Our Histories in the First and Last Adam

Our Histories in the First and Last Adam Adapted from the works of Miles J. Stanford 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 1

Our Histories in the First and Last Adam 1) 2) 3) 9/25/2020 Ruin received from Adam by inheritance Remedy received from God by the Cross Facts of our position and condition © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 2

Our History in the First Adam ¨ ¨ 9/25/2020 This is OUR history Ground of SIN and DEATH © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 3

Our History in the Last Adam ¨ ¨ 9/25/2020 Ground of GROWTH and LIFE CHRIST JESUS IN GLORY © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 4

Who was the First Adam? ¨ First Man Then God said, “Let US make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1: 26 -27 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org NKJV 5

Who was the First Adam? ¨ First Man (Genesis 1: 26 -27) ¨ Our Representative before God The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 1 Corinthians 15: 47 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org NKJV 6

Who was the First Adam? ¨ First Man (Genesis 1: 26 -27) ¨ Our Representative before God (1 Corinthians 15: 47) ¨ Genetic prototype …whose seed is in itself according to its kind. Genesis 1: 12 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org NKJV 7

Who was the First Adam? ¨ First Man (Genesis 1: 26 -27) ¨ Our Representative before God (1 Corinthians 15: 47) ¨ Genetic prototype (Genesis 1: 12) ¨ Current river of life to humanity And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. Genesis 5: 3 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org NKJV 8

Who was the First Adam? ¨ First to disobey God – The Fall ¨ Source of sin (sin = morally unlike God) ¨ Source of death ¨ Source of judgment ¨ Source of condemnation ¨ Source of separation from God ¨ All ours…by inheritance 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org (Romans 5: 12 -18) 9

Our Relationship to the First Adam 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) 2. Our nature of sin (Adam-life) 3. Our personal sins (Adam-practice) 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 10

Our Relationship to the First Adam 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) ¨ Because of fallen Adam, all born into a doomed humanity • “in sin my mother conceived me” Psalms 51: 5 • “dead in trespasses and sins” Ephesians 2: 1 • “in Adam all die” 1 Corinthians 15: 22 ¨ Result of our position – dead unto God, and alive to sin 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 11

Our Relationship to the First Adam 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) 2. Our nature of sin (Adam-life) ¨ Position resulted in a sinful being—a sinful nature or life • “Adam…begot a son in his own likeness” Genesis 5: 3 • “by nature children of wrath” Ephesians 2: 3 • “natural man does not receive…nor can he know” 1 Corinthians 2: 14 ¨ Fallen nature never changes, much less improves ¨ Adamic nature is self-centered (the sin of sins) ¨ Against God, irreparably so 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 12

Our Relationship to the First Adam 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) 2. Our nature of sin (Adam-life) 3. Our personal sins (Adam-practice) ¨ SINS = the natural product of a sinful nature • “all have sinned and fall short” Romans 3: 23 ¨ YOU and I are sinners by practice and choice 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 13

Our Relationship to the First Adam ¨ Remember, this is YOUR history ¨ Three-fold dilemma ¨ How will the Father rectify this terrible relationship and condition? 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 14

The First Adam Condemned 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) ¨ God did NOT forgive the principle of Satan-injected sin that dealt the death blown to the human race through Adam. He does not forgive SIN any more than he forgives Satan. ¨ On the Cross, in the person of His Son, our Father once and forever dealt with the principle of SIN, thereby canceling our position of sin. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us…” “…by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of SIN: He condemned SIN in the flesh…” 2 Corinthians : 21; Romans 8: 3) ¨ SIN was not forgiven, it was judged and condemned in death 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 15

The First Adam Condemned 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) 2. Our nature of sin (Adam-life) ¨ Our sinful life and nature were NOT forgiven, but likewise were taken into the judgment death of the Cross “knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him…” Romans 6: 6 ¨ Had it been possible for God to forgive the Adamic life, it could then have been restored, or reinstated. 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 16

The First Adam Condemned 1. Our position of sin (Adam-source) 2. Our nature of sin (Adam-life) 3. Our personal sins (Adam-practice) ¨ Our SINS were forgiven—past, present, and future—by His shed blood on Calvary. “who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree” “having made peace through the blood of His cross” “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood” 1 Peter 2: 24; Colossians 1; 20; Revelation 1: 5 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 17

Adam Relationship Terminated ¨ The end of OUR history in Adam ¨ Termination – Cross and the Tomb • WHY? —”The wages of sin is death” Romans 6: 23. WHY Representative Adam sinned, therefore everything Adamic was condemned to death. • WHEN and WHERE? —All of God’s dealings with sin were WHERE accomplished in and by His Son, on the Cross of Calvary. • HOW? —On the Cross the Lord Jesus was identified with our SIN, HOW and our sinful nature, our “old man” being thus condemned and crucified with Him. At the same time, in his substitutionary work of redemption, He paid the penalty of our SINS. 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 18

Adam Relationship Terminated 3. Christ’s death on our behalf completely freed us, as individual believers, from Adam and all Adamic penalties and consequences. 4. This enabled God to justly include us in Christ’s death TO sin. …we have been united together in the likeness of His death…For the death that He died, He died to sin once” Romans 6: 5, 10 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org NKJV 19

Adam Relationship Terminated 3. Having by His death borne the condemnation of sin and paid all its penalties, our Lord Jesus died unto, out from, the realm and responsibilities of sin. 4. Stripped of our relationship to Adam by and in that death—we having died in Christ unto the old—we can now see ourselves in His tomb, ready to be identified with Him in His resurrection life and divine nature. 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 20

Adam Relationship Terminated The first step to my becoming free of the old man in daily experience is to know that I was separated once for all from that life by crucifixion and burial. THE ULTIMATE IN DELIVERANCE DEATH 9/25/2020 © 2001 with. CHRIST. org 21