The Adamic Nature in Justification

 

Justification/the new birth makes man an over-comer of the Adamic Nature on the inside; and an over-comer of temptation on the outside.

Justification channels God's Grace into the heart of a believer. The heart of a believer is made clean and holy.

Justification enables the believer in Christ to have victory over the Adamic Nature. How? The empowerment of God's Grace is greater than the inherited carnal nature. The divine nature is not equal to the carnal nature but greater according to God. God's Word confirms such truth in Saint John's Epistle...greater is He in you, than he that's in the world. Peter also confirmed such truth in his Second Epistle in chapter 1 stating how man escapes the corruption in the world when he is made a partaker of the divine nature.

Justification by Grace converts sinful men and makes them, over-comers to the Adamic Nature. Justification empowers the believer with enough of Christ to over-come temptations that are encountered in life.

Justification rids man from the guilt of the past and brings holiness into the human soul.

Justification makes the believer in Christ (not the sinner) eligible to be sanctified from the conflict caused from the still existing Adamic Nature. Sanctification rids man from the Adamic Nature.

The distinction between the acts of sin and inherited sin (the Adamic Nature)

 

The Bible clearly teaches there are two types of sin within the human make-up.

(1.) Breaking the law of God
(2.) Man's inherited propensity to sin.

The acts of sin can be confessed and/or forgiven. Inherited sin is different. Inherited sin cannot be confessed or forgiven because it is not an act, violation or transgression against God. God deals with inherited sin in a different manner.

Christ came to rid fallen man of indwelling sin and disobedience to God both. Justification deals with the acts of sin. Sanctification deals with the sinful nature. Neither type of sin is to great for God to rid man of. Only God can rid man of sin. Acts of sin are forgiven. Inherited sin is destroyed. Acts of sin are confessed. Indwelling sin is cleansed.

Forgiveness is something God does in Justification. Cleansing from the Adamic Nature is something God does in Sanctification. Both operations are performed by Spirit of the Living God. Justification is something God does to a sinner. Sanctification is something God does to a believer that desires to have the Adamic Nature removed.

No sin is to big or to small for God Almighty. God doesn't want anyone to be bound by the acts of sin or bound by the inherited sinful nature. God forgives men from the acts of sin. God liberates men from the Devil's Prison house which is merely the Adamic Nature.

What a mighty God we serve who took upon Himself human flesh so that you and I could be liberated from sin's bondage or stronghold. Jesus can set the captives free as He leads captivity captive. Jesus can have "full possession" of your mind, soul, and body. Your total being. Everything you are. He can forgive sin and he can remove it completely from the child of God...or my Bible is a lie. Don't think that's the case either. Many may find this teaching somewhat unusual but if you dig deep enough into the Bible you'll find it yourself. It came through the power of a resurrected Christ.

It's the doctrine of God and not the doctrine of man. There is no Wesleyanism, Calvinism, Lutheranism, Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, New Age, or any form of man made doctrine in sin. Just plain and simple Bible Truth. So likewise is God's great blessing of removing sin from the heart of a believer.

In reference to the verse in John 1, "if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, the truth is not in us"...makes reference to the Gnostic's who did not believe man had a sinful nature. Sin is two-fold. The acts of sin and inherited sin. That's what John was making reference to. Many don't know this because they want to take one verse from the Bible and make a complete doctrine out of it... and then justify sin with it. How sad that some would use the Bible to justify or condone sin...when really its just the opposite. The Bible is to be used to justify and condone righteousness and holy living. It's used to magnify Christ and the power He gives His children to have over sin. It's call victory over sin or victory in Jesus either one.

Excuse me for getting blessed when I write these Blogs. I just love Jesus, having fellowship with His saints, and knowing the power of His resurrection. Like God this writer hates sin and loves righteousness. Check out the two different types of sin in the Bible and you will see how God gives the way for man to be "delivered" from it.

The way of Cain...the son of Adam

 

We all recognize Adam and Eve and the Fall of man in the Garden of Eden. What about Cain who killed his brother Abel? Cain violated life, nature, and God with the murder of his dear brother Abel...without human example. Notice the way of Cain? Let's compare Cain's human religious works (without a cry for mercy) with Abel's offering of sacrifice unto God.

Gen. 4: 2-4...Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

While Abel obeyed God...Cain disobeyed God and missed God's Divine favor. Cain was without confession or the witness of righteousness in his heart.

Heb. 11:4...By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous,

Gen. 4:5...But unto Cain and to his offering he (God) had not respect.

"The way of Cain consisted of self made human religious worship".

1 John 3:12...Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one,

The wicked one was Cain's inherited propensity of sin. Simply termed as the, "Adamic Nature" that has tainted the human family since the Transgression of Adam.

Perhaps someone has departed from the faith of their believing parents. Abel didn't depart from the faith, but Cain did. Cain was a defiant and open sinner against the God of Creation. Cain was the first child of the fallen race, after the Fall of Adam. Cain had no experiential background in sin or disobedience to God. Cain was the first Biblical example of an unbeliever. The way of Cain was blind to the Devil's deception upon his mother, Eve. Cain heard from God directly and knew God...yet Cain still left the presence of God. Cain's ways were evil, defiant, and godless. Unlike Abel, Cain rejected what God wanted from him concerning religious worship. Cain turned against the God of all Creation.

