�� In Genesis 1:27 God made man in his likeness and breath into man life and he became a living being which we are all aware of this is actually the old man but the new man in 2 Corinthians 5: 17 a new man came on the scene again which is called the NEW CREATION MAN but I'm going to take everything back from the beginning and how it all started so you might understand the hidden mysteries btw this two kinds of men and what governs them.
↘ Many Christians are living in a full blown ignorance and that's the main reason God said his own people perish because of this ignorance but I thank God he gave some pastors and teachers, apostles, prophets after his resurrection for the perfecting of the saints. So many Christians contradict the Scriptures and they can't understand who they are and what the Scriptures is all about. Jesus says in John 5:39 " You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me" when some of us read this there's no understanding at all but I'm here to unravel this mysteries to you for it is your birthright to know your true identity and you can only know this in the word.
↘ The scriptures are christo-centric which means the Scriptures is a book "centered in Christ" that is why Jesus said in that same verse that they "testify of him", the scriptures is not a book of characters but a book that is centered on one person which is "Christ Jesus".
↘ Now concerning the old man(testament, covenant, life etc) we all know of the first man " ADAM", in Genesis(in the beginning); God created Adam & gave him dominion & authority over all things, Genesis. 1:26-27 " God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.
So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.
And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.
↘ Man was giving authority as read but had certain restrictions from eating of the tree of knowledge, good and evil;man sinned against God by going contrary to the Instructions,all these was caused by the devil to rob man of his eternal life, authority,dominion etc.
↘ God gave man eternal life called ZOE(God kind of life) he wanted man to function like him in everything but man lost everything to the devil's craftiness. Man began suffering, knew sin,had a normal human life(which means he can get sick,die,suffer etc.
↘ Generations upon Generations this continued man was living in sin etc,until the time of the Israelites where a covenant was enacted in order to bring man closer to God again as in the beginning, man was given laws which was written by Moses and the angels, because whenever God looked upon man he sees sin,wickedness, evil etc,so the law was introduced in order to keep man righteous before God; but when you violate the law you die this law was called the LAW OF SIN AND DEATH;which means when you sin you die, but this didn't still work; God couldn't communicate with man directly as in the beginning do he did that through the priest,prophets etc who were living by his grace.
↘ So Moses came on the scene as one priest who tried everything but to no avail, God rather speak to him to speak to the Israelites as at then,Moses wrote down laws to help man closer to God but nothing worked,men still violate the laws as from the beginning as Adam did,infact there was a day 3000 men died because of violating the law, so God knew the only thing that can redeem man is "BLOOD".
↘ Blood was the only thing that can take away the sins of men in order to make man righteous as God like in the beginning (Created Adam). Heb.9:7,22 says
(7). But into the second [division of the tabernacle] none but the high priest goes, and he only once a year, and never without taking a sacrifice of blood with him, which he offers for himself and for the errors and sins of ignorance and thoughtlessness which the people have committed.
(22) [In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.
↘ And then they started offering animals every year;the priest will be doing this offering the blood of goats,bulls etc which takes away sins only on yearly basis, that means it must be done yearly,but come to think of this it wasn't also helping ie bringing man closer to God and rightoeus.
↘ I remember in the Bible when Moses after writing down the law with the help of angels in writing it for the Israelites; Gal.3:19 " What then was the purpose of the Law? It was added [later on, after the promise, to disclose and expose to men their guilt] because of transgressions and [to make men more conscious of the sinfulness] of sin; and it was intended to be in effect until the Seed (the Descendant, the Heir) should come, to and concerning Whom the promise had been made. And it [the Law] was arranged and ordained and appointed through the instrumentality of angels [and was given] by the hand (in the person) of a go-between [Moses, an intermediary person between God and man].
When Moses discovered that the glory was departing from his face he covered it with a veil,he came and saw the Israelites worshipping another God while he was bringing the law he broke the law himself, so moses was the first to have broken the law(commandments) he had written. 2 Corinthians. 3:7,10 says
Now if the dispensation of death engraved in letters on stone [the ministration of the Law], was inaugurated with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its brilliance, [a glory] that was to fade and pass away.
Indeed, in view of this fact, what once had splendor [[c]the glory of the Law in the face of Moses] has come to have no splendor at all, because of the overwhelming glory that exceeds and excels it the glory of the Gospel in the face of Jesus Christ].
↘ The law was a fault finding covenant,its a sin conscious covenant, it doesn't take away sins,it justifies no one.
So once every year the priest will offer sacrifices to redeem man but this couldn't make man righteous and have the life(eternal) of God. The blood of animals were no longer working. Heb.10:4 says " Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away & verse 11 says " Furthermore, every [human] priest stands [at his altar of service] ministering daily, offering the same sacrifices over and over again, which never are able to strip [from every side of us] the sins [that envelop us] and take them away.
↘ You may be asking "why" but the answer is simple,it is because man sinned and it is only a man(free,sinless, righteous man that can take away sins)& reconcile Men to God.
↘ I'll continue with the second series of this message tomorrow, you'll know the man and why he is important to you.
Have a blessed day.
From the pastor's desk!!!
