Address—C. Hendricks
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Tonight, I'd like to talk.
About the grand subject of the Bible, and that is this book.
There's a history of two men, and those two men are Adam and Christ, and I'd like to look a little first at the first man.
And then, as the Lord enables, at the second man and the last Adam.
Let's begin by looking at a verse in First Corinthians 15 First Corinthians 15.
45.
And so it is written, the first man, Adam, was made a living soul.
The last atom was made a quickening spirit.
Howbeit, that was not first, which is spiritual.
But that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual.
The first man.
Is of the Earth earthy?
The second man is the Lord from heaven.
As is the earthy.
Such are they also that are earthy, and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy.
We shall also bear.
The image.
Of the heavenly.
But here we have those two men spoken of.
The first man, Adam.
And the last?
Adam Christ.
When God created the first man.
His thought saw in that first man he knew of course he would fail.
And he looked beyond the first man in that original creation.
To the one who would come and fulfill all the desires of his heart.
Who would meet all that his heart longed for?
In that.
Man that he had created.
The first man has totally failed and we know this.
But he has another order of man.
The second man.
He's the second man.
Because the first man has failed.
God wasn't taken by surprise in that failure, but He knew the end from the beginning.
And he had another order of man.
He's called the second man, and he's also called the last Adam, as we've read.
Because there won't be another to supersede him.
There won't be another ever to take his place.
Because in him.
All the desire of God's heart.
All the desire of God's heart is fulfilled in men. Let's turn back to Genesis 3 for justice, a verse.
Genesis 2.
Verse 7.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
A man became.
A living soul.
And then John 20.
John's Gospel, chapter 20.
Verse 19.
Then the same day, that evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut.
Where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus.
And stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side.
Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord?
And then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you.
As my Father hath sent me, Even so send I you.
And when he had said this, he breathed down them and saith.
Unto them receive ye.
The Holy Ghost.
While we read in Genesis.
That when God created the first man, he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
He received his life in an altogether different and unique way from any of the other creatures, any of the animals.
Says that God caused the earth to bring forth the animals, but when he created man, he took of the dust of the ground and then.
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The Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. There was an intimacy there was in that creature man. It was to become the head of this earthly creation.
And in God's eternal thoughts and purposes and counsels.
He had determined that man fulfilled in the person of his son.
Would be the head over all things heavenly.
And earthly to head up all things in Christ.
And so he placed this first man as the head of that fair creation that he had made.
And he was in special relationship with himself.
He received the very breath of God.
And in John 20, the Lord Jesus.
The second man, the last Adam.
Having accomplished redemption by the sacrifice of himself.
He appears now in this 20th chapter as the Risen 1 And he appears to his disciples, and he breathes upon them, He breathes into their nostrils the breath of that risen life.
And says receive you the Holy Ghost. Well this is all. These comments are all introductory to my subject.
God is looking for.
Fruit.
From us.
And we'll get into that a little bit farther along.
But I have kept my place in First Corinthians 15.
And I want to read that 45th verse again.
And so it is written, the first man, Adam, was made a living soul, and we read how that came about.
By the embrading of the Lord God.
Into man's you.
Of that dross, and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a looting soul and he.
With his creator as none of the other creatures were.
An immortal slow.
A loving soul with soul that would never die.
And that makes its soul.
Intensely solemn.
Everyone here this evening.
Every child with Adam's race.
As a living soul.
You will never die. It's going to spend eternity with Christ's door.
In the Dungeons of the Damned.
Was that?
That it serves the last.
Was made a quickening spirit.
And in John 20.
We see him as the quickening spirit that life giving.
Spirit whizzing into their nostrils, the.
Wrath of his resurrection life.
The growing life of Christ risen from the daily.
Triumphant over all the power of sin and death.
Under law.
And this whole sphere that he was living in when he was down here, a man amongst men.
He's risen now, and he's communicated to you and to me.
The wrath of this risen life.
In the power.
Of the Holy Spirit.
And that's the only way there can be any fruit for God.
I'd like to think of little.
Of himself when he was brown, he lived.
I was the one that brought forth.
Fruit for God, but before we do that.
What's more, at the first man, just a little brick turned back with me.
Two eyes later.
Chapter 8. Isaiah Chapter 5. Excuse me?
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Who swan thou will I sing to my well beloved, a song of my?
