The Shadows to Substance Conference (Day 2 Braden Patterson) FROM ADAM TO CHRIST

Hey Greg, we're pregnant, by the way. So, not we're, Emily is, Emily is. Yeah.

Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you. I just, I really do want to thank everybody for being here today.

I, I'm so honored to be a part of this conference and to preach not just anything but about Christ.

It's such an honor to do, regardless of the atmosphere, the, regardless of the conference or the day, it is truly a pleasure to open up my sinful mouth about the one that is sinless and saved us.

And I also want to just thank the Presbyterians for feeling comfortable enough to come into this building. I really do. I, I'm pretty sure,

I don't know about Jeff's standard on this, but I don't think you'll be rebaptized in order to leave here or anything like that, unless you're seeking membership here after this.

You might, you might be convicted, then that might happen. But no, I, I seriously want to just put, pour my heart out not just to the pastors and the, the elders of this church and the deacon as well, but truly to the, the members and those that come here on a weekly basis and worship the

King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I can't express the gratitude that I've had towards members of churches that have come alongside myself and have helped me know my

Savior better. And so I just thank you, and I just thank so much, Jeff, for putting this on and being a, being a true brother of mine, somebody that I know

I've been able to reach out to in times of, of distress and needing of help.

And so I just really thank everyone for being here today. Also, before we open up,

I do want to start us off with a prayer, but just to let you know that this will be predicated, I'm gonna be praying a little bit for my wife.

Today, I found out that she's been very, very sick. She's in her first trimester right now. Yesterday, she had some vision problems going on because she's not getting enough blood, or she's having some issues with that.

So I'd love if we would pray for my wife first, and we'll definitely be praying for the, for the word to be preached today.

But let's pray. Lord God, I, I do thank you, God. Lord, I thank you for who you are.

I thank you for, you've shown and revealed to us in your word, and for the mighty preaching that has taken place here by every one of the speakers,

Lord. God, I pray that your might would be seen here in these next coming hours, and this day that's coming about tomorrow, too,

Lord. God, I would ask that you just be with my wife and my unborn child,

Lord, that you'd continue to knit together there in her womb. Lord, help us in our, just in this pregnancy,

Lord. Just be with my wife and in her health. Lord, I would ask today, specifically just for myself, that you would, you would muzzle my mouth and tie my tongue not to speak anything further than what your word has revealed,

Lord. That you would convict us here of your truth, and our constant need of our

Savior, the second Adam, Jesus Christ. And Lord God, I just pray that we would be led by your

Spirit, God. That we would be bound to what you have here in the text for us, and that we would approach your throne of grace that we are so undeserving of,

Lord, by being covered by the perfect sacrifice, Jesus. And that this would be all according to your will,

Lord. And we say these things in the Son of Man's name,

Jesus the Christ, the man of sorrows. Amen. Again, I'm so thankful, thankful, thankful to be here.

I think today and yesterday, as we've been going through the text, something that I've taken specific notice of is the eagerness that everybody has been preaching from about God's truth.

And I hope today that we would continue to do those things, as we know that the heart is desperately wicked, and that no man can trust it.

And so I would hope today if there's any emotion that comes about from this message, it would be because it's built upon the truth of God, and that it's not separated from it.

Emotions do not dictate truth. Truth is absence of feelings. They can be accompanied by with feelings, but it's not what determines what truth is for us.

A .W. Pink, a favorite theologian of mine, said, no verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

It's my hope today that through the intentional study of God's Word, that we may yield the fruit of glorifying

God through seeing the shadow of Christ in the garden, as in our first Federal Ed, Adam, who was a type of him to come.

In all these men that have spoken before me, Christ has been clearly seen and expounded upon.

The text has shouted for us, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, he's coming.

You can't deny that. He's just around the corner. He's coming for you. I've been greatly reminded, and in fact

I've been very encouraged in Luke chapter 24, when Jesus is with the two individuals that don't recognize him, and Jesus tells him about all the things in the books of the prophets and Moses, about how they were all teaching him, that it would have sounded something very similar to what these men have been preaching about the shadows.

I want you to turn real fast. This has nothing to do with my message right now, but let us open up to John chapter 20.

John chapter 20, and this just came to my mind as I was listening to everyone preach today.

