(Bible Analysis of Man) Man in the Bible - Part 1 — Willie Mullan

Seven hundred and fifty-seven please, seven, five, seven sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness sowing in the noontide under dewy ease waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping. We shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves seven, five, seven please ...series tonight and I've called it The Bible Analysis of Man and we're going to make this Bible do the work we're going to just look up the Bible.

It should actually be called the Bible Doctrine of Man but the Bible Analysis of Man will do. I want to thank you for coming out to pray again on Sunday night because there was another woman made her life right with the Lord on Sunday night.

And then the man that was saved the week before the man that came with Mr. McCormick he went up to the hospital the other day just to tell his brother-in-law who wasn't too well, that he'd really got saved on that particular date and so stood up and spoke out that the man on the bed got saved too.

Then he took the good news round to his wife and she got saved too. So you see it goes on so just thanks for praying. And so we start tonight this Bible Analysis of Man want to go through this quickly tonight Man in the Bible and we want to look at this created man.

Genesis 1 and the Unassuming Account of Creation

And we're back at Genesis chapter 1 please Book of Genesis. And we're at chapter 1 and I think everybody knows the first verse in Genesis. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And I think I should just stop and point out the unassuming manner of the writer.

I know that Moses painted this but this mighty book that was written by Moses under inspiration of course Moses didn't begin it like this. Moses, the mighty leader of the people of God nor did he begin it.

Moses, the prophet of God. No, he doesn't put his name there at all. And yet I'm very sure that Moses painted this because our Lord Jesus Christ comes from this book and he said to the Pharisees have ye believed Moses.

Ye would have believed me for he wrote of me that should sort of settle it for us you see and we don't need to go into all the arguments that the modernists would like to bring up our Lord's word is quite enough.

And that day when he walked down the road to a mass with the two downcast disciples it says he began at Moses and then he followed on. He began at Moses and all the prophets and expanded on to them and all the scriptures of things concerning himself.

I just want you to see the unassuming manner of the writer. And then I want you to get the hold of this the unknown date of this performance. See this phrase in the beginning. Well there is nobody knows the date of that.

They don't argue back. You know that that was six thousand years ago or anything like that. Well that's an unknown date. You see John's gospel begins like this. In the beginning was the word capital T and capital W.

The Eternal Word and the Foundation of the Heavens

And if you want to find out for sure who the word is you go down the chapter and it says the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory the glory of the only begotten of the father.

So you haven't any bother about it. It's the eternal son. And you see when anything that ever had a beginning began the word was in the beginning was the word he was there because he was the eternal son.

In fact when the father is speaking to the son in hebrews 1 he uses this phrase again. He says I'm thy lord. The father talking to the son says I'm thy lord. And read beginning the same phrase in the beginning.

Thou hast laid the foundation of the earth. Well ask me where it is. Because I don't know. I just know he laid it. Thou hast laid the foundation of the earth. And the heavens are the works of thine hands.

Oh these gigantic heavens. This mighty solar system with all these planets moving in their orbits round the sun never losing a second. Absolutely precise. And then they tell me there are a million other solar systems.

They all came from his hands. Mighty hands powerful hands. I cannot go on with hands. Because the cast at the hill are now at this moment preparing something on the hands of the sages. Wonder what his hands would tell you about them.

Well this little bit I must have got tells you about his creatorial power. That's the phrase to start on. If you've not started yet. Yes I see some of you smiling. That's helped you a bit anyway. Yes you see I'm just pointing out the unassuming manner of the writer and the unknown date of the performance.

And the unquestionable deity of the performer. Yes unquestionable deity. You know he just spoke and it was done. He just commanded in a stone heart. Letters to the Hebrews teach us that by faith we understand that the world were made by the word of God.

He just spoke with quiet words. Yes I think all this is in this the unassuming manner of the writer and the unknown date of the performer and the unquestionable deity unknown date of the performer and the unquestionable deity of the performer.

Creation ex Nihilo and the Power of God's Command

I think you can see the unlimited power of the creator. You see you take two words out of this first verse. Reach to God created way back there whenever it was it might be ten billion years back. I don't know anything about this time back then.

But in the beginning you call it in the beginning God created. Let's hear that it is not evolved. You know it is creation. Two different things altogether. God created. He made everything out of nothing.

If God created the heavens the word should be. And the earth. We're talking about the entire solar system. And then for a very special reason of course one of the planets of the solar system is mentioned.

The earth it is just one of the planets and one of the smaller ones too. We don't want to go into it. You see when you come down the chapter a little bit see verse 21 Genesis 1 and 21 and God created.

