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THE ONE NEW MAN FULFILLING GOD'S PURPOSE IN CREATING MAN TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message Two
Christ as the Son of Man, the Second Man, and the Last Adam Fulfilling God's Intention in Creating Man
Scripture Reading: Gen. 1:26; Matt. 16:13; 26:64; 24:30; 1 Cor. 15:45, 47; Luke 1:35
I. Christ is the Son of Man, the second man, and the last Adam:
A. Christ is the Son of Man—Dan. 7:13; Matt. 16:13; John 1:51:
1. Without man, God's purpose cannot be carried out on earth; in order to accomplish God's purpose, it was necessary for Christ to be a man.
2. In His incarnation Christ is the Son of Man—Matt. 16:13:
a. Because the Lord Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, He is the Son of God—1:18, 20; Luke 1:35.
b. Because He was also conceived in and born of the human virgin, He is the Son of Man—Matt. 1:23.
c. On the divine side, He is the Son of God; on the human side, He is the Son of Man.
3. The Lord Jesus is the Son of Man in the heavens at the right hand of God since His resurrection (Acts 7:56), and He will be the Son of Man in His coming back on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory (Matt. 26:64; 24:30).
B. In His incarnation Christ is the second man—1 Cor. 15:47:
1. In the entire universe there are only two men: the first man Adam and the second man Christ.
2. Out of heaven in verse 47 denotes both the divine origin and the heavenly nature of the second man, Christ.
3. As the first man, Adam is the head of the old creation, representing it in creation; as the second man, Christ is the Head of the new creation, representing it in resurrection—v. 47:
a. We believers were included in the first man by birth and became part of the second man by regeneration—Gen. 1:26; John 3:3, 5-6.
b. In regard to our being part of the first man, our origin is the earth and our nature is earthy; in regard to our being part of the second man, our origin is God and our nature is heavenly—1 Cor. 15:47.
C. Christ is the last Adam—v. 45b:
1. First Corinthians 15:45 implies two creations: the old creation with man as a living soul to be its center, and the new creation in resurrection with the life-giving Spirit as its center.
2. Christ's being the last Adam implies a termination and conclusion of the old creation—v. 45b; 2 Cor. 5:17:
a. The old creation ends with a man, the last Adam.
b. This man who terminated the old creation became in resurrection a life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b.
3. Through incarnation Christ became the last Adam to die on the cross for the termination of the old creation, and through resurrection He as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to germinate the new creation—Gal. 6:15.
II. Christ's incarnation and God-man living fulfilled God's intention in His creation of man—Gen. 1:26-27; John 1:1, 14; Luke 1:31-32, 35; 2:40, 52:
A. The incarnation of Christ is closely related to God's purpose in the creation of man in His image and according to His likeness—that man would receive Him as life and express Him in His divine attributes—Gen. 1:26; 2:9; Acts 3:14a; Eph. 4:24.
B. The Man-Savior was born of the human essence with the human virtues in order to uplift these virtues to such a standard that they can match God's attributes for His expression—Luke 1:35:
1. As the One who was conceived of the divine essence with the divine attributes to be the content and reality of His human virtues, Christ fills the empty human virtues—Matt. 1:18, 20.
2. The divine attributes fill, strengthen, enrich, and sanctify the human virtues for the purpose of expressing God in the human virtues.
C. Through His incarnation Christ brought the infinite God into the finite man—Luke 1:35; John 1:1, 14; Col. 2:9.
D. Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man, possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinctly—Lev. 2:4-5.
E. Christ is the God-man, a person who is the mingling of divinity with humanity—Luke 1:35; Phil. 2:5-8:
1. In Him we see all the divine attributes and all the human virtues:
a. Because the Lord Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit with the divine essence, He possesses the divine nature with the divine attributes—Matt. 1:18, 20.
b. Because the Lord Jesus was born of the human virgin with the human essence, He possesses the human nature with the human virtues—Luke 1:26-35.
2. Christ's human living was the living of a man who lived God to express the divine attributes in the human virtues—7:11-17; 10:25-37; 19:1-10.
F. Christ expressed in His humanity the bountiful God in His rich attributes through His aromatic virtues—7:36-50; Heb. 2:17:
1. Christ expressed the divine attributes of love, light, holiness, and righteousness—Eph. 3:19; John 8:12; Acts 3:14a.
2. Christ's aromatic virtues include His mercy, compassion, meekness, forbearance, lowliness, obedience, faithfulness, and truthfulness—Heb. 2:17; Matt. 9:36; 11:29; 2 Cor. 10:1; Phil. 2:8; Rom. 5:19; 2 Cor. 11:10.
G. As the first God-man, Christ lived as a man, but He did not live by man's life to express man in man's virtues—John 5:19:
1. He did not live by His own mind, will, and emotion; rather, He had a genuine human living by God's mind, will, and emotion.
2. In His God-man living, the Lord's mind, will, and emotion were organs containing God's life and God's mind, will, and emotion.
H. In His God-man living, the Lord Jesus never did anything out of Himself (v. 19), did not do His own work (4:34; 17:4), did not speak His own word (14:10, 24), did everything not by His own will (5:30), and did not seek His own glory (7:18).
I. In His living, the Lord Jesus achieved the greatest thing in the universe—He expressed God in His humanity—Heb. 1:3; John 14:9-10.
III. Christ's God-man living constituted Him to be a prototype so that He may now be reproduced in us and live again in us—Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:20-21a:
A. The Gospel of Luke records the history of the God-man living of the first God-man; now this history needs to be written into our being—2 Cor. 3:3.
B. When the Lord Jesus saves us, He comes into us as the One with the human virtues filled with the divine attributes—Luke 2:10-11, 25-32; 19:9-10:
1. As the life-giving Spirit, He enters into us to bring God into our being and to fill our virtues with God's attributes—1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17.
2. Such a life saves us from within and uplifts our human virtues, sanctifying and transforming us—Rom. 5:10; 12:2.
C. The Christ who lives in us is still the One who possesses the human virtues strengthened and enriched by the divine attributes—Gal. 2:20:
1. The Christ who is being dispensed into us is a composition of the divine nature with its divine attributes and the human nature with its human virtues—4:19.
2. Christ is now seeking to live in the believers the kind of life that He lived on earth; within us He is still living a life that is a composition of the divine attributes and the human virtues—John 14:19b; 2 Cor. 10:1; 11:10.
D. If we would become a reproduction of the first God-man and live Christ as the God-man, we must be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit and be transformed by the pneumatic Christ in our soul—John 3:3, 6; 2 Cor. 3:18.
E. When we love the Lord, pursue Him, and fellowship with Him, we spontaneously live in a condition that is beyond human description:
1. We live not according to the environment but according to the Lord's moving and leading within us—Phil. 2:12-13; 4:11-13.
2. When we open ourselves to the Lord, love Him, and desire to be joined to Him as one, we are filled and possessed by Him and live out the glory of divinity and the virtues of humanity—1 Cor. 2:9; 6:17; Phil. 4:4-9.