Hello and
welcome to "On the Road".
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I'm Pastor Nathan
Renner, the senior pastor
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of the Troy
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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It's my privilege to be
able to spend a little time
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with you today,
studying God's word.
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Our topic is titled
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"Jesus the Last
Adam and the New Israel".
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Fascinating topic diving
in to the depths of scripture
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talking about these important
topics of Adam and Israel
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and I think that you will be
thrilled as you hear the message
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"Jesus the Last
Adam and the new Israel."
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Let's begin with prayer.
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Our father, we thank you
for this great day of life.
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We thank you for the great
privilege of studying Your word.
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Please, now as we
look at your word,
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speak to our hearts and give
us a revelation of Your truth
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Iin Jesus name, amen.
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The Bible begins very simply.
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It begins with a
perfect God and a perfect man
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in a perfect
environment on a perfect world.
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It's a very simple picture.
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God creates that
world in six literal days
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and the Bible as you read
through the Book of Genesis,
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in fact it begins
with in the beginning God
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and God creates the first day
and the Bible says, it was Good.
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God creates and
God says it was good.
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God creates, the
Bible says it was good.
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Over and over and over again
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the message we get
in the Book of Genesis
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in the first chapter
is a very simple message.
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You begin with a
perfect God, a perfect world,
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a perfect
environment, and a perfect man.
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The Bible as I have
said begins very simply.
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And in Genesis Chapter 2,
God gives this perfect man
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and a perfect
world, a perfect food.
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He gives them all of the trees
in the garden except for one,
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in Genesis 2:17,
the Lord says to Adam,
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"But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil
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you shall not
eat, for in the day
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that you eat of it
you shall surely die."
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God in the beginning
creates this--I have said,
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a perfect world, a
perfect environment,
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there's a perfect God,
and there's a perfect man,
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and God in this perfect
world and with this perfect man,
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gives him permission to eat
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from any tree in the
garden except for one
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and that's the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
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And I've asked myself and I know
many of you have asked yourself,
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why is it that God would create
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this tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
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Why would God give this perfect
man in this perfect environment,
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this opportunity
to eat from a tree
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that would not
be for his benefit?
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Well, my friends,
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the Bible declares very
plainly that God is love.
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And love must give us the
right to not only say yes,
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but the right to say no.
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And so God provides
this one opportunity,
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this tree of the
knowledge of good and evil,
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as an
opportunity for Adam and Eve
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to cast their
vote on the side of God
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or on the side of
the Satan and themselves.
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And in Genesis Chapter
3, we know the tragic story.
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Eve is there at the tree
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and she takes of
the fruit of the tree
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and she eats the
fruit of the tree
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and then she gives
some to her husband.
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And we know the tragic story,
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the eyes of the
both of them are opened,
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they understand good and evil.
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They fall and they begin
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that downwards
spiral of sin and death.
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Things were
rolling along quiet nicely
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as I--as we look at scripture,
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you've a perfect
God, perfect world,
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perfect man,
perfect environment,
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but then as a
result of the tragic fall,
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the world is entered
into a downward spiral.
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If you wanted to
just sum up the crises,
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the characteristics of
the crises that Adam and Eve
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and this world
faced, it could be summed up
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in two very simple
words, two very simple words.
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They are death and disobedience,
death and disobedience.
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We see it in Genesis
2:17, as we've already read,
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that God says, "If
you eat from the tree
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of the knowledge of
good and evil, you will die".
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And so in the midst of the
sin we have the crises of death
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entering our world
for the very first time.
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Adam and Eve, in
their pre-sin world,
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death was not in existence.
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There was no
such thing as death.
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There was no such thing as pain.
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There was no
such thing as sorrow.
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But as a result of
the sin of Adam and Eve,
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the Bible makes it clear
that death is the new reality,
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death is the new reality.
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And of course disobedience
was the cause of that death.
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God said you shall
not eat of the tree.
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Yet they chose to
eat of the tree as well.
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So when we look
at the Genesis story
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and we look at the Bible,
the Bible begins very simply,
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perfect God, perfect world,
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perfect
environment, perfect man,
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and in the midst of
all of that perfection,
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there's a wrong decision.
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There is a choice
that is made against God,
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a disobedient choice.
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And the result of that
disobedient choice is death.
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And so the two key
problems that plague humanity
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in the Bible are
death and disobedience.
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This is the crises
that humanity faced
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and that God has to deal with,
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or God chose to deal with.
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So how is this crises managed?
I mean, what does God do?
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Here is man.
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Man has willfully chosen
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to place himself
on the side of Satan.
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What is God to do in
the midst of this crises?
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I mean, God
gave man a free will.
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God gave man free choice.
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And man exercised that
freedom inappropriately.
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Man exercised that freedom
in rebellion against God.
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And so know they are in
crises, what is God to do?
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Well, since it was man that
placed himself on Satan side,
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it was only man
that could choose
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to remove himself
from Satan's side.
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Since it was man that sinned,
it was man that must obey.
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Because it was man that sinned,
it was man that must die.
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God in some sins--
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and it's a little
difficult to even say this,
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but God was in some
sins limited in this crises
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by His own justice
and His own integrity.
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God as God couldn't
just step in and fix it.
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It was man's problem.
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Man had chose Satan and
God must honor his choice.
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I want you to understand
that. It's really important.
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You see, man made the choice
to become a servant of Satan.
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Man made the choice
to take of the fruit
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and eat the fruit of the tree.
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It was man's decision.
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God did not force
Adam to eat from the tree.
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God did not compelled
Adam to eat from the tree.
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Satan didn't compel
Adam to eat from the tree.
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It was Adam's choice
to eat from the tree.
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So Adam, of his own free will,
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chose to align
himself with Satan.
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Now this is important
because God is a gentleman.
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God is gentleman.
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God will honor
the choice of man.
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Man has said, "We will
align ourselves with Satan."
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And so God will say,
"I will honor your choice.
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I won't step in and stop
you. I will honor your choice."
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And so in the midst of
this crises, God was limited,
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because it was man
that made the choice,
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it was only by man
that this could be undone.
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Now I want to stop
you, just for a moment here,
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and make it very clear.
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You're gonna have to stick
with me here for a little while
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because when I say it was man
that has to solve this problem,
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it isn't really in
our power to solve it
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because we're going to die.
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We are going to
die. And we have sinned.
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And so when we're
saying that man is the one
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that has to fix this problem,
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we're going to see exactly
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what that really
means in a little moment.
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But I'll give you a hint.
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It involves the
God Man, Jesus Christ.
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Now let's get
back to the scriptures.
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Since it was man that got
himself into this predicament,
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what is God going to
do? What is God going to do?
