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B.  GOD’S ORIGINAL INTENTION WAS FOR  MAN
                   TO DISPLAY CHRIST

               C.  WHAT DID ADAM LOSE WHEN HE SINNED?
                       1.  MANY THINGS (DOMINION, INNOCENCE,
                          BRAIN POWWER  ETC)
                       2.  HE LOST UNION WITH CHRIST; HE WAS
                          SEPARATED FROM WHAT MADE MAN,
                          MAN  (EPHESIANS 2:12; EPHESIANS 4:18)
                       3.
        III   THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST INTRODUCES US
               TO CHRIST AS THE SECOND MAN
               A.   INCARNATION: THE GOD-MAN; GOD IS PUT
                   BACK IN THE MAN
               B.  HOW DOES JESUS DESCRIBE THE LIFE HE
                   LIVED IN HIS INCARNATE BODY AS THE
                   SECOND MAN?
                       1.  HE DESCRIBES IT AS LIVING ON EARTH
                          BY THE GIFT OF GOD’S GLORY (JOHN
                          17:22-23; REVELATION 21:23)
                       2.   HE DESCRIBES GLORY AS “UNION WITH
                          HIS INDWELLING FATHER ( JOHN 17:21;
                          JOHN 17:23)
                       3.  HE PROMISED TO GIVE HIS CHILDREN
                          THE SAME GLORY HIS FATHER GAVE
                          HIM (JOHN 17:21; JOHN 17:23)
               C.   WHAT DID IT LOOK LIKE WHEN HE LIVED BY
                   THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER?
                       1.   HE INITIATED NOTHING (JOHN 8:28-29)
                       2.   HE HAD NO PRIVATE WILL BUT DID
                          THE  WILL OF THE FATHER (JOHN 6:38;
                          MATTHEW 26:39)
                       3.  THE FRUIT OF HIS LIFE WAS THE
                          WORKS OF THE FATHER (JOHN 10:37-38;
                          JOHN 14:10)
                       4.  HE SOUGHT ONLY THE FATHER’S
                          GLORY (JOHN 8:50; JOHN 7:18; JOHN
                          12:27-28)
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