2 Corinthians 4:7
CREATIVE PROGRESSION
There is an infinite being-outside time and space who has communicated with us. He explained how we came to be and told us how and why He originally created us. He describes how He spoke the worlds into being-the amazing process of creation. He demonstrates how He build a beautiful world into being-the amazing process of creation. He demonstrates how He built a beautiful world that was designed for life and living. He unfolded His creative progression till He finally created man-the first of his kind.
CREATED CLIMAX
He made space, time and language and imbued man with thought, reason and choice. He created man in innocence with the capacity to function in willing service for His purpose and pleasure in His creation He formed man with total free-will to choose to serve His creator gladly-in love. He worked in such away as to progressively build up our understanding of all He did. And final piece in His creative jig-jaw was Adam-man created in God image and man was His crowing glory-man was the climax of God's whole creation. Man created in His own image and likeness, was the pinnacle of God's creation.
BREATH OF LIFE
from the dust of the earth that was spoken into being God formed His own likeness. Finally, the breath of God Himself was breathed into him and man began to live. God had determined in the eternal council chambers that He would create man, and God in His infinite knowledge and understanding know that man would sin.
GLORIOUS PLAN
God was not taken by suprise, nor was He fazed by sins entrance in to the world. The all knowing God had already purposed the flow of history despite man's sin. The omniscient God had determined a more glorious plan-to His praise and glory.
PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS
Our wise God had already purposed that He would make a new creation - Christ He would not scrap the fallen creation. But in His graciousness make all things new it was prophet Jeremiah that drew this into a beautiful pictorial illustration: the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter hand, so he made it into another jar as it seemed right for him to do. (Jeremiah18:4).
NEW MAN IN CHRIST
Before the world began the Lord knew that the old creation in Adam would fall. Before the foundation of the world the Lord had planned the new creation in Christ from the beginning-the wonderful story of new man in Christ was taking shape in the eternal council chamber if the Godhead-Christ body was being planned.
NEW CREATION
God Could have obliterated humanity when sin was introduced into the world. He could have halted the human race before His creation works began, but He didn't, for God looked down the corridor of time and chose each of us who'd become His body-and in the fulness of time God send forth His only Son to be the Federal head of a new creation.
POTTERY PICTURE
Now this is the score... Jeremiah pottery picture is an illustration of how God is fashioning His creation. The first creation; the first jar God made, became flawed in His hand Adam sinned. The potter did not throw away the clay-and neither did God do away the humanity, the potter did not try to refashion the flawed jar-and God will not do so either. The potter gathered up the clay one more time and made a new, more beautiful jar-and God in the sale way has made a new, beautiful creation from fallen humanity.
PLAN OF REDEMPTION
God made an entirely new creation in Christ from the flawed clay we'd become. He didn't try to
re-educate Adam old race but set in motion His plan of redemption He did not try to re-train us or to insist that we did lots of studying of good works. He did not try to inprove us or to change by maning our fallen sin nature better Hid made on entirely new creation in Christians-regenerated but not re-educated but there was a difference-a staggering difference between the old and the new.
OLD AND NEW NATURES
The new man in Christ was now a fallen creation not innocent creation. God still gave Hus new creation free-will. But man also had old sin nature. The old sin nature meant that man could never ever do what pleased God, but alongside the old sin nature was the new nature in Chris-the new life in Christ
IMPUTED SIN NATURE
Now think this through... Adam was created innocent and sin by. But had the capacity to choose not to sin. Adam could have chosen not to sin. He was able not to sin and sin nature from home passes on to all offspring. So now every member of the human race has an imputed sin nature from Adam. However before Adam sinned in hid innocence he could have chosen to serve God
IMPUTED AND INHERENT SIN
So things are very different for us. We are created new creature in Christ-not innocent but saved by grace through faith. We commit sins-we have imputed sin and we have inherent sin-we are sinner!!! - as sinnrrs we do not have the ability not to sin because its apart of who we are.
INNOCENT AND SINLESS
The old life we still retain the old, fallen sin nature is totally incapable. It falls far short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death. However, christ was born innocent and sinless, but also had the capacity not to sin. Christ as God was not able to sin. God is perfect and sinless and unable to sin.
CHOICES OF OBEDIENCE
But, Christ as man was able not to sin but he could have sinned as a man. Christ could have chosen to sin like Adam chose to like Adam chose to sin. But Christ chose obedience. And because of His choice we have a new life in us. Chode to serve His creator gladly in love. And saved by Hus redeeming work that we have this His new life in us.
LIfE OF CHRIST
We have this treasure(! The life of Christ) in a jars of clay to show that this is all-surpassing power from God and not from us. Our free-will choice as a believers is to let the life of Christ live in us. Until it is not i that live.. But Christ that lives in me!!!
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