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Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P23 (11-19-24)

We Were Born Physically in the Image of Adam, Dead Spiritually, Not in the Image of God

~ When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth. Genesis 5:3
~ Details matter in EVERYTHING. When people say, “We are born in the Image of God” that is a lie. For there was only ONE born in the image of God, and that was Jesus, the First Born of All Creation. “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.” Colossians 1:15 Jesus is the last “Adam” ~ Man. Jesus is and always will be God, but He is Also the perfect Man of God, that gives Life to the dead. ‘So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.’ 1 Corinthians 15:45 The first Adam, was “Created” in the image of God. When Man sinned (male and female), the Spirit of God departed from them, and that very moment they died spiritually. The Spirit is the one that gives LIFE. So when the Spirit of God departed them, the Life of God departed them also. And we inherited that identity of being found in the first Adam when we are physically born.

Now when a person is born again from above, the person has been given the Holy Spirit for Life. We become Born Again of the Spirit. He comes to indwell our spirit, making us True Man (male and female), complete in HIM. And that is what it means to be born from above. And that happens at the very moment we place Faith in Jesus, God in the flesh, and what He did on the cross for us, taking away completely all our sins, never to count any of our sins against us ever again. And He makes us a new creature in Christ.

That’s why a dead Man (male and female), needs LIFE.

Luke 18:18,19
18 And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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~ Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:1-21

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “Look at this. When God created man, He made Him in the likeness of God. So Adam and Eve were created, created in the image of who? God. He created them, male and female, and blessed them. And when they were created, He called them Man. Now, when Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness. In his own image, and he named him Seth. Were we born in the image of God, or were we born in the image of Adam? Which is it, guys? So were we all created in the image of God? As people say, were we or not? No, who was created in the image of God? Adam. Who was born in the image of Adam? Us, dead as a hammer. Adam died, and we were born into Adam dead. That’s why we were born dead, and that’s why it says that through one man, sin entered into this world, through one man, Adam, and death through that sin, and in this way, death came to how many men? All men, because the proof of that is we’ve all sinned. Are we together? For before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account, nevertheless, or when there was no law, nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was the pattern of the one to come. But the gift, this is the gift of God. It’s not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Christ, Jesus? One man Adam, brought death, one Man Jesus brought life.” ~ Bob George

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We don’t get into the Old Testament too much, but it’s time to do it. Let’s go back to Genesis two, 2:15, we’re going to just kind of see where all of this began. The Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work and to take care of it, and the Lord God commanded the man you are free to eat of any tree in the garden. Now, folks that today can, in essence, be equated with a lot of times, people question, Who does God want me to marry? What job does he want me to have go take your pick. It doesn’t matter, as long as they’re Christian, doesn’t matter. You’re sitting around waiting for this perfect job and this perfect thing and this perfect, perfect, perfect. He said, Look, there’s all kinds of trees in the garden. Go pick the one you want. Isn’t that encouraging? Now, so you’re free to pick any tree that you can eat of any tree in the garden, but there’s one tree that you better not eat of. And he said, but you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for the day you eat thereof, you will surely die. He said, There’s one tree Man that you better not eat of, and that’s the tree where you decide, I do not need you, God to determine right from wrong and good from evil. I’m going to deal in situational ethics. I’m going to make up my own rules. I’m going to say, Oh, well, you know, we’re all just human. Isn’t that the good well, after all, we’re just human. I’m going to come up with all those things, and God says to them, I want to tell you something the day that you eat of that tree and you make the determination in your heart that you do not need me to determine right from wrong and good from evil, you’re going to die. And so it says that, then later on, why, it says in chapter three, the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals and Lord God had made and so all of a sudden, Eve came on the scene, and he said to the woman, now, so he said to Adam, first of all, here’s what he said to Adam, you’re free to eat of any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge good and evil the day you eat to surely die. That’s what he said to Adam. Then he created Eve, and Adam said, wow, and I do not want to lose her. And so Eve is in the garden, and Satan says to her, Did God really say, Do you think God really said that? Now, did God say this to Eve, or did God say this to Adam? He said it to Adam. Who told Eve? Adam, watch what Satan did. Did God really say you must not eat of any tree in the garden, in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent here, in essence, here’s what Adam told me. We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you must die. Now, did God tell Adam, don’t touch the tree? No, but you could say here, Adam, Eve. I tell you something. I’ll tell you what God said. He said, you not only are going to eat of this thing, I’m telling you, don’t even touch that sucker. And so here, Eve got her instruction from Adam that you don’t even touch the tree. Now guess probably what Satan was doing, leaning on the tree, not dead, but alive, leaning on the tree, and he says, you surely won’t die. Look at me. I’m touching the tree. I’m not dead. For God knows that when you eat of this tree, your eyes will be open and you’ll be like God knowing good from evil. You see what happens when you add to the Scripture folks? you add to the scripture, and that’s where Satan is going to get you. Every time you subtract from it or add to it, and that’s where he’s going to get you. Adam, added to the scripture, God did not tell him, don’t touch the tree. He just merely told him, don’t eat of it. Adam, in his enthusiasm, I think, not to lose Eve said, Don’t even touch it. And that’s where Satan got her. And so the woman saw that the tree of life, or the tree, was good for food and pleasing to the eye, didn’t see anything wrong with it, and also desirable for gaining wisdom. Because Satan said, you’re going to gain some wisdom here. So she took some and ate it, and also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Now I think Eve was deceived, and I think man is rebellious. I think that’s true today. A woman is more easily deceived and a man is just plain old, rebellious. Do you guys agree with this, or awful silent out there? So he ate it intentionally, and all of a sudden, their eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked. And so what did they do? They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. In other words, they tried to cover up their own nakedness with their own doing. Now, folks, that was the beginning. That was law in the Garden of Eden, and there was also grace, because, in essence, God said those fig leaves aren’t going to cover you. I will clothe you. I will provide the clothing for you. And we all know the story of that, but folks, that’s where sin began, and from that moment on, we are told that we came from the loins of Adam over in the fifth chapter.