John chapter 20, we're gonna be in verse 31, but I'll read for you verse 27 and on.

It says in here, this is the story of doubting Thomas, and doubting Thomas often gets a bad rap, but I love doubting

Thomas very, very much. Says in here, then he said, this is

Jesus that's speaking in here, then he said to Thomas, bring your finger here, and see my hands, and bring your hand here, and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believing.

Thomas, with his finger in the wound, after filling the crucified

Christ, he says, my Lord and my

God, follow your eyes down to verse 31, but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the

Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Every one of the messages that these men have preached, whether it was Greg speaking about how this

Day of Atonement, this bloody day, or whether it was Kevin speaking about the light unto the nations, or whether it was

Claude speaking about the King of Kings, or Jeff speaking about the one about the new covenant and us taking a sign in him, or even about how

Christ is our greater ark, or like Dr. Schultz with the

Passover, we have been literally opening up the Word of God, and in that sense, we've been putting our hand into his side, and we've been seeing the pierced lamb that is slain, and in standing in victory before us.

And so, what we're gonna do, is I want to just read for you a text that we won't be expounding upon on, because the topic that I've been given today is one that has great theological meaning, that we could spend a whole conference just on this topic, and still probably not even scratch the service for what it all implies for us in our worship, in our soteriology, in us having this new, better federal head.

There's so much to cover. And so, Adam in in the garden is referenced several times in the

New Testament, and so I just want to start us off by reading a text here, and then we will pray, and then we'll continue to develop what's going on from Adam to Christ, as that's my topic for today.

So, I will ask you to please stand with me as it has been done so before, as we read from 1st

Corinthians chapter 15, verses 45 through 49. 1st

Corinthians chapter 15, verse 45 through 49. So also, it is written, the first man,

Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became a life -giving spirit.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural. Then the spiritual.

The first man is from earth, earthly. The second man is from heaven. As is the earthly, so also are those who are the earthly.

And as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. And just as we have born the image of the earthly, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

This is God's Word. Please sit. Let's pray again over this.

Lord God, I would ask today, Lord, that as we look in your Word, especially that in the

Old Testament, and we see these shadows, Lord, that we would cling that much stronger to the shadow.

Not to the shadow, but to the substance, because the substance is what holds us tight, Lord. Let us leave any of the shadows that we might be clinging on to and come unto your cross, and let us not shift our eyes from where our salvation reigns, and that is in you and you alone,

God. Lord, we say this in the substance, Jesus Christ's name.

Amen. So as I've said before, and as it's been mentioned before in this conference by a multitude of speakers, we just don't have enough time to cover everything.

So we're gonna move through this portion a little bit rapidly. My hope today is that we're gonna be doing, we're gonna be covering three main portions of text to help us understand a little bit more about Adam and Christ, and how these things lead us to Christ, and how we are dead in our first federal head, and how we have been made to live in the second.

We're gonna be covering these things somewhat fast. So I'm sure and I hope that we all have some recollection of the historical account there in the garden, in the garden of Eden there for us.

I'm gonna open up to Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 through 9, and we'll also be reading verse 15 through 17.

And what we're doing in this text, as you're making your way there, is imagine that what we're trying to do is we're trying to see this shadow that's on the wall.

So we've got to make the outline right here. That's what we're reading about right now. What's the outline of the shadow look like before we even talk about the substance?

What is the shadow that's taking place in the garden? Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 through 9, it says, then

Yahweh God, I think I'm the second one that's preached from the LSB at the LSB conference,

I thought more people would, but anyway, then Yahweh God, or if your translations then the

Lord God, foreign man of the dust from the earth, the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and so the man became a living being.

And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden towards the east, and there he placed the man whom he had formed.

Please now turn your heads to verse 15 through 17. It says in this text of the same chapter, then

Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.

And Yahweh God commanded the man saying, from any tree of the garden you may surely eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you should not eat from it.

For in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.

You should surely die. Now like I said, we should be all familiar to what takes place after this.

After this, the serpent of old comes in and tricks Eve into partaking of this fruit, and in so doing, the wife leads her husband to ultimately the demise of all mankind.

We have all died there with Adam in the garden as our first federal head has broken the law of God and is standing guilty before him.

