SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES
(1 Corinthians 15:21-22) (21) "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." (22) "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
(1 Corinthians 15:45-46) (45) "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." (46) "Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual."
(1 Corinthians 15:47) "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven."
(2 Corinthians 5:19) "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
(Hebrews 10:5) "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"
(Isaiah) 53:10-11) (10) "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." (11) “thou shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.”
(Romans 5:15) "But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many."
(Roman 5:18-19) (18) "herefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." (19) "herefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."
PREFACE SUMMARY
Dear reader, this message is an in-depth study of the atonement better understood as the work of redemption God wrought in Christ to redeem fallen man back into fellowship with a Holy God.
Beloved, did you know that the Atonement is one of the most important doctrines in Christianity, and did you know that It defines how we perceive God and our relationship with Him?
Did you know that our perception of God affects our Christian walk and fellowship with Him, therefore the question we need to ask ourselves is, do we see Him as a wrathful figure, punishing us for our sins, or as a loving Father who desires us to live abundantly?
Beloved Saints, do we view God as a stern and unapproachable father or as the model Father Jesus referred to in the Lord’s Prayer? God wants us to see and receive Him as a Father with open arms of unconditional love for His children.
The Lord desires us to understand that we have a high priest who can empathize with our weaknesses because He was once one of us, and His earnest desire for his children is for them to experience His love and His desire for them to live a whole and abundant life.
Beloved, the bottom line shown throughout this message is, God wishes us to see and receive Him as a loving Father with open arms, offering unconditional love for His children. His greatest desire is for us to understand that we have a high priest who can empathize with our struggles, as He was once one of us.
MY VISION OF JESUS
Dear reader, do you believe Jesus was God while on Earth, or do you think the scriptures that declare God was in Him without measure reconciling the world back unto himself are a figment of someone's imagination?
Beloved, this revelation blew me away when the Lord appeared to me in that lonely motel room and asked me to write this message, but let me warn you that this must be read with consecrated prayer and an open mind.
Dear reader, when this vision took place, and I found myself face to face in an open vision with the Lord himself, I found myself questioning what he was saying to me, but it was at that moment that the blessed Holy Spirit began to quote the scriptures to me which I will place here for you to view.
Beloved, some preached when Jesus was borne on earth that he was one hundred percent man and God. Still, my question would be to all who will study this message, "Was he one hundred percent man and was he one hundred percent God, and what do you base the reason for your belief on, the words of man or the words of God?
Dear reader, I want you to know that the revelation I arrived at after three years of consecrated prayer is that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary and became the other Adam, having a human soul and spirit just like you and me.
Beloved, the scriptures speak of a particular body prepared just for him that God’s Spirit may dwell in him without measure, as told in (Hebrews 10:5)
(Hebrews 10:5) "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"
Beloved, In order to fulfill God's plan and redemption purpose, Jesus could not be anything that Adam wasn’t before the fall.
Saints, we read in other chapters that God was in Christ reconciling the world back unto himself, but who is Jesus, and the God in him?
Beloved, my studies have brought me to the conclusion that there are not three Gods but one God who decided to reveal himself in three distinct persons.
Dear reader, the scriptures teach that, in the beginning, was the word, and the word was made flesh; therefore, in closing, the scriptures also teach in (John 4:24) that God is Spirit and his worshippers must worship him in Spirit and truth. A-Men
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Dear reader, if the Word was in the beginning and the Word was with God and the Word was God, then beloved, my question would be, "Who is the Word?
Beloved, my revelation would be something along this line, "because we are created in his image and likeness, including having the ability to create things because we are co-creators like him, then our thoughts must produce atoms, and when we speak the atoms begin to move and create substance which is what we call operating by faith because God by faith and his spoken word created the universe out of nothing.
Saints, did you know that our God is a creator? Therefore, in the beginning, the Spirit of God moved over the waters to bring this uninhabited Earth into one that would sustain life.
In the beginning was the thought (Jesus, the logos word) in the mind of God, and the word or thought was made flesh. We beheld him as the only begotten of the Father, so who was Jesus?