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Well-- and this is important.
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Throughout the Old Testament
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we see God looking for
a new man or a new Adam
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or a new people that
would be faithful to Him.
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Now I want you to follow that.
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As we look-- and
I'll show you this
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from scripture in just a moment.
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As we look, we begin with Adam.
And Adam makes a wrong choice.
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He falls.
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And after that fall,
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since it was man that
got them into the situation,
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it is man that
must get himself out.
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And so what do we see?
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We see God--we see
God looking for a new man
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that will not do the same
kinds of things that Adam does.
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So we see God
looking for a new man,
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a new Adam or a new people
that will be faithful to Him.
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And unfortunately every
time they come up short.
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Let's take for example, Noah.
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In the days of Noah
the earth become so sinful
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that the Bible
says, in Genesis 6:5, 6,
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"That the Lord saw
the wickedness of man
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was great on the earth,
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and that every
intention of his thoughts
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of his heart was
only evil continually.
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And the Lord was sorry
that He made man on the earth
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and it grieved Him in His heart.
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So the Lord said
'I would blot out man
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whom I have created
from the face of the land,
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men and animals
and creeping things
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and birds of the
heavens for I am sorry
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that I have made them.'
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But Noah found favor
in the eyes of the Lord."
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Now notice the picture.
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In Genesis Chapter 6,
humanity as a result of the fall
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and of their own decisions,
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has become so corrupt
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that ultimately
God's heart is grieved
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that He made humanity.
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Yeah, people have hard
time understanding that.
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But I supposed it's a
little bit like Einstein
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who really was
one of the pioneers
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in the study of atomic energy.
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And he recognized in the
realities of atomic energy
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that it could be used
for extremely wonderful
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and positive purposes
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and it could be used for
extremely horrible purposes.
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And here, God
created man to be used
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and to exist for
a glorious purpose
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and yet what does God see,
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that, that wonderful
thing that He created
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that could used for a glorious
purpose has now destroyed itself
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and has ruined itself
and become full of violence.
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So what does God do?
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Well, the Bible says, as
we read there in Genesis 6:8,
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that Noah found favor
in the eyes of the Lord.
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Now it's
fascinating, what we see.
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We see that you have--
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now God is going to destroy
the earth at by the flood.
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And he's going to preserve
through that flood one man
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and that man and
his family is Noah.
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And what we're gonna see is
that when God sends the flood,
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it is the reversal of creation.
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Let me say that again.
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When God sends the flood it
is the reversal of creation.
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Genesis 7:11,
12. Genesis 7:11,12.
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"In the six
hundredth year of Noah's life,
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in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month,
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on that day all the fountains
of the great deep burst forth,
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and the windows of
the heaven were opened."
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Now notice that
fascinating language.
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Well, we will
read verse 12 as well.
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"The rain fell on the earth
forty days and forty nights."
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Now notice what
it's saying here.
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It's saying, at
such in such a time,
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particular time of Noah's life,
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the waters of the great
deep burst forth and came up.
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And it says, that the waters
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that were above
the earth came down.
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Now notice this amazing picture.
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You have water shooting
up and water falling down.
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Come with me to
Genesis 1:7, Genesis 1:7.
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It is speaking of the days
of creation and the Bible says,
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"And God made the expanse,
and separated the waters
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that were under the
expanse from the waters
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that were above the
expanse, and it was so" verse 8,
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"God called the expanse
heaven and there was evening
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and there was
morning, the second day."
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Now notice what we are seeing
here in Genesis Chapter 1.
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In Genesis 1:1,
when God is creating
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the heavens and the
earth, the Bible says
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that the earth
is formless and void
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and then it's covered in water.
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And then when
God begins to create,
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He separates the
water's that are on the earth
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and He makes an
expanse, or we're in atmosphere
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and then there's
water above the earth.
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And so in the
creation story here--
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which by the way is more than
a story it's a historical fact.
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But in this creation narrative,
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we see that God
is taking this earth
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that's just one formless
void piece of water essentially
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and he separates the water.
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He make's a
division in the water
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so that some of
the water goes up
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and it forms a
sort of an atmosphere
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and then some of the water
is still remaining on the earth.
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Now it's fascinating then,
if in the creation story Gods
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separates the
water's from the water's
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and He makes an
atmosphere of water
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between the earth and the sky,
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when in the creation
God creates the water,
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He moves the water
up and keep some down,
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we see in the flood
the reversal of creation.
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Again we see in the flood
the reversal of the creation.
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Remember in Genesis
Chapter 7 when the flood begins,
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the water's fall
down from the sky
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and they shoot
up from the ground.
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They fall down from the sky
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and they shoot
up from the ground.
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Now notice the powerful image
that God is communicating here.
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What is God saying in the flood?
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God is saying that the
earth has become so corrupt,
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the earth has become so
vile, that God is saying,
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He' gonna start over.
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Just like He began
with the perfect world
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and a perfect creation,
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He begins with
this perfect creation.
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So God says, "I'm
going to reverse creation.
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Just like I moved the
waters apart in creation,
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now I'm going to
move them back together."
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And that's what we're
seeing in Genesis Chapter 7.
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Now it's fascinating because
if you look in Genesis 1:1, 2,
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it says very simply "In
the beginning God created
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the heavens and the earth.
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The earth was
without form and void.
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Darkness was over
the face of the deep.
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And the Spirit of God
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was hovering over
the face of the waters."
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So you have here
in the beginning,
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God is creating--
and the Bible says,
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that the earth
is formless and void
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and the spirit of
God is there hovering
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over the face of the water.
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Come with me to
Genesis 7:20. Genesis 7:20.
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The Bible says, "The waters
prevailed above the mountains,
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covering them
fifteen cubits deep."
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Notice, my friends,
in Genesis Chapter 7,
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when the flood comes,
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it is the full
reversal of creation.
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The water's that were
separated are now reunited
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and they cover the entire globe,
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just like we read
in Genesis Chapter 1.
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We see the reversal of creation.
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Now it's fascinating because
if we skip down to Genesis 8:1,
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the Bible says,
"But God remembered Noah
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and all the beasts
and all the livestock
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that were with him in the ark.
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And God made a wind
blow over the earth,
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and the waters subsided."
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It's fascinating picture.
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The flood is going and it goes
over the tops of the mountains
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and then when the time
comes for the flood to seize,
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the Bible says that God causes
a wind to blow over the waters.
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Fascinating thing
we miss in the English.
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But it's right there in Hebrew,
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unmistakably
there in the Hebrew.
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And that is simply this.
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The word for wind in Hebrew
and in Greek is the same word
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for spirit and breath and
wind, spirit, breath, and wind.
