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The New Man Has Come • Feb 01st 1994

Debrecen Messages #8 -Genesis 1–2 and the One New Man: God’s Purpose for a New Humanity

Eternal Purpose Genesis Organic Church

In this powerful teaching from the Debrecen conference, we explore one of the most profound truths in Scripture: God’s eternal purpose for man—revealed in Genesis 1–2 and fulfilled in the “one new man” in Christ.

Before the fall, before sin, before redemption, God declared His intention. In Genesis 1–2, there is no sin, no failure—only purpose. Man is created to bear the image of God, rule the earth, and express divine life. This is not a reaction to the fall; this is God’s original intention.

Jesus repeatedly called Himself the Son of Man, not merely the Son of God. Why? Because the battle was not between Satan and God—but between Satan and man. Where Adam failed, Christ came as a man to fulfill God’s intention. As revealed later in Colossians and Ephesians, God creates not a new religion, but one new humanity—a corporate man.

This session explains:

  • Why Genesis 1–2 must be understood outside the fall
  • What it means that man was created spirit, soul, and body
  • How Adam was a “hybrid” of heaven and earth
  • Why the church is not an organization, but a living organism
  • How the Ecclesia becomes Christ visible again on earth

The teaching also explores the profound distinction between soul and spirit, drawing from Hebrews and the imagery of the dividing sword. The soul resists the cross; the spirit embraces it. Only the Spirit of God can divide between the two.

Ultimately, this message centers on one revelation:
God is not after individuals—He is after a corporate expression, a visible “them,” a new race in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile, male nor female. The church is meant to function under the headship of Christ, expressing His life together.

From the first Adam in Eden to the mature bride in Revelation 21–22, God’s purpose has not changed.

This teaching calls us back to Genesis—to rediscover what God intended before sin—and to see how that intention is fulfilled in the living, functioning body of Christ.

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give you an answer, I would rather stop and cry at the question.  I would like to just cry and cry

and cry. I want to say to my Lord, Lord, go ahead and put your life in him. And theologians

have wondered for centuries why God didn’t just go ahead and put his life in him? And the

theologians have come up with every theory in the world. I’m going to give a very non-

theological answer.

Do you remember the day you got saved? I remember mine. It was very spectacular. Very powerful. Did any of you have a day that was very, you really can remember that time you got saved? We have one, two, three, four, five, six. Like that, I mean, like that. Some of us grew up in Christian homes and kind of grew into our salvation and then found the Lord. It’s very simple.

My salvation was a head-on collision with the Lord. Let me tell you something. I was running as fast as I could toward God, toward God, screaming and hollering I want you. Now do you know why? Because I had seen both sides. I perfectly knew both sides.

And I wanted him, and I wanted him bad, and I knew when I got him, I got what I needed and got what I wanted, and there was appreciation and gratitude. I was running toward him.

Adam sinned and ran away from God. When God finally caught him, and really it’s God that catches us, we don’t catch Him. When God finally caught him, then Adam broke down and talked about his need of God. Lord, I’m naked.

I guess it has to do with the fact that we need to know both sides and then make up our minds and make our choice. And then we will forever remember what both sides were like. Now that’s the best guess I’ve got. I’m sure it’s correct. And I’m sure that Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine and Martin Luther and John Calvin would all agree with me, that they were wrong and I am right.

Come back to Adam. I want Adam to talk to us for a minute.

I can see that which cannot be seen. I can walk with God and talk with Him. I have a beautiful, perfect body. I have a flawless soul. There are two things that I do not have. I do not have an opposite. I do not have an “other” than me. And I do not have God as my life. Now listen to that sentence. I do not have God as my life. I have me as my life. All of my life sources are within my soul. All of God’s life sources are located in His spirit.

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