Beloved, did you know that the pillar of fire by night protecting Israel from her enemies and the one that took on human form appearing to Joshua as the captain of the Lord’s host is the same one that indwelt Jesus in full measure as he lived on this Earth as a man?
Dear reader, that is why Jesus loved to be called and often referred to himself as the Son of man in the scriptures.
Beloved reader, did you not know that every moment of his time on Earth, from his virgin birth to his death, including the miracles God did through him, was an interaction with man and creation to deliver fallen man and all creation from the curse brought on by sin?
Beloved, God left Jesus on the cross as he cried out in (Matthew 27:46) “MY God my God, why have you forsaken me fulfilling the scriptures in Psalms 22 of being forsaken by God.
Dear Saints, since we know God left Jesus on the cross and later, we find (Romans 8:11) stating that the same Spirit who raised Jesus shall be in us and quicken our mortal bodies, we are blessed through these scriptures to get a glimpse of the Blessed Holy Ghost the very one that baptized John in his mother’s womb.
Beloved, did you know that the blessed Holy Spirit is the one that indwelt and empowered Jesus while he was here on Earth, and we receive his Spirit at conversion by measure, and it is he the Holy Spirit (a person) who gives us the faith and revelation to be saved?
JESUS HAD A HUMAN SOUL & SPIRIT
Dear reader, did you know that Jesus, the Son of God, had the blessed Holy Spirit without measure, for it was the Holy Spirit active during creation, causing everything to come into existence?
Beloved, Jesus was one hundred percent man and one hundred percent God. Still, on that old Roman cross, the very God in him left him to die and become a curse for all humanity, fulfilling the scriptures we studied before concerning him that knew no sin was made sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Saints, do you remember reading where Jesus the man (the other Adam) said, “It is finished, then he said, Father, into thine hands commend I my spirit?"
Dear reader, notice that he said my spirit here and not the Holy Spirit that had previously left him alone to become a curse and sin for all humanity.
Beloved, I know this is deep, and it is with trembling fingers that I am careful to write only what I am inspired to write under his inspiration and guidance.
Beloved Saints, He that knew no sin (JESUS) was made sin in our place. He died a sinner’s death, and we find that his soul was made an offering for sin.
Beloved, did you know that God’s Son Jesus went to hell as a condemned criminal in our place? Remember that he was there three days and three nights preaching who he was as the promised messiah to the spirits that were held there, even into the lowest realms of hell where spirits were confined for wicked crimes, such as the Angels that had left their first estate or (holy place with God) which had married the daughters of men attempting to pollute the bloodline to prevent the plan of God and the coming deliverer from being born?
Dear reader, the scriptures state that if the princes of this world had known who he was, they would not have had him crucified.
Beloved, the Lord was there preaching to the spirits held that had perished in Noah’s flood, and in my mind, the questions arise that if he preached to those up unto the flood of Noah, which destroyed everything living except for Noah and his family, being eight persons, then he preached to all that had lived since Adam giving every soul a chance to hear the gospel message.
Beloved, the scriptures teach that Jesus was in the heart of the earth the three days and nights, preaching to spirits confined there.
Saints, the Lord himself referred in (Matthew 12:40) concerning Jonas being three days and nights in the whale’s belly, and so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the Earth. This is more than the Good Friday Easter celebration and the weekly Sunday services we celebrate today.
Dear reader, we later discover that he was surrounded by principalities and powers of darkness, representing the various ranks of fallen spirits mentioned in earlier chapters, such as some of the fallen Cherubs and Seraphims who had followed Satan in his revolt against God.
Beloved, the revelation God gave me in these scriptures is, "These evil powers did not know who he was."
Saints, the only thing they rejoiced about was that they thought they had stopped God’s man or maybe God’s foretold deliver, but they still did not understand God’s plan of redemption for fallen man and a cursed creation which was secret in the council of God.
Beloved, the scriptures state in (Isaiah 53:11) “thou shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.”
