Topic:
Understanding The Three Adams (17)
Continued
from 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 glory Jesus doesn’t need
any glory for Himself, because He lacked none but for the sake of mankind He
descended in order to restore man’s lost glory to him. The most beautiful thing
is that the glory which He has restored on man is far better than the glory man
lost, because the glory He restored to man is in God’s class (Jn 17:22).This
glory is only obtainable by any man who has decided to have a place in Him,
inasmuch as one continues to be in Christ, whatever glory that Christ possesses
is his. On this note, it is important to grasp this fact that man is the only
creature that God created which shares or enjoys the glory of God with Him. All
that Jesus went through on earth was not for Himself but for man, so He obtains
the glory which is a product of His sacrifice on the cross and delivered it to
man.
However, this glory is that glory that
will follow the suffering of Christ, in that it will come on the platter of the
sufferings of the Christ. The glory will come into place after the suffering
has been sufficed by Christ. This implies that Jesus cannot become the Christ
unless He undergoes the procedures of the suffering that will qualify Him as
the Christ and thereafter receive the glory due Him (Luke 24:46 – 47) and by this
many sons shall be brought unto glory. So as Jesus prepares for this journey,
He was ready at this time to hand Himself over to the principalities who are ever
ready to take Him. But there is this situation that He dreaded so much and that
is the separation between Him and His Father; which will take place along this
journey. On several occasions He was found declaring that whatever He does was
not coming from Him but it was His Father who is doing the works in Him. He
also said that He is one with His Father, indicating a union of inseparable
entities in one vessel. The reality is that the route He is about to take will
definitely put an end to the union because the Father cannot behold iniquity.
People have over the years erroneously
attributed His sufferings to the lashes, spits He received from people and even
the carrying of cross. No! The suffering
refers to His separation from His Father at the time the sins of the whole
world is laid on Him. This awful experience is what He dreaded so much,
nevertheless for Him to save mankind He has to undergo this unwanted situation.
And again He has to undergo through this awful situation in order to overcome
the major entrapment that man has which are sin and death. The price or
suffering is not really His death but the fact that He is going to bear the sins
of the world and because of that separation from the Father will take place.
The glory will amount to consummate
restoration of man’s dignity and along the process of achieving that, Jesus
will assume some status that was not there for Him before going to the cross. The
glory that follows implies the extermination of every carnal ordinances and the
enthronement of an eternal ordinances rooted on His achievement (death, burial
and resurrection). That is to say that a new order and status is to be
established through the process of His death and resurrection. One of those
positions is that He’s going to receive a name that He didn’t have before (Phil
2:9 – 10); this name is called a name that is above every name. Therefore, by
implication this name is beyond every name that is named beneath and above, in
that case all the names are subject to it. From this, we deduce that this is
not just ordinary name, because His name is still Jesus, but what this
signifies is that something has been added to His name that makes it higher
than any other name, and that is authority or an office He hasn’t before this
time (Ps. 110:1). The authority He receives at the right hand of His Father, a
place of power and authority.
After the completion of this process, the
journey will take Him three days to complete, this was typified by Jonah’s
ordeal in the belly of a fish (Matt 12:39 – 40, Luke 11:30). And thereafter He
will assume a position that is higher than the position He has before, and as a
result of the new position His name will become the highest authority everywhere.
Therefore, at His name every other authority whether beneath or above bows, He
didn’t need this, but because of man’s venerability He received it for man to
be able to subject powers of darkness under their control by His name. The name
of Jesus therefore, becomes an authority in the hand of man, this is possible because
Jesus Christ has wrought it for man (Jn 17:19).
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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