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Show picture of Land Rover
A number of years ago in Mozambique, one of our co-workers, Jill, was involved in a bad crash with a bus.
They were working on the road, and there was a spot where the road had been torn up and there was nothing but dust there.
As she came through this cloud of dust, she found a bus coming right at her.
And they crashed head on.
The Land Rover she was driving was spun around and rolled.
Miraculously, She walked away from it.
She had some cuts and scrapes and a banged up face but no broken bones.
Justice works differently there in Mozambique and the procedure required them to appear at the police station the next day and give their story.
When they finally found the right office, they discovered that the bus driver had already been there and given his side of the story, which Jill said was not at all what happened.
And the police showed them the sketch that they had made of the accident scene and how they thought the accident could have happened.
Again, Jill said, “No that’s not what happened and it couldn’t have possibly happened that way!”
In the end, the case went to court and Dave and Jill had to hire a lawyer to represent them.
In the beginning, this lawyer seemed like a nice a quite capable guy who was going to work for them.
But the way it turned out was that he didn’t show up for court dates, didn’t communicate with them and really was in the back pocket of the judge.
The short story (and this went for a long time) is that the judgement went against Dave and Jill.
But then the whole thing just kind of disappeared, and as far as I know they never had to pay anything to anybody.
The Representative
Jill needed a representative,
One who would join her cause
one who would plead her case
One who would work on her absolute best interests.
Perhaps you have been in a similar situation where you needed a lawyer in a court of law.
Or you had a conflict with someone and you needed another person to intervene on your behalf.
Reminder
We are trying to answer the question, “Where is the Power?”
When I first asked that question, I suggested that the answer lies in understanding covenants and importantly, The Covenant that God has made with us
We took a quick look at the Covenants of old times and aspects that were always present in the making of covenants
We talked about a problem that we had…being apart from God and being in the world of the living dead.
Being in bondage, separated from God.
That was our reality
But then we talked about the hesed of God: His everlasting covenant love
Do you remember that when we talked about covenants, one very important aspect of a covenant was that a representative made the covenant on behalf of the people.
We looked at examples such as Joshua making a covenant with the people of Gibeon
Essentially, it was the people of Israel making a covenant with the Gibeonites through their representative, Joshua
But the reality also is that we have been represented against our will by one man, Adam
Throughout the Bible, we see many examples of this idea of representatives at work:
says that by one man, Adam, all have sinned
Moses making intercession for the people
The priests making intercession for the people
The kings interceding for the people
And God honoring His covenant through the representative
Today we want to talk about the Representative Man
When we were born, we had a serious problem: that is, beyond any choice of our own, at our birth we already had a representative.
And unfortunately he was the wrong kind of representative, kind of like the one that our friend, Jill, had.
Adam.
(ESV)
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