Continued
from the last episode
Text
of Interest:
“But
as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God.”
1 Cor 2:9 – 10 (KJV)
Case Study Text:
“And
so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but
that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is
of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”
1
Cor 15:45 – 47 (KJV)
Talking about the curse, it is
important to ascertain that in real terms, God didn’t curse the man. Remember,
the consequence will only manifest if the action is taken inasmuch as the
action is not taken, there is no way the consequence will manifest. Therefore, it
is an authentic fact that the man brought the curse upon himself and not that
God cursed him. What God did was to help him understand what has happened to
him as a result of his action. For instance, if there is a ravaging disease
surging up in the society and some medical team starts to create awareness and
carrying out campaign on the disease and letting people to be aware of how the
disease spreads and informing them on how to avoid it. And someone goes ahead
to ignore the instruction given by the medical team, and eventually got
infected by the disease. Well, if he or she gets to the hospital, and after
undergoing a medical test and it is confirmed that he or she has the disease, a
doctor has to make him or her know what has happened. The doctor that reads out
the result of the test to him or her making known what has happened and the
consequence of it is not the cause of the disease and should not be blamed for
saying that he or she has gotten the disease. Therefore, the man brought curse
upon himself and God never cursed him and most importantly, God does not curse
and have never cursed anybody.
It should be recalled that I said
earlier that the pattern of naming the Adams was not for formalities but each
of them represents a function. The first Adam who was of the earthy committed a
transgression against the instruction of God and as a result of that; those
emanating from him by default became transgressors because he has pass on the
DNA of sin on them. The issue is that the man Adam refused to obey God’s
instruction which indicates that he never believed God and that becomes his
sin. In the same view anyone who comes up and begins to obey instructions from
God is authentically called a believer in God. This suggests that the sin of
Adam cannot be automatically instilled on people. In other words, the sin of
Adam is established in the life an individual if he starts thinking in line
with the way Adam thought which is the way unbelief is established and vice
versa.
Nevertheless, the sin committed by
Adam is not just the act but also establishes a nature of sin; therefore, the
most important thing is not how to deal with the act, but how to deal with the
nature. So the concern of God is not in the act but in the nature. Since
through the unbelief of the man Adam sin came into the world and as a result it
gave birth to what is known as curse, to deal with this curse which is encapsulated
in what is called death, God has to take away the cause of the death which is the
sin nature. So along the line we find some people who have believed in God and
worked with God, but the sin nature still reigns in their life, but because
they found grace in the sight of God as they believed in Him their sins were
overlooked. However, as Adam failed none of his offspring have the capacity to
reverse the situation, so in order to help their pathetic nature God has to
come in. What is required therefore to erase this nature of sin is not just a
total obedience to the word of God but a payment should be made to settle the
wage of sin which is death. So, the coming of the second Adam is to fully obey
God and not walk in the step of the first Adam and He must crown it up with the
settlement of the debt of sin which is His death, by this the nature of sin
will be eradicated.
On the other hand, because the man has
lost his right, the declaration of dominion and power that God made over him
could not be manifested in his life; so he became subject to the elements of
this world and couldn’t have control over them. Adam never reigned or has
dominion over the creatures of this world, rather he became their prey.He
deliberately and consciously delivered this power and dominion to him that
manifested behind the scene of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But one
thing is very clear, and that is, the purpose and plan of God cannot be
thwarted though it might be deferred by events mainly from man. So as the first
Adam lost this power and dominion there is the need for another to come in
order to accomplish what the first Adam could not and in it restores man back
to the original purpose of God for him. The process of the coming and arrival
of the second Adam is what is called the redemptive plan of God for man.
To be continued…..
Till I come your way again, keep on
basking in the Arena of Indubitable Truth!
Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
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