That's the same two words again God created great wheels and every living creature that moves. Did you get that? Because that's all God you know wants you to get this through these mighty planets and all the stellar heavens into space.

And then God created these living creatures. And then when we come down the chapter a little bit further we come to verse 27. Oh God created. That's the same word again three times in that chapter you know very specially put God created man in his own image.

I want you to get that because the stellar heavens, the heavens, the solar system that goes around us it was created. And these great monsters that rule in the seas were created. And God created man in his own image.

Humanity Made in the Image of the Triune God

See if we go back to verse 26 I think we get the whole plan because in verse 26 we're taken into the eternal council of God as it were found in the corner in the council chamber. And God said let us make man in our image and remember that this word make it's sometimes translated create and created interchangeable.

And it's a thing we must get into our minds because there are folks roaming about who want to make a story of it. And one of the old translations says let us create man in our image. And I think you must look at the ask here because if we were going to argue about the Trinity this evening we'd have to come back here because God says let us.

And I think the whole divine symmetry is here and remember it's let us make man in our image get reality ask of our likeness. And the word image and the word likeness are interchangeable terms too but it's doubly impressed upon us that God was going to create man in the likeness of the triune God.

And then I want you to go on reading and let them let's just get the man into this on his own let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the kettle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And we're back to our verse so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him. And then it says this.

Male and female created.

He then of both male and female were created. We want to get that into focus. So we're looking at the created man. Let's go to chapter 5 of Genesis for the moment. And this chapter begins like this. This is the book of the generations of Adam in the day that God created man.

And I want you to get the day into that too just now. And I want you to keep the created bit there too. And I want you to get the word man in in the likeness of God male and female created he then and we must get back to both of them and bless them and call them and call their name Adam in the day.

Literal Days and the Rejection of Evolutionary Interpretation

Let's get us again when they were created because we're going to deal with evolution just in a second. You know because I'll tell you that one of the biggest arguments that the evolutionists bring up and I don't think they have any argument at all that they think they have.

You see when I was in Canada one of these authors came to me and he said you know the way you preach. Sometimes you would think that you thought that these seven days here were seven literal days. I said did you get that from my preaching.

He said I did. And I said then I'm a good preacher. Because that's what I mean. Of course I think there were seven literal days. Oh he said you see you're far mistaken. These days were not literal days at all.

These days were peeling and you know there was a long peel from God's pick until the light got through maybe millions of years in that peel. And then the second day you see there were millions more and each day had millions.

And this is how man came along bit by bit right from nothing at all as it were. And he grew and grew and came up into the animal world and passed through and all the rest of it. And you should hear the yarn he comes off with and eventually he became.

He must have gone backwards now because he's not doing for good now. He's not progressing any better anyway. He's not getting near the angel state. So I had to take my weight off from this old fella and I said to him what about this word created.

When it says God created. Do you think it means God evolved now. He can't answer that. Because he can't alter this word created. It's a mighty word in the Hebrew. Of course while he won't answer and won't argue he still believes.

I said you think these were days. Yes. Well I can prove to you solidly that they were not days. That they were not periods. You think they were periods. I think they were 24 hour days. The evening and the morning were the first day and the evening and the morning were the second day.

He says it's just figurative speech. You must address it up a bit. It's great yarn to come off with but it doesn't work. I said what day was Adam evolved on or created is whatever word you're going to take on the sixth day.

He said good for you. I suppose you don't know whether he came into sight in the morning of the sixth day or the middle of the day or the end of the day. Do you know what time he came. He says don't know.

Well I said supposing we give you the benefit of the doubt. He didn't appear until the evening. And that day you say may have been ten billion years wrong before he appeared. I said is the next day a period too.

Or do you just have six of them. And the seventh one was different. Oh no he said it was a period too. How long was it now. God rest him. Oh he says like the rest it's ten billion years. You need all this time to get everything settled down.

So I said then Adam appeared on this particular sixth day. And it's ten billion years to go after this. And when you come to this wonderful fifth chapter let's have a look at it again. And we're at verse three now after God saying they were created in the day when they were created and Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begot a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth.

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years. And he begot sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. And he died. Yeah I said that there were billions of years on this Sunday.

How do you get his. How do you get his age to this. That all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. Yeah you should have three or four billion nine hundred and thirty years here now.

I've never seen an old fella. So taken back in all my life it won't work. That rubbish you know. And I can take the time tonight to go through the book to prove that that is complete balderdash of the deepest depths.

