Chaos and Darkness Undone by the Second Adam
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In the Name of Jesus
In the Name of Jesus
בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃
2 וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם׃
3 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃
4 וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
Back all those thousands of years ago, we God has revealed, that the first state of creation was darkness, formlessness and void, in a word “chaos”.
God the Holy Spirit brooded and hovered (hinting at the form of a dove) over the face of the deep, something was about to happen to that chaos and darkness. Something, unexpected, beautiful, amazing Glorious.
God said, let there be light and there was light.
And God saw that the light was Good.
The sun, moon and stars had not been created, and they wouldn’t be created until the 4th day.
Here we see something interesting about creation. In begins in chaos and darkness but by the time God is finished with creation on the 6th day the tohu vabohu and the tehom are transformed into paradise earth which is the world of the eternal Sabbath rest.
Each of the six days of creation end with these words, “and there was evening and there was morning on the ___ day”
but of the Sabbath day Genesis 2 states
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
The chaos is gone, order, sanity, a beautifully ordered, masterfully planned, organized and created universe is in place.
But then our first parents in chapter 3 listen to the voice of the serpent, the adversary of God, and Paradise is lost, the sabbath rest of the God’s creation gives way to the punishment of toil and sweat, and slavery under the dominion of darkness. The forces of chaos are working to undo, break, pervert and destroy God’s well ordered creation.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.
Jesus, the light of the world, the light that shines into the darkness of our world, the light that God in genesis 1 was Good, has now suddenly appeared and the place of his appearance, his epiphany is the Jordan river to submit himself to the baptism of John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets and the first baptising evangelist. And Jesus’ actions dont make sense.
Why on earth has the sinless, spotless lamb of God appeared to be baptised into a sinners baptism?
John is the one born in the darkness and chaos of sin, John is not the light, he’s been bearing witness to the light. The true light has come into the world and was now standing before him and presenting Himself to be baptized. John needed desperately to be baptized by Jesus and he would have prevented Jesus from being baptized but Jesus speaks, “let it be so, for now. for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”
English Standard Version Chapter 3
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, othe heavens were opened to him,3 and he psaw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, qa voice from heaven said, r“This is my beloved Son,4 with whom I am well pleased.”
וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב
English Standard Version Chapter 1
And God saw that the light was good
And just like in Genesis the Holy Spirit of God, appears like a Dove, brooding over the face of the waters and descends and alights on the Son of God and now the Father now speaks and says, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
וְהִנֵּה־ט֖וֹב מְאֹ֑ד
Jesus shows up in the darkness and chaos of sin and in the waters God begins the work of the New Creation. Jesus is the New Adam
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
New Testament Ia: Matthew 1–13 3:13 Jesus Came to Be Baptized by John
HILARY: In Jesus Christ we behold a complete man. Thus in obedience to the Holy Spirit the body he assumed fulfilled in him every sacrament of our salvation. He came therefore to John,5 born of a woman,6 bound to the law and made flesh through the Word.7 Therefore there was no need for him to be baptized, because it was said of him: “He committed no sin.”8 And where there is no sin, the remission of it is superfluous. It was not because Christ had a need that he took a body and a name from our creation. He had no need for baptism. Rather, through him the cleansing act was sanctified to become the waters of our immersion.
John the Baptist is NOT the one who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit, Jesus is and we see here an amazing thing happen. The Holy Spirit descends on Jesus and the Father declares Jesus to be his Son, in whom He is well please.
And since then Christ completed his course, lived His life sinless, and went to the cross, as the sinless, spotless lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, your sin and mine. He suffered for our sins in the darkness on the sixth day of the week. He bled and died for your sins and mine and then on the seventh day of the week He rested in the tomb and on the first day of a brand new week he rose victorious from the grave.
The first-born of the new creation.
And He has sent forth His holy apostles, His emissaries to proclaim this good news to us, who were born in darkness and the chaos, tohu vabohu of sin. And having heard the good news that
This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,
“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.” ’
Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my Spirit upon him;
he will bring forth justice to the nations.
He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,
or make it heard in the street;
a bruised reed he will not break,
and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;
he will faithfully bring forth justice.
He will not grow faint or be discouraged
till he has established justice in the earth;
and the coastlands wait for his law.
Thus says God, the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and spirit to those who walk in it:
“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness;
I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you as a covenant for the people,
a light for the nations,
to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the prison those who sit in darkness.
I am the Lord; that is my name;
my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to carved idols.
Behold, the former things have come to pass,
and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
I tell you of them.”
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
In the Name of Jesus
