Friday | 17 May 2024
The creation of man with a body, soul and spirit was a key step in the fulfilment of God’s covenant purpose. However, the Scriptures clearly reveal that Adam’s creation was not the full expression of the image and likeness of God. Paul explained that Adam was ‘a type of Him who was to come’. Rom 5:14. That is, he was not the substance, or end, of God’s creation. This means that although Adam had a relationship with God, he did not yet live by Their ‘Zoe’ life as part of Their fellowship. We see that, even prior to the Fall, man was not yet ‘at one’ with God.
The Man who was to come, of whom Adam was a type, is Jesus Christ. 1Co 15:47. He was to become the first Man ‘at one’ with God. To accomplish this end, God would need to come in the flesh and be made like us. Then, through offering, the Son would be glorified as a Man in the image and likeness of God, pioneering a pathway upon which we could choose our predestination and become like Him.
God came in the flesh when Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, for the Scriptures teach us that it pleased the Father that all the fullness of Yahweh should dwell in the Son of God. Mat 1:23. Col 1:19. Then, in the garden of Gethsemane, the offering of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, from before, was manifest. 1Pe 1:18-21. This offering was the provision for the fulfilment of Their Covenant. Within Their fellowship, each Person laid down Their life to a complete endpoint, or death, to share Their life with us and to include us in Their fellowship.
Further Study:
1 CORINTHIANS 2
References:
Rom 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
1Co 15:47
The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
Mat 1:23
Behold, the virgin shall be with Child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, ‘God with us.’
Col 1:19
For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell.
1Pe 1:18-21
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.