These were literal days. He was made on the sixth day and after that he lived. All the days of Adam were nine hundred and thirty years and he died. I want you to get that. You know I want you to get this too.

Jesus' Teaching on Creation, Marriage, and Human Nature

Let's go to Matthew's gospel. And we're at chapter 19 because I take the time to say this to the young folks. You see this is how I have studied all my life. I believe this that almost every argument you're going to meet in life I don't care what angle it comes from.

I believe that our Lord Jesus Christ has said something about it. That's why you young folks should stick your nose in the gospels and get them off until you know what is in the twenty-eighth chapters of Matthew and what is in the sixteen of Mark and so on.

And I assure you I can close my eyes and tell you. And until you know friend you'll not be able for very much you see what's this what I'm doing now here it is. And we're in Matthew 19 verse 3 the Pharisees also came on to him came on to our Lord Jesus.

They were always coming tempting him. You know they're trying to put him in a fix. People play at this of course. And saying on to him is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause they were coming to him about divorce.

That's what they were coming about. And he answered and said unto them have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning. And in another translation it says have ye not read that he which created them at the beginning made them male and female.

And twice that word made is the word created in one of the translations the one I had in my hand today. That new wonderful translation that they tell me is nearer to the original Greek than anything that's ever been produced.

And I just noticed this that it said have you not read that he which created them at the beginning created them male and female. And that of course balances with what we have learned already in Genesis tonight so that our Lord Jesus believed they were created at the beginning.

And that always settles the argument for me. I don't care how I got on at school or what class I was in friends so long as he said it that's good enough. Why should I be bothered with arguments when Jesus Christ God's Son the Son Eternal said at the beginning I don't think there's anything to bother us in.

Genesis 2, the Material Body, and the Human Soul

Now let's go back to Genesis and we'll look at Genesis chapter 2 now because there's another account for creation there and some people say that Moses is given two different accounts of creation. I don't think.

So I could come to this platform and I could say that I was a bengal last night and I could come to this platform and I could say I was a bengal last night. And there was thunder and lightning and there was a boat sinking.

And I could give a whole lot of details. But it's got two different accounts you know I'm only filling in all the little things I left out when I said it first. That's all. There is no problem about it.

And here's what we're reading here we're at Genesis chapter 2 and we're at verse 7 and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. I want you to get that because when we talk about this formation here from dust there are people who are going to come in and say you know this is not creation at all.

I want you to get that this is the material part of man. And let's remember that the body is not man. I'll tell you this when your loved one dies and they're in the casket and you stand beside it looking into the casket you knew so well.

You know right there they're not there they're gone you know.

Because when a believer dies he is ousted from the body. He has no guardian. Yes. And if he's a true believer he's present with the Lord. And for you Roman Catholics there's no purgatory about it. Not in this book or any other one not a bit of it.

No it's just the material part and it's very special this you know and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. And I don't know whether I should take the time to point out to you that the word for God has changed.

Because all down through the first chapter right to the very end and right into the first three verses of the next chapter chapter two it is always God that is there. But immediately you come to verse four.

Elohim, the Lord God, and Covenant Relationship

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God has just changed them. So it didn't mean you know yes and it's very wonderful you know in this book because it's very thrilling to watch it changing feet up to four because it changes again there.

I'll have to watch now or I'll miss what I'm about. Verse one. And Adam knew Eve's wife and she conceived and bear Cain and said I have gotten a man from Cwcna the Lord. And it changes again. Sometimes it's called God.

Sometimes it's called the Lord God. Sometimes it's just called the Lord. It's all very special. You know you see when he's stepping out on his own to create things out of nothing it is God. It is Elohim.

It's the old Hebrew word Elohim. He can just do what he likes when he likes and how he likes because he's the mighty God that's the word of use. But when he wants to enter into relationship with man it is the Lord God.

Because that's the one that came into the garden at the cool of the day and cried Adam the Lord God called and said Adam where art thou? He's come seeking for fallen man. Yes this is the one that entered into a relationship.

He wanted to have fellowship even when you have failed me. I'm coming after you. But you see when he was born in Bethlehem the angel said unto you this day is born in the city of David the Saviour which is Christ quick the Lord.

And he's always the Lord. Because when he's in the wilderness with the wild beef he's the Lord. They never touch him. When he stands up in the storm and cries for the wind and the waves cry it down he's the Lord.

And when he hangs in Calvary and his face is battered and the blood and the sweat and the spittle and all are mixed and his bones are out of joint and the darkness deepens. The dying beef turned and said Lord.

