Turn with me to Genesis chapter
2. We're going to look at Adam as a type of Christ. Now Adam, you can read the account
of Adam back in Genesis chapter 2 and then it tells us in Romans
chapter 5 and verse 14 that he was a figure of him that was
to come. Adam was a type of Christ as
both he and the one he foreshadowed were federal heads and representatives
of a people. They're both the beginning of
a people. They are the federal heads. They
are the beginning of a people. And this is the gist of Paul's
teaching in Romans chapter five. Verses 12 through 21, he just
goes over and over and over these two heads, Adam and Christ, Adam
and Christ. And there are two men at the
basis of all God's dealings with men, Adam and Christ. He tells us that over and over. Adam was the federal head and
representative of all mankind. He is the beginning of our race. And therefore, he's called in
the scripture, our father. When Adam sinned against God,
the result of his sin, which was Spiritual death was passed
upon all men. He tells us that in Romans 5,
12. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
and so death passed upon all men. How was the sinner born? He born
of his fallen father, Adam. We come forth, David said, from
the womb, speaking lies. We don't learn to lie. It's our
nature. We're liars by birth, by nature. We come forth from the womb,
speaking of life. Why do we do that? Because we're
heir of our father Adam's nature. His seed is in us. Back in Genesis
chapter 1, of all the things that God created and put on this
earth, all the trees and the fruit bearing trees and the vines
and all of these things, their seed was in them to produce after
their kind. After their kind. He just keeps
telling us that. And so it is with man. All that
Adam can produce is after his kind. Because our nature is a fallen
sinful nature, all that we do is polluted by sin. Everything
we do, everything we think is polluted by sin. Romans 5, 12,
wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin, and so death passed. It was passed to all men by way
of the judgment of God, the judgment of God upon our father Adam. It was passed, judgment was passed. Because of his transgression,
judgment was passed on him, and because it was passed on him,
we become heirs of it. We're heirs. In 1 Corinthians 15, 21, he says,
for since by man, that is one man, came death, by man came
also the resurrection from the dead. For in Adam all die, even
so in Christ shall all be made alive. That is all that's represented
by these two. You'll never make any sense out
of the scriptures until you come to some understanding of the
federal headship of Adam and Christ. Men want to argue because
they look back over that portion of life that they become aware
of, at whatever age that was, where their memory begins to
hold some sense, they go back and they judge themselves by
that, but the story goes way back beyond that. and it has effect over us. You know, he tells us there in
Romans chapter five also, he said, before the law was, sin
was, and sin reigned over them who did not sin after the similitude
of our father Adam. In other words, what's he talking
about there? Who didn't choose to sin, who
didn't receive a commandment, and then say, well, I don't wanna
do that, and then they sinned. No, sin reigned over them who
didn't, and what's he talking about there? He's talking about
little children. Sin reigned over them. We come, like I said
before, I quoted from the scripture, we come forth from the womb speaking
like. Sin reigns in us. That's all we've ever known is
sin. That's why sin, when somebody stands up and declares it to
you, seems so unreal to you. Well, I'm not that way. Oh, yes,
you are. You're just not aware of it. You look down there at a dead
carcass and you see all them wiggling maggots all over there.
You think any of those maggots are aware that they're maggots?
That's what they've always been. Salvation is that which comes
by our eternal covenant union with Christ. That's how it comes. In Colossians 1.18 it says, and
he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning. The beginning of what? The beginning
of the church. The beginning of all things.
The firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have
the preeminent Actually, the federal headship
of Christ is what necessitates all the offices given him of
God. Think about it. Because he's
our federal head, he must be appointed to this office as mediator. One mediator between God and
me and the man Christ Jesus. Why must that be? Because he's
our federal head. Because he's our federal head,
he must be appointed as the surety of the everlasting covenant of
grace. Because he's our federal head, he must be appointed as
our substitute. Because he is the head of the
body of the church, he must be appointed as our savior, our
high priest, our prophet, and our lord. And because he's the
head of all those given to him by the Father, he's responsible
for their welfare. All their sins were charged to
him, and all his righteousness charged to them. So Adam is a figure of him that
was to come in that they were both federal heads and representatives
of a people. I wanna warn you about something.
