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MEDITATIONS ON THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE
By Glenn H. Jackson
______...."This book of the law [the Word of God] shall not depart from [always be in] your
mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful [take heed] to do according to all that is written in it; for THEN you will make your way prosperous, and THEN you will have
success".... Joshua 1:8 NASB
THE CREATION OF MAN
[part 6 of 6]
Man's
Responsibility
*____It is impossible to over-estimate the responsibility of Adam. He was responsible for the heart-joy of the Father-God, for the human family yet unborn. God could have spoken
the entire human family into existence at once, but He did not choose that way. Genesis 1:28. He made Adam and Eve fellow-workers with Him in bringing the human family into the world. God gave to man the ability to reproduce himself or beget children. These
children were primarily for the joy and glory of God.
____Instead of creating the human race by one single word, the Father-God created one man and woman. He said to them, "I permit you to give birth
to My children, to rear, educate, and care for them, teaching them to love Me, and to respond to My yearning.”
____So man's real business was to give birth to God's children.
____This gives a responsibility to man that can only be measured by eternity. Man gives birth to eternal personalities, to children who will live as long as God lives. Man, then, is the custodian of God's joy. We have dwelt
in detail on the creation of the human race in Adam, for a very definite reason, the renewing of your mind.
Until the time that we were born again, we lived in the realm of spiritual death. We had known of no condition
for humanity outside of the bondage of that realm. During that period we all became familiar with the creation of man as given to us in Genesis 1 and 2, but we know it only through the world mind, which is enmity toward God.
____In the story of Creation, we did not see that man was the reason for the existence of the universe. To us, man played a minor role. Our spirits, alienated from God, did not grasp the Father-God's longing for children and His joy in
creating a man in His own image, with dominion over creation. We saw instead a God for whom we felt no love or nearness, a policeman type of God. We saw the creation of man as a pitiful failure, the creation of a poor, weak worm of the dust. We saw it as Satan
would have us see it.
____1 Corinthians 15:45-49 (American Standard Version) tells us of two creations : the creation in Adam and the new spiritual creation in Christ. In Adam, we see man marred
by the entrance of spiritual death, losing his fellowship with the Father-God and his authority over creation. In Christ, we see spiritual death destroyed and man made a new creature, as free from the dominion of spiritual death as though Adam had never sinned.
As you know the place and reason for the first creation, you will know what you mean to the Father-heart of God. A low conception of the creation in Adam has given to us a low conception of the new creation in Christ.
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