We should all be a familiar with the story to a certain degree. Let's now just consider just one more portion here,

Genesis chapter 3 verse 24. So we understand that Adam and Eve participate in the breaking of the law of God that's been given, the positive law that's been given to them there in the garden.

And in Genesis 3 verse 24, this is the result of what takes place. So he drove man out, and at the east of the garden of Eden he stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turns every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

There's four things I would like us to do in this text, to take considerations of things that we should remember as we go to this next portion here.

Four things that this teaches us about Adam in this example that we've read and that we've covered so far.

Adam is from below. Adam was created from the dust of the earth, a virgin earth, no man has been on her.

He's created from the dust of a virgin earth. And brothers and sisters, this is important for us to remember,

Adam returned there too. He returned there too.

So remember one, Adam is from below. Genesis 2 .7 teaches us that. Adam was placed into a garden, and in this garden it was the best of conditions where there was no sin.

For all, 2 .8 that we see this, that Adam is in the garden. That's point two that we need to remember in this story.

Point three that we need to remember is that Adam was given a positive law. If he had not been told to not participate in eating, taking place and participating in eating of this fruit, surely there would have been no sin to impute because there would have been no violation of a law.

It was a positive law. He had to be told to know to do it. And if he kept it, he was promised life.

And if he broke it, he was promised death. This is a covenant of works that we see here.

Do this, live Do this, you die. Covenant of works, a positive law that is given to Adam.

So Adam broke the law. That's point three that we need to remember in here. That comes from Genesis chapter 3 verse 6.

Adam was drove out of the garden. This is point four that we need to remember.

Adam was cast out of the garden to that of a sin -covered world where all creation today and then was crying out awaiting its redemption because it had fallen there in the garden with Adam.

Adam is cast out living into a fallen world.

Remember that. That's point four that we need to remember. Now the reason that we bring this up is that this is the shadowy outline on the wall that we clearly see in the antitype of this story of Jesus Christ.

It's a mirroring effect that we see here 100 % so. Let's examine this.

Now as familiar as you might be with the story of Adam, I hope you're that much more familiar with the story of Jesus Christ.

We'll just be short in here in examining these things. We don't have time to turn to each one of the verses that we could turn to to establish these things.

But where is the word from? The word is from above. Jesus is from above.

He says this to the Pharisees when he's standing before them in John chapter 8. You are from below. I am from above.

Unless you believe I am, you shall die in your sins. I am from above.

Jesus is born as being from above. The word became flesh and tabernacle amongst us.

He does this through being born of a virgin. Matthew chapter 1 verses 21 through 23. You shall name him

Jesus for he shall save his people. And his name is going to be Emmanuel, which means, which is translated

God with us. That he's going to be born of the Virgin and to the throne above he returned.

Point one of to remember about Jesus. Jesus is from above. Jesus came unto the world,

John 1 14 as we quoted just a second ago, which was totally fallen and depraved.

Imagine would you if you were standing in the day of Jesus and you hear him after he has driven the people out of the temple and he goes into the

Pharisees and he says you are a brood of vipers. This world that we're in is totally depraved and fallen.

It has, it is in all way evil to the very core. Galatians chapter 1 verse 4. Jesus, point 2 that we need to remember,

Jesus is placed in a fallen world. Jesus was completely obedient to the law.

That's point 3 that we need to remember. Jesus according to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21, he who knew no sin became sin on our behalf.

He knew no sin, he never sinned. You should think in the back of your mind the words of John the Baptist saying behold the

Lamb of God as he's seeing him walk down the bank of Jordan. The lamb, the perfect lamb that takes away the sins of the world.

Sinless. Jesus never broke the law.

And point 4 that we need to remember about the story of Jesus in consideration of the garden is that Jesus was cast out of the world.

John chapter 1 verse 10 through 11 teaches us that he came unto his own. His own rejected him.

The very ones that have read the same text that we've gone through in the Old Testament that had it painted so clearly for him, all the text was saying

Jesus, Jesus he's coming. Or the ones that cry out crucify, crucify away with him.

We have no king but Caesar. He came unto his own and his own did not did not receive him.

They rejected him fully because they were themselves sinfully dead. And this is a text that we will read in consideration of this example here in the in the in the account of the historical creation in Genesis.