Oh yes he's Lord. It was the Lord that came to die and save us. When we remember that it's the Lord God. Oh that we could get this peace together. Never mind we must save what were us. It was the Lord God who wanted our relationship and our fellowship.

It is the Lord God that formed man of the dust of the ground. I want you to get this bit and breathe into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul. Let's get at it. I don't want you to think this body lay around for a while you know.

And then God stuck the soul into it as I won't do. Oh no. Oh no. It was very carefully formed you know. Yes we are fearfully and wonderfully made even as far as the physical bit is concerned. But you know God so might be that with his hands he can form all that and at the same psychological second breathe into it.

And that becomes a living soul. Because this is what man is. Man is a soul. But this soul owns this body. You know. And if this redemption is going to be complete he'll not only need to save my soul but he'll have to redeem this body because this is a part of me.

Well you don't see me. You know you see my body. Yes the real man is in here. Alright. And he's quite distinct from the body. The Lord Jesus said fear not them which are able to kill the body but cannot, cannot kill at all.

Body, Soul, and Spirit in the Biblical Doctrine of Man

Differentiation there. Now let's go over to one of the old prophets. We're at Zechariah. This is before you come to the end of the Old Testament Zechariah. And we're at chapter 12. I'm determined to pick my son no matter what way the notes go.

We're at Zechariah chapter 12. Now I want you to put this in your mind. You start to know about Genesis and you know about the dust and you know at least something that when God breathed he became a living soul.

And you start to know that bit. I want you to know this bit now watch this. Because this is the great hidden verse. We're at Zechariah 12 verse 1 the virgin of the word of the Lord. For Israel says the Lord which stretcheth forth the heavens.

So it was the Lord that stretched forth the heavens and layeth the foundation of the earth and formeth the spirit of man within him. Ah we have got him now haven't we says this is the man now and you can see the body and you can sort of understand the soul and you sort of see the spirit.

But of course you know we shall put man on the operating table of the word of God and we'll take this sharp two edged sword and we'll dissect this body and soul and spirit because we will take a knife on the soul and a knife on the spirit and we shall do every part of the body.

If we're going to have man at all his eyes, his ears, his hands and so on. But this is the creator's man isn't it. And I want you to get a little bit more about this. We'll go back to Genesis. Never mind about the time this evening we must get this out properly.

And we're back to Genesis and we're back to Genesis 1 26 and God said let us make man in our image. And what do we know about him in our image. I think you can see this much. I believe that God is a Trinity.

I believe that God is one God. I'm sure of that. But I believe that this one God is expressed in three persons in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Now people argue with me about this. Well it came not so long ago.

I said we won't have this Trinity at all because you know when they argue against the Trinity they don't know that they're Unitarians because Unitarians don't want Trinity. That's why they call themselves that they're Unitarians, we're Trinitarians.

So what I did and what you can do sometime. And I don't want to go into that either. I said that we just verse the way back in 2 John he that hath this doctrine hath both the Father and the Son. Tell me what both means.

Do you think it means one? Because if you were in the class I was in at school and that wasn't very high mind you as you had said both was one. Oh no lady that looked after me would have fixed it. Yes she would.

Oh that won't do you know. Oh no the word both is there. And the word else happens to be there. Let us make man in our image happens to be there. Yes you see God is the Trinity. And you can see now that man is the Trinity too.

Because when you want to talk about the whole man he is body and soul and spirit. And it's what Paul talks about that your body and soul and spirit may be preserved flameless until the coming of the Lord.

But we'll go into those parts if I would be allowed to call them parts. I don't think I am really but it's a word we'll use for now you see he's like God in that sense. But then he's like God in another sense you see look at verse 26 again and it says and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness.

And let them that is man and woman let them have dominion. That's a great word. Over the fish of the sea over the fowl of the air over the kettle and over all the earth. And remember that and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

You know there was given to him when he was created an authority.

He was made Lord of all.

Human Dominion, Divine Attributes, and the Capacity for Love

And in that sense he's like God as a Trinity. He's like God. He has authority. God has placed him in that place. But you know I don't think that would answer the question completely. You see God has a capacity.

You know God is a spirit. When we begin to look deeply into this you see God is love. I want you to get that God is love. I want you to get the whole of that. Cause this great almighty maker of ours. There's a capacity within him somewhere that he can love the most lovely one among us.

Just very wonderful. You know when you take the world tonight. If we could look across the world tonight. And this annoys me sometimes when I look at the starving millions in India. And this is Gandhi fooling around sometimes not too happy about it.

