Hope For The Nations, Lesson 11, Fall 2006

Jesus and Adam

“Adam, the son of God” (Luke 3:38)

“Jesus…’My beloved Son’” (Luke 3:21-22)

  • Only one Son is called BELOVED.
  • Adam passed down a sin nature unto every human being born: Romans 5:12,19
  • “The last Adam…the second Man” (1 Corinthians 15:45-47)
    • 2 titles for Jesus Christ – the first shows that He has completely ended all that was in the former humanity; the second shows that He is the beginning of an entirely new race of people.  He brought death to the one and life to the other.
    • How?  John 12:24 – the seed of grain that dies yet lives. 

How do Christians exit the life of Adam and enter the life of Christ?

  • ROMANS 6
    • Vv. 3,6 – “know,” “knowing” – begins with a knowledge or revelation…
    • Vv. 2-3, 5-7 – “died,” “death,” “crucified” – that the death of our old life has already been completed…
    • V. 4 – “buried with Him through baptism” – baptism was the official burial of our crucified old nature…
    • Vv. 11 – “Likewise…reckon yourselves to be dead” – with this in mind, we must walk with the confidence that our old humanity was crucified with Jesus…
    • V. 14 – “under grace,” “not under law” – the key to walking this way is seen in living by grace, not law…
  • ROMANS 7
    • V. 1 – “law has dominion” – the demands of the law rule over those who live…
    • V. 5 – “sinful passions which were aroused by the law” – the law reveals just how truly sinful our flesh is (that we can never meet the law’s demands)…
    • Vv. 4,6 – “dead to the law,” “died to what we were held by” – since our old nature has died, we are free from trying to meet the requirements of the law in our own flesh…
    • V. 6 – “serve in the newness of the Spirit” – We have a new way to serve God: the Holy Spirit…
    • V. 18 – “in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells” – our old life has no power to do good…
    • V. 21 – “a law, that evil is present with me” – it is an uncontestable fact that evil is part our flesh…
    • V. 24 – “Who will deliver me from this body of death?” – How do we escape this nature of sin?…
    • V. 25 – “through Jesus Christ” – Thank God the deliverance has already happened through Jesus’ death on the cross…   
  • ROMANS 8
    • V. 1 – “in Christ” – this is the place where our nature has been changed…
    • V. 2 – “the law of the Spirit of life” – the law of the Spirit can replace the law of evil in us…
    • V. 11 – “the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead…life to your mortal bodies” – the Spirit has shown He has the power to bring you into a new way of living because He brought resurrection to Jesus…
    • V. 13 – “by the Spirit” – the only way to defeat sin in your life is to live by the Spirit…
    • V. 14 – “sons of God” – we take on the nature of God our Father only if we have His life in us
    • V. 29 – “the firstborn among many brethren” – like the seed of wheat that “produces much grain” (John 12:24).