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

Opening Gratitude, Prayer, and the Need to Preach 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'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, 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, 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, and needing of help.

And so I just really thank everyone for being here today. Also, before we, 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 going to 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 and 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 Word to be preached today.

But let's pray.

Lord God, 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.

Lord, God, I pray that your might would be seen here in these next coming hours, in 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 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 would 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.

Christ in the Shadows and Luke 24

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. It can be accompanied by with feelings, but it's not what determines what truth is for.

Us.

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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 going to be in verse 31, but I'll read for you verse 27 and on. It says in here, this is, 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.

And after feeling 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, how this day of atonement, this, 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, or Jeff speaking about the one about the new covenant and I was taking a sign in him or even about how Christ is our greater arc 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 going to do is I want to just read for you a text that, 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, 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, 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 first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 45 through 49, first 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 fear, the, 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 onto 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.

Adam as the First Federal Head

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 going to, we're going to move through this portion a little bit rapidly.

My hope today is that we're going to be doing, we're going to 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 going to 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 going to open up to Genesis chapter two, verse seven through nine, 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 the 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 two, verse seven through nine, 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. 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 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 three verse six. 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 eight.

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 tabernacled amongst us. He does this through being born of a virgin, Matthew chapter one 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 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 unto 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 one verse four. Jesus, point two that we need to remember, Jesus is placed in a fallen world.

Jesus was completely obedient to the law, that's point three that we need to remember. Jesus, according to second Corinthians chapter five 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 four 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 one 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. Are the ones that cry out crucify, crucify away with him.

We have no king but seizure. He came unto his own and his own 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 account of the historical creation in Genesis.

We're going to consider John 19 verse 41. You can turn there if you'd like. But John chapter 19 verse 41 after Christ has 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 going to now look at some of the theological implications that we can take from this now as we get closer to the feat that the shadow is taking us towards.

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 going to 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 going to do now is we're going to read Romans chapter 5, verses 12 through 21. As I said before, we're going to 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. 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 going to quote here in just a second. So that's why we'll 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 in the 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 did 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 sin 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 holes that were up there just a little bit ago, huh, Jeff? 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 this 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 men 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 is 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, it 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 formally walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience among those whom we also formally 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 sunbaked canyon for five days?

The thought of these things should make us cringe at 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 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 proclaimed 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 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 is now exalted and come in and seeds his throne there in the garden.

Then 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 enmity 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 will 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.