DAILY TRUTH - Represented By Adam
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Summary
When Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, he didn't have to sin against God. Adam was the best of us, not the worst god who is good and never does anything that is cruel. Adam, because of the way that God created him in this state of innocence, had at his disposal the power to please God. And yet, Adam, in Adam, chose to rebel with God. Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death spread to all men because all sinned in Adam. And if we object to the idea of having someone else represent us before God, we lose the entirety of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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When Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, he didn't have to.
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Adam, because of the way that God created him in this state of innocence,
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Adam had at his disposal the power to please God.
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And you and I, in Adam, chose to rebel with him.
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Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.
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This is the understanding of a covenant head, a covenant father.
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This is the understanding that someone else represents you.
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and it is at this precise point that many in our culture today like to object
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i don't want to be represented by adam that blockhead
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and my goodness god was walking with him and eve in the cool of every day
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they lived in paradise and he still couldn't get it right
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see that sentiment although it seemingly is logical is rooted in immense arrogance
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brothers and sisters adam was the best of us not the worst god who is good and never does anything
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that is cruel did not set up for us a federal head a representative who was a failure adam was
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the best of us, you and I would have done no better. And even more important than that, if we
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object to the idea of the doctrine of federal headship, of having someone else represent us
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before God, we lose the entirety of the gospel of Jesus Christ. For if you object to the idea of
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being in Adam then you must with consistency and integrity reject the idea of being in Christ
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if man is not in Adam and if God is not just in his decision to count the actions of Adam
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as representative of us then God cannot justly pardon the wicked by counting the righteous acts
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of Christ to our account if you cannot be in Adam if God is unfair to count you in Adam
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then God would be logically by that faulty logic unfair in counting you and being in Christ you
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were in Adam you and I believe it or not we were there that day that fateful day in the garden of
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In the very same way that Levi was there when Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek,
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you and I were there when Adam forfeited his life.
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You and I are guilty both under a compatibilistic understanding of freely sinning
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and a libertarian understanding of freely sinning.
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Sin came into the world through one man and death through sin.
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But that death spread to all men because all of us sinned.
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And if you object to the idea of being represented by Adam
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then you are objecting to the idea of the gospel of Jesus Christ
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and being represented by Jesus and the life that he brings.
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