THE SECOND THINGS OF THE BIBLE
Pasto. O’Hair
The New Testament Scriptures give us the record of - 1. The Second Man - 2. The Second Covenant - 3. The Second Coming of The Second Man - 4. The Second Death.
First let us read I Corinthians 15:47 and 45: “The First Man is of the earth, earthy: the Second Man is the Lord from heaven.” “And so it is written, the First man Adam was made a living soul; the Last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.”
Here we learn that the first Adam, made in the image and likeness of God, is called “the First Man.” The Lord Jesus Christ, Who is to be the last Adam, is called the Second Man from heaven.
There is to be a third man, the man of sin. (II Thessalonians 2:2 to 9).
Everything that is wrong with this earth and the human race came because the First man was disobedient unto death and brought the universal law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2). This means “ruin” for all who are in Adam. But righteousness, reconciliation, redemption and resurrection have come to all of Adam’s descendants, who are new creatures in the Second Man (Christ Jesus), by faith. Spiritual resurrection now, with the guarantee of incorruptibility. (II Timothy 1:10). This is because the Second Man was obedient unto death. (Romans 5:14 to 21). Christ wore the thorns and bore the curse that came by the First man. Then Christ abolished death and destroyed him that had the power of death, Satan. (Hebrews 2:14 and 15).
After the descendants of the First man had struggled with sin for 2500 years, God, through Moses, added the law, that the sin that entered by Adam might abound. God wanted to leave the human race without excuse, as to their guilt before Him. (Romans 5:20 - Romans 3:19 and 20). That “law” covenant is called the First Covenant (Hebrews 8:7 - Hebrews 9:1 - Hebrews 8:13 and 8 - Hebrews 10:9).
Because of a universal heart disease, known as indwelling sin, no members of Adam’s race could obey the First Covenant. Because they all had the sinful nature of the First man. So the Lord, who became the Second Man, then in the bosom of His Father said, that He would come down to earth and do His Father’s will (John 6:38) (Hebrews 10:6 to 10).
So we have the good news of Hebrews 10:9 and 10: “Then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will O God. He taketh away the FIRST that He may establish the SECOND. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
So the SECOND MAN established the SECOND COVENANT whereby God makes “living saints” out of “dead sinners.” The Second Covenant is the ministration of life. The First Covenant is the ministration of death. (II Corinthians 3:7 - Galatians 3:21 - Romans 8:2 to 4).
When sinners, in Adam, accept the Second Covenant, established by the Second Man, they receive the Second Birth. (John 1:12 and 13). Then they are “turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven, even Jesus, Who delivered us from the wrath to come.” (I Thessalonians 1:9 and 10). They are to wait for the Second Coming of the Second Man.
The SECOND MAN is coming the SECOND TIME. (Hebrews 9:28 - Acts 1:8 to 12 - I Thessalonians 4:13 to 18). Those who have accepted the Second Covenant established by the Second Man will be raptured when the Second Man comes the Second Time. They will have no part in the SECOND DEATH, which is everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41) “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the FIRST RESURRECTION: on such the SECOND DEATH hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.” (Revelation 20:6) “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the SECOND DEATH. And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:14 and 15.
The SECOND THINGS are the things that count for eternity.
What is the Gospel?
Believing
Christ died, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again, that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto
you the gospel which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first
of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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