Image of God & Jesus
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Adam
Adam
What are the effects of the fall of Adam?
With God? (hiding and separation)
With each other? (blame and recrimination)
With themselves? (shame and guilt)
What else? (pain in childbirth, pain in work)
Most importantly: death
Our job and life as it was created and designed is harder because of the fall. The effects of sin make life hard and messy and difficult. Mike preached on Sunday, How long O Lord? We have times we cry out in search of hope or comfort.
The scene in the garden was bleak and dim: man was not infected and taken over by sin. This sin nature was passed on from generation to generation
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
You guys have heard this before. You know the story of the gospel. We have talked about the story of the Old Testament. Prophets and priests and judges and harlots and kings all pointing to to a coming Messiah. From Genesis chapter 3 on there is a debt that must be paid and blood must be shed. In Genesis 1-3 there is no need for blood, everything was provided; food was plentiful. But immediately in chapter 3 after the fall they use animal skins to cover themselves: blood was shed. Sacrifices are all throughout the Old Testament in an attempt to make things right but again it all points to the coming Messiah. We celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas and we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus at Easter.
We all are aware and all know we are sinners, there is punishment for sin (death), we are unable to pay the price on our own
So I ask the question: how is sinful man made right before a Holy God?
Jesus dealt with our guilt. Jesus had to live a perfect life all while being fully man. He was hungry, thirsty, exhausted, misunderstood, slandered, mocked, tortured, betrayed and killed—all without sin.
“But even in this world, the resurrection matters: Jesus’ death broke the hold of sin and death over out lives, and the resurrection then gives us new life and the power to live in obedience to the calling God has given us. We participate in the Great Exchange: Jesus takes our punishment, and we receive His reward; Jesus suffers death for us and we receive His life in this world and the next.”
Pre-fall: Adam & God full trust. Adam had comfort, fullness, joy, peace
After the fall, that trust was broken. Adam attempted to put that trust in himself and it led to death. Every person to ever live has followed suit and we also face death. However if we trust in Jesus that trust can be restored. We will have comfort, fullness, joy and peace. We will have life!
Christ has given us his righteousness, the ability to live holy lives. We will be perfect? No, not in this life.
We are thus freer than we have been since Adam to fulfill God’s original calling to humanity, to act as His stewards in all that we do in the world.
We are called not just to new life, but to life a live worthy of the calling
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
What are the effects of saving faith? What are things you can now do with a pure heart?
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control
Serving, comfort, hope, lament, holiness
Read Colossians 3
Put on....
We are image bearers of not just God, but of King Jesus. Jesus lived as a man and showed us what it was like to live a holy life. He was tempted and did not sin.