He loved him touching his vineyard.
My well belonged happens lingered in a very fruitful hero.
And he thrust it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest brine.
And built a tower in the midst to do it. And also made a wine person.
And he thought that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
And now inhabitant.
Inhabitants of Jerusalem and man of Judah.
Judge, I pray you betwixt me in my vineyard.
What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not gone Anil?
Wherefore one outlook that should bring forth grapes brought it forth wild grapes.
And now go to I will tell you what I will do to my vinegar, but I will take away their heads. There are, and it shall be eaten up.
And breakdown the wall, the world, when it shall be trodden down.
The valuable way at least, it shall not be pruned, nor did.
That they shall come up routers and flowers. I will also command the clouds at the rain. No rain upon it.
What a vengeance of the Lord of hosts is the House of Israel.
And the man of Judah was his pleasant client.
When he looked for judgment, But behold the Prussian.
Righteousness.
For being old and cry.
And there was an expression.
I want to read and saw maybe he.
Connection with this boiling.
In Psalm 88.
Lord has brought a blind out of Egypt.
Thor was thrust out the heathling and planted it, and so on.
These two passages from Israel and the sounds.
From before us that Israel is looked upon here as the vine.
And God was working for fruit.
And he asked the question, what could have been done more to my being good? Would I have not done anything?
God gave the first man. That's really history of the first man under the most very global conditions.
The Rustom of the killings for houses for his History of the First Maryland.
On.
Included that way.
What the history of the Jew was the history of the first man?
A blue mold, red blue can glitch and God.
What should the wooden dose?
And whenever you were with the war, them so at all with the Lord that slugged.
Turn with me to 1 Peter, One for justice, a verse.
One Peter 1.
Verse 2 He writes to those who were elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.
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Through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience.
And sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
Grace unto you, and peace be multiplied.
What is Peter referring to here?
Is referring to Exodus 24 when the law was given.
And they said.
All that the Lord has said we will do and obey.
And then?
Moses took the Law, took blood, and he sprinkled it upon them.
In other words, he was holding them to it.
The penalty of death, which the blood was a type of there picture of, would be upon those who were disobedient.
And so they promised obedience, illegal obedience, and never produced it under penalty of death if they failed to keep it.
What are we sanctified to?
We're not sanctified to that kind of obedience.
And the blood that.
Has been sprinkled upon us. Isn't the sign of death punishment?
Following upon disobedience, but we're sanctified to the obedience of Christ.
And to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ we are sanctified to an altogether different kind of obedience. He never obeyed out of compulsion.
He didn't obey like my children often obey. I say to my child, do this and he'll moan and groan and mumble and twist and turn and say, well, all right, I'll do it, but I don't want to.
But I'll do it because I have to. The Lord never obeyed that way.
It was the delight in his heart to obey, Though I come to do thy will, O God, Thy laws within my heart.
Was a law of liberty. That's what we've been called to.
He's given us now His own life and nature and the power of the Spirit and when he commands us.
It's the delight of the new life.
To run in the way of his commandments. So it's a law of liberty.
Altogether different kind of obedience.
Were sanctified unto the obedience of Jesus Christ, and then the sprinkling of the blood.
If we don't always obey and we know, we all fail.
Still, the sprinkling of the precious blood of Christ gives us a perfect standing before God.
Before God and all the value of that precious blood.
It's not our standing isn't based upon our obedience, but our obedience is a flowing out.
Of the life of Christ produced in us by the Spirit of God, and our acceptance before God is based upon the precious blood of Christ.
What a difference.
Between the legal state.
And what the Christian is brought into. Now, just a few more thoughts from John 15.
Verse 8.
Herein is my Father glorified.
That she bear much fruit.
So shall you be my disciples. Why are we here?
Why has he left us here in this scene?
Why hasn't he taken us home?
As soon as he saved us.
Well.
He wants to see in a world.
Which hates his son.
He wants to see that life.
Which was lived out in all its blessed perfection.
In him a man on earth reproduced in us, in you and me.
By the Spirit of God, this is what fills his heart with delight and joy.
His left is here to bear much fruit.
It's not doing.
But it's Christ.
Christ by the Spirit produced in US.
And then he says, As the Father hath loved me.
So have I loved you, continue ye in my love.