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All the same in Hebrew
and all the same in Greek.
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In Greek "psuche"
and in Hebrew "ruach."
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Now it's
fascinating what's being said.
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Now remember Genesis Chapter 1,
the earth is formless and void.
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It's covered with
water and the spirit of God
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is there
hovering over the waters.
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The spirit of God is
hovering over the waters.
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So you have the water
covered earth and the spirit.
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In Genesis Chapter 8,
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you have the water
covered earth and the wind.
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The wind, it's
the same Hebrew word.
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So what do we see
then in the creation story?
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We see the creation
story, Genesis Chapter 1,
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then the earth gets so corrupt
because of sin that God says
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in Genesis 6 and 7,
"I'm going to start over.
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I'm going to reverse creation.
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Just like as I separated
the water's in Genesis 1,
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I'm going to reunite
the waters in Genesis 7.
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Just like I reunited the waters,
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it's going to
cover the whole earth."
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And just like when
the earth was covered
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with water in Genesis 1:2,
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the Bible says, that
the spirit was there.
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So in Genesis
8:1, when God says,
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the earth is covered with water,
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His wind is there,
His ruach is there.
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My friends, what are we seeing?
00:21:31.17\00:21:33.29
We're seeing that the flood
is the reversal of creation.
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Now it's
fascinating in Genesis 2:7,
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notice what the
Bible says about Adam.
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The Bible says,
"Then the Lord God
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formed the man of
the dust from the ground
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and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
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and man became a
living creature."
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Man became a living creature.
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Now Adam--the word
Adam in Hebrew its Adam.
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And that name Adam just
means something very simple.
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Adam just means dust or dirt.
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Okay. Just mean dirt.
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And so really, in essence,
when God named Adam, Adam,
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God named Adam dust or dirt.
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God named him after
what he was made out of.
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That's Genesis 2:7.
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It's fascinating though
when you get to Genesis 9: 20,
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the flood is over, okay.
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The flood is over,
it's interesting too
00:22:45.42\00:22:47.99
because God gives
instructions to Adam
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after His
creation of how to eat.
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As soon as the flood is over,
God gives instructions to Noah
00:22:52.63\00:22:56.92
about how to eat
there in Genesis 9.
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But notice Genesis
9:20. Genesis 9:20.
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The flood is over
and the Bible says,
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"Noah began to be
a man of the soil."
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Noah became a man of the soil.
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Now, I wonder
what the word soil is?
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It's
fascinating, It's fascinating.
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The word soil
there is Adam. It's Adam.
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So what does that
mean? What does that mean?
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Really, essentially the point of
the text is that after the flood
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and the earth is essentially
now the new creation,
00:23:38.73\00:23:42.16
God is beginning again
with a new Adam, the new Adam.
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And that new Adam is
Noah. That new Adam is Noah.
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Just like God creates the
world in Genesis Chapter 1,
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He reverses
creation in the flood
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and then He starts off
with a new head of humanity
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and that new head
of humanity is Noah.
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And the Bible refers to
Noah as a man of the soil.
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Remember the word soil
or dirt? It means Adam.
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Adam is the Hebrew word
that means man of the soil.
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So here we see that
Noah is the new Adam.
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He's the new father of humanity.
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But what happens to Noah
as soon as the Bible declares
00:24:29.00\00:24:33.97
Ithat he is the new Adam?
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Genesis Chapter 9,
we just read verse 20.
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"Noah began to be
a man of the soil,
00:24:38.88\00:24:42.41
and he planted a
vineyard" verse 2,
00:24:42.44\00:24:44.92
"He drank of the
wine and became drunk
00:24:44.95\00:24:48.05
and lay uncovered in his tents."
00:24:48.08\00:24:51.13
And then we know the
rest of the tragic story.
00:24:51.16\00:24:53.99
Ham his son comes
in and see's his father
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and we have this
whole embarrassing episode
00:24:58.66\00:25:01.63
and this whole
terrible experience.
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Now I want you to follow
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.19
what is the word of
God really telling us here.
00:25:06.22\00:25:09.27
It's telling us that
Noah, the man of the soil, Noah,
00:25:09.30\00:25:13.74
the new Adam, has the same exact
experience as the first Adam.
00:25:13.77\00:25:19.88
The first Adam
had his new creation
00:25:19.91\00:25:22.70
and every thing was going fine
00:25:22.73\00:25:24.48
and then he fails
and sins by eating
00:25:24.51\00:25:28.92
from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
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And then comes Noah.
00:25:31.03\00:25:32.50
And Noah is the new
Adam, after the new creation,
00:25:32.53\00:25:36.81
after the
reversal of the creation.
00:25:36.84\00:25:40.20
And then the
recreation, the new Adam, Noah,
00:25:40.23\00:25:45.18
immediately drinks
of the fruit of the wine
00:25:45.21\00:25:49.37
and you see the whole
sad story of his nakedness
00:25:49.40\00:25:54.20
and his problem
there with his son,
00:25:54.23\00:25:59.16
and of course most
commentators understand
00:25:59.19\00:26:02.27
that it wasn't just
that his son saw him naked.
00:26:02.30\00:26:07.54
But there is some
kind of Hebrew idiom
00:26:07.57\00:26:10.87
there that's implying
some violation took place.
00:26:10.90\00:26:16.19
And so, my friends,
00:26:16.22\00:26:17.59
we see the story of Adam
replayed in the story of Noah.
00:26:17.62\00:26:24.74
Adam is the head of a
new creation and Adam--
00:26:24.77\00:26:28.89
or Noah is the
head of a new creation,
00:26:28.92\00:26:30.74
the new Adam and he goes
through the same sad experience,
00:26:30.77\00:26:37.36
the same sad
experience as the first Adam.
00:26:37.39\00:26:43.29
Now God as we have said
remember, God, began with Adam.
00:26:43.32\00:26:47.61
And Adam was a perfect
man in a perfect world,
00:26:47.64\00:26:49.93
with the perfect God
and a perfect environment
00:26:49.96\00:26:52.28
and Adam chose to
align himself with Satan.
00:26:52.31\00:26:55.86
Adam chose to
align himself with Satan.
00:26:55.89\00:26:59.11
And so God needs
to rescue humanity,
00:26:59.14\00:27:02.32
but God can't
violate man's choice.
00:27:02.35\00:27:05.44
So God starts--and so man
has chosen to serve the devil.
00:27:05.47\00:27:09.45
God is not gonna violate
that. So what does God do?
00:27:09.48\00:27:12.92
God says, "All right
we're gonna reverse creation,
00:27:12.95\00:27:15.38
we're gonna start
over with a new Adam."
