Jesus: Second Adam
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The Christian faith is neither mere philosophy, nor religion properly. Christian faith is a belief in and a reliance on certain historic truth claims.
Aesop’s fables - 600 years BC
The moral of the story is...
No one confesses, “I believe there was a tortoise and a hare who both conversed and raced”
In contrast, Christians confess:
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; [he descended to the dead.] On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
The historic claims of Christ are central, definitional, foundational to our faith:
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
For Christ to be raised, resurrected, this necessitates that He died and was buried; not merely swooned and hidden away
For Christ to be raised, resurrected, this necessitates that He died and was buried; not merely swooned and hidden away
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 by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
In order to have been put to death, He must first have lived.
In order to have been put to death, He must first have lived.
Bart Ehrman
But as a historian I think evidence matters. And the past matters. And for anyone to whom both evidence and the past matter, a dispassionate consideration of the case makes it quite plain: Jesus did exist.
Thus if Jesus did exist, live, die, and raise form the dead, and we see in passages like that His purpose was to counteract the actions of Adam’s sin…
Legality
Legality
Law before the Law -
Adam’s Transgression
v15 - many died through his transgression
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
gen 3:
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
ja 1:14-15
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
The verdict is already in
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Headship
Headship
What’s Law got to do with it?
What’s Law got to do with it?
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
antitype - a person or thing that is foreshadowed or represented by a type or symbol, esp a character or event in the New Testament prefigured in the Old Testament - Collins Dictionary
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
2 illustrations: Genetics and Light
1. Genetics - the science that explains why I like Zaccheus ()
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Behind all of our depravity, behind all of our guilt, behind all of our personal sinning, there is this mysterious connection or union with Adam our father… It’s all about the superiority of the work of Christ for those who are in Him over against what happened to all who are in Adam.
But, how does one transfer from one lineage to another?
Sci-Fi genetics - at our rebirth, we have been ‘infected’ with the alien righteousness of Jesus and our DNA is being re-written, so that we will be human for the first time
2. Light
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
as by one prism, the light was refracted; divided, how much more by the recombination of another prism is the light made pure again
Praise be to God that Jesus is the second Adam. The curse brought on by the first is broken for all who are in Christ. May we be reminded and assured of this gospel as we show the Lord’s death in His supper.