? The world we heard about in verse 5. A world in which Adam never brought creation into. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, was Brought Low and Broken How exactly then did Jesus do that? How did he become for us the second Adam? Well this is what the author of Hebrews gets at in verse 9 when he reflects on just how Jesus Christ, the Son of God, fulfills Psalm 8. In summary he fulfills it, he becomes for us the second Adam by being brought low and broken. This is our third point. By the end of verse 8 we see that our author makes the point that while Adam didn't have all things in subjection under his feet, sin ensured that didn't happen, we don't have all things in subjection under our feet. We have things wildly outside of our control, our sin, nature and the sin of the world ensured that that couldn't happen, that we couldn't have all things in subjection to our feet. We learned that in Christ, the second Adam, all things have been placed under his feet. For that to happen in history, the Son had to be brought low and broken. In other words, in becoming for us the better Adam the Son first had to step into human history, first in the words of our text, 9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:9, ESV In the fullness of time the eternal Son of God, like we said, has took upon himself a true body like you and I have, and rational human faculties like you and me have. He never in the process emptied himself of his divinity or his divine attributes, but for a little while he never made use of them, he didn't make use of them. He subjected himself to our weaknesses in every way, except for sin, and then throughout the entirety of his in the flesh ministry he lived in perfect obedience to the law of God. He was the obedient Son, he was the faithful servant that Adam never was and that you and I could never be. Then having represented us in his life, well then, he represented us in his death by being broken. Then as our text says, by tasting death for everyone.” Everyone whom the Father gave to him before the foundation of the world. In his incarnate in the flesh ministry he took upon himself all of our infirmities, all of our weaknesses that he might represent us in our nature. Then he was broken that he might pay the penalty for our sin and cleanse us from our sin. Even that's not the end of the story because our author continues and tells us that when he was broken and died for our transgressions, while he was also raised too, he was crowned with glory and honor. Raised, as Paul says in Romans 4, for our justification that we might be in the right with God and have what Adam and Eve in the sense lost when they were thrust out from the garden. to have that which the Bible holds out as the ultimate purpose of creation and redemption, the ultimate prize that the people of God could long for. That is communion again with Father, Son, and Spirit in a new and better world. This is the hope that we have set before us in view of our control problem and in view of our sin problem and all of it centers in on one man, Jesus Christ our Lord. Application So, what should we do with all this? Well, let me offer us three applications to consider as we prepare to close. 1. Know that the present world will always bring frustrations. After all who among us hasn't been frustrated this year? Plans have been disrupted, I know some of you have had to cancel trips. Economic loss has plagued many in our communities, maybe even you. Social unrest continues. COVID-19 itself continues to infect people in our communities, including people we love. This has been a unique year, that is 2020, a year of frustration. Even beyond this year and its own unique set of frustrations that have accompanied it and have come with it, we always have and will always experience the thorns of living in a fallen world in a whole host of other ways too. Maybe your marriage is it isn't what it once was when you got into it and expectations have since gone unmet. Or your job is becoming increasingly a drudgery and a burden. Or loneliness continues to creep into your life. Or you feel spiritually dried up and tapped out. Brothers and sisters all of us have unique frustrations this year, yes, but even apart from this year frustrations after frustrations after frustrations are an inevitable part of our lives in this old fallen world. So, how do you respond when you encounter frustrations like we do and like we will always have until Christ brings us home? You see frustrations like these and others, I think, should point all of us to the hope of glory when Christ comes again on the clouds. They should point us to the eternal rest that's held out for us in Christ. Yet far too often when we experience these frustrations of various kind, well instead we look for someone to blame and very often that someone isn't Adam. Instead we look to blame someone in our own present experiences. Now that's not to suggest that people don't get it wrong, or that people don't sin against us, of course they do most certainly and sometimes in horrific ways. Yet if we don't recognize that we are in this fallen world, both the sinned against and the sinners, and together that we inhabit a sinful world. At its core if we fail to understand that sin is the core source of all of our frustrations, the sin of others, your own sin, and the general brokenness of living in the sinful world, well we'll continue to be frustrated and embittered people who never look for the right solution. We'll continue to navigate the world looking for greener grass somewhere else thinking that maybe a new spouse is the answer or thinking that maybe a new church is what will satisfy. Perhaps imagining along the way that everyone else and everything else is to blame without looking to the root of sin in your own life and in the world. The inescapable result is that we will be terribly disappointed embittered people again and again and again. So, brothers and sisters know that this present world will always bring frustration. Know that those frustrations are ultimately rooted in sin; your sin, the sin of others, and the general brokenness of the sinful present world. So, don't look to this present world to satisfy what it cannot satisfy or to fix what there's no way in heaven or on earth that it will fix. Don't look to this present world, it'll only bring frustration. That's our first application. 