The conscious sense of the love of the Son for us even as the Father is loved him.
If you keep my commandments, you should abide in my love.
Even as I have kept my father's commandments.
And abide in His love.
What's the difference between Christ's commandments and the Law of Moses?
All the difference in the world.
The Law of Moses are the.
Prohibitions of God upon the desires of the flesh.
Everything that the flesh wants to do.
Says don't do that.
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And so it's a ******* to the first man, but the commandments of Christ are the directives of the new life that we have in Christ, he says. To all nature that loves.
He says I command you that you love one another. Well, you can't command a person to love you. What does the Lord mean? He's giving direction and impetus and energy to that new life and nature. And he says that's the way it acts. And now do it. Let it act according to its nature.
And that's what characterizes the Christian community is love, and that's fruit bearing. The whole life of Christ was a life of love with doubt never did anything for himself.
You always live for others.
Absolutely selfless son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.
That's why we're here.
Love always seeks the blessing of its object.
And the energy of love manifested in Him.
Can now be seen in you and me. That's a marvel.
We who are nothing but sin.
We who couldn't be worse than we were.
He's picked this up.
It has made us new creatures.
Given us of his own life and nature.
Indwelt us by the Holy Spirit.
Given us a new object, Christ in glory.
But altogether different kind of obedience.
Not because I have to, but because I want to.
I have a nature that delights in it.
In pleasing him.
But it's necessary in this century that the discipline comes in.
The painful things are brought to us to lop off those little chutes.
That come from the flesh.
He didn't need it. We do that would.
Spoil the fruit.
Thank God.
For the trials.
And all that he sends into our lives that takes away.
Those tendencies in everyone of us that would spoil the fruit. Verse 11.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy.
Might remain in you.
And that your joy might be full.
What was his joy?
It was the most misunderstood man that ever walked this world.
The loneliest man.
The loneliest man.
He was alone, like a Sparrow upon the housetop.
Pelican in the wilderness.
He looked for some to take pity. There was none and for comforters and he found none.
Man of Sorrows.
And acquainted with grief.
And yet he had a joy.
But he wants us to have.
The joy that all the untoward outward circumstances.
Can never take away.
It was the joy of doing the will of the Father.
Cost what it might, and the cost to Him was infinite, Who for the joy that was set before him, He endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
What was that joy?
To be back there with the Father, to do his will, and to have you and me there with him.
As the trophies of His grace.
As vessels of mercy.
And when he sees of the fruit of the travail of his soul.
In that coming day.
He'll be satisfied.
I reminded of.
A young student.
That Asked his professor. Don't you have a shorter course?
Course that you're offering is too long.
Professor looked at him and said, yes, we have a shorter course.
But that all depends on what you want to be.
When God makes an oak, it takes him 100 years.
When he makes a squash, it takes him six months.
There are no shortcuts to Christian growth.
Some things take time.
Healing takes time.
But God puts us through these things.
That he might.
Formus.
According to his eternal thought, and that is that we're going to be conformed to the image of his Son.
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We're going to be like him.
And with him for all eternity.
He is not in a hurry.
He has all eternity.
To produce that desired result. And he's doing it now in time.
And when we get home?
It will all be glory.
I want to tell you one story before I close.
Back in the days of Teddy Roosevelt, he went on his safaris strips to Africa.
And he was returning home.
Hunting the animals there.
He was returning home on a ship.
Who came back to the United States?
And as he arrived.
There were the crowds and the bands and all to await his arrival in the fanfare and the acclaim and all that for the president.
So happens that on that same ship was an old missionary.
Who had served his life in Africa.
And he came back with the president.
Well, of course, after the president left the ship and the crowds finally dispersed and all.
The acclaim over the president.
Was pretty well subsided.
This old brother, he left the ship, came down the gangplank, and there wasn't anyone to.
There wasn't anyone to.
Greet him.
He returned to his home country having served the Lord, spent his best days in service for the Lord, and his health had failed and he had to return to the States.
And he was walking along the street.
Thinning a little bit downhearted because.
He thought of the reception that the president had, and all he did was went out and haunted some animals.
And here he'd been, out serving the Lord and winning souls for Christ, and there wasn't anyone to welcome him home.
And as he was feeling a little sorry for himself, the Lord said to him.
Son, you're not home yet. All the welcome.
That awaits us.