The Last Adam

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 1 Cor. 15:45-47  “So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46  However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

47  The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.”

The father of us all in the flesh is Adam.  We all descend from him, and have a physical life.  But we also remember that he brought sin into the world and so he is also the source of death for us all.  “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.” (1 Cor. 15:22)  Now in Christ we have life.  He’s like a second Adam giving life to all who will take it.  But the life He offers is a spiritual and everlasting one. 

Consider Jesus who has the power over death and offers to give life eternal to everyone.  

Considering Jesus

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We are told by the Hebrew writer to give careful consideration to Jesus.  “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.  He was faithful to Him who appointed Him” (Heb. 3:1,2a)  In this text we are to consider the faithfulness of Jesus to doing the will of God.  “but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.” (vs. 6)  The faithfulness of Christ is a great thing for us to consider and to imitate. 

But there are many other things for us to consider about Jesus and draw lessons from.  Just the vast variety names and titles of Jesus given by inspiration should stop and give us pause.  Starting with descriptions as Adam (the last), Advocate, Almighty, and ending two hundred descriptors later with Witness, Wonderful and Word (of God and of Life), we find a breadth of words to communicate to us something of His position, mission, character, power, majesty, and dominion.  Truly he is “the Alpha and the Omega” Rev. 1:8,11; 21:6; 22:13 (or as we would say in modern idiom, the A to Z of it all).  For us, He is everything, and He is all. 

Because of this, we do rightly consider Him all that we can.