Look at this. When God created man, He made Him in the likeness of God. So Adam and Eve were created, created in the image of who? God. He created them, male and female, and blessed them. And when they were created, He called them Man. Now, when Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness. In his own image, and he named him Seth. Were we born in the image of God, or were we born in the image of Adam? Which is it, guys? So were we all created in the image of God? As people say, were we or not? No, who was created in the image of God? Adam. Who was born in the image of Adam? Us, dead as a hammer. Adam died, and we were born into Adam dead. That’s why we were born dead, and that’s why it says that through one man, sin entered into this world, through one man, Adam, and death through that sin, and in this way, death came to how many men? All men, because the proof of that is we’ve all sinned. Are we together? For before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account, nevertheless, or when there was no law, nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was the pattern of the one to come. But the gift, this is the gift of God. It’s not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Christ, Jesus? One man Adam, brought death, one Man Jesus brought life.

Again, the gift of God is not like the result of one man’s sin. Judgment followed one sin. What was the judgment of God? On the day you eat thereof, you will surely what die? That was a judgment of God the day you eat thereof, you will certainly die. Now did Adam die physically that day? No, did he die soulishly? No. How’d he die spiritually and again? Guys, what is death? The absence of life. What is darkness? The absence of light? The condition of this world is dark. The sun comes up, dispels the darkness, and we have light. The sun goes down, we return to our natural state. What is spiritual death? The absence of spiritual life. The life of God departed from Adam, his human spirit that was joined to God, because God, in his master plan, determined that God in the man is indispensable to the humanity of the man, just as electricity in that bulb is indispensable to the function of the bulb, or gas in your car is indispensable to the function of the car. God made us in such a way whereby God, the Creator in his creation, is indispensable to this man being totally whole. So God departed from man, and man was left with a human spirit that is alive to the world, but dead to what left it. Contrary to what some people say that your human spirit is dead, dead. Now, folks, if your human spirit is dead, dead, then all you got is a soul and a body, and that’s a dog. A dog has a body. Does a dog have a soul? A mind? Does a dog have a mind? Debatable, but yes, emotion, uh huh, a will. Does a dog have a will? Uh huh, yeah, it sure does. You’re a dog. If you don’t have a human spirit that separates you from the animal kingdom. You’re nothing but an animal. So this idea that your spirit is dead, dead means that you’re an animal. Your human spirit is alive. Your human spirit is alive to the world, but it’s dead to what vacated it, God. And so your human spirit is constantly longing and each and every one of us who were in Christ today remember the day before we came to Christ, when our hearts were longing for something, something was missing. You remember those days something’s missing, something’s wrong, things aren’t functioning properly. It’s kind of like a car without a spark plug. Something’s missing. It’s running, but it’s jumping. You remember those days, and so you turn to alcohol, you turn to drugs, you turn to women and guys and bars and booze and all this stuff to feed the flesh, to try to get some satisfaction. And there isn’t any, Is there? None. You’re as empty as a pork barrel, and you look in the mirror and say, What’s this all about Alfie? That’s exactly the prayer that I had went up before I saved to God, not a very theological prayer, but it was my heart. What’s it all about? Alfie? What’s this life all about? There’s no meaning to it. Making money successful, but no meaning to it has no meaning. And that’s a condition of a heart. Without God living in you, your heart is longing. There’s a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man that can only be filled by God through his Son, Jesus Christ. It’s a vacuum that’s there, and we have to understand that. So your human spirit is very much alive to the world. It’s just dead to what vacated it, and that’s God, and that’s what you’re longing for.

