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When God first created man in His image, God could
             look down from heaven at man and see Himself.  When He saw
             man He would see His Son.  When He saw man as He created
             man  to  be  He  would  be  pleased  because  man  would  radiate
             Christ.  That was God’s original plan, that man would reflect
             Christ all over the earth.  You know the sad story.  Adam #1
             sinned.  What did Adam lose when he sinned against God?  I
             know he lost lordship/dominion.  I know he lost his innocence.
             I know he lost the garden.  I know he lost most of his brain.  He
             doesn’t think like God created man to think.  But bottom line,
             what did he lose?
                    I’m suggesting that he lost the very thing that makes
             man a man.  The thing that makes man a man, as God intended
             man to be, Adam sinned away.  The Apostle Paul explains it in
             Ephesians  2:12,  “…remember  that  you  were  at  that  time
             separate  from  Christ,  excluded  from  the  commonwealth  of
             Israel,  and  strangers  to  the  covenants  of  promise,  having  no
             hope and without God in the world.”  Before you were saved
             you were without Christ in the world.

                    Ephesians  4:18,  “…being  darkened         in   their
             understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the
             ignorance  that  is  in  them,  because  of  the  hardness  of  their
             heart…”  Man was excluded from the life of God.  What in the
             beginning was a wonderful plan, that man would reflect Christ,
             has now been destroyed; that unique part, the image of God, the
             life  of  God.    Are  we  surprised  that  man  now  lives  like  the
             animals?  That’s why.  They are separated from what makes
             man a man.  He fell from humanity.
                    I want to show you Christ as the last Adam.  We begin
             with the Christmas story but I want to get to the heart of it.  It’s
             not the virgin birth.  It’s not the star in the sky.  It’s not the Wise
             Men.  It’s not the murder of all those little babies.  It’s not the
             shepherds.  It’s not the announcement by the angels.  It’s not
             the five Christmas songs that we have in the New Testament.
             It’s  not  even  His  titles;  Wonderful,  Counselor, Mighty  God,
             Everlasting Father, or Seed of David.
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