Dear reader, this powerful scripture speaks of God's plan and purposes concerning the salvation of his people, his obedience unto death, and his sorrows and sufferings to redeem his most incredible creation, man.
Beloved, did you know that after the third day of being in the heart of the earth, the same Holy Spirit that was in him without measure that had left our Lord on the cross came again into hell itself and fully possessed him, fulfilling the scriptures which state God raised him from the dead and highly exalted him making him both Lord and Christ.
Dear reader, can you imagine what it was like and the atmosphere that is soon going to be changed after the spirits Jesus preached to in prison witnessed him lead a march out of hell?
Beloved, did you know that the scriptures teach in (Colossians 2:15) that Jesus, having spoiled or disarmed principalities and powers, made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it, meaning his death on the cross?
Dear Saints, to find more on this, you can read Ephesians, the first chapter, which speaks of the work of God which he wrought or completed in Christ when he raised him from the dead; yes, beloved, these scriptures state that God raised him far above all principalities, powers, might and dominion meaning thrones and kingdoms.
Dear reader, God gave him a name above every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come, and beloved, Jesus is the name that God recognizes, even being referred to by Jesus as being the Authority which we as his body are designated to use against the powers and dark rulers of this world.
Beloved, we can rejoice in knowing that God raised the second Adam (Jesus) from the dead and exalted him, making him both Lord and Christ to which he gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
Beloved, the thought that comes to my mind concerning the atonement is this: Jesus asked God if there was any other way while praying in the garden.
Unlike the other Adam, who gave into the temptation, the Lord Jesus said not my will but thine be done.
The first battle with the first man was lost in the garden, and the final battle for the souls of man was one in the garden when Jesus decided to become the sacrificial lamb. (Glory, Glory, Glory)
Saints, I feel a powerful presence of God beside me, infilling me as I attempt to finish this message. I do it in the fear and admonition of who he is, including what he has done in my life, and I feel he is pleased as I have waited three full years even to attempt to finish this message on his virgin birth, life, death, burial, and resurrection.
Beloved, I can now find myself like the Apostle Paul when he stated that he wanted to know him in the power of his resurrection as he made the statement in one of the scriptures, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation."
NOT WITHOUT HOPE
Dear reader, according to the law of God, the penalty placed on sin is the penalty of death, both spiritually and physically.
Beloved, the scriptures teach that God told Adam and Eve that in the day you eat of the forbidden fruit, ye shall surely die.
Beloved reader, Adam died spiritually that day and was driven by the Angels out of the garden, where he enjoyed fellowship with his creator.
Dear reader, Adam and Eve only had one law to obey, and they broke it, but may I ask you, especially when you attempt to cast doubt on your purpose for being on this planet, how many laws have you broken?
Beloved, did you not know that God foreknew what you would do and how many of his laws you would break and decided before you were born to call you anyway and beloved; that is grace in action?
Saints, God then placed a time limit on his creation's days and life expectancy as a fallen man could no longer enjoy fellowship with his creator but could only lookout to find something to measure himself, which is part of our problem today.
Dear reader, did you know that we have had teachers teaching our young children that there is no creator, teaching them that man evolved from monkeys or even a tadpole crawling out of the ocean or something like a protoplasm that had a thought one day and evolved into a person?
Saints, this message on the atonement opens our hearts and minds to the excellent plan and purposes of God wrought through the virgin birth, life, and death of the Lord Jesus Christ to realize why we mean so much to God and why he desires a family to be with him forever.
GOD'S SECRET PLAN UNVEILED
Beloved, did you know that God has a brilliant plan that was kept secret in the Godhead where he could retain his Holiness and become man’s Savior, putting to rest any future thoughts questioning his Holy Character as a just God?
Saints, we get more revelation on this brilliant plan when we discover that man was sculpted from the dust of the earth but was sculpted with a cell structure holding his body together called Laminin, which bore the shape of the cross.
Yes, beloved, while Adam walked with God in the garden's cool before the fall, God was looking at the cross holding him together.
Beloved, God was waiting for his Spirit to indwell Jesus and become man’s Savior.
