1. Our Histories in the First and Last Adam
Adapted from the works of Miles J. Stanford
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2. Our Histories in the First and Last Adam
Ruin received from Adam by inheritance
Remedy received from God by the Cross
Facts of our position and condition
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3. Our History in the First Adam
This is OUR history
Ground of SIN and DEATH
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4. Our History in the Last Adam
Ground of GROWTH and LIFE
CHRIST JESUS IN GLORY
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5. 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: NKJV
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6. 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 NKJV
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7. 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 NKJV
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8. 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 NKJV
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9. 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 (Romans 5:12-18)
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10. Our Relationship to the First Adam
Our position of sin (Adam-source)
Our nature of sin (Adam-life)
Our personal sins (Adam-practice)
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11. Our Relationship to the First Adam
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
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12. Our Relationship to the First Adam
Our position of sin (Adam-source)
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
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13. Our Relationship to the First Adam
Our position of sin (Adam-source)
Our nature of sin (Adam-life)
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
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14. Our Relationship to the First Adam
Remember, this is YOUR history
Three-fold dilemma
How will the Father rectify this terrible relationship and condition?
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15. The First Adam Condemned
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…” Corinthians :21; Romans 8:3)
SIN was not forgiven, it was judged and condemned in death
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16. The First Adam Condemned
Our position of sin (Adam-source)
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.
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17. The First Adam Condemned
Our position of sin (Adam-source)
Our nature of sin (Adam-life)
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
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18. 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. Representative Adam sinned, therefore everything Adamic was condemned to death.
WHEN and WHERE?—All of God’s dealings with sin were accomplished in and by His Son, on the Cross of Calvary.
HOW?—On the Cross the Lord Jesus was identified with our SIN, 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.
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19. Adam Relationship Terminated
Christ’s death on our behalf completely freed us, as individual believers, from Adam and all Adamic penalties and consequences.
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 NKJV
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20. Adam Relationship Terminated
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.
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.
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21. 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
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