Adam and Race

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Those are the insider Gnostic, no -compromise radio stuff. People are losing their minds when it comes to race, there�s only one race, you�re either in Adam or in the last

Adam. We�re talking federal theology, we�re talking about a foetus, we�re talking about a covenant, we�re talking about representation, that�s the way you need to think.

Is racism a gospel issue? Well, I think the gospel affects how you see other people because you�re changed, right?

God, along with a lot of other things, He regenerates you and makes you a new creation. And you, in response to the gospel, believe, of course, and then you have a life where you want to love

God and love your neighbor. And of course, your neighbor could be white or black or anything else, it doesn�t really matter what they look like, you�re to love them.

And therefore, the gospel affects things like this, it affects the way you give, it affects the way you are thankful, but it�s not a gospel issue in terms of, you could probably read

Clark�s, R. Scott Clark�s, Heidel blog about is race a gospel issue or something like that.

And even when you read Philippians, you�ll see sometimes there�s a gospel issue and sometimes there�s not.

If you�re adding things to the gospel, it�s one thing. So, more law gospel problems and mix -ups.

But I�m not going to do it today because it�s just really bugging me when

I think about it. And I probably have admitted on the air before that before I was a

Christian, I was a racist. And of course, I know my heart is still tainted by sin now.

I have all kinds of problems, lots of problems. But racism isn�t one of my problems.

Now you say, �Well, it�s a problem for other people.� Okay, well, it just might be. But it�s not my problem.

And just because I�m white, it doesn�t mean I�ve got some hidden reefs of racism in little places, little caverns in my mind and in my conscience and other things like that.

It�s just crazy. Okay. I�m just going to have to stop.

But there are a few sane people on the Internet, so I�m thankful for that. There are a few sane ones.

Lots of insane ones, but a few sane ones. Okay. We�re talking about Jesus, the great high priest, and He adds human nature, right?

He�s the eternal Son. He adds human nature. It�s called the incarnation. It�s called the virgin conception, which leads to the virgin birth.

And He, if you think about mediators between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, not the

Jew, not the Semite, not the darker complexion, not the white, not the black, He�s a man.

And therefore, He can redeem men by being the mediator between a holy

God and unholy men and women like you and me from the same race.

It moves me not to think about pigment and how dark your skin is or what particular facial features you have.

Frankly, I look like I look because God made me this way, right?

He chose my parents. He chose the DNA. He sovereignly orchestrated all that, and whether it�s the weather or salvation or anything in between, including my skin color, that�s the sovereign choice of God.

And if you think about it, I mean, here we are, we�re talking about race anyway. I didn�t want to do it, but I�m thinking about Jesus, the high priest.

You know, I like to enjoy different cultures.

It�s one of the fun things about going to different places in the world, especially eastern parts of the world, when

I�m a westerner, and just to see how they do things and how they have their particular culture.

Well, you can either say, �I don�t like that ,� or you embrace it and say, �Oh, that�s interesting.

That�s interesting.� To me, it�s the same thing with race. I mean, I�m glad I don�t have to eat, you know, soya bean green every day or dirt every day, and just say, �Well,

I�m just hungry. I have to eat it.� You know, it�s kind of like my dog. Once in a while, I buy her different types of dog food or I�ll pour some gravy on her food.

She doesn�t really get table food, but she gets the juice of our table food, and I�ll pour it on top or something like that.

She�s old enough now, she�ll throw up. She has to eat the same thing. She has no choice. She�s so hungry, she has to eat the same thing basically every day, five different kinds of dog food that I buy over a year.

But it�s pretty much the same thing. It smells the same, at least to me, from a distance. But she has to eat.

She�s hungry. And, you know, God has not given us that kind of deal.

We have all, you know, cilantro. Can you imagine? That tastes so good, doesn�t it? I could have a cologne with cilantro in it.

It smells so good. Man, cilantro. Just chop up a bunch of cilantro and put it on anything almost, except this nasty

Pete�s coffee that I�ve got here through the K -cup. K -cups ruin everything, don�t they? Wow.

That�s bad. I do have in front of me a Star Trek mug someone gave me, �To boldly go where no man has gone before.�

That�s old school, baby. And it�s the same thing when it comes to people.

I guess if they all look the same, that�d be fine. I mean, God can make whatever He wants in His world.

But His world, there�s different looking people. I like that, don�t you?

Now that I�m a Christian and I see just one Adam, two Adam, that�s how you should see the world.

One Adam, two Adam. They�re either in Adam, the first, or Adam, the last. They�re either on the girdle of Adam, the first, to use

Thomas Goodwin�s language, federal headship, Adam in the garden, or they�re in the last

Adam, Jesus, who, of course, was tempted, not in a garden, but in the wilderness, and then all the way to Calvary and never succumbed to the temptation, and He was the perfect man.