00:27:15.41\00:27:18.10
And that new Adam is
Noah, a man of the soil.
00:27:18.13\00:27:21.37
Noah became the new Adam.
00:27:21.40\00:27:23.49
And that new Adam, that
new Adam immediately stumbles
00:27:23.52\00:27:27.62
and sins just
like the first Adam.
00:27:27.65\00:27:30.37
So God makes another attempt.
00:27:30.40\00:27:32.23
God makes another
attempt with Israel.
00:27:32.26\00:27:36.91
Go to Exodus Chapter 4.
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Exodus 4: 22. Exodus 4: 22.
00:27:39.90\00:27:47.87
Here the Bible refers to
Israel as God's first born son,
00:27:47.90\00:27:54.22
by the way which
is a link to Adam,
00:27:54.25\00:27:58.07
or Adam being God's first born.
00:27:58.10\00:28:01.40
"Then you shall say to
Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD,
00:28:01.43\00:28:04.22
'Israel is my firstborn son.'"
00:28:04.25\00:28:07.87
Notice the language.
00:28:07.90\00:28:09.35
God understands that
Israel is His firstborn son.
00:28:09.38\00:28:13.91
And so Israel is now the
new Adam, God's first born.
00:28:13.94\00:28:18.77
And what is God trying to
do with His new firstborn?
00:28:18.80\00:28:24.68
He's trying to use them as
an example of faithfulness,
00:28:24.71\00:28:30.27
the head of the new
humanity as it were.
00:28:30.30\00:28:32.99
Come with me to Exodus 16:4.
00:28:33.02\00:28:39.23
Just like God gave Adam
a test in the new creation,
00:28:39.26\00:28:44.24
so God gave Noah the
test in the new creation
00:28:44.27\00:28:48.17
and Noah failed it
by drinking alcohol.
00:28:48.20\00:28:51.17
In Exodus 16:4,
notice what God says,
00:28:51.20\00:28:57.99
"Then the Lord said to Moses,
00:28:58.02\00:28:59.98
'Behold, I am about to
rain bread from heaven for you,
00:29:00.01\00:29:04.66
and the people shall go out
00:29:04.69\00:29:06.99
and gather a
day's portion every day,
00:29:07.02\00:29:09.66
that I may test them, whether
they will walk in my law or not.
00:29:09.69\00:29:15.78
On the sixth day, when
they prepare what they bring in,
00:29:15.81\00:29:19.64
it shall be twice as
much as they gather daily.'"
00:29:19.67\00:29:23.61
So Moses and Aaron said
to all the people of Israel,
00:29:23.64\00:29:26.55
and then Moses and Aaron
began to instruct the people.
00:29:26.58\00:29:28.89
Now notice,
what's happening here.
00:29:28.92\00:29:30.52
You have Israel, the
new Adam, God's firstborn.
00:29:30.55\00:29:35.39
And God says, "Just
like I gave Adam a test,
00:29:35.42\00:29:39.66
and just like I
gave Noah a test.
00:29:39.69\00:29:42.74
So now I am giving you a test.
00:29:42.77\00:29:45.36
I am going to send manna to you.
00:29:45.39\00:29:47.94
And that manna will
be available six days
00:29:47.97\00:29:50.54
and I am going to see whether
you will obey my law or not
00:29:50.57\00:29:54.84
by sending you this test."
00:29:54.87\00:29:57.96
Just like God sent Adam
the test and Noah the test,
00:29:57.99\00:30:02.32
so God now has
Israel, His firstborn son,
00:30:02.35\00:30:05.99
the new Adam and God
sends them a similar test.
00:30:06.02\00:30:10.90
In this case, a
dietary test to test them
00:30:10.93\00:30:15.48
in their
faithfulness to the law of God.
00:30:15.51\00:30:19.17
Now, what is the
ultimate testimony about Israel?
00:30:19.20\00:30:25.53
What ultimately
is the testimony?
00:30:25.56\00:30:28.21
Hosea 6:7 says, of
the nation of Israel,
00:30:28.24\00:30:34.98
"But like Adam they
transgressed the covenant,
00:30:35.01\00:30:42.98
there they dealt
faithlessly with me."
00:30:43.01\00:30:48.67
Notice what the scripture says.
00:30:48.70\00:30:50.69
It's a fascinating testimony.
00:30:50.72\00:30:52.92
Ultimately, what God says is,
00:30:52.95\00:30:55.29
is that Israel
is just like Adam.
00:30:55.32\00:30:59.87
"They were faithless to Me.
00:30:59.90\00:31:01.85
They broke covenant
with Me just like Adam did."
00:31:01.88\00:31:06.10
You know what this is telling me
00:31:06.13\00:31:07.50
that again man got
himself into this mess
00:31:07.53\00:31:12.49
by making a decision for Satan.
00:31:12.52\00:31:14.92
Man got himself into the mess
by making a decision for Satan
00:31:14.95\00:31:17.86
and God says, "All
right, we're gonna start over,
00:31:17.89\00:31:20.34
we're gonna recreate this earth.
00:31:20.37\00:31:22.33
We're gonna start off
with a new Adam, that is Noah."
00:31:22.36\00:31:25.43
And Noah gets himself
right in the same place.
00:31:25.46\00:31:28.13
And God says, "All
right, we're gonna start,
00:31:28.16\00:31:29.55
we're gonna
redeem Israel from Egypt
00:31:29.58\00:31:31.61
and we're gonna
start over with Israel."
00:31:31.64\00:31:34.00
And Israel,
what happens to them?
00:31:34.03\00:31:36.13
God gives them the test
and what happens in their test?
00:31:36.16\00:31:40.55
They too fall short.
00:31:40.58\00:31:42.81
And in fact when get
to the Book of Hosea,
00:31:42.84\00:31:44.79
as we just read, Hosea
says, Israel is just like Adam.
00:31:44.82\00:31:49.26
They broke covenant with God.
00:31:49.29\00:31:51.15
They were faithless to God.
00:31:51.18\00:31:53.35
And so that gives us
the remarkable picture,
00:31:53.38\00:31:55.98
my friends, and
listen very carefully,
00:31:56.01\00:31:58.46
the story of Adam
is the story of Nathan.
00:31:58.49\00:32:02.56
The story of Noah
is the story of Nathan.
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The story of Israel
is the story of Nathan.
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In other words, what
we see here is essentially
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that whether it's Noah,
it's Adam or it is Israel,
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that is the story of humanity.
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That is the
experience of everyone.
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So, what is this all about?
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The story of Noah
is the story of Adam.
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The story of Israel
is the story of Adam.
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The story Nathan
Renner is the story of Adam.
