Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, the Second Man - “It is Finished!” – Part 2 by Pastor Doug Riggs

This message was originally recorded December 15, 2013, the second in a series of 8 messages.

My notes:

In this message, Doug breaks down, amplifies, and further explains what he spoke in the first of this series.

We know Jesus as the Son of God, but who are 'sons of God'? The first were the angels. Sons of God are direct creations of God, with the exception of Jesus who is and ever was eternally generated and begotten from the Father. Adam, a direct creation of God, was a son of God. But his progeny, the sons of Adam, are not direct creations of God, and therefore not sons of God. However, when we are born from above (i.e.: born again), we become direct (new) creations of God and are therefore sons of God.

Doug goes into an explanation of the singularity and plurality of God as well as that of man which eventually leads to the teaching of the sin of one man affecting the entire human race and the obedience of another Man also affecting the entire human race. In Adam, we die; in Christ, we live.

The death of Christ judicially deals with our sin debt; the life of Christ imparts His virtue and righteousness to us as we participate with Him in obedience.

"Now that we're saved, the goal is eternal life." Some only believe that eternal life is what we come into only after we die and go to heaven. Paul instructs Timothy, "Pursue eternal life!" "Even though we have it, we pursue it. And (eternal) life is that which is an increased reality through the cross."

Speaking of representative man, "The last Adam had to be terminated in terms of His representative role as Adam; go into the grave; and so, when He comes out of the grave, He doesn't come out of the grave as the last Adam; He comes out of the grave as the second Man. The first man is terminated because the last Adam fulfilled the mission that the first Adam never fulfilled in the plan and purpose of God... He takes the entire human race all the way through a perfected obedience to the cross, and then, through resurrection, into the very throne room of God."

This message takes us into the throne room of God and allows us to 'behold the Man' - to see this One designated the last Adam, the second Man, the Lord from heaven. Don't expect to get it all in one sitting. For me, it's been a long process of going through this revelation of Christ in the Word - and it is longer than many of Doug's messages. You won't want to just go through it to get through it. You will miss the blessing. Doug goes through a plenitude of scriptures in making his points, and it requires a lot of focus and concentration. It's a good reminder that we should pray whenever we listen to the word being taught, that the Holy Spirit open our eyes, ears, minds and hearts to all He desires to impart to us.

As Doug reads the scriptures and comments on the perfecting of Jesus Christ, some may want to argue that since Jesus is (and was) God, He's already perfect. How can a perfect God be made perfect? We'll discover more about how when the Son of God became the Son of Man, He put aside His divinity to the point that He became fully human without the supernatural assets He had as God, and became man as God intended man to be - fully and completely dependent on the Father. Only by doing what we see our Father doing and speaking that which the Father is speaking do we realize and appreciate this life of dependence and faith and obtain the resulting life that is pleasing to God.

At the conclusion of this message, Lori raises a question for clarification, and it is one many of us have as far as the confusion of using the terminology of Jesus being 'the second Adam' - which He is not... "There is no second Adam." He's the second man. And completing the discussion, Doug gives us the solution to the unrest and protests we are currently witnessing between the Arabs and the Jews.

Resource Mentioned: The Celestial Court series (you’ll find that on the Video page)

Link to today's audio: https://dougriggs.s3.amazonaws.com/Assemblies/12-15-13+Sunday.mp3

Maranatha!

John Mark

...hereby committing this unto the providential care of the enthroned Head of the Church; whose Name is blessed forevermore, Yeshua Mashiach - Jesus Christ!

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