We're gonna consider John 19 verse 41. You can turn there if you'd like. But John chapter 19 verse 41 after Christ is said to tell us that it is finished, says this.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden.

And in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

Point four, Jesus is buried dead in a garden. Now you should see the obvious correlations already that we can see.

But just to cover, Adam from below, Jesus is from above, Adam is in a garden,

Jesus is in a fallen world. Adam broke the law in the best of conditions, Jesus kept the law in the worst of them.

Adam is cast out of a garden and is placed into a fallen world.

Jesus is cast out of the fallen world and is placed into a garden, dead.

You want to speak about total depravity, look no further than this. Like Greg said yesterday, by Christ undoing what

Adam has done, he has conquered the East and has taken us back westwards towards where we had so fallen from in Adam.

Now it should be obvious to see that both of these historical events completely mirror one another as the first Adam points us to the better Adam.

The failures of Adam are restored in the promised Messiah. Now that we have seen the rough edges of that shadow on the wall, we're gonna now look at some of the theological implications that we can take from this now as we get closer to the feet that the shadow is taking us towards.

But let's pray over this portion. Lord God be glorified, be known, be sought.

We thank you Lord for being our second Adam, Lord. We have surely died in that first Adam, Lord, and we surely live through you.

God I just pray today that we would understand this doctrine and these teachings that we're gonna go through today, that my mouth would not go an ounce beyond what you have here for us now,

Lord. That you would be seen and sought through the preaching of your word, and that you'd be held to that much stronger and seen that much more clear.

Lord we just say these things in the second Adam's name, Jesus Christ, amen.

What we're gonna do now is we're gonna read Romans chapter 5 verses 12 through 21.

As I said before, we're gonna be covering three main portions of text today. Again, this is a healthy amount of text to be covering, but Romans chapter 5, we will be looking at this first portion of text today.

Romans chapter 5 verses 12 through 21. We will be discussing the doctrine of federal headship, which could be defined as this.

This doctrine is the teaching that the father of a family represents all his descendants, end quote. We will be using this definition as we proceed through the text today.

Verse 12 through 21. Let me see here real fast.

I just lost my notes, dang it. See I should have printed them off. We'll do this here. I only want to bring this up because there's some good quotes

I was gonna quote here in just a second, so that's why I will do it. But let's go ahead and read this as things are loading for myself.

Therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned likenesses of the trespasses of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. It isn't like the transgression, thank you

Lord. For if by the transgression of the one, the many died, much more to the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man,

Jesus Christ, abound to the many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned.

For on the one hand, the judgment arose from one transgression, resulting in condemnation.

But on the other hand, the gracious gift arose from many transgressions, resulting in justification.

For if by the transgression of the one, through the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one

Jesus Christ. So then, as through the one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification to life of all men.

For as through the one man's disobedience there were many appointed sinners, even so through the obedience of the one the many will be appointed righteous.

Now the law came in so that the transgressions would increase, but where sin increased, grace abound all the more.

So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our

Lord. Let me get my phone open here for this. Romans chapter 5 verse 12 is where we'll be at.

Romans chapter 5 verse 12. How many of you entered into this building through the roof today?

I don't see any holes. There was some some some holes that were up there just a little bit ago, huh Jeff? Yep, there were.

There was some rain that was entering in that way, but I didn't see anybody coming through the ground, but I saw everybody coming through a door.

Am I right? We all came through that door right there, unless there's a back door, but we all came through a door into here.

All sinned, none in this room are better than another, brothers and sisters.

Let me be clear in that. We are all equally dead in our sins and in our trespasses.

Now just as sin has entered through the one man Adam, think about it like this.

Imagine what's being set up before us here in Romans chapter 5 is the creation of a kingdom, of a household.

All the posterity of Adam are in it. Sin has not entered through me or through you, it has entered through our first father

Adam, who is like a door unto that house. Sin has crept its way in through that entrance of Adam, who is the door.

Now immediately your mind should think of who else claims to be the one and only door unto we gaining salvation, and that is

Jesus Christ who says, I am the door in John chapter 10 verse 9. So be thinking about this here in Romans chapter 5 of this idea of creation being a kingdom over a house and that Adam has swung wide open and sin, this murderous thief, has now come in and has affected and has killed all inside.