Beloved reader, are you beginning to get an understanding of the sacrifice the Lord endured to redeem fallen man from the sin of Adam in the garden?
Dear reader, Adam fell into the trap of Satan selling us out in the garden; still, we have hope because Jesus overcame Satan and won us back into the garden which can be found in John the seventeenth chapter where he prayed until his sweat became as significant drops of blood, he was reminding God of his sacrifice and his plan.
Beloved Saints, our Lord was praying that God would receive us as he receives him. We can better understand this by studying the letter found in the book of Philemon that Paul had sent to the master of the runaway slave informing him of his conversion to Christ and asking him not to receive him as the man he was but to receive him like he would receive him because he too had been converted under Paul’s ministry.
Beloved, can you not use your imagination and picture Jesus knowing what was soon to face him, praying in the garden, suffering in great agony as he was birthing the church because the scriptures state in many places that Christ was slain before the foundation of the world and that means before the creation and fall of Adam Jesus was already slain in the mind and plan of God.
Dear reader, Satan challenged God on his justice system, which caused a third of the Angels to rebel and revolt against God.
Beloved, no doubt other Angels might have had questions as they watched the others revolt, but the all-wise eternal God had a master plan, for in the secret of the Godhead, the decision was made to make this planet suitable to sustain life.
Beloved, did you know that God spoke everything seen and unseen into existence out of nothing but got down personal with Adam as he formed him from the dust of the Earth?
Saints, did you not know that God placed in Adam a glue-like substance called Laminin that would hold his cells together? It was in the form of a cross, the very tool that God would one day use to pay the price for the sin of all humanity when he would personally plan and orchestrate events that would place Jesus the other Adam on that old rugged Roman Cross hanging between the Heaven and the Earth becoming a curse while bearing the weight and sin for all humanity including fallen creation?
Beloved reader, may I remind you that God is the one that set the death penalty as the price for sin, not Satan, and he put Adam together with a glue-like cell structure called Laminin, which resembled the form of a cross, which brings many thoughts to my mind. Jesus was the other Adam with a human body, and did he have the same cell structure?
Beloved, I often wonder about the many times I have messed up, even once walking away from church. Was God looking at my cell structure, reminding him of the cross where his darling Son became my dying savior?
(Isaiah) 53:10) "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand."
Beloved, can we stop here and sing, “Oh What a Savior, oh Hallelujah, His heart was broken on Calvary; his hands were nail scared; his side was riven, he gave his life’s blood for even me. Death’s chilling waters; one day, I’m going to be crossing, but his hand will lead me safely there.
Yes, beloved, we have a blessed hope and assurance of a better life, for the scriptures state that God was in Christ reconciling or reconsolidating as if combining many debts into one. Still, I like to think about using the word recolonizing, which would be from our fallen way of life to God's way of life, which is his glory.
(2 Corinthians 5:19) "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
Beloved, many in the church world today remind me of the wicked prophet Balaam, whom God warned not to curse Israel, and even though he went with the King as a prophet for hire, he could not curse what God had blessed.
Dear reader, go with me and view what he must have seen as God had the tribes pitch their tents in a particular formation, and if viewed from a distant hillside, they would resemble the form of a cross.
Beloved, when Adam sinned in the garden, it did not catch God off guard, for he had a plan to become man’s savior, and every time he walked with Adam in the garden, he knew Adam would fall, but every time he looked at him he could see the cross like cell structure holding his body together.
Saints are like the stern judge who never gave anyone a break, but one day, his mother, who was caught committing a crime, was brought before him.
Beloved reader, the judge found her guilty and sentenced her to the full extent the law would allow. Then, with tears, he got up from his bench and removed his robe as he stretched out his wrists to the bailiff, stating that nothing in the law would forbid him from serving his mother's sentence.
Dear reader, this is what God did for you and me as he placed Adam in the garden with the fallen Archangel Lucifer, the very one that had caused a revolt in heaven, and the foreknowledge of God knew that his most significant creation would soon fall to the tempter. Still, God had a master plan in place to serve man’s sentence by becoming his Savior, and he was reminded of it every time he walked with Adam, seeing the cell structure in the form of a cross holding him together.