And when you see the little kids who would grab at a handful of rice and you can see them always rubbing it on their face and pushing it in. And it's all the food they'll get that day. And you know we have Americans who are boasting about having 600 ,000 million pounds.

All this starvation and the unrighteousness that's in this world. And then if you look at some of the gossips among us tonight where they sit and plan for murder putting a lorry yesterday in an ordinary street where little kids walk about they don't care.

Oh wonder the lieutenant colonel got off on the deep end last night that's made our war fair. Not anything else. I don't know what that is. It's a pity Nixon did less talk and did a bit more action. Oh top we have it all over.

He would love spikes or something. I know the stripes. I would give him. There's no work. But just take our world. Take these ghettos. Take the bins of rice. Take your brothels. You want me to rent you a toilet.

Yeah I could scare you. You know take all the sin and wickedness and everything else. What a world we have as you are standing where God stands in the heavens. And look down at it tonight. What a horrible world we have.

And yet God survived the world.

God's Love, Holiness, and the Fall of Man

My God how did God love the world. Only God could love the world. He gave his only begotten son to somebody. He was one wee fellow. Would you like to give him for these rebels. He has no emotion of doing it.

Neither would I. Oh the love of God. Oh the boundless love of God. Could we with ink the ocean fill. And where the sky of parchment may every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade to write.

The love of God above would drain the ocean dark. Nor could the scroll in the hall go stretched from sky to sky. I don't think we get it right. I just get it right. When I know that God so loved me he should have put me in hell and tramped me in the gutter.

Oh the love. Oh the capacity. It's when he tells you that man man has a capacity for love. You know. Oh I know all about the fall what it did to us. Yes. Can't you see this. You know God is love. When he tells you that God is holiness God is holy.

That's why he must punish sin. He just can't loaf and come out into the street because he loves and pat you on the head and say alright. Come into heaven and I'll look after you for eternity. He can't do it.

He is holy. His holiness forbids that this sin must be dealt with. If he's going to be a just and holy God then you know God is perfection. Of course he must be perfection. And God is peace. Our Lord Jesus was called the prince of peace.

Now I want to tell you that the unfallen man.

Has a capacity for love. I shall prove to you that he loves Eve more than anything else that you've ever dreamed about. Because mind you when we come to the fallen man Adam was not defeated. That's what this book says.

He was not defeated as she was defeated she was beguiled. The old devil bluffed her and you know she shipwrecked everything but Adam just because he loved her stepped into the shipwreck with her. Don't forget that he wasn't bluffed.

He stepped in willingly. This was his transgression of God. Don't forget it. Man has a capacity for holiness too and a capacity for peace. You see when he fell. Can we take a moment with this fallen man.

The Fall, Original Sin, and Humanity's Inward Corruption

Have a look at this. See this 1st Timothy chapter 2. Let's get that bit squared out. 1st Timothy chapter 2. And we're in verse 12 just to get the right connection. I don't want to start into this verse on you tonight.

But I suffer not a woman to teach and he means that nor to usurp authority over the man. And he means that but to be in silence. I don't want to enter into that. And the reason for this is for Adam was first formed then Eve and Adam was not deceived.

That's the bit I want to really put out to you. He was not deceived but Paul says as Eve was the guide of the serpents. And it tells me that Paul believes Genesis chapter 3 and everything about the serpents and he was writing on their inspiration too.

So Adam was not deceived. Let's go back to Romans. And we're at Romans chapter 5. Verse 12 will do us. I think Romans 5 verse 12. Therefore out by one man sin entered into the world. Now I want you to get the phrase as it is by one man it was Adam's transgression.

Remember. And I want you to get that sin entered into the world. And I had an old fellow preaching once that sin entered into the garden. And I want to. Oh no you know the day that Adam made up his mind that he would go the way Eve had gone and deliberately transgressed.

You know something happened on this planet of ours this world of ours this earth of ours. You know it was like an atomic explosion. They tell me they have got some sort of a cobalt bomb down there in the South America states somewhere that if it were exploded it would blast and burn everything for a thousand square miles.

Oh but the outreach of this thing would last for the next 25 years. It would still be there and children would be tarnished with it. I'll tell you the day that Adam sinned something went right across the world in us here yet.

And trees began to die and birds began to die and flowers began to die. Death passed upon all things terrible things. And I want to tell you this just because this sin entered into man and began to dwell in man.

Because Paul talks about in me dwelleth. No good thing. It's sin that dwelleth in me he says. And every believer has learned by experience that sin is inside. Talked to a lady just today not very long say she says they are trying to mock me at the works.