It is through Adam that the sin has crept in. Now consider this in Romans chapter 6 verse 23, a verse that I believe

Dr. Schultz quoted for us earlier. The wage of sin is death.

The wage of sin is death, and death through sin and so death spread to all man because all have sinned.

All men have sinned. This is a true statement that we have to remember again and that should bring us to humility as we look to our brothers and sisters in Christ, that none of us in this room are better than one another, not one, because we've all sinned.

We've all come under this banner of this fallen house of Adam. We celebrate his sin.

We roll around in it. We love it. We're covered in it. We are sinful beings.

Let us look at here in verse 13, which in my opinion when I see this is almost answering a objection that a

Jew might answer to this text who's saying, well death has now spread to the entire house.

How could this have happened because the law didn't come until Moses was with us? And what is happening in here is

Paul saying, no, death has always existed in this world since the fall of Adam.

Verse 13, for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law, meaning that we have transgressed that law.

When Adam, our first father, broke the covenant of works, broke the positive law, we have fallen in him and we've been sinning against his transcendent law every day since.

That even before Moses, children were dying. Kids, there was going to be miscarriages.

There was this sin that's so awful already in the world and it was before the law was given to Moses because we've fallen in Adam.

The positive law there in the garden. Now in verse 14 says this, nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the trespasses of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come.

Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 through 3, as we are in this wonderful covenant Baptist, Reformed Baptist Church, I'm sure we can almost all.

Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 through 3, and you were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working the sons of disobedience, among those whom we also formerly conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Who in this room has seen death in their life? Who in here has seen a rotten corpse after sitting in a hotel room for four days?

Who here has seen a dead body that's been in a sun -baked canyon for five days? The thought of these things should make us cringe at the the awfulness that is death, decaying death around us.

Brothers and sisters, we have a patient, merciful, faithful God, because he's been looking at a fallen house that has been decaying since the garden, just as the stench that comes off of the dead corpse is tremendously wrong for us.

God has been looking at these things and it's terrible to him. It's nothing but a filthy rag before him.

So grotesque. Now imagine for a moment that you, when you were dead in your sins, you served a continual wage of death, as we've quoted from from Romans 6, 23, and in this very way, death was the king you were serving.

Death was the master of your house, that everything you did was unto that end, and nothing you did was ever bowing your knee to the

King of the living, nor had any true life therein. All your works were nothing but filthy rags that you proclaim before God as a means of righteousness, but on those filthy rags was the rotten flesh stain of your own decayed body, and you were sitting there claiming before him,

I serve death as my king. I exalt death as the king that's sitting upon the throne that I worship, for he is reigning in my life.

This is the effect of original sin in each one of us. Today in the world, there is a peddling of every false religion, how you can avoid death, how you can afford, how you can, how you can avoid the death that is going to come to each one of us.

You have to do X, Y, and Z things to avoid it. A works -based salvation.

What's interesting enough is in the attempt to avoid death, you're actually just serving it.

You're dead in it already, and you're serving it. By you trying to avoid it, you've actually served it, even there in the garden.

What's the first thing that Adam does after he sins against a holy God? Instead of running to him and saying,

God, I've messed up, God, he hides himself in the midst of the trees.

He gets the fig leaves, and he covers himself. I can avoid death.

God won't know that I did this. I can cover myself, for I know now

I am naked and in need of a covering, and I can do it. Adam there was serving the king death that has now exalted and come in and seized his throne there in the garden.

John Gill, a Reformed Baptist, notes on this verse that we just read, saying this, death is represented as a mighty monarch, a powerful king, and designs not only corporal death, which has mounted the throne by sin, and is supported in its dominion by an ordinance of heaven, but also a mortal or spiritual death, which has seized on all mankind, and reigns in every power and faculty of the soul of man, and likewise an eternal one, which will have, which will have power over those, all those who have no part in the first resurrection.

John Calvin remarks on original sin by saying this, original sin therefore seems to be a hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused in all parts of the soul, which makes, which first makes us liable to God's wrath, then also brings forth in us those works which the scriptures call the works of the flesh.

The works of the flesh. Immediately your mind should go to Jeff's mighty word that he preached from yesterday, and we consider the anemone that Christ had conquered there by being crucified for us, and through the circumcision of his flesh he's removed for us the flesh that we've been, we've now been engrafted into that circumcision, him undergoing that.