Every person is longing for God. We don’t know that’s what we’re longing for. I can remember the day that I was saved, and I looked back and I was wondering everything that I’ve been looking for in my life was as close as a prayer. Was as close as just saying Jesus come live in my heart, that close and I had missed it for 36 years. That crazy how we missed something so important. I knew Jesus. I knew about him. Did you love Jesus? Yeah, I loved as much I can love anybody, but did I know him? No, I didn’t know him. Didn’t know I could. I’d never heard that I could. I’d never been in a church that taught that I could know Christ personally. When I came to know him, I wondered why it took so long. And many times I asked God, that God, how come it took 36 years for you to save me? And it was kind of like God said, so you’d have compassion on the lost. And I do, because I remember what it was like to be lost.

Now all of this came one man Adam, one man Jesus. So if the many died by the trespass of one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift come by the grace of the one man, Christ, Jesus, overflow to the many and again, going to repeat it again. The gift of God is not like the result of one man’s sin. Adam’s one man’s sin. The judgment followed one sin. The judgment came on Adam, and it was therefore we were born into that judgment, we were born dead.

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So that judgment followed one sin and it brought condemnation. What is the condemnation of God? Death for all men, but the gift followed many trespasses, not just one, multitudes, and it brought justification for who? All who turned to him by faith. If by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, does death reign through Adam today? Absolutely, to who, where is it reigning? To all who are not in Christ. The wages of sin is death to all men until they choose to come to him for life. Now, if this death reign through this one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one Man, Jesus Christ. Consequently, this is kind of a conclusion. Just as the result of onetrespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness, that’s Jesus was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one Man, the many will be made righteous. The law was added so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, Grace increased all the more, so that just as Sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign Through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus, Christ, our Lord. Is this good news? Now, folks, what do you see through here you see 1 1 1 1, don’t you?

