NECESSITY OF THE NEW CREATION OF GOD.
I will be dealing with the topic THE MIRACLE OF THE NEW CREATION as part of the impact of the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ (His death and subsequent resurrection)
Below will be my outline for tonight’s discussion and I trust while some gain enlightenment into new areas, others will add up to their knowledge of Christ and His substitutionary sacrifice on behalf of sinful humanity which has made us legal sons of God on account our believing in Him_
1. The Necessity of the New Creation
2. The First Adam Vrs the Second and Last Adam (Jesus Christ)*_ 3. The Generation of the Resurrection
4. Who Is the New Creation?
5. What the New Creation Is Not
6. Some Significant Features of the New Creation
To begin with, let us look at the Necessity of the New Creation as stated in the outline above.
Once again, we will take a flash back to Genesis to the beginning when God created this world. Everything God created was to produce after its kind. That is the law of Genesis. A dog cannot give birth to a cat because they are not of the same kind. Donkeys give birth to donkeys and so it is with every creature including the man that God had made. Adam could only bring forth his kind. He had no capacity to bring forth after another kind but of his own kind.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that
yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.
This is what I mean by the law of Genesis.
This is the tragedy. It was after Adam fell that he gave birth to his first child, Cain. His children were thus of his kind. Cain and Abel were born after the fall of Adam with dead spirits because at this time Adam had died spiritually. When he ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, he died spiritually, that is his human spirit was severed or disconnected from God, the Father of spirits and the source of life.
The fall of Adam brought the nature of Satan into him. Satan became the stepfather of Adam as it were. Adam’s original nature from God became corrupted and marred and consequent upon that, he could not relate with God at His level any longer. Now his spirit was dead and had to rely on his five physical senses and natural environment to survive.
From this point, he took decisions not from the intuitions of his spirit man anymore but based on the dictates of his natural environment. Adam became spiritually dead and that was the nature he
could bring forth in his offspring. He was made subject to the creation of God instead of the vice versa.
Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth
We see here that Seth was not in the likeness and image of God but in the likeness and image of Adam who already had fallen with a corrupted nature. Thus it was not going to be possible for men any longer to put on the image of God which he gave Adam from the beginning until something significant was done by God to change the human nature.
THAT NECESSITATED THE NEW CREATION OF GOD.
The spirit of man must come alive to God in a new creation to accommodate the presence of God. God cannot live and function in man until his spirit is newly created or recreated in the image and likeness of God. The new creation thus brings man to a default settings so to speak.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49
[45]And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
[46]Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
[47]The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
[48]As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
[49]And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
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Let meet on the next subtopic:
The First Adam verses The Second And Third Adam.