In Genesis, we are told that God made man in His image and after His
likeness. In Colossians 1:15, we are told who the image of God is: Jesus
Christ. In Adam, God hoped to have a man who will live and walk in the
exact way that the Image of God is: sinless and exercising dominion over
everything on earth. Sadly, he failed when he rebelled against God in
the matter of the fruit of the tree of good and evil. Up until the point
of his fall, Adam was an epitome of what a true man was, but the moment
he sinned against God, that man ceased to be in existence.
One
of the saddest commentaries in the bible is recorded in Genesis 5:1, 3.
"This is the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man. He
made him in the likeness of God... And Adam lived one hundred and thirty
years, and begot a son in own likeness, after his image..."
This is the sad story of Adam who the bible calls the first man. If you like, you can say that with the fall of Adam came also the end of true manhood in the lineage of Adam. Genetically, it became impossible for anyone in the lineage of Adam to rule over the earth as king. If God's program of having a man rule over the entire earth is to be fulfilled, another man, not of the image of Adam was needed. 1 Corinthians 15:47 tells us of another man called the Second Man. "The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the Second Man is the Lord from heaven." This is He, who, though He was God, came into this world as a man to fulfill the botched mandate that was given to the first man, Adam.
He lived in fulfillment of everything that was expected of the true man: sinless, exercised authority under the leadership of the Father. In the Second Man, Jesus Christ, a new race of people is born, not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. Praise God, I am a member of this wonderful new race of people born to rule alongside our great King, Jesus Christ, the true Man.
Toni
This is the sad story of Adam who the bible calls the first man. If you like, you can say that with the fall of Adam came also the end of true manhood in the lineage of Adam. Genetically, it became impossible for anyone in the lineage of Adam to rule over the earth as king. If God's program of having a man rule over the entire earth is to be fulfilled, another man, not of the image of Adam was needed. 1 Corinthians 15:47 tells us of another man called the Second Man. "The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the Second Man is the Lord from heaven." This is He, who, though He was God, came into this world as a man to fulfill the botched mandate that was given to the first man, Adam.
He lived in fulfillment of everything that was expected of the true man: sinless, exercised authority under the leadership of the Father. In the Second Man, Jesus Christ, a new race of people is born, not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. Praise God, I am a member of this wonderful new race of people born to rule alongside our great King, Jesus Christ, the true Man.
Toni
