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a missionary for many years before he discovered Christ as his life.
When he discovered Christ as his life he called it the “exchanged
life”. The reason why I like that is because it presents Jesus as a
substitute. Usually we say, “When Jesus died on the cross He was
my substitute. He died in my place.” I think all true Christians know
that He died in my place. But some Christians do not know that now
He wants to live in my place. He wants to live as my substitute.

For years I was taught that I should live for the Lord. Then God
discovered to me that He wants to live for Himself. He doesn’t want
me to live for Him. He wants to live in me. It’s a wonderful reality
and it changed my life. So, we’re going to be speaking about that
exchange; His life in place of my life.

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 in 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