You can't take a type, this is what we've been studying, these
types. You can't take a type and make it mean anything you
want to. We have to go to the scriptures
to see how this type is identified, how it is revealed to us in the
word of God. And here in Romans 5, what I
just told you is the primary source or the primary reason,
the basis of him being a figure of him that was to come. It's
in his federal headship. But being our federal head necessitates a lot more. It reveals a lot more because
he's our federal head. Adam was a type of Christ in
that God was his father. Think about that for a minute.
In Genesis 2-7 it said, and the Lord God formed man of the dust
of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
and man became a living soul. God was his father. In the gospel,
according to Luke, his genealogy of Christ ends with this statement,
and Adam, now listen, which was the son of God. God was his father, as God was
the father of Christ. In Ephesians 1.3, Paul speaks
of the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. And this cannot,
this cannot be talking about his divine relationship as the
Father, as the second person of the Godhead, the Son. That's
not what they're talking about. He had no beginning. As the Father is eternal, so
the Son is eternal, so the Holy Spirit is eternal. He had no beginning. He is the
eternal God. This speaks of Him as God's only
begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the God and Father
of Jesus Christ, the God-Man, Mediator. And as God is the Father of Jesus
Christ, He is the Father of all those in Him. In Galatians 3.26,
it said, for you are all the children of God by faith in Christ
Jesus. And John said this, whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. He's born of
God. Galatians 4.6, and because you're
sons, he said, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father. He is God's only begotten son
and God is his father there in Ephesians chapter one as God
is our father. Cause we're in him. We're in him. Now God was Adam's
father by creation. God was Christ's father by eternal
generation. Adam's children were all cursed
by a covenant of works. Christ's children are all blessed
by the eternal covenant of grace. So Adam was a figure of him that
was to come in that God was his father. Thirdly, Adam is a type of Christ
in that he knowingly subjected himself to the curse of God because
he loved his bride. I don't know if you ever thought
about that. In Ephesians chapter five and
verse 25, it says, husbands, love your wives even as Christ
loved the church and gave himself for it. Gave himself to be made
a curse for her. to be stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. And because of His great love
wherewith He loved us, He willingly went to the cross and suffered
and died in our room instead. Over and over He tells us that
this is how love, the love of God, is perceived. It's through
the death of Christ. And this was manifested the love
of God toward us because God sent his only begotten son into
the world that we might live through him. Now turn with me
to 1 Timothy chapter 2. I'm going to show you something
here. What I'm saying is that Adam
willingly and knowingly subjected himself to the curse of God because
he loved his bride. 1 Timothy 2.14 He's giving reasons here why
the man is to be head of the woman. 1 Timothy 2.14 And Adam was not
deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Well what's that got to do with
him? Loving his bride and giving himself willingly to the curse
To me that's exactly what this is telling me. He was not deceived
The woman was deceived She believed that she could eat of that fruit.
She'd be like God knowing good and evil But she wasn't like
God Adam was not deceived He went
into this thing, he didn't have this reason when he went into
this thing, he had one thing on his mind, he loved his wife.
And he would not be separated from her. He loved her. Now I'm not saying that this
was an act of faith on his part, I'm simply saying that he tempified
Christ in this. He would not deceive. Not only
does it say he was not deceived, but immediately after the presentation
of the woman to the man, Adam had this to say. He made this
prophecy. Now listen to this. It's back
in Genesis. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and
shall cleave unto his wife. That's way back yonder in Genesis.
But it's recalled again and give us a little bit more light on
it. In Ephesians chapter 5 Paul quotes this verse from Genesis
chapter 2 saying for this call shall man leave his father and
mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they too shall be
one flesh. Now watch this. This is a great
mystery. This is a great mystery. Here's a man, he loves his mother
and father. His whole life he's been dependent
on his mother and father. Raised in their house, under
his control, under his protection. Gets hungry, mama has food on
the table. Need clothes, take him down to
the store and buy him clothes. All of a sudden, He meets this
little girl, and everything changes. He leaves his father and mother,
and he cleaves to his wife. Cleaves to his wife. Paul said,
this is a great mystery. But, he said, I speak concerning
Christ and the church. I don't know if that convinces
you, but it convinces me that this is what Adam did in the
garden. He loved his bride. He gave no
thought as far as what his condition was gonna be before God, but
he loved his bride, and he willingly subjected himself to the curse
out of love for his bride. All right, fourthly. Adam is
a type or a figure of him that was to come in that by him the
gospel of substitution was manifest to men. You ever think about
that? How come all through the Old
Testament, 400 years before the giving of the law, men come up
and built an altar, slayed a lamb, and offered it up on that altar.