He was the real prophet. He was the real priest and the real king, and He stands in the stead as a public person for all who believe, just as Adam was a public person.

You can even spell it P -U -B -L -I -K, if you like, P -U -B -L -I -K, public, as they would say in King James English.

Why don�t you just enjoy it, that people look different, and people have, you know, if I see somebody with freckles,

I�m thinking, �Oh, that�s interesting.� If I see somebody with a darker complexion skin, �Well, that�s interesting.�

What do I care? Seriously, what do I care? Here�s what I care about.

One day you�ll die and stand before God, and then what? And you say, �Well, you know, what about all the ways my uncles and aunts and grandparents and parents were persecuted ?�

Okay, I�m listening, I�m sorry for that, but I didn�t do it.

And there�s a lot of people in the Church that didn�t do it. And when Thabiti Anaweli, also known as Ron Burns to some, talks about, you know, how white pastors should go do this and that, and how white people and things are complicit with things,

I�m supposed to confess my sins, that�s true, but I�m not supposed to confess sins

I didn�t do. So anyway, I�m just going to have to stop because it�s very frustrating.

But when the Church takes its cues from the world, this is what we get.

I cannot imagine what will the

Gospel Coalition be like in 10 years. Sorry, strike that,

I don�t want to imagine. I typed in at the Gospel Coalition, I typed in �racism.�

I think there was 800 articles. My wife said, �Type in �justification.� I did, and there was, I think, 1 ,500, 1 ,800, something like that, a lot more, which

I was glad for. But race, race, race, race, race, race, race, very troubling.

You need to read Machen�s, it�s online for free, �Christianity and Liberalism.�

And just see that, and try to understand law -Gospel distinctions, and try to understand what is the

Gospel, and what is the social Gospel, and are they the same? I think that would be good for you to do.

I�d also like to know if George Soros or any person like that who has money and funds places, who gets the funding?

Who has, you know, neighborhood immigration places that receive funding for these things?

I would like to know that. That�d be good. I mean, nobody owes that to me, but curious minds would like to know.

It is a crazy world, and we are seeing what I�m calling on social media �the fissure.�

We are going to have a major split. This divides. You know, people want to have all kinds of unity talk, unity, unity, unity.

When you elevate the social Gospel to the Gospel or eclipse the Gospel, which that�s what these other

Gospels end up doing, as people hobnob them, then we�re in big trouble.

Big trouble. And some of it, I think, can go back to social justice reforms in big cities.

That�s all I�ll say in my opinion. Now, here�s the great news for Hebrews.

Jesus was picked by God from men, and we don�t have any kind of weird, you know, racial kind of talk or anything else.

You need a priest to stand before you in God, and God picks the priest, and He picks the perfect priest.

And there�s two passages there in Hebrews 5. One is found in verse 5, �You are my son today,

I have begotten you.� God the Father is appointing the Son for this task. And He says also in another place, of course we know that�s

Psalm 110, �You are a priest forever according or after the order of Melchizedek.�

Melchizedek�s going to be talked about later in chapter 7, but for now, we�re not going to talk much about Melchizedek.

Jesus is a priest. He�s just not in the Levitical line. He�s a different type of priest that the

Jews would have recognized, remembering back to or hearkening back to Genesis with Melchizedek and Abraham.

Well, what does this have to do with race? Yeah, that�s my question.

Do we have a high priest? What does Jesus look like? You know, it�s always fascinating me when I think about what does

Jesus look like? Of course it�s a caricature. If you go into someone�s room and there�s a picture of the blue -eyed

Jesus, maybe He did have blue eyes. I guess there are Semitic -looking people with blue eyes. My guess is

He didn�t have blue eyes. The average height back in those days, we�ve determined from femur bones and ossuary boxes, would be about five foot tall.

I guess He could have been taller or shorter, but let�s just say five foot tall. There�s nothing said about Jesus� height like Saul�s height, or hair like Absalom�s hair, or the complexion of Jesus like David.

I think they called Him ruddy, didn�t they? What is ruddy? Let�s just type that in right now.

Ruddy. A ruddy complexion. Is that like red? Ruddy.

Having a healthy red color. A cheerful, pipe -spoken man of ruddy complexion.

Used as a euphemism for bloody. Rosy, red, pink. Rubicund, make ruddy in color.

A red flash ruddied the belly of a cloud. Well, that�s interesting. I�m going to type in David.

Was David ruddy? Was David called red or ruddy? This is a true nation

Israelite congregation website. I�m scared. So let�s just go to 1

Samuel 16, 12. So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome feature.

And the Lord said, �Rise and anoint him. This is the one.� That�s the NIV of 1

Samuel 16, 12. New living. So Jesse sent for him. He was dark and handsome and beautiful eyes.