2. So instead of looking to this present world to solve what it cannot, look to the world to come. Now of course it's true, we've said this already, that the world to come hasn't fully arrived. Don't downplay the powers of the age to come that we are presently, as the people of God, advantage to experience. In other words, don't downplay ministry of the Word and sacrament. Don't downplay the power of the Holy Spirit who draws and shapes hearts, minds, and affections. Even right now these things, these means of grace, that we experience in the church are our foretaste, they're our appetizer, for the world to come in all of its fullness. So, know that one day we'll see Jesus face to face. One day our hope, which theologians refer to as the beatific vision that is perfect communion and fellowship with the Lord in glory, is in Christ a certainty. As we look to that world to come and that great privilege of seeing Christ Jesus face to face, well we also have the privilege of coming into this assembly every week, every Lord's day, and actually training as it were for that world to come. So, look to the world to come, trust that that world is coming. Also look to that world and live for that world now, by embracing the foretaste of it in the church particularly in worship and communion with the Lord. 3. Even more than looking to the world to come, look to the ruler of the world to come, look to Jesus Christ. In verses 8 through 9 we heard our author raise the dilemma that although all things have been subjected to Christ, that we don't yet see all things in subject to him. Remember that we live in what's called the overlap of the ages. We don't see this coming world and all of its fullness and all of its glory and all of its splendor, instead we see a world with our physical eyes ravaged by sin. We see death, we see disease, we see suffering, and the Bible is in no way blind to those troubles that plague our experience, nor does it ever call us to imagine those things as just an illusion. It does call us to see the whole picture and to see the whole picture requires that we also see with eyes of faith and that we see Jesus Christ. Understand that when our author makes this claim in verse 9, he says we see Jesus. At this point in history, even as the audience to the Hebrews are hearing this that Jesus had already ascended, and more than that the author of Hebrews and the audience to which he's writing are probably second-generation Christians who never saw Jesus through physical sight in the first place. In that respect these Christians are very much like us. Neither they nor we are at a disadvantage, because although we don't see Jesus by sight, we do see Jesus right now with eyes of faith as we gaze upon his glory in and through his Word. Brothers and sisters, we see Jesus when we look to his Word. We see Jesus when we open up the Scriptures and the spirit of Christ begins to take every thought captive in us to the obedience of Christ. We see Jesus when we see in the Scriptures and come to believe that he is the yes, the amen to all of the promises of God. So if you are living frustrated in this frustrating world where things just seem regularly out of control and you've never really looked at Jesus or believed on Jesus, why don't you do that today? Look to the Word. Believe on Jesus as the solution to your control problem, which at its core is your sin problem. This present world is not the answer, it cannot be the answer, so instead look to Jesus, trust in Jesus. When you do know that you will have become citizens of the world to come. If you're living frustrated in this frustrating world and you really do believe on Jesus, let me encourage you to keep looking to Jesus in and through his Word. Know that when we see the world with eyes of faith and specifically, we see Jesus, our only hope in this world that's passing away with eyes of faith, that we're reminded that there is one who has a grip on this world. There is one for whom all things are not out of control as they are for us. There is one who will come again and bring us fully and finally into a new and better and permanent world. That man is Jesus Christ. Pray with me. Heavenly Father we give you thanks and praise for your Word, your Word has to say about Jesus and through Jesus, what your Word says about us as well. We pray, Lord, that we would take these things to heart, that you would help us not invest our hope in this present world, which is passing away, but we would vest it in the world to come. More than that, that we would vest it in Jesus Christ our Lord. Father would you encourage us by these things, would you drive us to repentance after hearing these things, and would you prepare us right now as we prepare to come to the table and taste and see that the Lord is good. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