I would add to what these brothers in Christ wrote by saying this, it is in original sin that you were conceived in your mother's womb.

You were actually born dead into the very kingdom of death, just as you have no control over what hospital, city, country, last name of which parents you were born to, you have no control over these things.

Likewise, when Adam sinned, he caused all his posterity to bow their knee to the throne of death and to be born in a fallen kingdom.

Sinners through and through who exalt death upon the throne day and night by the works of their own hands, the works of sin -infected flesh of that dead kingdom.

This is original sin that is wrought in our first federal head,

Adam. The doctrine of federal headship is not like the common cold or coronavirus and in the teaching that you might be able to put on a

N95 and protect yourself from it. It's not like you can hide all the days of your life thinking that it'll never get to you.

There is no quarantining from sin in this regard. There is no vaccine out there that will protect you from it.

It is much worse than this. Instead, sin is what you've been conceived in.

You were born dead, your nature is corrupted, and the imago dei is mangled there in the garden when

Adam participated in the violation of God's positive law and therefore we are totally deserving of God's wrath.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression.

For if by the transgression of the one many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man,

Jesus Christ, abound to the many. Let me ask you this, how many of you in here or of your relatives that you know of have suffered death or are going to suffer death?

All, right? There isn't a one that we could think of. All of them, they'll suffer death.

So when it says in here, the many, does that mean everyone? Everyone that's in Adam.

Everyone that's in Adam. So likewise, brothers and sisters, when it says much more to the grace of God and by the gift of the grace of the one man,

Jesus Christ, abound to the many, just as sure as we can look at anyone in this room and say, you will die one day.

We can look at that empty tomb and we can say you will live. You are living in Christ who rose again from the grave.

It's a sure promise to each one of us. It's a sure promise to each one of us.

You must not be like Adam who hides himself in the trees saying, don't look at me for I am naked.

You must stop this because this is pride of man that was sown into your very seed there in the garden. But instead, you must yell out to God saying, be merciful to me, the sinner.

Let me hide in your cleft. Let me be planted upon your rock for I know

I am naked and I need to be covered by you, God. Be merciful to me, the sinner.

Now in one transgression, we have a domino effect that it's talked about in here. In one transgression, we have the sin that leads to another and to another and to another and so on and so forth.

This is where we can begin to see the redemptive history of God's glory revealed to us so clearly.

It is from the first sin that mankind in their depravity continue in sins till the day that God did anoint both

Herod and Pontius Pilate along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel to do whatever his hand and his purpose predestined to occur.

God predestined for his own glory that through the one transgression man would fall. It is through the one transgression that, it's through the many transgressions that Christ would die and that grace would take its seat upon the throne, resulting in our justification.

Brothers and sisters, we are under new kingship when we are in Christ.

Jesus is the builder of a better house, one where we live, one that we sing to God, one where we are in fellowship with Him.

He is the builder of the better house and He is the door. You must enter through Him in order to be a part of this house.

Now let's look here at verse 17 and 18. For if by the transgression of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through one

Jesus Christ. Again, this is not you and I our own doing in any way.

This is through the one that lived a perfect life and died the death that you and I are deserving of, was buried and rose again on the third day according to Scriptures.

He is our new representative that just as death had sat there upon its throne after Adam had sinned,

Christ has come in and has removed that for those that believe in Him and He has sat upon His throne because the work is done.

He has taken upon Himself our curse so that we might be blessed in Him.

There's no need for you brothers and sisters to change your view of limited atonement here in verse 18 where it says these resulted or resulted justification of life to all men.

As we just saw all die, we know that not all shall take part in the first resurrection.

Not all shall be with Christ for eternity. This is saying that all that Adam represent are dead and all that Christ represents shall live.

This is limited atonement. This is particular redemption.

For as through the one man's disobedience there were many appointed sinners, even so through the obedience of one many were appointed righteous.

Now the law came in so that the transgression would increase but where sin has increased grace abounded all the more so that as sin reigned in death even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our

Lord. Christ is sitting upon His throne brothers and sisters and the the way that we can know this is because the tomb is empty.

