Last Adam

Ephesians 4:13-15

"Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ That we may be no longer little children tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to a system of error, But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,"

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Meaning of Last Adam

This section was last updated on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2006 00:25:51 EST

After the creation of the heavens and the earth and all things in them, God created man. After the creation of man, God could come to dispense Himself into man. When God came, He came not in the person of the Father but in the person of the Son. Although He came in the person of the Son, it does not mean that the Father was left behind, but it means that the Father came in the Son. Furthermore, when the Son came, He came mingled with the Spirit. The Son became flesh with the Father in Him and also with the Spirit. Therefore, the Bible does not say that the Son became flesh, but it says that God became flesh (John 1:1, 14). The One who became flesh is the very Triune God, the complete God. In this way the process proceeded step by step.

The first step was that this eternal God completed the work of creation, and He Himself came into the man whom He had chosen. The second step was His living on the earth for thirty-three and a half years. In those thirty-three and a half years He simply lived a human life. He experienced all the human hardships, sufferings, temptations, trials, and persecutions. In this process He manifested that He was the complete God and the perfect man. As God, He had no lack?the Father, the Son, and the Spirit were all included in Him. As man, He had no shortage?He was absolutely perfect. He was such a One, both God and man, the mysterious God-man. Therefore, He was qualified to accomplish the third step, that is, to die on the cross. Furthermore, He died with seven statuses: first, the Lamb of God (John 1:29); second, a man in the flesh (John 1:14; Rom. 8:3); third, the brass serpent (John 3:14); fourth, the last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45; Rom. 6:6); fifth, the Firstborn of all creation (Col. 1:15); sixth, the Peacemaker (Eph. 2:14-16); and seventh, the grain of wheat (John 12:24). The first six items dealt with the negative things to eliminate the things that should not have been there. The last item, on the positive side, released the divine life that we may receive life. Now He has passed through the all-inclusive death to clear away all the negative things, including sin?our sinful nature?the sins which we committed, Satan, the satanic world, the flesh, the old man, the old creation, and the divisions, the ordinances, and the habits among human beings. Like a great broom, His death swept away all the negative things in the universe. He was also the divine grain of wheat who through death released the divine life within Him.

The fourth step was that He resurrected. Through resurrection His body entered into glory and He became the life-giving Spirit. In this we can see that this life-giving Spirit is the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God, who passed through incarnation, human living, death, and resurrection. At this point the Triune God is not merely God; in Him is the human nature, the human element, the human living, the effectiveness of His all-inclusive death, and the element of His resurrection. Now this rich Triune God is consummated as the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is the Lord Jesus today. The Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17). The Spirit was not yet before His resurrection (John 7:39), but the Spirit was there after His resurrection. What we mean by "was there" is that the Spirit is the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God. Now, when we call upon the name of the Lord, the Spirit comes into us to be received by us. In speaking, this is very deep, but it is very simple in our experience. This is the way the Triune God is dispensed into us. We first need to grasp this point.

(The Full Knowledge of the Word of God, Message 5)

This book unveils to us that the very Christ, who is the portion of all believers, and into whose fellowship we have been called, is all-inclusive. He is God's power and God's wisdom as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption to us (1:24, 30). He is our glory for our glorification (2:7; Rom. 8:30), hence, the Lord of glory (2:8). He is the depths of God, the deep things of God (2:10). He is the unique foundation of God's building (3:11). He is our Passover (5:7), the unleavened bread (5:8), the spiritual food, the spiritual drink, and the spiritual rock (10:3-4). He is the Head (11:3) and the Body (12:12). He is the firstfruit (15:20, 23), the second Man (15:47), and the last Adam (15:45); as such, He became the life-giving Spirit (15:45). This all-inclusive One, with the riches of at least nineteen items, God has given to us as our portion for our enjoyment. We should concentrate on Him, not on any persons, things, or matters other than Him. We should focus on Him as our unique center appointed by God that all the problems among the believers may be solved. It is into the fellowship of such a One that we have been called by God. This fellowship of Him becomes the fellowship the apostles shared with the believers (Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3) in His Body, the church, and should be the fellowship we enjoy in the partaking of His blood and His body at His table (10:16, 21). Such a fellowship must be unique, because He is unique. It forbids any division among the members of His unique Body.

(Life-study of 1 Corinthians, Message 3)

Fourth, this mysterious God-man was crucified in His humanity with His mysterious divinity, dying an all-inclusive, mysterious death, thus accomplishing the eternal redemption of God (Heb. 9:12). When Christ the God-man was on the cross, He accomplished His all-inclusive death in seven statuses. First, as the mysterious Lamb, He took away the sin of man (John 1:29). Not only did He deal with the outward sins of man, but He also dealt with the nature of sin in man. Second, as a mysterious man of flesh, He condemned sin in the likeness of the flesh of sin, that is, in the form of fallen man, and dealt with the flesh of sin (Rom. 8:3). Through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the flesh, God judged sin together with the flesh in which sin dwells. Third, as the mysterious last Adam, He terminated the man of the old creation (Rom. 6:6). The first Adam was the beginning of the human race. The last Adam is the termination of the human race. When Christ as the last Adam was crucified on the cross, the old man, who was created by God and who became fallen because of sin, was terminated. Fourth, as the mysterious Firstborn of all creation in the old creation, He terminated the entire old creation and reconciled all the creation to God (Col. 1:15, 20). Christ as the Firstborn of all creation takes preeminence in all creation. When this Christ was crucified on the cross, the whole old creation was terminated so that all the creation of God could be reconciled to Him. Fifth, as the mysterious brass serpent, He bruised the ancient serpent and destroyed Satan and his world (Gen. 3:15; Heb. 2:14; John 12:31). Sixth, as the mysterious Peacemaker, He abolished all the separating ordinances in the law (including all the different kinds of living, customs, and habits that cause divisions among mankind) through His mysterious death, thus making peace for all His Jewish and Gentile believers (Eph. 2:14-16). Seventh, as a mysterious grain of wheat, He released the divine life in Him through His death, thus making us many grains of wheat of life, like Him (John 12:24). This is the eternal redemption that Christ, the mysterious God-man, has accomplished through His all-inclusive death.

(The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, Message 2)

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