We are all born with One Nature, and that one is a fallen, Adamic Nature that we inherited from our earthly father, Adam. There is only one way we can receive Christ's nature (2 Peter 1:4) - to receive Christ as the Second Adam (1 Cor.15:45) - to become Born Again, as Jesus says that we MUST be (John 3:3).
This is man's problem! Every one of us! Ever since Adam rebelled against God, then for the first time sin entered the world, and because of it 'death' (i.e. a 'spiritual separation' from God) followed by 'physical death' was the reward because of it. The scriptures say it like this:
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
God had nothing to do with man's sin and death as a result of their rebellion against Him. God is holy and cannot look upon sin. This was all a man's doing. Until Adam sinned against God; in the way that he ate of the forbidden fruit, until then there was no need for Christ, thus no need for a sacrifice made for our rebellious sin against a holy God. However, because he did not do as God said, sin and death passed on to the entire human race and man was ostracized from God!
However, ever since Adam did sin and was driven from the garden and therefore fell away from God, he would remain mere flesh and blood, even losing the presence of God. And as flesh and blood neither he nor any of his heirs could not inherit the kingdom...
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Seeing as how neither Adam nor us his decendants were able to enter the kingdom of God, because all we are and were is nothing more than flesh and blood, and as flesh and blood we are all born sinners...
What is needed to see here is that we all sin because that is our nature! That's what (we) "flesh and blood" do: We Sin! There is no way for us to escape this dilemna! We will always come short of God's glory! Not only did our father, Adam, sin and die, thereby cursing us from entering the kingdom, but we ourselves prove that we belong to our flesh and blood father, Adam, because we sin too. We MUST get out of Adam and into Christ! How do we do that??....
1 Corinthians 15:21-22 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
In Christ shall all be made alive! How? "By faith!"
Now the kind of faith that I am speaking of is not of the man-made, -religious- variety, based on inanimate objects that can neither see, hear nor talk. This is what the world calls: 'Blind Faith', and they blindly follow these things! Rather it a 'real and living faith', one that has substance to it that we can lay hold of and sink our teeth into, giving it solid grounds for receiving the promises of God. It is the kind of faith that brings with it the blessed evidence of hidden things that can only be understood spiritually...
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
What I present before you today is not what the world calls -Faith-. Not at all! I present to you what real faith is and what it does, and that it is the only way to obtain God's Grace, because it believes with the heart that the Lord was not only crucified for our sins, but knows that He was also risen and is seated in glory as well.
Adamic nature or God's nature? As the last Adam, Christ came and paid for the sins of our Old Adamic Nature so that we wouldn't end up in the fires of hell. As the last Adam Christ ended the human race as we once knew it, separated from God because of sin. As the quickening spirit (1 Cor.15:45) He causes us (who believe) to receive the Holy Spirit and through Him the Lord Himself in Power and in Truth. We are not only -saved- but we are -changed- into new creatures as well.
Finally, what does all of this mean? It means that we can and must be born again. In and of ourselves we can do nothing to gain heaven or please God! In order to be born again one must (and this is what -Faith- does) first have his Old Man (his sin nature) be crucified with Christ (this is what it means to "Empty Oneself of Self or I"), then he can receive new life in a New Man, one born after the Spirit and one having a new heart towards God and His word.
Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned...Rom 5:12
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
May God bless you in the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!
Biff & Suzanne
