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

Now, Adam was a very spiritual soul; he was a very spiritual man. He was to rule the earth and know the heavens. I am here to rule this planet, and I’m here to know heaven. That’s not what God wanted. I’m going to get way out of here on a limb, and I may be wrong. I may be wrong is what I’m about to tell you, but it may be that God wished for Adam to rule heaven also.

There have been theories that if Adam had eaten of the tree of life, he would have been the son of God. I don’t like that, that makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t like that idea. Therefore, I have to say this is all a theory, and my real feeling is that God knew Adam was going to sin when he created him. And therefore, it’s not a question to even be discussed.

Now, let me ask you a question. Who was the first person ever kin to God? Truly, biologically kin to God the Father? Hmm? God the Son. There’s some principle here that the oldest child gets to take the throne. He stands in royalty, and he can have the throne of God. He has a right to it.

Well, he came to earth, and he was the son of David. David was the king. We talked about this yesterday, but I don’t think the camera was on, was it? He’s a king on earth, he’s a king in heaven, which leaves him the only human being who’s ever lived who could claim to be king of heaven and king of earth. Adam could not do this because he was not of heaven; he could see heaven, part of heaven was in him, but he was not the son of God.

How are you a Christian similar, and how are you a Christian unlike that Adam who is unfallen? Ok, let’s look. Adam had a body. We’ll start on the back side. He had a body. Do you have a body? Do you have a body as good as Adam’s? No. Unfallen Adam. We’re just on unfallen Adam now. Unfallen Adam had no flesh. He was body. Flesh is the body plus sin. Now, where does sin live in you? Where does sin dwell? Sin dwells in your body. And that makes flesh. Body and sin make flesh. Have you ever been really, really, really, really desperately sick? Have you ever been about to die? Have any of you really been desperately sick? I have. And I made a discovery. I stopped sinning. I mean, even in my mind, I was nearly perfect, folks. My body was so far gone. If I sinned during that time, I don’t remember anything. I have no recollections of being anything but very, very pure during that time. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t do anything. And my mind had no connection with my body in that my body could not appeal to my spirit, my soul.

Okay, so I have a corrupted body. Now, why, if I have a spirit today as a Christian, why can I not see the unseen? And the answer is because of my body. My body is a shield to my spirit, to keep me from seeing things. I think I told you all that one time we were discussing having an operation, and I told the doctor, who was a Christian, I said, it’ll be really difficult to operate on me because when they cut open my body, they’re going to be blinded by my spirit.

I have a spirit inside of me that’s beautiful, powerful, but it has the shield of my flesh, and it’s a veil. Do you understand that the scripture calls my flesh, body plus sin, a veil? Alright, that’s the differences in our bodies, and I’m angry about that. I don’t like the fact that my body prevents me.

My soul and Adam’s soul, what’s the difference? Unfallen Adam, what’s the difference? The difference is he had a perfect soul, and I’ve got a big soul. My soul’s bigger than Adam’s. Adam couldn’t think very well. I can out-think Adam. Adam couldn’t reason very well. I can out-reason Adam. We say this is terrible. No! Adam relied on his spirit. Unfallen Adam. I don’t rely on my spirit. I rely on Aristotle. I’m going to think about what I should do as a Christian.

There is one of our parachurch organizations that says that God has given us the spirit of a sound mind. Therefore, they teach you to have a sound mind. That’s not true. God has given you the spirit of a sound mind. That’s his mind. And it’s spirit. But your mind is not trustable.

Adam had a soul that tended toward and moved toward his spirit, and brothers and sisters we’ve got to learn to make our soul tend toward our spirit, because it tends toward Aristotle, it tends toward logic and reason, but we have Adam, we’re ahead of Adam in one way, a Christian and unfallen Adam, a Christian is better off in spirit than Adam because Adam only had a human spirit and you and I have a divine spirit.

We’re going to stop there. We’re going to come back tomorrow and put Adam in front of the tree of life, and we’re going to learn more about this. You have a spirit like Adam’s, except yours has been raised from the dead, and you have God’s spirit, and the two are joined. Adam had a wonderful living spirit, but it could die, and the life of God was not in it. And this is one of the reasons that Adam did not eat of the tree of life. He had not already the life of God in him.

Jesus will come along. He won’t be like unfallen Adam, and he won’t be like you and me. He will be totally unique. He will be what God wishes to have in a man. We have a lot to discuss. Is this Friday? It’ll be Tuesday morning before we, no, it’ll be Monday morning before we get back to this; we have a lot to talk about and a lot to learn Monday.