Host contrasts Adam's failure in a perfect garden with Christ's success in the wilderness, illustrating that Jesus faced a twelve-foot rim while Adam played on a six-foot one. This theological analysis explains how humanity inherited condemnation through Adam's covenant breach, whereas believers receive righteousness via Christ's sinless obedience and substitutionary death. Ultimately, the episode asserts that individuals possess only two identities: being dead in Adam as lawbreakers or alive in Christ as covenant keepers, securing salvation solely through faith in His finished work rather than human merit. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Covenant of Works00:02:34
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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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But it's important for us to recognize Adam, before sin entered the world, he had a really sweet gig.
And he failed in this perfect environment.
And then the last Adam, Christ, think of this the serpent comes to Christ also and tempts him.
So Adam is in a garden surrounded by God's provision.
Christ, the last Adam, is in the wilderness 40 days without water and food.
His flesh is weary.
His body is weak, and the serpent comes to Christ and tempts him, and he resists.
So, Adam, in set up for success, right?
Adam's like he's playing basketball on a six foot rim.
Brick.
Just can't, you know.
And then Jesus is dunking on a 12 foot rim.
And in every way that the first Adam failed, the second Adam has failed.
Succeeded, the last Adam who is Christ.
And here's the reality as it comes to our identity for all of humanity, there are only two ultimate identities that a person can have.
We need to be aware of this.
See, God works in covenants.
We have to understand this.
And so, as it pertains to covenants, there's always God makes a covenant with a head, someone who is representative of that people.
So, whether it's Abraham or Noah or whatever it might be, David over Israel, these kinds of things.
So, God made a covenant with Adam in the garden.
This is the covenant of works.
Adam failed.
And because Adam failed, Because Adam sinned, all of us in Adam are lawbreakers.
We are covenant breakers and underneath God's just wrath.
But in Christ, we are righteous, covenant keepers.
So, what I'm saying is this in the final analysis, a very sprawled thing to say, but in the final analysis, we're actually saved by works, just not our works.
We're saved by the works of Christ.
Saved By Christ's Works00:01:11
You see what I'm saying?
So, there is a covenant of works that Christ kept.
He didn't come to abolish the law.
He fulfilled it.
He fulfilled all righteousness.
And in fulfilling this covenant of works, you and I, not by our merit, not by our works, but through faith in Him, His works, His sinless life, His act of obedience, His substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, ascension to the right hand of the Father, in believing in Christ through faith, His covenant keeping is accredited to our account as though we had kept the covenant.
So the only identity you can have is in Adam or in Christ.
In Adam, dead.
And justly condemned as a covenant breaker.
In Christ, alive as a covenant keeper.
You didn't keep the covenant, but He kept the covenant in your place.
And God views you as though you had done and fulfilled all that righteousness yourself.
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