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The story of every human
being is the story of Adam.
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God gives us the opportunity
to serve Him or not serve Him
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and all of humanity has
chosen to go the wrong way.
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The Bible says, in Romans 3:23,
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"For all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God."
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My friends, so
what is God to do?
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What is God to do?
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Man has chosen to
align himself with Satan.
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It is man that chose
Satan, so it is got to be man
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that chooses to not serve
Satan and chooses to serve God.
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Yet when God tries to do
it with Adam it doesn't work.
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When God tries to do
with Noah it doesn't work.
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When God tries to do
with Israel it doesn't work.
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So what is God to do?
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God needs to send the last Adam
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and the new
Israel, Jesus Christ.
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What is God to do?
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God must become a man.
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God must become a man.
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You see, man
enslaved himself to Satan.
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Man enslaved himself to Satan.
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So even when God starts
over with a new creation
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and a new Adam and Noah,
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man is still enslaved
to Satan, man still falls.
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When He starts
over with a new Israel,
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the new Adam again,
what happens with Israel?
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They still are enslaved
to Satan and they still fall.
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So what does God do?
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God becomes a
man, so that as a man
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He can be victorious
where others have fallen.
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That as a man,
He can be victorious
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where others have sinned
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and so that as a man He can
conquer disobedience and death,
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the two great problems
that we see in the garden.
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God sends Jesus, the
last Adam and the new Israel.
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And as a man He fights with
Satan on His own ground and wins
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and He overcomes the problem
of disobedience and death.
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Come with me to Matthew
Chapter 2, Matthew Chapter 2.
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We're gonna begin in verse 13.
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Matthew 2,
beginning in verse 13.
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Its fascinating picture here,
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we're gonna look
at the life of Jesus.
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And what we're going to
see is that the life of Jesus
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is modeled after the
experience of ancient Israel.
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We're gonna see that
the life of Jesus parallels
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the experience
of ancient Israel.
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Matthew 2:13, "When
they had departed--"
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I'm talking--we're talking
about Jesus here, He's a baby.
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"Now when they had departed,
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behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to Joseph in a dream.
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Rise, take the child and
his mother, and flee to Egypt,
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remain there until I tell you,
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for Herod is about to search
for the child to destroy him.'
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And he rose and took the
child and his mother by night
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and departed to Egypt
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and remained there
until the death of Herod.
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This was to fulfill
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what the Lord had
spoken by the prophet,
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'Out of Egypt
I've called my son.'"
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Now I want you to know
the story of Jesus here,
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Jesus is born,
Herod wants to hurt Jesus.
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So God tells Joseph,
"Take Jesus to Egypt,
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stay there until
I tell you to leave
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and then when you leave
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it's gonna fulfill the
prophecy of the Old Testament
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that says, out of Egypt
has God's son been called."
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Now, come with me
to the Book of Hosea.
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Hosea 11:1, that's
where we get this prophecy
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that the son will leave Egypt.
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Hosea 11:1, "When
Israel was a child--"
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I'm reading Hosea 11:1,
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"When Israel was
a child, I loved him
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and out of Egypt
I called my son."
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According to Hosea
11:1, the son that God loved,
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the son that God called
out of Egypt, was Israel.
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Now, Matthew
applies that to Jesus.
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Matthew applies that to Jesus.
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In other words, what
Matthew is telling us
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is that Jesus is reliving
the experience of ancient Israel
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and of course that makes sense.
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If you remember in
the Bookv of Genesis,
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there was a man named Joseph
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who had dreams
that went to Egypt.
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And then God called
His people out of Egypt,
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He called Israel out of Egypt.
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And so we see in Matthew 2,
a guy named Joseph has a dream.
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He goes to Egypt and
then Jesus leaves Egypt
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paralleling the
experience of ancient Israel.
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Well, notice what
happens next, verse 19,
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"Jesus now leaves
Egypt when Harold died,
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behold an angel of the
Lord appeared to him in--to--
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appeared in a dream to
Joseph in Egypt, saying,
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'Rise, take the
child and his mother
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and go to the land of Israel,
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for those who sought
the child's life are dead.'"
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And so he gets up
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and they go to Israel,
just like ancient Israel.
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Now, let's fasten
you to Matthew 3:13.
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The Bible says, "Then
Jesus came from Galilee
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to the Jordan to
John, to be baptized by him.
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John would have
prevented him, saying,
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'I need to be baptized by
you, and do you come to me?'
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But Jesus answered
him, 'Let it be so now,
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for thus it is fitting to
fulfill all righteousness.'
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Then he consented
and Jesus was baptized."
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Now, I want you
to notice something,
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again I want you to follow here.
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Jesus goes to Egypt
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because a guy named Joseph
has a dream just like Genesis.
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Jesus leaves Egypt right on time
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and then Jesus is
baptized, Jesus is baptized.
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And then after Jesus' baptism,
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the Bible says,
in chapter 4 verse 1,
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"Then Jesus was
led up by the Spirit
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into the wilderness to
be tempted by the devil."
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After Jesus is baptized He goes
to the wilderness of temptation.
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Now I want you
to notice something.
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Israel was baptized.
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Now you say,
"Israel was baptized?"
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Absolutely.
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The Bible says
that Israel was baptized
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when they went
through the red sea.
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Come with me to 1
Corinthians Chapter 10,
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1 Corinthians Chapter 10.
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1 Corinthians 10:1,
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"I want you to know, brothers
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that all our fathers
were all under the cloud
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and all passed through the sea,
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and all were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea,
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all ate the same spiritual food,
all drank the spiritual drink.
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For they drank
from the spiritual Rock
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that followed them
and the Rock was Christ."
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Notice, 1 Corinthians
10:2 makes it very clear
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that when ancient
Israel past through the red sea
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that was their
baptism into Moses.
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Does that make sense? Yes or no?
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I'm sure it does.
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So their baptism--
Israel was baptized
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when they went
through the red sea.
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Now immediately after
Israel went through the red sea,
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where did they go?
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They spent 40
years in the wilderness.
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They spent 40
years in the wilderness.
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So, now I want
you to see, Israel--
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a guy named Joseph has a dream,
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he goes to
Egypt, all Israel call--
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comes with him, he
eventually ends up there.
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Israel leaves Egypt.
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When they leave Egypt they
are baptized in the red sea.
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And then as soon
as they are baptized,
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they go into the
wilderness of temptation.
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And Jesus, Jesus, His
father Joseph has a dream,
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they go to Egypt.
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Eventually they leave Egypt.
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And after they leave Egypt,
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Jesus is baptized
and after His baptism
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Jesus then goes into the
wilderness of temptation.
