Jesus Was More Successful At Salvation Than Adam Was at Sin (Grace Basics 5)

I don’t know where I first got the thought— “we seem more confident in the enemy’s ability to deceive us— and to steal, kill, and destroy— than we are about Jesus’ ability to heal and mend and restore all things.”

I guarantee the concept isn’t original to me, but maybe you can relate. Maybe you’ve even— like me— found yourself on the WRONG side of that belief structure at some point.

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Buried in the New Testament we find an interesting title given to Jesus. Actually, we find two of them that correspond to each other. They’re so closely related that they’re virtually inseparable. Yet, as important as they are, I bet you’ve never heard a sermon on either one:

✅ The Last Adam

✅ The Second Man

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Here’s what they mean…

As the “Last Adam” Jesus ended something Adam began— a lineage of sin and (subsequent) death.

Adam was the “first man.” Everyone, everywhere on the planet knows that. He’s the first guy that ever walked on this planet. No argument about him being the first man, so let’s move on.

Jesus was the “Last Adam.”

Paul tells us that as the “Last Adam” Jesus ended something that Adam began.
Somehow in the great scheme of it all, we can theoretically trace our lineage back to him. Given enough time and help from ancestry.com or some intensive archaeological work, we can map our family trees all root right back down to him. Physically, that is.

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But there’s more. Jesus wasn’t JUST the “Last Adam,” He was— IS— also the Second Man.

As the “Second Man” Jesus began something new— another bloodline of humanity which is unchained from sin and hitched to radical freedom.

But Paul tells us there’s another kind of life than the life we merely see in the physical realm— a spiritual one. The physical one came first, and then the spiritual one emerged (1 Corinthians 15:46).

Jesus has given us a new spiritual DNA. And, as you might suspect, He’s done this because we’re included in Him like we discussed in the previous chapter.

As the “Last Adam,” Jesus walked this planet as the final man born in that spiritual line of natural-born sinners. Yet, at the same time He lived as the Last Adam, He became the “Second Man” (v47). Jesus literally launched a new race of humanity— one unchained to sin yet bound to freedom!

🔥 Physically, you’re related to Adam… in the flesh. You have his physical nature.

🔥 Spiritually, though, you stand in the lineage of Jesus. You have His spiritual nature. The “us” that was born in the image of Adam was crucified, died, and was buried (see chapter 3). We arose— re-made in the image of Christ.

Let’s get practical. Here’s what it means for me and you:

Either Jesus makes all things— or He doesn’t. And if He does, I mean, if we truly believe He does, then we really need to look at the ramifications of what that means for us…

… and, even more, we need to “walk out” those beliefs… with a humble confidence that, in time, all things change.

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That’s the subject of this talk.

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