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Introduction

Thank everyone, and remind everyone; we are not to substitute conviction of scriptural truths for the heart pleasing emotion of action that feed our sin desire rather than praise the God who is the creator of all.

The heart is desperately wicked Jer.

17:9-10.

so I encourage you not to be emotional driven today but rather to be theological student of the word.

AW Pink, a remarkable reformed theologian said “No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.”

It is my hope today that through a intentional study of the Scripture we may yield the fruit of glorifying God through seeing the shadow of Christ in the garden and in our first federal head who was a type of Him who was to come.

In all these men and their speaking, we have seen Christ clearly.

It is the shadow that shout Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

He Himself says that all these scriptures teach of Him.

Yesterday I couldn't help but think of doubting Thomas.

He often gets a bad wrap but in that text we see something amazing as he thrust his hands into the pierced wound of our Savior, he proclaims my Lord and my God John 20:31

Today we will seek to place our hands and our eyes on the substance Jesus Christ.

We will be covering three main portion of text today to discuss the theological topic that I haven been so blessed to preach upon (from Adam to Christ).

I hope that through it we can better grasp the substance of Jesus and that it would result in praise to the Christ.

Outline-Shadow (Pray, the Substance)

We are going to do a outline of the story from Adam to Christ so that we can see the clear shadow that is found in the historical garden and how it extends to the historical empty tomb of Jesus.

The shadow finds its resting place where our salvation finds ours.

After this we will explore the theological implication of the first Adam to the Second Better Adam and finally discuss what it means to be apart of the substance AKA the New Covenant.

We are going to start in the Garden but by no means will have enough time to covered the entirety of the creation account that leads us to our first father Adam.

We are going to be start in Gen. 2:7-9, 15-17

Now we all should be familiar to some degree of what happens in this text.

Eve is tricked by that serpent of old and leads to Adam partaking in the breaking of God’s law and thus made him, and all in him (including us), violators of the covenant of works that was enacted in the garden.

Let us continue to paint this picture a little more.

lets see what the result of this breaking of God’s law leads to Gen. 3:24

There are 4 things in the painting of this shadow that I want you to consider about Adam in this historical event of the Garden

Adam is from the below.

He was created from the dust, from a virgin earth, and to the fallen dust he did returned.

Adam from below (Gen 2:7)

Adam placed into a garden, the best of conditions where there was no sin.

For all of it was good.

Adam is in the Garden (Gen 2:8)

Adam was given a positive law.

Adam broke this law causing the fall of all mankind in him.

Adam broke the law (Gen 2:17, 3:6)

Adam was drove out of the Garden, to that of a sin covered world where all creation is crying out awaiting its redemption.

Adam cast out, living, into a fallen world (Romans 8:19-23)

Now we will examine the historical Anti-type of this even found in Jesus.

A story that I pray that we are all familiar with even more so than the garden.

This is the mirroring effect that takes place in the fulfillment and in the success of the life of Jesus that reflects and magnifies the failure of Adam.

Jesus is from above John 8:23.

being born of a virgin Matt.

1:21-23.

and to the Throne above he returned Acts 2:25-34, Phil 2:5-11.

Jesus is from above

Jesus came unto the world John 1:14.

which was totally fallen and depraved Matthew 23:37-39.

It all was evil to the very core Galatians 1:4.

Jesus is placed in a fallen world

Jesus was completely obedient to the law 2 Cor.

5:21, 1 Peter 2:22.

was completely perfect John 1:36, 1 Peter 1:19.

and lived a life that none other could live for all those that are in Him Colossians 1:18.

Jesus never broke the law

Jesus was cast out the world John 1:10-11.

was fully rejected by His own sinfully dead creation John 19:6-7.

And He is placed in a garden where none else have laid John 19:41

Jesus is buried, dead, in a garden.

Adam is from below, Jesus is from above, Adam in a garden, Jesus in the fallen world, Adam broke the law in the best of conditions, Jesus kept the law in the worst of conditions, Adam is cast out of a garden by God into a fallen world while living, Jesus is cast out of a fallen world by man into a garden while dead.