Why'd they do that? There was no law. There was nothing
there that said you have to take this lamb and kill this lamb
in a certain manner. It has to be the firstling of
your flock and you have to put it away so many days. They didn't
have all that. And for 400 years, much longer
than that, but I'm just saying, all this time between Adam and
Moses, All of these men of God, all these patriarchs of God,
they all took a lamb, built an altar, offered it on that altar.
How come? Because Adam manifested, God
manifested through Adam the doctrine of substitution. And he did it
right there in the garden. When Abel, Cain and Abel, the
first two born of Adam, his sons, when they came to worship God,
Abel knew to bring a lamb, the firstling of the flock, and by
faith, to offer him upon the altar of worship. You say, I
can't find that in Genesis. Well, you're looking in the wrong
place. Look over in the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, and it
said, by faith, By faith, now listen, Hebrews 11, four, by
faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
by which he obtained witness that he was righteous. How'd
he know to do that? Adam told him. Adam told him. God testifying of his gifts,
both in Genesis and here in Hebrews, and by it, he being dead yet
speaking. God came to Adam in the cool
of the day and showed to him the way of salvation. He killed
a lamb and clothed him, and clothed his bride. God taught Adam and Eve the gospel
of substitution, and he gave them the promise of the coming
Redeemer. And they told their children,
this lamb that's offered is a picture of him that is to come. What this world is totally ignorant
of is that the death of Christ was a substitutionary death. What do I mean by that? I mean
that he died in the place of another. That's what I'm talking
about, a substitute. That is, he stood before God,
bearing their sins in his own body on the tree. He died, the
scripture says, the just for the unjust. that he might bring
us to God. Being put to death in the flesh
but quickened in the spirit. And the purpose of his death,
Romans 3, 24, is that his elect should be justified freely by
his grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. Now men
think because of religious concepts, they think that Their sins are
upon them, and through something that they do, those sins are
going to be put away. Your relationship, in so much
as your sins are concerned, was put away in Christ long before
you was ever born. Huh? Is that not the doctrine
of reconciliation that he tells us over in 2 Corinthians 5? Too
wit? He said, here's the doctrine
of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ. Let me read it to you. I ought to be able to quote it,
but I can't seem to be able to. to wit that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them. Well, who'd he impute them to?
The Lord Jesus Christ, their substitute. You see what I'm
saying? The sin issue was settled in
Christ. The faith issue is what'll be
settled in you. But in so much as the putting
away of sin, this is what the doctrine of substitution's all
about. Christ put away our sin. They're
gone. He paid for them. He paid that
bill in full. Well, whose sins did he die? All that believe. All that believe. And we know that his death was
effectual. That's why I know he didn't die
for everybody, because everybody's not saved. His death is effectual. He was delivered for our offenses,
raised again for our justification. Tells us in Hebrews 9 verse 12
that he entered into the holy place having obtained eternal
redemption for us. His redemption is effectual and
his righteousness is sufficient. And all for whom he died he'd
been made of God unto them, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. And it is absolutely impossible
for any man or woman to be redeemed by his blood and robed in his
righteousness and then in the end to be cast into hell. That's
a doctrine of the devil is what that is. He passed from death
unto life, that's what our Lord said. If a man believes he's
passed from death unto life, he's a new creation. How many
times does our Lord say to those who believe? He said, you'll
never perish. That good enough for me? This ain't some preacher interpreting
scripture. This is the Lord Jesus Christ
saying to a believer, you'll never perish. And no man gonna
pluck you out of my hand. Even if they could, they can't
pluck you out of my father's hand, and I and my father won. Adam is a type of Christ in that
by him the gospel of substitution was manifest. And then fifthly,
Adam was a type of Christ in that his bride was taken from
his bosom. Eve had her beginning in the
bosom of her husband. It says of Christ that he is
the beginning. Isn't that what it says? He's
the head of the body of the church who is the beginning. There was
