Good evening! Recently I wrote down this impression and likely many someones have said the same in their own words, also likely with a shorter sentence. :)
Jesus Christ being the second Adam is the hope and better entrance than the predestinated first estate of the eternal garden of rest for the descendants of the first parents Adam and Eve by our faith and by his will of obedience to the will of the Father.
The eternal plan of God before creation was to create humanity in His image and to be their God alone. In this plan, He also allowed for the fall of Satan and his angels and the fall of man because He planned the best way for humanity to have the best fellowship with Himself is through the incarnation of the Son who would never sin yet die in the place for all who were to come to God through Jesus, the second Adam. The first Adam was purposed to come to know his need for a Savior as all of us who believe have come to know that our sin deems us unworthy of fellowship with God and that we need God to do what He deems to be the wisest, most gracious, most merciful, most perfect way to redeem us. And that is in the incarnated Son who became man, though eternally God, to live the life Adam and none of us could live without Christ. He was to be our perfectly righteous Savior and perfect Sacrifice for our sins at the cross. His resurrection to life from death demonstrates the accomplished work of salvation was only through Him, Jesus our Lord.
Adam died because He sinned. Jesus died because Adam sinned.
Adam failed to obey one simple command of God. Jesus obeyed the Father in every way and circumstance in His earthly life even with the devil tempting Him with every device and angle of temptation he could devise. Adam hide from God because of His shame for sinning. Jesus cried out to God on the cross, enduring its shame, experiencing the forsakenness of the Father on our behalf. God sought out Adam in the garden to bring him to repentance and to promise the Redeemer to come. God laid on Jesus the penalty for all of our sin and Jesus, as the divine Son, experienced death in his humanity. And then Jesus was raised back to life to live forevermore as our Savior. Adam died and will be resurrected in the coming of Jesus at the end of the age.
Jesus is always righteous and Adam needed to be clothed in His righteousness.
Hello GIGI, likewise it is good to hear from you! We are well and our daughter is now married! We are going to fly this week the Lord willing to MS and see the new home and be part of our Church's wedding reception for them over-there. How is the beautiful PW this summer! I have heard it was a lot nicer there than here. :)
My thought continued. The first Adam left the garden in sin but with a promise and by mercy there would be a washing of regeneration and a renewing of the Holy Ghost in due time to those whom would believe.
Jesus Christ being the second Adam is the hope and better entrance than the predestinated first estate of the eternal garden of rest for the descendants of the first parents Adam and Eve by our faith and by his will of obedience to the will of the Father.
So good to hear from you.
The eternal plan of God before creation was to create humanity in His image and to be their God alone. In this plan, He also allowed for the fall of Satan and his angels and the fall of man because He planned the best way for humanity to have the best fellowship with Himself is through the incarnation of the Son who would never sin yet die in the place for all who were to come to God through Jesus, the second Adam. The first Adam was purposed to come to know his need for a Savior as all of us who believe have come to know that our sin deems us unworthy of fellowship with God and that we need God to do what He deems to be the wisest, most gracious, most merciful, most perfect way to redeem us. And that is in the incarnated Son who became man, though eternally God, to live the life Adam and none of us could live without Christ. He was to be our perfectly righteous Savior and perfect Sacrifice for our sins at the cross. His resurrection to life from death demonstrates the accomplished work of salvation was only through Him, Jesus our Lord.
Adam died because He sinned. Jesus died because Adam sinned.
Adam failed to obey one simple command of God. Jesus obeyed the Father in every way and circumstance in His earthly life even with the devil tempting Him with every device and angle of temptation he could devise. Adam hide from God because of His shame for sinning. Jesus cried out to God on the cross, enduring its shame, experiencing the forsakenness of the Father on our behalf. God sought out Adam in the garden to bring him to repentance and to promise the Redeemer to come. God laid on Jesus the penalty for all of our sin and Jesus, as the divine Son, experienced death in his humanity. And then Jesus was raised back to life to live forevermore as our Savior. Adam died and will be resurrected in the coming of Jesus at the end of the age.
Jesus is always righteous and Adam needed to be clothed in His righteousness.
My thought continued. The first Adam left the garden in sin but with a promise and by mercy there would be a washing of regeneration and a renewing of the Holy Ghost in due time to those whom would believe.
Carleton
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