Adam, the host of Daily Truth, argues that federal headship is inescapable, asserting humanity sinned in Adam just as death spread to all. He contends rejecting this doctrine implies arrogance and logically necessitates rejecting Jesus' representation for pardon, creating an impossible choice between accepting Adam's failure or Christ's redemption. Ultimately, the episode posits that one cannot object to being represented by Adam while simultaneously embracing the life brought by Jesus, urging listeners to accept this divine framework before signing off. [Automatically generated summary]
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Sinned in Adam00:05:06
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Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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When Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, he didn't have to.
Adam did not have to sin against God.
Adam, because of the way that God created him in the state of innocence, had at his disposal the power to please God.
Adam freely chose to rebel.
And you and I, in Adam, chose to rebel with him.
Verse 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.
We all sinned, and we all sinned in Adam.
This is the doctrine of federal headship.
This is the understanding of a covenant head, a covenant father.
This is the understanding that someone else represents you.
And it is at this precise point that many in our culture today like to object.
I don't want to be represented by Adam.
That blockhead?
And my goodness, God was walking with him and Eve in the cool of every day.
They lived in paradise and he still couldn't get it right.
See, that sentiment, although it seemingly is logical, is rooted in immense arrogance, brothers and sisters.
Adam was the best of us, not the worst.
God, who is good and never does anything that is cruel, did not set up for us a federal head, a representative who was a failure.
Adam was the best of us.
You and I would have done no better.
And even more important than that, if we object to the idea of the doctrine of federal headship of having someone else represent us before God, we lose the entirety of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
For if you object to the idea of being in Adam, then you must, with consistency and integrity, reject the idea of being in Christ.
If man is not In Adam.
And if God is not just in his decision to count the actions of Adam as representative of us, then God cannot justly pardon the wicked by counting the righteous acts of Christ to our account.
If you cannot be in Adam, if God is unfair to count you in Adam, then God would be, logically, by that faulty logic, unfair in counting you in being in Christ.
You were in Adam.
You and I, believe it or not, we were there that day.
That fateful day in the Garden of Eden, when the serpent slithered in to the field and began to speak to the woman, and Adam listened to his wife.
That's what God says when he comes and deals out judgment because you have listened to your wife.
He listens to his wife, he is led astray, and he willfully rebels against God.
And on that day, you and I were there.
In the very same way that Levi was there when Abraham paid tithes to McCalzon, you and I were there when Adam forfeited his life.
You and I are guilty, both under a compatibilistic understanding of freely sinning and a libertarian understanding of freely sinning.
Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin.
But that death spread to all men because all of us sinned.
We all sinned in Adam.
And if you object to the idea of being represented by Adam and the death that he brings, then you are objecting to the idea of the gospel of Jesus Christ and being represented by Jesus and the life that he brings.
You cannot have it both ways.
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