Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - All In Adam
We all, every human of all time, are in Adam. This should cause you great despair for we get all of our physical and psychological attributes from Adam. This means our sin nature and desires. And yet this also provides us access to salvation due to the work of one Man.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament Framework. Today a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2:The background of this is the sin problem, or is it sin problems plural? 99% of the time, when we talk about sin, what we're talking about is personal sin. We talk about sin. What we're talking about is personal sin Lying, thinking, covetous thoughts, doing something sinful it's all personal sin. The Bible actually has three categories of sin, however, only one of which is personal sin.
Speaker 2:Now we already know again about the doctrine of sin because we studied it in the Old Testament event of the fall, so it's already been introduced. It's not a new concept for us, but it is setting up the problems that the Lord Jesus Christ has to somehow avoid. I mean, if he has sin personal or either of the two other categories of sin then does he qualify to pay for our sin? No, because he then falls under the condemnation of sin and he needs someone to die for him, okay, and pay his sin penalty. So you've got three categories of sin or sin problems that he has to overcome, and the virgin birth is linked to these as part of the solution for how he did not come under any of the penalty of sin related to these three categories. So another doctrine that's behind this is who God is, particularly that God is righteous and just right. Because if there's no standard of righteousness, then you can't have a doctrine of sin. You cannot define sin, because sin is defined as being something contrary to God's righteousness. Right, so without a God there, there's no such thing as sin. It's just mistakes, I guess. But sin is basically entirely rooted on the concept that God is righteous and we already know about God. So we've got God, we've got sin. And now we come to the problem is that's, how does the one born of a virgin, how is he, avoiding these sin issues? So the three categories are imputed sin, inherited sin and personal sin. Those are the three categories imputed, inherited and personal. So let's talk a little bit about imputed sin and go to some important passages, the legal reckoning of sin. This is what imputed sin is. It's the legal reckoning of sin to those who participated in the sin of Adam, though not in the likeness of Adam, and we'll go to Romans 5.12. So let's go to Romans 5.12.
Speaker 2:This is the first objection you'll hear whenever you tell somebody well, you're a sinner in Adam and they'll say well, I didn't eat the fruit, I didn't do that, it's not my fault, it's his fault. I've had people say to me before you know, get mad at him, you know, for doing that, you know, and stuff like that. It's like well, the divine answer for that is if you were Adam, you would have eaten. So you know, people can say forever, why did he do that? But the reality is, if you were him, you would have done the same thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, romans, chapter 5, verse 12, is what's called a theological watershed. People have been discussing this for centuries and centuries. This section, and particularly this verse, notice our participation in the sin of Adam, though not in the likeness of Adam, in other words, meaning you weren't physically there, you know, and your wife wasn't there handing you a piece of fruit saying eat this, but you did participate in it. Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered into the world, who is the one man? Adam? Sin entered into the world and death through sin. So death spread to all men. Why? Because all sin, you say. But I didn't sin like Adam did. Well, verse 14 admits that. It says nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam. But somehow we did participate in sin, in Adam, and that's obviously a reference to eating the fruit that the Lord said not to eat of.
Speaker 2:Right Now I'll say a few things about this one man. His name is. We always say Adam, originally Ish, right, ish and Esha. Man and woman. Adam, adama. His name means man, okay, um.
Speaker 2:But when I say man, let me ask you a question am I referring to one person or am I referring to more than one person? I could be, it could be either way. It depends on the context, because man can be a word that's referenced to mankind, okay, and that's where that's a biblically rooted word mankind, because God created different kinds. So you have mankind, okay, and am I excluding women there? No, okay, any more than if I said alligator kind, I would be excluding female alligators. No, you're talking about a specific kind that incorporates both the male and the female side of these kinds. So his name means man, but it also means mankind, adamah, and he is both one man. But guess what, at the time he was also all of mankind, was he not? He was also all of mankind, was he not? So it's set up peculiarly, on purpose. So we see the solidarity of the human race in the one man who is mankind, that is, adam.
Speaker 2:Where did Eve come from, came out of the side of him, taken out of him. The woman is made from the man. Is that theologically significant? Did he make the giraffes that way? Did he make mice that way? Did he make dogs that way? No, he didn't make one dog and then make another dog out of that dog to make the female counterpart. But he does this with mankind, and people brush over this as if this is somehow not significant. But this is entirely significant. She is part of and descended from, essentially Adam, so that the whole human race, because she becomes the mother of all living, right, when she's renamed Eve, that name means mother of all living. She becomes the female head, so to speak, of the whole human race. But she stems from Adam, so that all humans were somehow in Adam, including Eve, right? That's why a statement like Romans 5.12 is very important.
Speaker 2:Just as through one man, sin entered into the world we all know that's Adam Death through sin also entered, and so death spread to all men.
Speaker 2:Why? Because all sinned. Well, how did we sin? By our participation. Because we were in him.
Speaker 2:There is one individual from whom all individuals in this entire world, let's just say it red and yellow, black and white, whatever skin shades come from, there is one human race, so to speak. In that sense, right, there's not different human races. We're all descended from one individual Adam. Do you know what that means? All descended from one individual Adam? Do you know what that means? That means the entirety of the gene pool of the entire human race was in him and any variation, diversity that we see amongst ourselves was in him originally. The capacity for whatever various traits that we might have, of course, in him originally. Him originally unfallen, so there wouldn't be any problems. But now fallen, so there are, of course, genetic issues, including all the dna that made up eve.
Speaker 2:Okay, this corporate solidarity of the human race, so that when he sinned, we all sinned. People say that's not fair. Okay, but god was setting something up that is described in the rest of this chapter. If we all fall in the one man, adam, then we can all be saved in the one man, jesus Christ. God was setting it up theologically and a lot of people say, well, I'm not religious, yeah, but the whole situation has been set up theologically. It doesn't matter if you're religious or not, that's irrelevant. Whole situation has been set up theologically. It doesn't matter if you're religious or not, that's irrelevant. You are a descendant of Adam, so that you can be saved in the one man, jesus Christ.
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