Being a student of the bible for so many years, I read through the Word but most of the time never ponder what is on the page. I knew the end of the story and "WE WIN!" We have a Pastor who continues to challenge me and all of us when he reveals something in passing that makes me go, "Hump, never thought of it in that way". Watching some of Pastor Chris Stephen's past #faithpromise sermons has driven me to dig deeper. First to see if it is just a "preacher's story" or is it something I need to find out for my life. Below is a scripture that for years I just glossed over and thought, "Go get-em Paul and Sosthenes for writing the book".
Then after a Pastor challenge I took a closer look. Read the verses first.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49 (MSG) |
45-49 We follow this sequence in Scripture: The First Adam received life, the Last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. Physical life comes first, then spiritual—a firm base shaped from the earth, a final completion coming out of heaven. The First Man was made out of earth, and people since then are earthy; the Second Man was made out of heaven, and people now can be heavenly. In the same way that we’ve worked from our earthy origins, let’s embrace our heavenly ends.
Yes Jesus was able to be just like Adam in that he could have disobeyed the Father (which children like to do) and the results would have been devastating If Satan did not think he had a chance to do to Jesus what he did to Adam then he would not have tried. Satan is NOT stupid.
It was that Jesus was the second Adam in that He did not give into sin and therefore His message changed the world. Giving us that connection to God and heaven was only possible if Jesus purely stayed as the Second Adam.
More reasoning for Adam's impact to today will be discussed in the next blog.
Thanks Pastor Chris for prodding me to dig deeper than I had in 50 plus years.