TWO ADAMS AND TWO BIRTHS

March 15, 1998 PM MF Blume

Psalm 139:1-17 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways. For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there]. [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee]. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

With these words in mind, notice the reference to the lower parts of the earth....

Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

HE WROUGHT US IN THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH

This is a spiritual reference to the work Of Jesus when He died and was buried in the earth, for we are told that by faith we were buried with Him and there we experienced a wonderful change!

The Bible teaches us that we were crucified with Him (Rom. 6:6).
We were Buried with Him (Col. 2:12)
And we were risen with Him (Col. 2:12).

When we were buried with Him, we experienced an operation of God.

Colossians 2:12-15 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Three things he did when we were buried with Him and risen with Him

Quickened you, forgiving you of all trespasses
Blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. Meaning, He removed the Old Testament and made a New testament for us.
Spoiled principalities, and made a show of them openly.

He took the Old Testament out of the Way:

Isaiah 57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.

Nobody could live up to the expectations of the Old Testament.

Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

He took us from the Devil and Spoiled him making a show of it.

Isaiah 49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

A great operation occurred in the depths of the earth upon us.
When Jesus was down there, we, who believed He died as us in substitution, experienced a great forming.

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Adam was made from the dust of the Earth.
God reached down to the Earth, almost as though His Hand plunged into the Dust and pulled out some dust and began forming it.

Notice how the Bible describes the HAND of God

Matthew 26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

We read that Jesus is not AT the Right Hand, but ON IT. This is not saying that God has a right side to Himself, so that another could stand beside Him. God is omnipresent. You cannot stand beside an Omnipresent God. RIGHT HAND signifies POWER.

1 Corinthians 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

This verse above explains it! When we read that Jesus is on the Right hand of God, that means He is the POWER of God.
Jesus Christ is the POWER OF GOD
Right Hand represents POWER
Jesus is at the right hand, or in the place of the right hand, or IS THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
He is the expression of God's power.
God is invisible, but he is the EXPRESS IMAGE of God.
He is all you can see about God.

God is a Spirit, and you cannot see a Spirit. What we are reading is a picture of God in the Spirituals reaching into the physicals with His right hand... the manifestation of God in flesh. Jesus is the right hand of God, or the manifestation of God's power. Jesus is the expression of God. The expressed image of the invisible God.

When God's hand reached into the Earth, it was a picture of Jesus Christ being buried in the Earth and we were the dust who were operated upon.
The cross was the way of salvation, because Jesus died in our places on it. when we should have died, and because of that, our lives were changed while He was in that earth.
We went down with Him.
We died since He did it for us.
And that set us free from the wages of sin -- death.
The operation of God occurred, it is said, IN THAT BURIAL STAGE.
Our old lives went down and there, in the earth, a new man was created, as our sins were separated from us and God forgot our old lives and old sins.
We came out as new creations because, between the death and the resurrection, there was a burial in which an operation occurred.

The BURIAL of Jesus Christ is the focal point of the Gospel. We have the DEATH, the BURIAL and the RESURRECTION.

We died with Him as sinners.
We resurrected with Him as saints.
What happened in between these two points to change us from sinners to saints?

THE BURIAL WITH HIM
Our BURIALS with Him is where our sins were removed from us, since we died and paid the price of sin... death.
And He extracted those sins from us and we were made new creatures there.
So the burial is the TRANSFORMATION point where we were removed from Adam and placed into Christ.

That is why we read...

Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

We are born again.
We are changed in that burial

In our opening text, David said the HAND of the Lord was upon him.

It formed him and then LED HIM afterwards.
This Psalm not only is the one that said "Psal 139:8-9 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there]. [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ..."
...But it also says Psal 139:10-11 "Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me."

He is not only omnipresent... we use these verses to show that God's Spirit is everywhere... but He is guiding us everywhere!

He is with us everywhere we go.
He is helping us everywhere.
David was so awestruck a the thought, that he said, "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it." (139:5-6)

He said that the thought of God's hand being upon Him everywhere He went was too wonderful to understand!

The same hand that FORMED US -- the right hand of God - the Son of God -- is the same HAND OF POWER that is upon us at all times.
Do not fear troubled times, His hand is on you all the way through.

Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.

Psal 71:20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

QUICKEN ME FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH.
SHOW the world GOD'S POWER.
POWER is associated with being lifted from the depths of the earth.
HIS RIGHT HAND OF POWER was plunged into the earth in the form of Jesus Christ when Jesus was buried, and I was buried with Him.
There, His hand wrought a wonderful work in me.
And He changed me there.
He took my sins away from me in an operation of His Spirit.
Only GOD'S POWER, or RIGHT HAND, could have done that!
ONLY JESUS.

Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

As Adam, we are all dust of the earth or clay.
He put a treasure in this old earth. In our bodies.
We are the clay, the WORK of thy HAND. RIGHT HAND. SON OF GOD.

He took the dust and lifted it out, separated us from all the world, and then FORMED THAT DUST.

Like His work with Adam, after we are taken from the earth, God's HAND forms us.
He is still forming us.
He is shaping us after the image of Jesus Christ.
All new creation comes from one tomb... the one Jesus was buried in.
In there, all new creatures are taken and formed.

We become one SPIRIT with Him.. that which is Born of Spirit (God's Spirit) is spirit (our spirits).
And we then are transformed by the renewing of our minds into the MIND of Christ.
And then at the rapture...

Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

After our spirits are changed to unite with His at Spirit baptism, He renews our minds to have the mind of Christ, and then will even change our bodies to be like His body.

Baptism is a burying into the ground with Jesus, where a miracle occurs!
No wonder the Devil hates Baptism in Jesus' Name!
No wonder it is so hard to find a church that believes in it!

Peter also said that water baptism was foreshadowed by the flood of water in Noah's day.

1 Peter 3:20-21 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

During the flood, a world of sin was being removed.
When Noah's ark landed after the flood subsided, a new creation, as it were, existed.
And nothing happened until Noah sent forth the dove and it returned with an olive branch in its mouth.

Gene 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

AFTER Jesus was baptized, the dove came to Him!

Mark 1:9-11 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, [saying], Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Jesus was baptized.
He was showing a hint of what we must do to be saved.
And after He came out of the water, just as Noah's ark had traveled through the flood, a dove came down to Him and a voice said This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

God took us from being in ADAM and transported through the watery grave of Baptism and placed us in a new situation, IN CHRIST.
By One Spirit are we all baptized INTO CHRIST.
He formed us all when he formed Adam from the dust. And Adam carried us around in him, we being yet unborn later came forth from Adam. And Adam carried us when he bit into the forbidden fruit. And Adam carried us when God cursed the earth for His sake, the earth from which He was taken. And Adam carried us in him when he was cast out of the Garden.
So God set out to make a last Adam. Another Adam and another mankind.
He could have wiped out the old humanity, but chose to renovate it instead.
He salvaged all of us who agreed to be baptized into Jesus Christ, by burying us back into the ground again into the origin of mankind -- the dust of the earth in a tomb with Jesus.
And he REFORMED us in that dust. He CHANGED our make-up.
He changed our beings.
He took cursed dust and transformed it into new humanity.
Deep in the depths of the earth He wrought a work.
He took away our sins, and threw them away from us as far as the east is from the west (and there is an infinite distance for East to be separated from west)
The Only man who was sinless, the manifestation of God as a man, was buried and we were buried with Him and there He put us INTO Jesus Christ.
He put us into that sinless one... that NEW ADAM.
And he showed us what would happen when we raised from the dust with Him when He had a dove come down to Him after He came out of the water of baptism... representing burial in the earth.
We would have HIS SPIRIT and be well pleasing in His sight.
Jesus already had that Spirit in Him since He was born, but this occurred to show us that when we are buried with Him, we will rise with Him and that Spirit will come to us because we are in HIM.
We changed HERITAGES in that dust!
We changed ADAMS in that dust.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Somehow we had to leave Adam and get into Christ.

1Cor 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.

As Noah's ark came through the WORLD CHANGING WATERS, after the WATERS changed the entire face of the earth, removing all sinners, and a dove came to the ark, we were buried with Christ and BAPTIZED INTO HIM and the world of sin was removed from us as the HOLY GHOST came to dwell inside HOLY people separated from their old lives.