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

Now listen very carefully. We’re over in 1 John. By the way, this is incredible, don’t ever lose what you’re hearing today. Let this be as important to you as yesterday. Because it is the same thing. When you want to test a demon, do you ask him, “Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?”

Now think about it. I don’t know anyone saying anything. Think about it. Wouldn’t that be the reasonable thing to ask him? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? We humans walk around here all the time testing one another on this subject. Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? You know, this comes back to people who don’t believe in the Scripture, and we’re trying to find out if they believe he’s the Son of God,

but that’s not what you say to a demon. A demon’s not interested in the fact that he’s the Son of God; they know he’s sort of God. What they’re afraid of is a man coming back to this earth to do what a man is supposed to do, so you ask a demon, “Do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God come in the flesh, and they don’t want us there, because if they say this, they are in big trouble.

For a man came to this earth whom Lucifer could not touch. And I mean that Lucifer could not touch him and did not touch him and never touched him and never think that Lucifer did touch him. It was death that touched him. Not Lucifer. He touched Lucifer. Well, he touched death too, but death is the one that brought an end to this one when he became sin, who knew no sin, but he grabbed death by the neck and pulled him into the grave with him. And in so doing destroyed death and made a public show of the failure of the principalities and powers in heavenly places.

God still wants a man, a new man in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile, bondman or slave, Scythian or Greek, or say it, male or female. One new, and the word really should be translated as one new humanity. In the second century of the Christian faith, there are several pieces of literature that have survived in which Christians call themselves the third race. They did not call themselves Jews, they did not call themselves Gentiles, they called themselves the third race. They were a new race. Biologically, they were a different species in that they had things inside of them that Adam, fallen Adam, never had.

Do you know about the eel and the electric eel? Do you have this in your… an eel, it looks like a snake. He swims in salt water. He’s perfectly harmless, but there’s an electric eel. You touch him, you get a shock. Incredible piece of machinery he is. Well, they look the same. They act the same, but this one’s got things inside of him. This one doesn’t. Well, this is the old man, and this is the new man. They look alike, but they are biologically different. This one’s got electricity in him. This one has the Lord in him, but he is still a man.

Now you’ve got to understand something, brothers. God wanted a man, and it’s in Genesis 1, not Genesis 4. God wants a man, and that’s in Revelation 21 and 22, not Revelation 18. By the way, for the Polish brothers, Revelation 21 and 22 are also outside the fall. So we have four chapters to help us a great deal to see what the Lord’s plan, his purpose, is, which has nothing to do with the detour called getting lost and getting saved.

It was a man who walked this earth. In fact, He had walked this earth before, but not incarnated. He visited Abraham. He visited Joshua. But this time He was born out of a woman’s womb in blood and water, but He was water and spirit. And then He walked on the earth, and He kept saying, I did that as a man. I healed as a man. I raised the dead as a man. Well, this is terrifying the enemy. This is what Adam was supposed to be. Here is one subduing the creeping things. Here is one having dominion on the earth. Here is one who is God in physical image. He rose from the dead, and when He ascended in a cloud of glory, He did not suddenly become invisible.

Here’s the incredible thing. He sat down at his Father’s right hand. Amen, and he rules and reigns sovereignly. Let’s go to heaven. Okay? Let’s you and me right now go to heaven. Now, we’re going to be just exactly what we are right now. And there’s a door, but we can’t see the door. The door opens. We step in. We’re doing just fine. We look around. Do you see any angels? No. They’re invisible. Do you see the Father? No, he’s invisible. You see those cherubim and seraphim? Now, one might flash by and let you see them a second. They seem to be able to appear from time to time, but you look around and the heavens are invisible, and you are visible, and you’re trying to just locate something, and you look over there, and what do you see?

I’ll tell you what you see. You see a man on a throne. You see a man ruling from a throne, and that throne is sovereign over heaven and sovereign over earth. And you must never forget is a man who rules. Now, is he the son of God? Well, is the Son not in line for the throne? Then he is in line to rule heaven, is that not true? Because heaven is where God lives. We want to be a little careful about that, but let’s just say that. It is the throne of God.

Okay, let’s put Him on earth. Is he of royal lineage on earth? Who’s one of his granddaddies? King David, He is of royal rule. Do you realize this is the only creature who ever existed who may have the right to claim to be Lord of heaven and Lord of earth? Even the Father can’t do that. Lord of lords. King of all kings. Well, Gene, what’s your point? There needs to be a man on earth, there needs to be a man on earth, he’s not Jew and he’s not Greek, and he’s not free and he’s not slave, and he’s not barbarian or Greek, he’s not either well educated or illiterate, and he’s not a girl and he’s not a boy; he is a them. He is a new race running around on this earth, and right now, that them, right now, that them. What’s the “them’s” name? Come on, tell me. Ecclesia.

I’ve got a job to do. I’m a church planter, and that’s to plant someone, not an individual, certainly not me, but a people who are a new species, biologically different from the old man. You can’t tell it until you touch one of them. You can’t tell it, but inside, something else is there, divinity inside humanity become One, but it’s not an individual, and God is not and never has been interested in individual anything, really. I don’t want to go too extreme on that, so I will say an individual reign, rule, or image. He said in Genesis 1, which was outside the fall, before the fall, them. We are a people who have come into existence after the cross, and the cross crucified the old creation.