The 2nd Adams Family
Last Sunday at Promise we talked about the First Adam, and the Second Adam. Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the human race, placed as perfectly formed people in a perfect garden by a perfect Creator. Then comes that serpent and does a whopper of a job on messing things up! Do sin, and subsequently death, entered into the life of Mankind. Adam was the first Adam.
The Second Adam is Jesus. He is the only other man in history who didn’t have an earthly father, but was formed by the Creator inside Mary’s womb. And all you bible scholars who are mentally shouting, “What about Joshua? He was the son of Nun!” I get the joke, but Nun was his dad’s name, not None. Where was I?
Oh! Jesus is the Last Adam. Second Adam. Same thing! So Jesus enters the picture and fulfills the whole Law that was laid down on the First Adam’s lineage. What does that mean? PAID IN FULL my friends!! Paid in full! And then He set in motion a better covenant. His new covenant says a couple things:
1. You no longer have to pay the price for the curse of Man that was laid on mankind through the First Adam.
2. You still have all the rights and authority of Man that was laid on mankind in the first place!
3. Sin and Death entered into the life of Mankind through one man, Adam. So eternal life is now available through Jesus, the Second Adam.
I used the Addam’s Family as a general pattern. Talk about disfunctional! Reminds me of another family I know, but nevermind about that right now. 
The devil really did a number to convince a perfect family in a perfect place that there was an imperfection in their life. What a liar. What a pervert. What a snake.
He still says the same things he always said. He’s got a whole new generation who will listen to his lying tongue if we don’t tell them the truth.
Jesus is the 2nd Adam. He is now the One we connect with in a familial sense. I’ll always be a Son of Adam, with all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities thereof, but now I’m a son of God, a joint heir with Jesus, and yes — I have all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities attached thereto too.
I pressed POST, and then thought of something I wanted to append here. Being in the Family of God doesn’t exclude me from experiencing all the things life throws in my way. It doesn’t make me suddenly immune to the events that can hit us. What it does is this: it gives me the authority to claim my Family Name when those things come my way. I can stand in front of them and say, “My heavenly Father bankrupted heaven to send His Son to pay for all and all. How dare you come and try to collect on a bill that’s been paid in full! Now Get Off My Property!!”
Hope that helps.