MY CONCLUSION
Dear reader, people down through the ages have made frugal attempts to bring God down to their level and convince people that he has lowered his standard on sin, but beloved, we find through the scriptures of this study that Sin is the cause and Christ is the cure.
Beloved, Jesus is the cure for broken, troubled hearts, depression, and anxiety, which is defined as simply a fear of the unknown, and Jesus is the cure for a world searching for answers.
Saints, we need to get our emotions under control because sometimes they can play tricks on us and get us thinking wrong, for when we fall into this trap, we fall right into our enemy's hands.
Beloved, the attacks on our faith will make us into humble servants and cause us to apply the truths of God’s word in mightier ways because they will make us men and women of God who will appreciate and better understand spiritual truths, including the real cosmic battle going on around us.
Saints, the enemy wants us to allow the intense pressure on the outside to get on the inside, but we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us and gave himself for us, his prized purchased possession.
Dear Saints, the bottom line is that people are essential to God, and even the scriptures declare that God has our names engraved on the palm of his hands. (Isaiah 49:16)
Dear reader, there is no room for depression and loneliness if we understand that God loved us enough to send His Son to die in our place so that we, through faith, might become the sons of God and be adopted into his royal family, becoming an heir with God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
Dear reader, don’t you think it is time to enjoy life and come to a life of holiness, walking in the light of God’s word?
Beloved, we as his children need to speak His word out loud into the atmosphere that His promises and benefits are working in us as we understand that God watches over His word to fulfill it and if God cares about the sparrows and knows when one dies, then He cares about you?
Beloved, God cares for the spouses who have lost their partner in life; he cares about those incarcerated and serving their sentence for crimes against society, including the mother who has a son incarcerated and facing certain death without a miracle of mercy from a higher court.
Most importantly, beloved, God cares for those who feel that they are all alone.
Beloved, the bottom line to this message is Jesus came to reveal to us that people are essential to God, and He does not want us living in bondage but in the power and victory of the cross.
Dear reader, the Sin of humanity was dealt a mighty blow by our Savior at the cross when God raised him for our justification that we could come into His Holy presence as one who has no sin.
Beloved Saints, we are declared righteous through the blood of Jesus, and do you not think it is time we start living as one that knows God from the free pardon of sin and put the devil where he belongs and that is under our feet?
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International Evangelist
Jerry W. Hulse Ph.D.
Miracle Life Church International
MY CLOSING PRAYER
Dear Lord, my prayer is that you stir us up and burden our hearts for true revival, yes, Lord, in every country throughout the world and demonstrate to the people in these countries that you are the Unchanging God, for your word declares it, that what you were yesterday, you are today, and will be tomorrow! (Hebrews 13:8)
Dear heavenly father, I ask that you move to bless each who has taken time to read this message and has humbly surrendered their life more to your purpose, and I ask that you intensify the work that you have begun in their life and ministry in Jesus mighty name.
Father, I ask that you bless them spiritually, financially, physically, relationally, and emotionally so that their life may be blessed to enrich the lives of others. Dear Lord, I ask that your will, purpose, word, and Spirit have a free course in their life and everyone they meet.
Father, I pray that all curses and words spoken against them will be broken, and I ask that you stand up for them in these last days and make their lives count.
Dear Lord, I ask you to awaken the gifts and talents placed in them at birth so they may become unified in the faith with other believers, realizing the need to work together in harmony like a fine-tuned orchestra in the master's hands.
Father, if anyone reading this prayer should need deliverance from some oppressing spirit, including some illnesses that may be attacking their body, Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit would raise a standard against these attacks and set them free.
Lord, I pray that the power of your written and spoken word be activated through the authority made available unto us in the name of Jesus, and we apply the following scriptures to our prayer.
(John 16:23) "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you." and (Psalms 34:15) "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry."
Father, we close our prayer believing that you have heard and answered us according to your divine will and purpose, for it is in Jesus' mighty name we pray and ask these favors. A-Men
