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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 21
OLD ADAM CRUCIFIED - ROMANS 3:19-22
We found that the only remedy for the old Adam is for God to move in His omnipotent all-powerful omniscient way, and put old Adam to death so that we are rid of him so far as his power and influence is concerned, and get on with life with a new nature - a divine nature. Romans 3:23
Until God does something we are falling short of the glory of God. We are sinners, or sons of Adam) have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Now for a moment let's go to I Thessalonians Chapter 5, and let's begin at verse 23, and remember this is still Paul's writings.
A body, soul and spirit; that's what The Book says. Genesis 1:26,27
"And God said, `Let us (that's a plurality word, as it should be. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Now when God created man in His image the first thing that you must understand from Scripture is this. God was not in the form of a man! It didn't mean that God was going to make someone that looked like He looked, because what was God? Spirit! The Triune God is still Spirit, and so the Triune God doesn't say that we are going to make a creature that looks like a spirit looks. The personality.
When God created Adam then, He made him a triune being, he was a three-part being, not a Trinity, but a three-part being as I Thessalonians laid out - body, soul, and spirit. Remember God never had a body with the five senses that He could pattern us after. But here He was a personality comprised of mind, will, and emotions. Then the third part of Adam was the spirit part of him and it was in the area of spirit. And it was in this area that Adam fellowshipped with God - he had communion with Him. Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,..."
I'll call the soul the mind, will, and emotions, the personality. And the spirit is the core of our very being wherein we as believers have fellowship with God. Now the moment Adam sinned, and showed his disobedience, this personality, this mind, will, and emotion became immediately a sin nature. At the same instance, what happened to this spirit and God relationship? What happened to the spirit in Adam? It died. So Adam, after the fall is nothing more and nothing less than the body with it's five senses, temporary, and it's going to die. And we know that Adam lived a long time but he died. That old sin nature which made up his personality, had no relationship with God, because it was broken the same as any unbeliever today. That spirit of Adam died like a dead battery. Christ has now died, He has now fulfilled all the demands of God on sinful men in the person of Christ on the Cross. Sons of Adam! So if we're dealing with invisible, then we are dealing with the spirit realm, and not the physical.
Forever. That soul is going to live somewhere forever because again we're dealing in the spirit. Everyone of us now as Sons of Adam are born with the body in which is dwelling this personality that's sin bent, anti-God. Well let me tell you what the Scripture calls it, other than what we just saw in the Book of Romans Chapter 3. Let's skip forward to Romans Chapter 8. Romans 8:5
"For they that are after the flesh (the word `flesh' here refers to being controlled by old Adam. Now verse 6:
Romans 8:6
"For to be carnally (or fleshly) minded is death (spiritual death, that's the end result, and death in that regard is simply separation from God. Not just for this life, but forever); but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
Romans 8:7
"Because the carnal mind (this carnal mind that is still in old Adam. is enmity against God (good people like to say, "That's not me." I don't care how good, God sees their mind as His enemy. We were enemies of God even though most of us I'll bet were living pretty good lives. You're in Romans so come back to Chapter 6.
Romans 6:5,6a
Romans 6:6
"Knowing this that our old man (who's that? Old Adam! The fleshly body here in the circles, and that mind, will, and emotion that is still sin-bent, that's old Adam.) It puts to death. John 12:23,24
We are sinners, we are nothing but law-breakers, because of our condition in Adam, so then the Holy Spirit, oh bless the work of the Holy Spirit! God somehow recharges us right here the moment we believe. He recharges our spirit. Because even if God does consider old Adam as crucified, and we know he does, God reckons him as dead.

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