That means my sin was paid for because everything He said was true. When He said to tell us to die upon the cross

I know that He paid my wage right there and He has taken us back westward undeservingly truly and solely in His merit for what

He has done on our account. I want to now go to please what we'll do now is we'll go ahead and read

Genesis 3. We're gonna consider some things in here. Genesis chapter 3 please make your way there and as you're turning there

I'm gonna be praying just over the covering of this text here. Genesis chapter 3.

Lord God I do thank you so much Lord for being the one that can be obedient or because we couldn't do it.

We were already dead. Lord we thank you for your death. We thank you for you rising again and being the substance of that shadow that we have been looking at here from Adam to Christ and so Lord we we pray and say these things and make a petition to you today

Lord that we would continue to be glorified as we look here in the garden some more and that we say these things in the mediator of the new covenant

Jesus Christ. Amen. Genesis chapter 3 verses 6 through 22 and we will we'll go through this somewhat quickly as quickly as I can go through with my small screen here on my phone and look at this.

Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the was desirable to make one wise so she took fruit from it and ate and she gave it also to her husband with her and he ate.

And they their eyes the eyes of both of them were open and they knew they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

Now we should be familiar with this principle somewhat in the Old Testament often nakedness was was shown to be that of you being sinful that you that you you try to cover this sin wretched flesh that you are in.

Isaiah chapter 47 verse 3 it says your nakedness will be uncovered your reproach will also be seen

I will take vengeance and will not spare a man. Nakedness means sinfulness they realize now that they are a sinful being and have fallen away from what they were created for this

Imago Dei and now they've been corrupted. Now in all this text that we're looking at here again we need to take note of the pride of man and thinking that he could hide from an all -seeing

God thinking that they could cover their sins in an all -powerful

God. We so clearly see the sin that is in here that man hides continually from God and brothers and sisters as Calvinists I hope you are and if you're not

I'm praying for you and according to God's sovereignty I hope one day you will be. Here in the garden who pursues

Adam? God does. God is the one that pursues

Adam here in this text they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden and he calls to them and man responds in verse 10 and saying

I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was so naked I was naked so I hid and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree from which

I commanded you not to eat and listen to this chiastic structure of texts that we have here

God is speaking to man and how does he respond it was the woman you gave me

God then how does the woman respond it was a serpent he tricked me this is a chiastic structure let's now look at verse 14 as we don't have a lot of time to go through these things verse 14 and Yahweh God said to the serpent so so now since since it's gone from man woman serpent now

God addresses the serpent in this text he says because you have done this curse are you more than any cattle more than every beast of the field on your belly you will go in the dust you will eat all the days of your life and I will put a nimity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the hill nimity

Jeff spoke of this in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 16 yesterday that he has taken away this nimity in his flesh there upon the cross upon the curse tree now what takes place after this in verse 16 out now

God responds to the woman we're gonna make mention of all these things here in a moment but in verse 16 to the woman he said

I will greatly multiply your pain and conception in your pain you will bear children your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you so again serpent now

God addresses the second person here he addresses the woman and now he's going to address the man now the man called his wife's name

Eve or excuse me at verse 18 actually verse 17 excuse me then to Adam he said because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which

I command you saying you shall not eat from it curses the ground because of you in pain you will eat of it all the days of your life both thorns and thistles that shall grow for you and you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your vase you will eat bread till you return to the ground because from it you were taken for you are dust and to dust you shall return now we see in here the chiostic right man blames woman woman blame serpent serpent gets rebuked woman is told this this remarkable thing about this seed she hears

God speaking to the serpent and now the woman says you're gonna bear children and it's gonna be painful and to man you're gonna suffer a curse because of your transgression brothers and sisters this chiastic structure in here is called the proto evangelium the first showing of the gospel here how will this promised

Messiah crush the head of the serpent how will he do it he's gonna come through a woman through birth and he's gonna take the curse of man and what does this result in justification of life through the crushing of the head there upon the hill of Calvary Golgotha the school where he was pierced through on his feet he was crushing the head of the serpent he was removing death from the throne that had mounted itself there through Adam and he has taken his seat and what do we see here then takes place now the man called his wife's name

Eve because she was the mother of all the living then Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and then he clothed them we'll stop here right now in this text but through the crushing of the head of the serpent by the bruising of the hill of our