Pastor Nate Keeler concludes our sermon series Romans Part 2: God's Provision with "The Tale of Two Adams." Paul categorizes all of the human race into two races: the race of the first Adam and the race of the second Adam (Jesus Christ). Paul explains why the first Adam's sin affects the human race and why we need to be birthed into the second Adam's race. The sermon context is Romans 5:12-21. Please sign our digital Connection Card. Click to sign the Connection Card The children's bulletin can be downloaded here. Join us Monday (August 31) at 10:00 a.m. on Facebook for a live discussion about applying the sermon to our lives. We will also have a time of prayer for your requests. Click to go to facebook.com/brandywineonline License: CSPL066641 Size D

Pastor Nate Keeler concludes our sermon series Romans Part 2: God's Provision with "The Tale of Two Adams." Paul categorizes all of the human race into two races: the race of the first Adam and the race of the second Adam (Jesus Christ). Paul...

In every situation and circumstance we face in life we either reign over the situation or we surrender and let the situation have the better of us and ultimately the situation controls our lives. From the very beginning, God created us to Reign on the earth. Mankind carried delegated power, authority and dominion over the earth, given to him by God Himself. Sadly, Adam and Eve could not hold on to their identity and purpose. Because of the first Adam we forfeited our ability to subdue and have dominion over the earth. But the last Adam—Jesus Christ has succeeded in reigning in life. Since Jesus succeeded in reigning in life, He has given us the power and the authority and hence we too can reign in life.May this sermon minister to you and enrich your walk of faith in Jesus Christ. We welcome you to make use of the free sermons, Christian books, and daily devotionals available on this website. Watch our online Sunday Church service live stream every Sunday at 10:30am (Indian Time, GMT+5:30). Spirit filled, anointed worship, Word and ministry for healing, miracles and deliverance. YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/allpeopleschurchbangalore WEBSITE: https://apcwo.org/live CHURCH: https://apcwo.org FREE SERMONS: https://apcwo.org/resources/sermons FREE BOOKS: https://apcwo.org/books/english DAILY DEVOTIONALS: https://apcwo.org/resources/daily-devotional JESUS CHRIST: https://examiningjesus.com BIBLE COLLEGE: https://apcbiblecollege.org E-LEARNING: https://apcbiblecollege.org/elearn COUNSELING: https://chrysalislife.org MUSIC: https://apcmusic.org MINISTERS FELLOWSHIP: https://pamfi.org CHURCH APP: https://apcwo.org/app CHURCHES: https://apcwo.org/ministries/churches

In every situation and circumstance we face in life we either reign over the situation or we surrender and let the situation have the better of us and ultimately the situation controls our lives. From the very beginning, God created us to Reign on the earth. Mankind carried delegated power, authority and dominion over the earth, given to him by God Himself. Sadly, Adam and Eve could not hold on to their identity and purpose. Because of the first Adam we forfeited our ability to subdue and have dominion over the earth. But the last Adam—Jesus Christ has succeeded in reigning in life. Since Jesus succeeded in reigning in life, He has given us the power and the authority and hence we too can reign in life.May this sermon minister to you and enrich your walk of faith in Jesus Christ. We welcome you to make use of the free sermons, Christian books, and daily devotionals available on this website. Watch our online Sunday Church service live stream every Sunday at 10:30am (Indian Time, GMT+5:30). Spirit filled, anointed worship, Word and ministry for healing, miracles and deliverance. YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/allpeopleschurchbangalore WEBSITE: https://apcwo.org/live CHURCH: https://apcwo.org FREE SERMONS: https://apcwo.org/resources/sermons FREE BOOKS: https://apcwo.org/books/english DAILY DEVOTIONALS: https://apcwo.org/resources/daily-devotional JESUS CHRIST: https://examiningjesus.com BIBLE COLLEGE: https://apcbiblecollege.org E-LEARNING: https://apcbiblecollege.org/elearn COUNSELING: https://chrysalislife.org MUSIC: https://apcmusic.org MINISTERS FELLOWSHIP: https://pamfi.org CHURCH APP: https://apcwo.org/app CHURCHES: https://apcwo.org/ministries/churches

In every situation and circumstance we face in life we either reign over the situation or we surrender and let the situation have the better of us and ultimately the situation controls our lives. From the very beginning, God created us to Reign on the earth. Mankind carried delegated power, authority and dominion over the earth, given to him by God Himself. Sadly, Adam and Eve could not hold on to their identity and purpose. Because of the first Adam we forfeited our ability to subdue and have dominion over the earth. But the last Adam—Jesus Christ has succeeded in reigning in life. Since Jesus succeeded in reigning in life, He has given us the power and the authority and hence we too can reign in life.

