John Farley
Pastor Teacher
Sunday,
December 4, 2022
Pastor Adams in India - giving opportunity
Healing Hands of Christ home for lepers
GBC Pakistan
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No service on Sunday December 25th (Christmas)
Schedule note
If anyone is in Christ – new creation!
What is man?
The resurrected, ascended, and seated Christ is a completely new kind of Man.
There is fallen man: Adam.
There is glorified Man: Christ.
“Federal” refers to the action of one for all in a representative manner;
Or the consequences of such action.
Rom 5:12-21 presents the two representative Men, Adam and Christ.
Condemnation by Adam’s trespass, justification by Christ’s righteous act .
What kind of humanity is the Church age believer?
2Co 5:14-17
The expression “new creation” refers to a new act of creation by God.
This is exactly parallel to the first time God created humanity, in Genesis 1.
Gen 1:26-27
And now, for the second time, God has created a new human race.
2Co 5:17
This time, He created the spiritual man, designed for a heavenly existence.
1Co 15:45-49
The new creation is not the old creation improved.
In fact, the old man of ours was crucified with Christ according to Romans 6:6.
Rom 6:5-6
2Co 5:17
What are these old things?
Eph 4:22 refers to them as our former manner of life.
Eph 2:1-3
Old things – walking according to the course of this world.
The old things included living in the lusts of our flesh.
The old things added up to who we were by nature: children of wrath.
Humanity in Adam has a depraved mind.
He behaves wickedly and adopts many evil practices.
The old man has a hardened heart and lustful desires.
He is full of deceit.
2Co 5:17
The new things are associated with our new humanity in Christ.
The new man has a new status before God.
The new man has new desires and capacities.
The new man has a new mind, the mind of Christ.
The new man has a new life, and a new destiny.
Rom 8:5-10
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