Savior all those that are in him as their new federal head

Christ has removed your filthiness and he has made a sacrifice and has covered you in a new garment a garment that is not touched by the sin of Adam but one that was obedient far more obedient than Adam perfectly obedient now brothers and sisters who in here has been married the longest any volunteers 50 years right congratulations now how long did you guys date for okay you're a year and a half with would you trade all your 50 years for the year and a half that you spent dating would you ever go back to that day because what you're in right now is much sweeter than what was before who in here has children any women in here that have children okay perfect how old are your children perfect would you change the 26 years you've had with your son in replacement of going back to the pregnancy no brothers and sisters

I've had the privilege of preaching through the book of Ruth and the book of Haggai and I was so excited for this conference of shadows to substance because it's in the old that we can see this this forest that seems like it's dark but there's a cobblestone path that is taking us to the cross

God's providence is so clearly seen that he gives the nation of Israel laws to keep them as a nation to protect this line of the promise that's made here in Genesis chapter 3 it's the it's the string that connects all the way to the cross if anyone in here was to ever say

I want to go back to the day I was dating my wife we would all think he's a full and a terrible husband and just like the mother that says

I want to go back to the pregnancy instead of the actual birth you'd be thinking that they're convoluted and what are you saying we are in the substance do not ever try to grasp the shadow there's no substance there oh but I want in temples

I want these things before me you're serving the king of death that is still your federal head

Adam it's a shadow the substance has come listen to me justice there's bottles of water in here and if and it's very well lit in here so the analogy won't work that great but the point of it is is if you had water here and there was a shadow a long shadow that's being cast and you follow that shadow where does the shadow lead you to the water leads you to Christ these shadows that we've been preaching about it leads you to the substance you would be a fool if you were dying of thirst and you said give me the shadow there's no nourishment there the covering of the sacrifice made in the garden did not save them it was the one that made the sacrifice that would save them the seed that would come through the childbirth of a virgin brothers and sisters

I just want to finish us out in Hebrews chapter 8 as my hour is almost up unfortunately

Hebrews chapter 8 we'll read 6 to 13 verses 6 through 13 it says this in Hebrews chapter 8 but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry by as much he is also the mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted on better promises for if the first covenant had been faultless there would have been no occasion sought for a second now listen to me in this the covenants that we see in the

Old Testament they were full of fault why is that I'm sorry Presbyterians I've got to say this though they were covenants of works and that's why there was fault in them because you were dead in your sins and you can't be obedient to them they promised a reward but they also promised a curse they were full of fault because you were required in it but praise be to God that the new covenant does not require my obedience for finding or for the first covenant had been faultless there would have been no occasion sought for a second for finding fault with them he says behold days are coming says the

Lord when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not like the covenant which

I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt for they did not continue in my covenant and I did not care for them says the

Lord for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the

Lord I will put my law into their hearts and upon their hearts I will write them

I will put my law into their minds and upon their hearts I will write them and I will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen and everyone his brother saying know the

Lord for they shall all know me from the least of the greatest of them for I will be merciful to their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more please if you know the

Lord know this that I can't come to you and tell you know the Lord for you already know him that's the superiority of this new covenant that our sins have actually been removed it's not requiring of you to be obedient that requirement was met by Jesus Christ our

Lord and Savior and everyone that's in this covenant lives because sins are forgiven

I'll finish in just saying this I have 10 seconds left according to my timer right now in John chapter 11 when

Jesus is asked about Lazarus who's died he says I am the true resurrection and if you have faith in me shall never die even though you die you shall live and that's because that tomb is empty the king was also the righteous subject the priest was also the sacrifice and the prophet was all the fulfillment we have it in Christ the new covenant has come the substance is here and that ought to be the message that we tell the death loving and serving world outside the king of the living is sitting upon the throne he has won in victory standing there bearing the wounds that we deserve and he deserves all praise let us pray

Lord God I do thank you so much for this opportunity Lord God I I pray today that we would be refined to what you have before us that you would be glorified in us taking these things of shadows to substance back to our churches teaching others about what your truth say

Lord not because a man said it but because you have spoken it Lord all things in Moses and the prophets have pointed us to you

Lord and we are so thankful to be a part of this substance of this new covenant Lord this covenant of grace and I just say these things in your holy name that prophet priest and King who died upon the hill of Calvary was buried and rose again on the third day