This is the one. Anoint him, the Lord said. ESV. He was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome.

Okay. That�s of David. Oh, King James is interesting. And he sent and brought him in.

Now he was ruddy and withal of a beautiful countenance and goodly to look at, to look to.

Contemporary English version, Jesse sent for David. He was healthy, good -looking boy with a sparkle in his eyes.

Okay, that�s about all we have. I�m just scrolling down to see other ones. Ruddy, beautiful eyes, handsome appearance.

That�s New American Standard 77. All right. That�s 1 Samuel 16, 12.

So what do we know about Jesus and what did he look like? I guess you could get a picture of Jesus if you were a black person that made him look blacker.

I mean, we probably all do that in our minds. What does somebody look like? But there�s a reason why we don�t know what

Jesus looked like. We�re not supposed to know and God doesn�t tell us. Now, we do know that he looked like his mother, right, because any kind of DNA would be from his mother and the

Spirit of God hovering over the womb, and I would imagine he looked more like his mother than Joseph because there was no

DNA from Joseph, correct? Correct. So my guess is he looked like his mother. He looked like he was from that area.

He didn�t stick out in any way, shape, or form, and he wasn�t noticed by his, you know, midget or anything like that.

So we just have to think regular and average, that�s why I�m thinking around five foot. We do know that he had a beard, at least at some time.

Sometimes he had a beard because it was plucked out, remember, at the end of his life, according to Isaiah, chapter 50 to 53, right in there.

What is that? We�re going to have to find out since this has taken a bad turn there.

I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard,

Isaiah 50 verse 6. What else do we know about Jesus? Well, he was a man, and as a man he was circumcised, right, because he was circumcised on the eighth day.

And what else do we know about Jesus� physical appearance? There could be some argument that he looked older than what he was and stuff like that in different passages, but for now, that�s all we know.

While we could talk about pictures of Jesus and commandments and idols, that�s not what

I want to talk about at the moment, but what do we know about Jesus? What you know is what you read about as the

God -man who makes reconciliation, who makes redemption, who makes propitiation, who lives a perfect life, who heals lepers, who walks on water, who calls

Zacchaeus and saves him, who takes Barabbas�s place, who dies on a cross, who�s raised from the dead.

What we aren�t is dosetist, that is, seems like he was a man, but he really wasn�t.

No, he was a real man, real dust, real footprints, real face and eyes and skin and all those things, real wounds, real blood, could really eat, really did eat.

So, we�re not dosetists, but ask yourself the question, �Why doesn�t it say anything about what

Jesus looked like ?� Well, maybe you�re not supposed to know. Maybe it doesn�t matter because there�s one race, that�s why

Adam, last Adam, Adam in the garden failed. Jesus in the wilderness didn�t fail.

God, the Son, He is our substitute and He is our representative. That�s the point.

All this race language, social justice language, it detracts from it. It detracts from public person

Adam, public person last Adam. That�s my big problem. Through one man.

If you�re a man, we�re talking about mankind here, then you�ve got a representative if you look to Him with faith, trusting in Him, not just knowing about Him but believing, turning from your sins, it�s called repentance, believing on the work of Jesus, it�s called trust our faith, rest,

Hebrews talks about. What do we care what color the person is?

I�m sure this is going to not work out perfectly, but if you�re getting rescued by someone, you�re drowning, you don�t care what color they are when they rescue you.

I watch Bondi Beach sometimes with Kim and we watch these rescues at the beach. You don�t care who rescues you, does the guy have a tattoo on his neck or not?

Is it a man or is it a woman? You don�t care. And of course, you�re not drowning, you�re dead in the bottom of the ocean, you�re just bones there and God makes those bones alive and I�m not talking about,

I mean, the analogies never seem to work now, do they? What I�m after is this, when you see other people, why don�t you see them as soul -bearing people who need to know the gospel of the man,

Christ Jesus, that�s all you have to do. And when you�re at a church, that�s how

God sees people, that�s how you see people. You know, there�s not, well, those are white sinners and black sinners and brown sinners.

When you�re in South Africa, you�re either white or black or colored, that�s the language that they use.

If you�re some type of mixture, you�re colored. We don�t say colored here anymore, it has a bad connotation.

But if you are of any color, then that means you�re a man or a woman and you need a sin bearer or else you will die on behalf of your own sins.

That�s the issue with all this. Don�t let people hijack one

Adam, two Adam, first Adam, last Adam. Don�t let them bamboozle you, jamming in law into the gospel, that is social justice into the gospel.

Think clearly, my friends, and don�t get caught up in the wave of,

I was almost going to give a pixie song, wave of imagination. Don�t get caught up in it all. You need a sin -bearing man and that�s who

Jesus is, the eternal God adding human flesh so that he could be a sin -bearer, perfect priest, perfect offer.

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