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To do this I would like to present two great truths. We
will be going back to the beginning. I want to show you Christ
as the last Adam and as the second man. When we finish that,
I’d like to show you what it looked like when Christ lived on
earth. In order to see Christ as the last Adam I want to show you
a verse that claims He is Adam. Romans 5:14, “Nevertheless
death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had
not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type
of Him who was to come.” And also 1 Corinthians 15:45, “So
also it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living soul.’
The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” The Bible is careful
not to call Him the second Adam. Second implies third and third
implies fourth, and so on. By calling Him the last Adam, none
can follow. With Jesus that picture ends.

1 Corinthians 15:47, “The first man is from the earth,
earthy; the second man is from heaven.” He is called the second
man because other men will follow. That is us. In order to see
this I’d like to go back to the beginning in Genesis 1:26&27,
“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to
Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over
the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And God
created man in His own image, in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created them.”

Man was created in the image of God. Don’t read that
“la, la, la”. Man was created in the image of God. What does
that mean? One thing we know it means is that man is unique.
That’s one reason in Genesis 9 that it says we can eat animals,
because they were not created in the image of God. Only man
was created in the image of God; not the angels, not animals, not
insects and not fish. Only man was created in the image of God.
That's why evolution is foolish. It’s not that an animal can adapt
and become like a man. It’s foolish to claim that something that
is not created in God’s image can become created in God’s
image.