no church, was no church until God put us in his bosom. There are many key words and
phrases all through the scriptures, but none more prominent than
this one, in Christ, in Christ. Well, you ought to just get you
a strong concordance and look that word up in Christ and read
every verse. Because there's none of them
in there that won't do you good. If any man be in Christ, he's
a new creation. God has saved us, Paul told Timothy,
and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us,
now listen, in Christ Jesus, before the world began. And what
about this one over in Ephesians 1-3? Well, actually, all down
through Ephesians chapter 1, blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he has
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the beloved, in whom we have redemption, in
whom also we have obtained an inheritance. In Christ, in Christ,
in Christ. You won't find anything for the
sinner outside of Christ, it's all in Christ. In him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete
in him. In him. And then very quickly,
let me give you this. Adam is a type of Christ in that
his bride was taken from him. She was taken from him. She had
no being until she was taken from him. And as far as I know, there's
nowhere else in the scripture where the word man, man, see
it back there in Genesis 2 verse 22. Nowhere else in the scripture,
I took my strong concordance and there's a lot of verses,
it goes on for pages and pages and pages. Nowhere else in the
scripture is that word man capitalized. I looked at that and I thought,
what in the world? There's one mediator between
men and God, the man, Christ Jesus. Surely that capitalized.
No, no it ain't. It capitalized one place over
here in Genesis chapter two. Now let me say this before I
say anything else. In the original, there are no
capitalizations. Nowhere, nowhere in there. This
was done by the translator. But having said that, the translators
had good reason for putting this in here. And God has been pleased
to preserve this version of the Bible for hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of years. And there's a good reason for
putting it in there. She was taken out of man. Out of man. How? Well, first of all, the
man Christ Jesus, the firstborn of many brethren, she was taken
out of him. How'd we get in him? God put
us in him. And then she was taken out of
him. And then secondly, she was taken out of pristine mankind. When was Eve created? Was she created before the fall? She didn't have any sin, did
she? No, no. Romans chapter nine, verse 11,
it says, he's talking, he's gonna set the standard now, he's gonna
reveal to us what election is, and he's gonna do it in these
two boys, Jacob and Esau. Now listen to this, Romans nine,
verse 11. It said, for the children being
not yet born, that is before their conception, before they
were ever formed in the belly, the children being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of
God according to election might stand, it was said unto her,
the elder's gonna serve the younger. When was that decided? I've heard so many preachers
talk about Esau and because he did this and because he did that.
That had nothing to do with his election. He was elected before
he was ever conceived in the womb. Before he ever did any
good or evil. That the purpose of God according
to election might stand not of works, but of him that called
it. The election of God's saints
had no bearing on their fall. None whatsoever or any good thing
that they might do sometime in the future or any evil thing
that God may have foresaw that they would do in the future.
It was based solely upon the sovereign will of God. Did God
know that man would fall? Absolutely. That's why he appointed
his son in whom he put us, whom he made heir of all things. That's
why he put us in Christ to make provision for that fall. But
that fall had nothing to do with our election. We was elected
before the fall. Now, how many people, if you
heard when you start talking to them about election, they'll
start talking to you, well, that's not fair. Now, wait a minute. We was all on an equal basis
before that, wasn't we? Huh? None of us done any good,
none of us done any evil. But that the purpose of God according
to election might stand not of him that will, but of God. God
to call. Huh? Somebody's still gonna say, you
know, well, it's just not fair. And I'll tell you what he told
me. Who art thou that replies against God? Adam was a type
of Christ in that his bride was taken from him. Taken from him. And they were one. They were
one. Father, bless the lesson this
morning. Teach us to not to depend upon our concepts but to depend upon your word
and to study it and to look into it and to receive it and rejoice
in it. We give thee all the thanks and
praise for all that you've shown us. Thank you. Amen.