In every situation and circumstance we face in life we either reign over the situation or we surrender and let the situation have the better of us and ultimately the situation controls our lives. From the very beginning, God created us to Reign on the earth. Mankind carried delegated power, authority and dominion over the earth, given to him by God Himself. Sadly, Adam and Eve could not hold on to their identity and purpose. Because of the first Adam we forfeited our ability to subdue and have dominion over the earth. But the last Adam—Jesus Christ has succeeded in reigning in life. Since Jesus succeeded in reigning in life, He has given us the power and the authority and hence we too can reign in life.

"YOU ALSO MUST CONSIDER YOURSELVES DEAD ..." Jan 29 There are some days when all the readings provoke thoughts that are very meaningful and personal. In Genesis we have the words of Joseph to his brothers after their father died. The brothers are fearful that Joseph, in his position of great power in the land, will now take vengeance on them for the time they threw him into a pit, ignoring his pleas (Psa. 105 v.17-20 which shows it was also a testing time for Joseph) and sold him to be a slave. But Joseph now fully sees the events from God’s perspective. “Joseph said to them, ‘Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? …you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about …” [Gen.50 v.19,20] The lesson for us! – to look ‘into’ all strange and unexpected events to see whether the hand of God is there in - allowing or causing – the setting in motion of a chain of events for some divine purpose. But we usually perceive this only later as the events unfold. Also, we can say this is the case with our endeavours to understand much of apparently fulfilling prophecy in these days. In the Psalms we have that most meaningful Psalm (51) which reveals David’s total remorse and repentance after his sin with Bathsheba – a powerful example for all who become belatedly awake to what a mess they have made in some part of their lives – but the awakening must be from the heart and create a prayerful seeking of God’s guidance. Then in Paul’s letter to the Romans we have his most powerful portrayal of the impact that the sacrifice of Christ must have on us, as it obviously had on him. This impact may not come to begin with, but it must surely come if we are to be people whom our Lord can really use in his service. Paul writes of how “the free gift of grace of that one man (in contrast to Adam) Jesus Christ abounded for many.”[5 v.15] Yet, because it is “free” – do we really appreciate it in the right way? There seems to be a lot of glib talk around (spoken and written) in some religious circles about ‘grace’ – that it is always abounding – regardless of what we might ever do. In ch. 6 Paul makes a really special point, or so it seems to us, “We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Then he makes this powerful point to his readers, those in Rome and of all ages. After saying, “you also must consider yourselves dead to sin” he pleads, “ Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.” [v.11,12] Let us all see ourselves to be “dead” to sin. And if we cannot see that – then draw closer to Christ, our mediator. in earnest prayer. Also making sure we constantly meditatively read God’s word - to inspire us in seeing.

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The second half of Romans chapter five could be summed up as "Two men in a one act play." Paul uses the picture of "two Adams"; a first Adam, the Adam in the garden, bringing original sin into humanity, and then the "second Adam"--Jesus Christ--who provides a remedy for this sin. Listen in as Pastor Steve teaches through this important theological description of both our original sin, but also our justification through the death and resurrection of the "second Adam," our savior Jesus Christ.

In six days God created everything necessary for mankind’s wellbeing, allowing Adam and Eve to live in personal fellowship with Him. As His image bearers, Adam and Eve were privileged to demonstrate God’s reign in their lives through worshipful obedience, model that reign through their care for creation, and partner with God in multiplying the number of those who joyfully submitted to the sovereign power of God. Yet despite all that God had provided, Adam and Eve rebelled against God, bringing myriad devastating consequences upon themselves, all mankind, and all creation. But even in the midst of the tragedy of rebellion, God determined that sin would not win. In the midst of judgment, He also points to the new Adam – Jesus Christ – through whom the reign of God will be eternally re-established, sin will be banished, and sinners redeemed, forgiven, and reformed.