Tracing The Ancestors Series

IS THAT ADAMS SIN IS OUR SIN: PAUL IS SAYING THAT ADAM IS OUR REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY. WE ARE CONNECTED MEMBERS OF ONE ANOTHER AND TO ADAM.

FOR EXAMPLE DAVID CAMEROON IS TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY WHAT GORDON BROWN IS TO THE LABOUR PARTY THEY ARE BOTH LEADERS. THE PARTY MEMBERS ARE CONNECTED TO ITS LEADER ITS LEADER IS CONNECTED TO ITS PARTY MEMBERS. IF THE LEADER FALLS IT EFFECTS THE PARTY AS A WHOLE THE PARTY STANDS AND FALLS BY ITS LEADER.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE RECENTLY IN THE EUROPEAN CUP FINAL 2008 WHEN JOHN TERRY MISSED THE PENALTY ON BEHALF OF CHELSEA TT EFEECTED THE WHOLE TEAM. THEY LOST COLLECTIVLY.

ADAM REPRESENTED US ALL, AS A RESULT WHEN ADAM SINNED WE SINNED.. BIBLICALLY ITS SEEN IN THE FOLLOWING TEXTS: HEB 7:9 -10 LEVI WAS IN THE BODY OF ABRAHAM JOS 7:1,11 ACHAN STOLE TREASURE FROM JERICHO –ISRAEL WAS INCLUDED ACTS 4:27. THE CRUCIFIXION WAS NOT JUST PILATES WORK BUT OUR TOO HEB 6:6, IF WE TURN AWAY WE ARE CRUCIFYING THE LORD ALL OVER AGAIN.

SO NONE OF US ARE ABLE TO SAY WHY I SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR SOMETHING SOMEONE ELSE DID......LET’S BE HONEST WE ALL MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES ; BUT THE FACT IS YOU WERE THERE, WHEN ADAM SINNED YOU SINNED YOU WERE IN THE BODY OF ADAM YOU CAME FROM HIM. THIS IS OUR HUMAN SOLIDARITY.

V13- 14 HE EXPANDS THIS CONCEPT SIN WAS ALWAYS IN THE WORLD BEFORE THE LAW BUT SIN WAS NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT SO FROM THE TIME OF ADAM TO MOSES DEATH REIGNED EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO LAW, PEOPLE SINNED BUT THERE WAS NO LAW TO PRONOUNCE THEM GUILTY, YET DEATH REIGNED. SO THEY WERE STILL SINNERS BECAUSE DEATH COMES AS A RESULT OF SIN. THEY DIED BECAUSE WHEN ADAM SINNED THEY HAD ALL SINNED IN ADAM TOO AND SO DID EACH ONE OF US.

MORE IMPORTANTLY IT MADNESS TO DENOUNCE ADAMS FALL BECAUSE THIS PICTURE OF REPRESENTATION IS THE EXACT SAME PRINCIPLE THAT BRINGS US OUR SALVATION IN CHRIST V15 WHICH WE ACCEPT ON THE REPRESENTATION PRINCIPLE AND WE CAN’T EXPECT THE LATTER WITHOUT THE FORMER! AND WITHOUT THE LATTER THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR THE FORMER. (ARE YOU WITH ME)

SO WITH ADAM AS YOUR ANCESTOR - YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, THEN SIN AND DEATH REIGN IN YOUR LIFE. AS A RESULT OF THE ONE MANS ACT COMES SIN AND DEATH AS A RESULT OF THE ONE MAN SACRIFICE COMES ABUNDANT GRACE AND LIFE JESUS CHRIST BECOMES THE 2ND ADAM OUR NEW REPRESENTATIVE WHEN WE REPENT AND BELIEVE. BECAUSE ADAM WAS A PATTERN OF ONE TO COME V14 -15- V17 –V18 -V19.

1COR 15:22, FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, SO IN CHRIST ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE. V45 AS IT IS WRITTEN THE FIRST ADAM BECAME A LIVING BEING, THE LAST ADAM, AND A LIFE GIVING SPIRIT.

3. IF CHRIST IS OUR REPRESENTATIVE ‘HOW MUCH MORE’ CAN WE REIGN IN LIFE.V15 - 21

THESE VERSES ARE ALL ABOUT CONTRAST OF ADAM TO CHRIST OUR RUIN IN ADAM IS IMMENSE BUT OUR SALVATION IN CHRIST IS SUPERIOR IN EVERY WAY. V9 10 15, 17, 20 THE PHRASE ‘HOW MUCH MORE’ MUCH MORE TURNS UP A NUMBER OF TIMES

THESE PASSAGES ARE TELLING US AS A RESULT OF ADAMS ONE ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE CAME SIN AND DEATH TO US ALL 12A 18A 19A CONTRASTED WITH CHRIST’S ONE ACT OF OBEDIENCE CAME ABUNDANT GRACE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LIFE 18B 19B TO MANY.