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Now here's the
most remarkable thing
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and this is where
things get so exciting.
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Jesus comes on the scene
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as the last Adam
and the new Israel.
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He is not like the first Adam
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who takes from
the tree and sins.
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He's not like
the second Adam, Noah
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who drinks from
the wine and sins.
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He's not like ancient Israel
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who went into the wilderness
of temptation and sinned.
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Jesus is the new Israel
and He is the last Adam.
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And He succeeds where
every other person had failed.
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In the wilderness of temptation,
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when Satan
comes to Him and says,
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"You've been
without food for 40 days,
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if you're really God's son
turn these stones into bread."
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Jesus does not sin there.
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Jesus does not fall
into temptation there.
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Jesus quotes the
word of God and says,
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"It is written, man
shall not live by bread alone
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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Jesus says, I just
think about this, Adam,
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Adam when he was in the
garden he had a full belly.
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He didn't eat from the tree
of knowledge of good and evil
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because he was hungry.
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He ate from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil
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because he rebelled against God.
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And here's Jesus. He
hasn't eaten for 40 days.
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I don't know about
you but if I haven't eaten
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for 4 hours, I'm starving.
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And here's Jesus.
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He hasn't eaten
for 40 days, 40 days.
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And Satan comes to Him and says,
00:43:02.64\00:43:04.32
"Turn these stones, turn
these stones into bread."
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And Jesus says,
"No, I'm not gonna do it.
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It is written that man
does not live by bread alone
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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For Jesus serving
God and living for God
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was more important
than anything else.
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He was the last Adam
00:43:24.02\00:43:26.97
because He is different from all
other human beings before him.
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When faced with temptation
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all others have
crumpled and given in.
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But Jesus was faithful.
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Three times the temptations
come there in Matthew Chapter 4.
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And three times Satan's
temptations are rebuffed.
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And Jesus Christ the last Adam,
the new Israel is the victor.
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Jesus models the
experience of the first Adam,
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of the second Adam,
Noah and the new Israel.
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And Jesus goes
through their experiences
00:43:59.44\00:44:02.09
but rather than
falling He succeeds,
00:44:02.12\00:44:07.01
the new Israel, the last Adam.
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Now, by His obedient life,
00:44:11.61\00:44:16.26
Jesus solved the
problem of man's disobedience
00:44:16.29\00:44:20.75
and on the cross He
solved the problem of death
00:44:20.78\00:44:23.78
and that leads us to
our next important point.
00:44:23.81\00:44:26.24
My friends, Jesus Christ
by His life of obedience,
00:44:26.27\00:44:30.08
by being victorious
00:44:30.11\00:44:31.89
where all the other human
beings have always failed,
00:44:31.92\00:44:35.47
Jesus Christ took care
of the disobedience problem.
00:44:35.50\00:44:40.58
Jesus Christ came off
as a victor overcoming
00:44:40.61\00:44:44.49
where every other
human being had failed.
00:44:44.52\00:44:48.37
He was a victor
where others failed.
00:44:48.40\00:44:50.63
My friend,
that's such good news.
00:44:50.66\00:44:52.98
That's such good news
because reality for us is this.
00:44:53.01\00:44:58.25
If we're honest, if we're honest
00:44:58.28\00:45:02.81
our own story looks a lot
more like the story of Adam
00:45:02.84\00:45:09.70
than the story of Jesus Christ.
00:45:09.73\00:45:14.01
Yeah, I mean isn't that true?
00:45:14.04\00:45:17.21
If I'm looking for a
narrative in the Bible
00:45:17.24\00:45:20.47
that reminds me more of my life,
00:45:20.50\00:45:23.84
do I see my life played
out more in the life of Jesus,
00:45:23.87\00:45:26.94
or my life played out more in
the life of Adam, Noah, Israel?
00:45:26.97\00:45:34.73
You see, my
friends, Jesus comes.
00:45:37.06\00:45:41.19
Jesus comes and He
passes over the ground
00:45:41.22\00:45:44.86
that Adam
passed and He succeeds.
00:45:44.89\00:45:48.47
He passes over the ground that
Noah passed and He succeeds.
00:45:48.50\00:45:51.69
He passes over the ground
00:45:51.72\00:45:53.28
that Israel passed
and Jesus succeeds.
00:45:53.31\00:45:58.49
Jesus by his life
of perfect obedience,
00:45:58.52\00:46:01.85
he took care of the
disobedience problem
00:46:01.88\00:46:05.06
and by believing in Him,
00:46:05.09\00:46:07.47
His obedience is
credited to your accounts.
00:46:07.50\00:46:12.08
In fact, let's go
to Romans Chapter 5.
00:46:15.12\00:46:18.10
This is really, if
you wanted one chapter
00:46:18.13\00:46:20.28
that talks about the
first Adam and the last Adam
00:46:20.31\00:46:24.08
and it's described
in its fullest detail.
00:46:24.11\00:46:26.15
It's probably
right there in Romans 5.
00:46:26.18\00:46:27.71
But let's look just in
2 verses Romans 5:18, 19.
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"Therefore, as one trespass led
to condemnation for all men."
00:46:32.33\00:46:37.11
Notice what it says,
00:46:37.14\00:46:38.51
Adam's one trespass led to
condemnation for all of us.
00:46:38.54\00:46:43.58
Adam's one trespass led to
condemnation for all of us.
00:46:43.61\00:46:48.47
"So one act of righteousness
00:46:48.50\00:46:51.20
leads to justification
and life for all men."
00:46:51.23\00:46:55.26
That's Jesus'
act of righteousness
00:46:55.29\00:46:57.14
leads to justification and life.
00:46:57.17\00:47:00.24
In fact, notice the next verse.
00:47:00.27\00:47:01.88
"For by one man's disobedience
the many were made sinners,
00:47:01.91\00:47:05.66
so by one man's obedience the
many will be made righteous."
00:47:05.69\00:47:08.98
Notice the text says,
00:47:09.01\00:47:10.38
because of Adam's disobedience
I was made a sinner,
00:47:10.41\00:47:13.80
you were made a sinner,
we were all made sinners.
00:47:13.83\00:47:15.98
So, because of Christ's
obedience, the text says,
00:47:16.01\00:47:20.22
we will be made righteous.
00:47:20.25\00:47:23.09
Jesus comes, the
second Adam, the last Adam.
00:47:23.12\00:47:28.05
And Jesus by His obedience
redeems all of our failures.
00:47:28.08\00:47:32.15
You see, remember,
00:47:32.18\00:47:33.75
who was it that got ourselves
00:47:33.78\00:47:35.68
into this death and
disobedience problem?