Like Greg said yesterday by Christ undoing what Adam has done He has conquered the east and is taking us back towards the west towards complete restoration.

Now it should be obvious to see that both of these historical events mirror one another as the first Adam points us to the better Adam!

The failures of Adam are restored in the promised Messiah.

Now that we have seen the rough edge of the shadow we must now shade it in with some theological implications of what this means for us, “Jesus if the second Adam”.

Theological implications (Pray, second Adam)

Read Romans 5:12-21.

We will be discussing federal headship.

“This doctrine is the teaching that the father of the family represents all his descendants” we will be using this definition as we proceed through the texts for today.

V.12 Who is this one man that sin entered into the world by? Adam

all sinned, none in this room are better than another, for we all fall short of the glory of God.

Analogy Just as we have the One door Jesus Christ (John 10:9) through whom we gain entrance unto salvation, sin entered through the door of Adam.

If we were to think about the entire creation of God as a house, sin being the murderous thief in the night enters through our federal head Adam.

Death through sin.

Death is the very wage of the sin (Romans 6:23)

All men sin!

We are all under this banner of the fallen house of Adam.

We celebrate it, love it, roll around in it, we are sinful beings

V.13 Answers the objection one might raise about the people who lived before the judicial and ceremonial law was given to Moses, And it answers saying that sin exists because there is a law over the peoples head before even Moses lived.

Our conclusion ought to be, that because of the fall of Adam all man is dead.

V.14 “Death reigned” Eph 2:1-3

Experience: who has seen death in this room?

what about a body that has been dead for four days in a hotel room, or a body that has baked in the heat of a canyon? the thought of death for anyone for any amount of time is one that is grotesque to each of us.

God Could you imagine walking corpses that serve death walk upon your creation.

This realization should make you praise God for His faithfulness and patience toward each and everyone of us.

Imagine: that when you were dead in your sins you served a continued wage of death according to Romans 6:23.

And in this way death was the KING that you were serving.

Death was the master of your house.

That everything you did was unto that end, and nothing you did was ever bowing your knee to the King of the living, nor had true life therein.

All your works were nothing but filthy rags, that you proclaimed before God as the means of righteousness, but on them was the rotten flesh stain of your decaying body.

You were throwing them at the feet of God saying “I serve death, because I exalt death as king upon the throne, for he is reigning in my life”.

This is the effect of original sin.

John Gill a reformed baptist notes on this verse saying; “death is represented as a mighty monarch, a powerful king; and designs not only corporeal death, which has mounted the throne by sin, and is supported in its dominion by an ordinance of heaven; but also a moral or spiritual death, which has seized on all mankind, and reigns in every power and faculty of the soul of man; and likewise an eternal one, which will have power over all those, who have no part in the first resurrection”

John Calvin remarks on original sin saying this:“Original sin, therefore, seems to be a hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused into all parts of the soul, which first makes us liable to God's wrath, then also brings forth in us those works which Scripture calls 'works of the flesh'

I would add to what these Brothers in Christ wrote by saying “It is in original sin that you were conceived in your mothers womb, you were actually born dead into the very kingdom of death.

Just as you have no control over where what hospital, city, or country that you were born in by you parents, likewise when Adam sinned he caused all his posterity to bow their knee to the throne of death and to be born in a fallen kingdom.

Sinners through and through who exalt death upon that throne day and night by the works of their own hands, the works of the sin infected flesh of that dead kingdom.

This is original sin that is wrought in our first Federal Head.”

The doctrine of federal headship and specifically “original sin” is not like the common cold or corona virus.

You can not avoid the contracting of it like you may a illness.

There is no wearing a N-95 mask, staying home, getting a vaccine, or age where you are not effected by this disease.

It is not like this at all, but instead you are conceived in sin, you are dead when born, your nature is corrupt, and the imago dei is mangled from what it use to be.

You are totality depraved, and totally deserving of the wrath of God.

Transition V.15-16 Grace is not like the transgression.