ADAM THE GARDENER AND HIS/OUR MEDIATOR

The 1st Adam was not and is not our mediator. The 2nd Adam is. And a very critical and many times missed fact is that the 1st Adam needed a mediator just as much at the time when God made him as he did after he ate the fruit that resulted in the physical death of all mankind. I want to repeat that. The 1st Adam was in need of a mediator both before and after he ate the fruit. Because "flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God."  

Paul taught that the reason Adam needed a mediator is that he was natural, not spiritual when he was made. And Paul taught regarding him in 1Cor.15:50 that "flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God". And Jesus said the only beings that can have a relationship of true worship with God are those who are spiritual.

This has nothing to do with the naughty/nice Santa Claus religion based on the doctrine of original sin and sin nature. This has nothing to do with that salvation by works message which is anathema to God. It has only to do with natural vs spiritual. And the water birth vs the spiritual birth.

This is why all men since Adam was made have been in need of a savior. A mediator who can bridge the gap between mortality and immortality. Which is to say between flesh and blood corruptible by death, and spirit which death can not touch.

Paul said in 1Cor.2:14 that as natural men we can not perceive spiritual things. And Jesus said in John4:24 God is a spirit and those who worship Him must do so in spirit and in truth. So neither the 1st Adam nor any other man was ever able to worship God in spirit until after Jesus came.

Because as Paul says in 1Cor.15:46 when Jesus came He was the first man who not only had a natural body of flesh and blood, but was also spiritual. And being a spiritual man, God in flesh, He was able to relate to God in true worship. The spiritual worship that only spiritual beings can do. A relational kind of worship based on the love that comes only from God's kind of love. A faith relationship that works by love as Paul wrote in Gal.5:6.

And because faith only works by this love man had some growing to do from the time he was made till now to be ready to receive the spiritual birth. Eve showed that man was created with the ability to reason as we see her contemplating before eating the fruit the serpent told her would make her wise.

Gen.3:6 says as she considered eating the fruit her natural senses told her it was "good for food, pleasant to look at, and good to make one wise". And interestingly in 1John2:16 we see John saying these things are not of God, but of the world. But, John did not say that being of the world meant they are evil. He simply said they are of the world.

This is because they are natural, not spiritual. They are things men need to relate to the world they live in now. The things that are made. Things that God gave to Adam when he was made saying it was "very good". John tells us here that "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."

Like I said, these being "of the world" does not mean these are evil in and of themselves. It means they are natural things men are given by God to relate to what has been made. If it were true that these are evil then one would have to believe that God made man with evil in him from the beginning. But, God said everything He had made in the 6 days of creation was "very good".

What this passage in Gen.3:6 and the one that corresponds to it in 1John2:16 are saying is what Paul said in 1Cor.15:45-50. That is, that man has been natural and not spiritual from the very beginning. Using the natural means God gave him when He made man to relate to the natural world God placed him in.

And because man is only flesh and blood he has always been able to relate only to what is natural. And not to that which is spiritual. Which is why man has needed a deliverer, a mediator, from the very beginning for him to inherit the kingdom of God.

And by coming as a man Jesus was able to relate to us who are only natural how to access the spiritual things that we need to truly know and worship God and to inherit His kingdom. This is why Jesus said in John3:5, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water(fleshly birth) and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."

This is why we see in Luke18:31-34 when Jesus taught them they could not understanding what He was teaching them. They understood the law keeping part because works of the law are natural, not spiritual. Which is why men are so prone to be deceived into a salvation by works methodology.

But, they had trouble with the trusting in Him as Messiah for eternal life part as is shown in Peter's denial of Jesus in Luke22:54-62 when he felt threatened. Because trusting in God is spiritual and without works of the flesh.

So we find in John16 that He told them that when the Holy Spirit came He would lead and guide them in all truth. Then they would have all the things explained that Jesus told them when the Holy Spirit was with them and in them. And more.

This is why Jesus is known as our mediator. Not only because He is the only way for mankind to come to the Father. Which He most certainly is. But, also because He introduced us to God by introducing us to Himself. So that we would know who God is and how much He loves us. And how He came so that we could be delivered from death's power.

Picture this. You see an ant crawling across the ground. You see it and want to communicate salvation to it. But, as human beings we can not communicate with ants. The only way we could is to become an ant and speak to them in their language.

This is what God did through Jesus. He became a man so that He could communicate to mankind through natural means God's love and salvation from death's power. This is what made Jesus the mediator between God and man.

In communication with the Father He was able to tell us exactly what we needed to hear, and performed acts of love that we needed to see, that proved to us that He was truly God in the flesh. The promised Messiah that we could trust in for God's deliverance from mortality to immortality and from death's power that we so badly need.

As a spiritual being, God in the flesh, Jesus is our mediator. And by trusting in Jesus the same way He trusted the Father, by saying nevertheless not my will but thine be done, we are righteous just as Jesus was. The righteousness that is by the faith of Christ and not by His or anyone else's works is ours as Gal.2:16 says. The only righteousness that can make us the spiritual beings that Jesus said we must be to worship God in spirit and in truth and enter into God's kingdom.

So Jesus is our mediator not because He kept the works of the law or the miracles He performed. But, because He showed us that righteousness unto eternal life is trusting in Him the same way He trusted the Father. This is why the work of God that God requires of us to be His children is that we believe in Jesus as He believed the Father.

He is not our mediator because He kept the law perfectly. All Jews were expected to do that. And many did as we see in Luke1:5,6, Phil.3:6, and Job1. And not because He wants us to do the same miracles He did. He told the disciples in John14:12 "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

Those greater works are when we witness to others about God's love for them and men are born again by believing in Jesus' death and resurrection. This is something that Jesus could not do while on earth living as a man because He had not yet conquered death. His death and resurrection were required first before anyone could be born again. So the "greater works than these", being born again, is part of the New Covenant. Not the Old Covenant that Gal.4:4 tells us Jesus was under.

Because Paul said in Gal.3:21 that there was never a law given that could give life. And that life would only be possible through a loving relationship with the resurrected Jesus. Because as Jesus said in John17:3 knowing the true God and His Son is eternal life.

So our mediator Jesus came to provide us with the life that Adam never had even when God first made him. There was no way for man to be made the spiritual being he needed to be to have eternal life until Jesus came, died, rose, and lives. 1Cor.15:1-4.

And as long as Adam remained in the garden eating from the tree of life that gave him only perpetual physical life as long as he could eat it this could never happen. So in God's plan He made it possible for man to become a spiritual being by trusting in Him for deliverance from mortal to immortal and from death to life.

So, the question is will you remain just as Adam was when he was made, natural not spiritual? Or will you be born again of the Spirit of God into a spiritual being who can worship God in spirit and truth? Will you inherit God's kingdom that is your spiritual birthright? Or will you let satan talk you out of it?

The choice is yours. God has done all that is needed for you to have eternal life in His kingdom. All you need to do is confess Jesus is Lord. And believe He has raised from the dead to conquer death for you. Pray with me now if you want to keep your spiritual birthright.

Dear Jesus, I believe you are Lord and have raised from the dead. Thank you for joining with me in death so that I can join with you in eternal life. Thank you for saving me from mortality to immortality. Thank you for making me heir to your kingdom. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Now that we are fellow heirs with Jesus I can truthfully say, See you there or in the air!

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