Let’s turn back to Samuel. I’m going to show you a parallel here. You have some people looking around, who’s Samuel? Verse seven or chapter 17. Excuse me, no, chapter 17. First Samuel, I’ll get it in a minute, guys, it’s been a long time. First Samuel, chapter 17, you don’t have a Bible. Look on to somebody. This is a story that we all know, but worthwhile going over. Now, the Philistines, it said, gathered for the forces of war. And it says in verse two, Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the valley of Allah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another. So on one side were the Philistines, and on the other side the Israelites, with the valley in between them. A champion named Goliath, who was from Goth, came out of philist out of the Philistine camp, and he was over nine feet tall. He had probably recruited him for the NBA. So there’s this one. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat scale armor, a bronze weighing 5000 shekels, which is 125 pounds. And on his legs, he wore bronze graves and bronze javelin, which slung on his back, javelin, and his spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed 600 shekels, and his shield bearer went ahead of him. Goliath stood up. Quite an impressive person. And he shouted to the ranks of Israel, why do you why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine? And are you not the servants of Saul? So he said, choose a man. What are you guys doing, coming out to battle, all of us Philistines and all you Israelites, rather just choose a man and choose a man to be your representative. I’m the representative of the Philistines. Choose a man to be a representative of the Israelites, and we’ll battle. And whoever wins, we will be victorious over you forever. And so he goes ahead to say that choose a man and have him come down to me if he is able to fight and kill me, why we all will become your subjects, but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects, and you will serve us. So in other words, who you’re going to be a slave to is going to depend on which man wins the battle? Now we see that, do we not in wartime, whoever won, had Hitler and his army won, we would have been subjective today to Nazis, would we not? And so the same thing is true today, but in that particular case, it was not an army fighting. He said, Just send me one guy and we’ll fight. And whoever wins, everyone will come under subjection to the winner. And he said, on the Philistine said, this day, I defy the ranks of Israel. Then the Philistine said, I defy the ranks. Of Israel, I defile you. Give me a man and let us fight each other. On hearing the Philistines words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and they were terrified. You can imagine what he said. How is anyone going to fight him? Verse 16, for 40 days, the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. And you go down to verse 25 now the Israelites had been saying, Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The King will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give his daughter in marriage, and will exempt his father’s family from taxes in Israel. Pretty good, pretty good incentive. David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills the Philistine and removes the disgrace from Israel, who is this uncircumcised Philistine? So the Gentile, who is this Gentile Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? And they repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, this is what will be done for the man who kills him. Now, when Elab, David’s oldest brother heard him speaking to the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is. You came down only to watch the battle, nice brother. Now what have I done? Said, David, can I Can’t I even speak? What have I done? Then he turned to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before, what David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him. Well, David said to Saul, Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him. And Saul said, you’re not able to go up against this Philistine and fight him. You’re only a boy, and he’s been fighting men from his youth. But David said to Saul, your servant has been keeping your father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock. I went after it and struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. And your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God and the Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. So Saul said to David, go and the Lord be with you. And Saul dressed David in his own tunic. This is a riot. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around because he wasn’t used to them. He could see this little kid with all his big armor hanging on him. He said, I can’t go out in these he said, to Saul because I’m not used to them. So he took them off, and he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them on the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked at David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised Him. And he said to David, am I a dog that you come out in essence in to fight me with sticks and the Philistine cursed David by his gods come here. He said, I’ll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beast of the field.

David said to the Philistine, you come up against me with a swarm and spear and a javelin, but I come up against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, which you have defied. And this day, the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And today I will give the carcass of the Philistines army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. And the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel, and all those gathered here will know that this is not by the sword or spear that the LORD Saves for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands. As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly to the battle line to meet him, reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground. And so David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone without a sword in his hand, he struck down the Philistine and killed him. And David ran and stood over him, and he took hold of the Philistines sword and drew it from his scabbard, and he killed him and cut off his head with a sword. Verse 54 David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put the Philistine’s weapons in his own tent.

Well, that’s quite a story, isn’t it? Now, what is this? A story of? Two men, one evil, one of God in war with one another, and whoever wins, the other becomes subjected and subjected to for the rest of their life. Who won the battle? God’s guy or the Philistine, Satan and Jesus, who won? Jesus. You see Satan with thought, when he caused Adam and Eve to sin, and sin entered into the world, you can almost hear him saying, I got him. I got him. I’ve destroyed his creation. Forever. Every man that’s ever born that God wanted to be born will be born dead. I got him. And God created a plan, and his plan was that, in my timing, I’m going to send my Son Jesus to this earth, and Jesus is going to walk on this earth. Jesus, God, the Son. Jesus is going to walk on this earth, he’s going to take upon himself my creations, flesh and blood, their Earth suit, and he’s going to walk on this earth for some 33 years. And in so doing, show my people what true righteousness is. And in so doing, showing them their unrighteousness, I’m going to go first to the Hebrew, the people of David through his bloodline who killed Goliath, I’m going to go first of all to the Hebrew, and then I’m going to go to the Gentile. That’s all a part of my foreknowledge. That’s all a part of my predestination, that I predestined, that these heathenistic Gentiles are going to come to Christ the same way that the Hebrews do, but I’m going to appear first of all to the Hebrew. I’m going to walk on this earth, and I’m going to show them what righteousness is, and in so doing, they’re going to see how unrighteous they are.

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