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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

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.

We are a new them. And we’re not a new her or him or it; and excuse me for saying it one more time, we are not a parachurch organization. We are a living, breathing organism. And if you organize this new humanity, you don’t have a corporate new humanity; all you’ve got is a bunch of people, and until that new human has legs, arms, feet, eyes, tongues, ears, heart, soul, breathing, and functioning, all you’ve got is an organization.

 

She’s got to live by his life. You notice I switched genders, and I didn’t even realize it. She’s got to live by his life. She’s got to be free to function. She’s got to know how to live by his life. That’s where the church planner is so important. And the church planner has to come, and he has to go, but he has to come before he can go. And you leave on this earth a people living by divine life, and you walk into their meetings, and they are one. And there is a body, and there’s an ear, and there’s a tongue, and an eye, and a hand, and an arm, and a foot, and it’s all working together.

Now, Tim, I ask you, and I’m not asking you to say one thing that you don’t feel free to say. Do you belong to such a body of people?

Yes, I do. Can you feel the functioning? Can you see the arms, legs, and hands moving? Do you see any human beings running them?

Absolutely not. Definitely not. They are a corporate them. Is that not true? And it’s amazing, isn’t it? And they don’t have unity, I want to tell you, they don’t have unity. They have oneness. The unity is, you’ve got to watch unity. They have oneness. And they’re not there because someone’s convinced them. Do you know that I have never told those people what I’m telling you? They never heard this, and they became one without any motivation. I have never motivated the brothers and sisters in the town where you live.

I have only given them the Lord, and these things happen. I will motivate them someday when all of this is completely mature, and then it will be safe, I wouldn’t want them to know this for anything because it might become their purpose, but they have grown, you know a purpose outside of Christ, but they have grown into a human being that is more than one person. They are a new creature, and there is nothing else like them in Atlanta, Georgia. And there are very few things like them on the earth.

Jonathan, you are to bring forth as a father a people who function. And before this conference is over, you will know exactly how. Honest, I promise. In the most practical details.

Now this girl, why would I dare call her a girl when the scripture says this new person is neither male nor female? It’s because this girl stops here. She’s from here down. And he’s from here up. And that makes a person who is neither male nor female, but really both. And the two have become one. The body and the head.

Now, I will speak for myself and for no one else. When I’m among those dear, dumb, ignorant, stupid brothers and sisters in Atlanta, I see the Lord. I really see the Lord. Now, do they exercise dominion? Not if I can keep them from it. No. They’re too young to do such a thing. Well, someday, will they possibly? They’re going to do it every day, they’re going to zap demons and raise the dead? I hope not, but on occasions, we will show the principalities and powers that Jesus Christ is in charge and that His church is on earth as a living, breathing entity, and then we’ll shut up. And we will take our cue from the Lord. We will take our illustration from the Lord in the way he did these things.

Brother Jonathan, you’re here to bring forth a them. Only the Lord can bring forth the church. I have been asked, “Gene what is your purpose as one who plants a church?” And I have answered, “My purpose is simply to make sure nothing gets in the way of natural growth.”

You see, I come to keep the brothers and sisters from getting off on healing. I come to keep them from getting off on Bible study. I come to keep them from getting off on the rapture or the eyeballs in Ezekiel or the bear’s tail in Daniel or the dragon’s tooth in Revelation, to just make sure they stay on their Lord and their innocence. Remember when you first got saved and everything was Jesus? And then people started telling you about eyeballs and pails and all that stuff. Well, it’s my job to make sure this never happens to you. It’s my job that you keep that innocent purity and to keep away the wolves who want to come in to this innocent, headless little wonder and keep giving them the food of their spirit and that food is Christ. And to give them Christ and to give them Christ and to show them how to know Christ and then get out of the way and let them find out what they look like when they’re together all on their own.

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