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Tracing The Ancestors Series
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: This message traces our ancestry in Adam and being in Christ. And asks the question who are we in? The 1st or 2nd Adam? How much more is there in Christ.
A HISTORICAL ADAM WAS NO EMBARRASSMENT TO THE APOSTLE PAUL ROM 5:12,14 1COR 15:22, 45. 1TIM 2:13 JESUS BELIEVED IN A HISTORICAL ADAM MATTT19 :4 HAVEN’T YOU READ THAT IN THE BEGINNING THE CREATOR MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE. ALSO LUKE THE HISTORIAN POINTS TO JESUS HUMAN ANCESTRY BACK TO ADAM. LUKE 3:38.
2. OUR ANCESTRY IS NOT CONNECTED TO APE: EVOLUTION IS A LIE : IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION, THEN YOU NEED TO SERIOUSLY RE-CONSIDER YOUR THINKING BECAUSE IF EVOLUTION IS RIGHT THEN ADAM IS NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS HE IS AND CHRIST IS NOT WHAT HE SAYS HE IS THE LAST ADAM. YOU CANNOT DENY GEN 1-3 AND THE CREATION – FALL ACCOUNT THEN GO ON TO BELIEVE IN JESUS BECAUSE JESUS HIMSELF BELIEVED IN GEN1-3. TO CONSIGN ADAM AND CREATION ACCOUNT TO MYTH AND EMBRACE EVOLUTION UNDERMINES 1. THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE 2. THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN AND 3. COVENANT THEOLOGY THAT GOD DEALS WITH HUMANITY THROUGH A COVENANT HAVING SOMEONE TO REPRESENT MAN IN A COVENANT FIRST ADAM 2ND CHRIST .
ACCOMMODATING EVOLUTION IN YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH IS REALLY UNTENABLE POSITION – IT FALLS DOWN - BECAUSE YOUR SAYING THAT YOUR ANCESTOR WAS NOT ADAM BUT APE, AND THAT’S NOT BIBLICAL BECAUSE THE BIBLE DOESN’T SAY THAT WE EVOLVED FROM SOME LOWER LIFE FORM BUT WERE CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, IN THE BEGINNING IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.
EVOLUTION TEACHES THIS EARTH IS BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD AND THAT DINOSAURS ROAMED THIS PLANET LONG BEFORE HUMANS AND THERE WAS A MAJOR CATASTROPHE AND DEATH -BLOODSHED AND DISEASE AND THEN HUMANITY EVOLVED. HERE THE THEISTIC EVOLUTIONIST COMES ALONG AND SAYS THEN GOD CREATES A PERFECT WORLD ON TOP OF ALL THIS MESS AND CHAOS.....IS THAT REASONABLE?
CERTAINLY NOT! IT’S NOT THE ORDER OF GOD’S CREATION ACCOUNT BECAUSE GOD CREATED EVERYTHING OUT OF NOTHING, EVERYTHING THIS PLANET, HUMAN AND ANIMAL ACCORDING TO ITS KIND (EVEN DINOSAURS) AND IT WAS GOOD AND THEN SIN CAME INTO THE WORLD AS A RESULT OF THE ONE MAN AND THEN DEATH BUT NOT DEATH BEFORE ADAM. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION UNDERMINES THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CREATION AND THE TEACHING OF JESUS I BELIEVE IT UNTENABLE AND DANGEROUS POSITION TO STAND UPON AS A CHRISTIAN UNDERMINING TH AUTHOIRY OF SCRIPTURE.
2. IF ADAMS IS OUR REPRESENTATIVE THEN SIN AND DEATH REIGNS. V12 -14
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY THEY’RE IS SO MUCH EVIL IN THIS WORLD? AND WE CANT POINT THE FINGER EITHER AS WE SO OFTEN DO THINGS WE KNOW ARE WRONG AND WE REGRET, WE ALL MESS UP. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY WE ALL FACE ILLNESS AND ULTIMATELY DIE? THE ANSWER IS FOUND RIGHT HERE V12 THEREFORE JUST AS SIN ENTERED THE WORLD THROUGH ONE MAN, AND DEATH THROUGH SIN AND IN THIS WAY DEATH CAME TO ALL MEN, BECAUSE ALL SINNED.
ALL OF US BELONG TO ADAM WHO COMMITTED THAT FIRST SIN BEFORE GOD EVEN THOUGH HE HAD THE FREE WILL TO REMAIN OBEDIENT HE FAILED GOD AND HIMSELF AS A RESULT DEATH CAME FROM THE TIME OF ADAM – RIGHT UP UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY. SIN – DEATH – BRINGS SEPARATION FROM GOD.
WE ARE IN IT TOGETHER - HUMAN SOLIDARITY
ADAMS SIN IS THE CAUSE OF THE SINFUL LIFESTYLES AND ACTIONS WE SEE TODAY IN OTHERS AND OUR SELVES; HIS SIN IS THE CAUSE OF THE 100% DEATH RATE IN OUR WORLD STILL TODAY. WHEN HE SINNED WE ALL SINNED V12, 15, 17, 18. PAUL IS NOT CONVEYING THIS IS WHY WE SIN TODAY- THAT IS TRUE BUT WHAT HE IS TRYING TO CONVEY....