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What the man of the dust says:
"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24)
"...them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bonda^" (Hebrews 2:15).
"For if by one man's offense death reigned by one..." (Romans 5:17; Psalms 51:5; Job 14:4; 25:4).
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"The first man is of the earth, earthy..." (ICorinthians15:47).
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(John 6:54-57).
"Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come, (in the volume of the book it is written of me), to do thy will, O God" (Hebrews 10:5-7).
"And so it is written. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. NowthisIsay,brethren,thatfleshandbloodcannotinher it the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption" (1 Corinthians 15:45-50).
"And he said unto them. Yeare from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:23-24).
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When examining the partaking of flesh and blood by Jesus Christ to the
end of destroying the work of the devil as expressed in Hebrews 2:14, we should understand that these scriptures speak together to convey the truth about the origin of that flesh and blood. The apparent weakness of Christ was in reality the power of God unto salvation.
These bibliceil truths compel us to emphasize that the flesh of Christ, in which God the Father was manifested, has nothing in conunon with earthly Adamicorangelicnature. ItistheWordoftheonlyGodwhobecameflesh. That is why the heavenly flesh is efficacious to do away with all the infirmi ties of the sons of Adam and all the consequencesof the fall, that man from the dust is totally unable to withstand. Now this is how the, "weakness of God is stronger than men" (I Corinthians 1:25) operates.
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