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 - How are we 'In' Adam?
Seed = DNA. Shared by father and mother to us making us direct genetic descendants with attributes from each of them. This explains not only health issues we inherit but also spiritual.
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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:Let's go to another category and there's more information that relates to this. Some people call this the spiritual necessity, but I just continued it under legal, the inherited sin problem. So we've got imputed sin, imputed sin. I want to repeat something about that. The imputed sin is directly from Adam to you, directly from Adam to me, directly from Adam to Noah, directly from Adam to David, directly from Adam to any member of the human race. So it's not generational, it's just direct. It's a direct link from each of us to Adam.
Speaker 2:Now, this one's different. This is called inherited sin and it's transmitted indirectly and it goes from Adam to each generation, from Adam all the way down to our own day. So from parent to offspring, parent to offspring, parent to offspring. So this one is passed on and it's passed on at conception. Psalm 51.5, where David says In sin, my mother conceived me. Remember, in sin, my mother conceived me. He's not talking about sin that was imputed to him from Adam. He's talking about coming from his mother to him. So direct from parent to offspring.
Speaker 2:So this is what results in what we call the sin nature, or the Bible typically calls the flesh. All human beings have the flesh. What the flesh is is it's an inclination to sin, it's a disposition toward sin, toward personal sin. So it's not personal sin, but it is what it's the root of personal sin. Ok, it's a disposition towards sinning. It's what Paul is describing in Romans 7 when he's talking about the thing I don't want to do, I do, but the thing I hate I do. What is it in me that wants to do this or that? If I want to do evil, there's something in me that's wanting to do that, and that's what he's talking about the flesh or the sin nature. Okay, so this is what we call inherited sin. You got this from your mom and your pop. This actually explains some of the more difficult passages in the Bible, like in the law given to Israel.
Speaker 2:It talks about the sin of the fathers passing on to the second and third generation. Remember that? You're like why, why? Well, this doesn't sound fair. You know that the sin of the father now three or four generations. They had to pay for the sin of the father. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:The way that we are supposed to understand that is that parents pass on their sin tendencies to their offspring and those children tend to fall into the same types of sin patterns as their parents Think of. I don't know David's family, king David, he kind of had a little problem with women, right. And what happened with Solomon, his son? It was exacerbated because the mother Bathsheba, she also had that problem. So, do you see, it's not saying the kids pay for the sins of the parents. It's saying the kids, if they continue in the same sin patterns as their parents which is the general tendency they will pay for the sins in the same ways that the fathers paid for their sins, because you don't pay for anybody else's sins, it's your own.
Speaker 2:But you can get sin tendencies. This is why it's important in child training, raising children, to first of all recognize your own sin patterns and your wife or husband to recognize their sin patterns and that way you can look for them in your children. So when you see them crop up, you say whoa, and you try to put the brakes on those, because you're trying to train the next generation to not have the same sin struggles that you had. So this is the concept of inherited sin. Ultimately it does trace all the way back to Adam, but it goes through each generation, okay, and you receive this in nature or flesh at conception. This is why you know children naturally sin. It's not hard for them to learn to say no, go clean your room, no, or just not do it. It's because they have a sin inclination or disposition. And this is your opportunity to show them that they have this sin disposition or flesh and that they need salvation. Right, they need salvation.
Speaker 2:Now Jesus avoids this. Again, this is something he has to avoid. So he avoids this. At the conception by the work of the Holy Spirit in Matthew 1.20, where the angel describes to Joseph go ahead and marry her. The child that is in her has been placed there by the Holy Spirit, so he avoids. You can see easily in this example how he avoids that. The Holy Spirit avoided that.
Speaker 2:Now the last category. Oh, I didn't cover this part, part A Another possibility is that Jesus avoids this because the transmission is direct through the male only. So there's two possibilities for this, or maybe they can even be combined. So another possibility is Jesus avoided this because of the transmission being directly through the male. This is hinted at in Hebrews 7, 1 through 10. So let's take a look at Hebrews 7. Hebrews 7, 1 through 10.
Speaker 2:And again, some of this is hard. I know this is hard. So if you can't follow all of it, that's okay, all the section on Melchizedek and the priesthood, and we'll just start in verse 4. This is where Abraham and ties were made to Melchizedek. Now observe how great this man was, to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the choice to spoils. Observe how great this man was, to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the choices spoils. Now Abraham gave a tenth to Melchizedek, who was a priest king back in the days of Abraham, and those indeed of the sons of Levi who received the priest's office, have commandment in the law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from the brethren. So you know the people, the 12 tribes. They would give a tenth to the Levites as the priests, although these are descended from Abraham. But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them, that's Melchizedek, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises. But without any dispute, the lesser is blessed by the greater.
Speaker 2:In this case, mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on. And here it is, so to speak, through Abraham. Even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, because you know the Jews, they paid tithes to the tribe of Levi, right. But in this case he says Levi even paid tithes, through Abraham, to Melchizedek, who lived a long time before he lived. You say, how could Levi pay tithes to someone when Levi wasn't even born yet, he wasn't even alive, he wasn't even, so to speak, in the human race? Well, verse 10 explains, for he was still in the loins of his father, abraham, when Melchizedek met him. This is showing that somehow we participate in the actions of those who come before us. Why? Because we are in them. We are in their loins in the same way that you and I are in Adam.
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