00:47:35.71\00:47:38.76
It was man. It was man.
00:47:38.79\00:47:43.25
And it was only man
that could fix the problem.
00:47:43.28\00:47:47.64
So God comes down
to the earth as man
00:47:47.67\00:47:50.21
'cause Adam couldn't fix it,
00:47:50.24\00:47:51.82
Noah couldn't fix it,
Israel couldn't fix it.
00:47:51.85\00:47:54.86
There is nobody
that could fix it
00:47:54.89\00:47:56.89
and so God comes
down and God says--
00:47:56.92\00:47:59.34
you have seen very clearly that
no man can fix this, no man yet.
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So God comes down in
the person of Jesus Christ
00:48:04.20\00:48:07.22
and He fixes it by passing over
the ground that Adam passed,
00:48:07.25\00:48:11.98
that Noah passed,
that all of us have passed
00:48:12.01\00:48:14.92
and instead of sinning
and falling He was victorious.
00:48:14.95\00:48:18.53
We were made sinners
by one man's disobedience.
00:48:18.56\00:48:22.91
We were
condemned by one man's sin.
00:48:22.94\00:48:25.38
But by Christ's
obedience we are made righteous
00:48:25.41\00:48:28.71
and by Christ one
act of righteousness,
00:48:28.74\00:48:31.81
we are given the gift of life.
00:48:31.84\00:48:34.63
Jesus comes and by His obedience
He redeems our disobedience.
00:48:34.66\00:48:39.27
By His death He
redeems our death.
00:48:39.30\00:48:42.07
I love what one
great Bible scholar said,
00:48:42.10\00:48:47.72
wonderful Christian
book called "Desire of Ages."
00:48:47.75\00:48:51.22
This author wrote, "Christ
was treated as we deserve,
00:48:51.25\00:48:55.75
that we might be
treated as He deserved.
00:48:55.78\00:49:00.25
He was condemned for our
sins in which He had no share
00:49:00.28\00:49:05.26
that we might be
justified by His righteousness
00:49:05.29\00:49:08.75
in which we have no share.
00:49:08.78\00:49:10.92
He suffered the
death which was ours
00:49:10.95\00:49:13.69
that we might receive
the life which was His
00:49:13.72\00:49:17.61
with His stripes we are healed,
with His stripes we are healed."
00:49:17.64\00:49:24.85
We follow the point, my friends.
00:49:24.88\00:49:27.63
God began this perfect
world to the perfect man,
00:49:27.66\00:49:31.85
perfect God, perfect environment
00:49:31.88\00:49:34.50
and that perfect
man voted against God.
00:49:34.53\00:49:38.74
He voted in favor of Satan.
00:49:38.77\00:49:43.04
And man had
enslaved himself there.
00:49:43.07\00:49:45.42
And we see that
all through history,
00:49:45.45\00:49:47.91
man was making the same mistake,
00:49:47.94\00:49:50.87
making the same mistake,
making the same mistake.
00:49:50.90\00:49:54.14
Failing to live the life
that God had called him to,
00:49:54.17\00:49:57.52
failing to live the life
that God had called him to.
00:49:57.55\00:50:00.12
Always falling, always
replaying the story of Adam
00:50:00.15\00:50:05.48
until the last Adam comes,
the last Adam, Jesus Christ.
00:50:05.51\00:50:09.76
And Jesus Christ, He walks
over the ground that Adam walks.
00:50:09.79\00:50:14.79
Jesus walks by the temptation.
00:50:14.82\00:50:18.32
He walked over that
ground that Adam walked.
00:50:18.35\00:50:20.54
And Jesus when He was
faced with temptation said
00:50:20.57\00:50:22.76
"No, I'm gonna live on
God's word not man's word,
00:50:22.79\00:50:25.70
I'm gonna live on
God's word not Satan's word."
00:50:25.73\00:50:28.02
Jesus walks over the
ground that Israel walked
00:50:28.05\00:50:30.75
and what does Jesus
say, Jesus says no to Satan,
00:50:30.78\00:50:34.19
"I'm not gonna follow your ways,
I'm gonna walk on God's word,
00:50:34.22\00:50:37.33
I'm gonna be
faithful to God's word."
00:50:37.36\00:50:40.35
And then He
passes over the ground
00:50:40.38\00:50:42.24
that all of us have passed.
00:50:42.27\00:50:46.84
Instead of falling
00:50:46.87\00:50:49.67
He perfectly obeyed to
redeem our disobedience.
00:50:49.70\00:50:55.37
And then Jesus
goes to the cross.
00:50:55.40\00:51:00.23
He goes to the cross
00:51:00.26\00:51:04.89
to die the death that
each one of us deserves.
00:51:04.92\00:51:12.00
And on the cross, He
redeemed our failure.
00:51:16.70\00:51:20.02
You know, it's fascinating,
00:51:20.05\00:51:21.63
whenever I begin this message
it makes me a little nervous
00:51:21.66\00:51:25.10
because I say that man got
himself into this situation
00:51:25.13\00:51:27.85
and therefore man's
got to get himself out.
00:51:27.88\00:51:30.86
I'm little afraid that people
00:51:30.89\00:51:32.26
are gonna tuned
out of that point
00:51:32.29\00:51:33.66
and say, "Ah, man
can't get himself out."
00:51:33.69\00:51:38.35
And so they'll stop listening.
00:51:38.38\00:51:41.26
But the reality is
it's that man got himself in
00:51:41.29\00:51:43.94
and it was man
that had to get him out.
00:51:43.97\00:51:46.10
And God showed
that nobody had done it,
00:51:46.13\00:51:49.42
that nobody had done it,
00:51:49.45\00:51:50.82
that everybody had
played the same story
00:51:50.85\00:51:52.29
as the first Adam
until the last Adam,
00:51:52.32\00:51:54.42
the God man Jesus Christ comes.
00:51:54.45\00:51:57.71
And there He
redeems our disobedience.
00:51:57.74\00:52:01.46
He redeems our disobedience
00:52:01.49\00:52:04.33
through His
perfect life of obedience.
00:52:04.36\00:52:07.52
And He redeems our
death through His own death,
00:52:07.55\00:52:11.84
through His own
death on the cross,
00:52:11.87\00:52:14.80
through His own
death on the cross.
00:52:14.83\00:52:19.22
That's why the
Bible says that in Christ,
00:52:19.25\00:52:21.88
if you go to 2 Corinthians 1:20.
00:52:21.91\00:52:25.84
The Bible makes a
remarkable statement,
00:52:25.87\00:52:29.15
2 Corinthians 1:20, it says,
00:52:29.18\00:52:32.06
"All the promises of God--
00:52:32.09\00:52:35.05
All the promises of
God find their yes in Him."
00:52:35.08\00:52:40.35
That is their yes in Christ.
00:52:40.38\00:52:43.39
"That is why it is through Him
00:52:43.42\00:52:45.06
that we utter our
Amen to the glory of God."
00:52:45.09\00:52:47.81
Now, notice what the text says.
00:52:47.84\00:52:49.21
Every promise that God has
every made gets a yes in Jesus.
00:52:49.24\00:52:55.86
It's awesome.
00:52:55.89\00:52:57.37
You read all the
promises of the Old Testament,
00:52:57.40\00:52:59.15
God makes all kinds of
promises in the Old Testament,
00:52:59.18\00:53:01.71
some good, some bad.
00:53:01.74\00:53:03.11
God promises
blessing for disobedience
00:53:03.14\00:53:06.19
and God promises
cursing for disobedience.
00:53:06.22\00:53:09.38
So all the promises
that God has ever made,
00:53:09.41\00:53:12.74
a blessing for obedience,
a curse for disobedience.
00:53:12.77\00:53:15.70
They have all
met their fulfillment
00:53:15.73\00:53:17.57
in one person, Jesus Christ.
00:53:17.60\00:53:21.66
One person, Jesus Christ. Why?
00:53:21.69\00:53:24.01
Because Jesus perfectly obeyed,
00:53:24.04\00:53:26.60
so God poured out all of His
promises of blessing on Jesus.
00:53:26.63\00:53:31.11
And then on the cross Jesus
died for all of our disobedience
00:53:31.14\00:53:35.24
and so on the
cross God poured out
00:53:35.27\00:53:37.17
all of His promises of
cursing on Jesus Christ.
00:53:37.20\00:53:43.15
And so when that
one man, the last Adam,
00:53:43.18\00:53:47.31
God solved the
problem of disobedience
00:53:47.34\00:53:50.76
and He solved
the problem of death.
00:53:50.79\00:53:53.27
Jesus perfectly
obeyed when you hadn't.
00:53:53.30\00:53:56.70
Jesus perfectly
obeyed when you didn't.
00:53:56.73\00:54:00.57
Jesus covered the
ground of the first Adam,
00:54:00.60\00:54:04.25
of Noah, of Israel.
00:54:04.28\00:54:06.67
Jesus covered the
ground of every human being
00:54:06.70\00:54:09.07
and perfectly obeyed.
00:54:09.10\00:54:10.60
Jesus is the last
Adam and the new Israel.
00:54:10.63\00:54:15.62
He covered the
grounds successfully.
00:54:15.65\00:54:21.34
And then He goes to
the cross for our failures.
00:54:21.37\00:54:27.73
And then every
promise that God has ever made
00:54:27.76\00:54:32.25
because of Jesus is yes for us.
00:54:32.28\00:54:38.31
Yes for us.
00:54:38.34\00:54:39.97
And of course there
is that great condition
00:54:40.00\00:54:43.15
all throughout the Bible,
00:54:43.18\00:54:45.24
that great condition
is the condition of faith.
00:54:45.27\00:54:49.40
"For God so loved the world,
00:54:49.43\00:54:51.68
that he gave His
only begotten Son
00:54:51.71\00:54:54.12
that who so ever
believeth in Him,
00:54:54.15\00:54:56.46
should not perish but
have everlasting life."
00:54:56.49\00:54:58.84
It is faith that accesses
00:54:58.87\00:55:01.47
all of the glories of what
Christ is done for Humanity.
00:55:01.50\00:55:06.01
It is faith that is
the great necessity for us.
00:55:06.04\00:55:12.20
My friends, we
need to understand
00:55:12.23\00:55:13.60
yes, we followed like
Adam, we're like Adam.
00:55:13.63\00:55:15.84
We disobeyed the covenant.
00:55:15.87\00:55:17.34
We have fallen.
00:55:17.37\00:55:18.83
We have failed.
00:55:18.86\00:55:20.25
We have sinned.
00:55:20.28\00:55:21.65
We've got the problem of death.
00:55:21.68\00:55:23.39
We've got the
problem of disobedience.
00:55:23.42\00:55:25.34
It's ours.
00:55:25.37\00:55:29.07
Yet Jesus was victorious.
00:55:29.10\00:55:31.41
He passed over the
ground that Adam crossed.
00:55:31.44\00:55:34.04
He passed over the
ground Israel crossed
00:55:34.07\00:55:36.10
and He did not fail
and He was victorious.
00:55:36.13\00:55:40.26
And so that in Him every
promise God ever made is yes.
00:55:40.29\00:55:45.66
But the condition for us today
00:55:45.69\00:55:49.58
is the same as it's always
been, will you trust in Jesus?
00:55:49.61\00:55:55.19
Will you trust in Him?
00:55:55.22\00:55:56.59
Will you allow
Jesus to take your place,
00:55:56.62\00:56:02.75
to take your place, so
that when you are on trail,
00:56:02.78\00:56:07.96
when you face
the great judgment,
00:56:07.99\00:56:10.58
when God looks down at
you, Jesus has taken your place?
00:56:10.61\00:56:14.22
He sees you. He
sees Jesus not you.
00:56:14.25\00:56:17.34
He sees Christ's
perfect life, not yours.
00:56:17.37\00:56:20.42
Won't you let
Jesus take your place?
00:56:20.45\00:56:23.25
Will you let Jesus
be you in the judgment?
00:56:23.28\00:56:27.44
Won't you let Jesus
take your place today?
00:56:27.47\00:56:30.91
Put your faith and
trust in Him, my friend.
00:56:30.94\00:56:33.98
Put your faith and
trust in Him right now.
00:56:34.01\00:56:37.19
Let us pray.
00:56:37.22\00:56:38.80
Our father, we
thank You for the cross.
00:56:38.83\00:56:42.35
We thank You for Jesus'
perfect life of obedience.
00:56:42.38\00:56:46.86
And, Lord, today we put
our trust and our faith in Him.
00:56:46.89\00:56:50.77
Lord Jesus, You
obeyed perfectly.
00:56:50.80\00:56:53.09
You were successful
where others failed.
00:56:53.12\00:56:56.06
And You died for
our lack of success.
00:56:56.09\00:56:58.57
Lord, please give us
all your promises in Christ.
00:56:58.60\00:57:02.22
We pray in Jesus name, amen.
00:57:02.25\00:57:07.17
My friend, today, if
you've put your trust in Christ,
00:57:07.20\00:57:10.52
He stands in your place.
00:57:10.55\00:57:13.40
Praise God, for the good news.
00:57:13.43\00:57:15.42