Gen 4:16...and Cain went out from the presence of the LORD

Let's examine to the way of Cain in light of the present human family. Compare humanity and the unbelieving world today, with the self made human religious ways of Cain. If we have eyes to see we can clearly see that our modern religious world has drifted into the way of Cain. The ways of Cain have become a beacon in the life of society. Those who say God is about love and not about Judgment have gone in the way of Cain. Those who substitute religious works and religious ceremony for the death and resurrection of Saviour have gone the way of Cain. Those who substitute philosophy for Divine Revelation have gone the way of Cain. Society is elevated with the nature and ways of Cain. Cain is in the business world. Cain is in the workplace. Cain is in our educational systems. Cain has subtly formed in the Religious world.

The Devil's prison house...the Adamic Life

 

The subject of this Blog is about the Devil's Prisonhouse. It's a subject that some people do not like to address. Other's dodge it and some just don't know about. In order to define the Devil's Prisonhouse we must first define the Devil's Nature and establish the truth of how the Devil's Nature tries to keep a man bound and confined, even after he has accepted Christ as personal Lord and Saviour.

The Devil's nature is the corrupt and enslaved will of man that is controlled by sin. The Devil's Nature is the nature that every human being is born with since the curse of the Fall in the Garden of Eden. God's curse fell over the Earth and humanity, as a result of the Original Sin. Adam fell in a mud puddle and the whole human family got dirty. The Bible says by the disobedience of Adam many are made sinners, but by the obedience of Christ shall many be made righteous. Plain and simple truth.

The Bible goes on to teach in Rom 5:21...That as sin hath reigned unto death. Sin reigns in humanity through the Devil's Nature. This corrupt and enslaved nature rules the sinner when Christ is not in the picture. The mind, will, and character of a sinner is Godless and enslaved to sin.

After a man accepts Christ the Devil's Nature no longer rules. Why? The believer is given a new nature. The Bible calls this new nature the Divine Nature. The Divine Nature is not the Devil's Nature. The Divine Nature is the nature of Christ that a believer "partakes of" when personal forgiveness is found and Salvation by Grace comes into the human soul. The Divine Nature is ruled by the Spirit of Christ. The Divine Nature is a God given nature that has the power to do right. The Divine Nature is righteousness imputed to the human soul. It flows from Calvary. It rules the heart and life of a child of God.

So, where is the Devil's Nature in the life of a Christian? Where did the Devil's nature go? Never in the past life before Christ has the Devil's Nature ever been disturbed, but now Christ came into the picture. The Devil's Nature has been overcome by the Divine Nature. The Devil's Nature still tries to retailate. The Devil's nature now tries to "rule over the divine". How does Christ feel about this? Christ says get thee behind me Satan. Christ has "all" authority. Christ says, "Move out of the way. I am God. I bought this believer with my own blood. He's my ownership. This believer has the power to glorify me in his body and spirit". Yes, dear reader the Divine Nature is greater than the Devil's Nature. God said so, "Greater is He that is in you". Glory!

Now, we can address the Devil's Prisonhouse that still exists. The Devil's Prisonhouse is the place where the Devils's nature tries to tell the child of God, the saved, or the born again believer that it rules. This old man says, "The divine nature doesn't have the power to make the child of God do right, you're always going to have this struggle with the flesh". The Devil's prisonhouse is where the Devil freely comes into the intellect and thinking and tries to deceive a child of God into believing he's always going to be a captive to the Devil's Nature. Instead of believing what God said the Devil tries to trick, to brainwash, and to deceive saved people into believing what He says. People including Christian's are sometimes bound in the Devil's Prisonhouse and led to believe there is no means of escape or deliverance from this corrupt will and nature. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! Where sin abounded...now Grace does "much more" abound. I like that language! Glory!

Christ provides a way for the child of God to "escape" the Devil's Prisonhouse. You can be liberated! Yes, my Brother and Sister you can be liberated from the confines of the Devil's Nature that constantly keeps telling you the flesh can have the best of you. You can break away from that struggle if you allow the power of Christ to mortify your flesh along with it's awful deeds. The Devil wants you in his prison cell to be captive and yielded to Him. There was never a conflict with the old nature until Christ came in. Don't let false teaching, tradition, or the opinions of men tell you you're always going to be held in the confines of the Devil's Prisonhouse. It's not true! It's not true! It's not true! That's just what the Devil wants! The Devil wants you at war with self. He want's you to struggle with self. He want's you to be defeated. The Devil want's you to believe there is no escape and no deliverance from being tossed to and fro. The Devil wants you to be double minded. This is not peaceful living. Without victory over self. Being in prison to self is not peaceful. No contentment in the Devil's Prisonhouse. This is misery...yet the Devil deceives people into believing this is a form of Christianity! That is the Devil's Prisonhouse. That's the struggle. That's the conflict! Only Christ can liberate man from.

The Devil's Prisonhouse is a place that drills into your thinking there is never a way out. It's always going to be this way. The flesh and the Spirit at constant war. The flesh wins! The flesh is greater than Christ. I don't care what the Bible says, it's always going to be that way! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

I call you attention to these facts:

Jesus gives the sinner a way to be forgiven.

Jesus gives the believer a way to be liberated from the Devil's Nature.

Jesus gives the believer a way to "escape" and "break away" from the Devils Prisonhouse.

Glory!

How?
First you have to be Justified.
Second you have to be sanctified...completely.

Justification is the new birth.
Sanctification (the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire) is deliverance from the Devil's Prisonhouse.

How do I get Justified? The New birth...removal of the "acts" of sin
How do get Sanctified? The baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire... removal of the Adamic Nature

Neither operation performed by God is progressive. Both acts are instantaneous and distinct acts proven in the Bible. Read it for yourselves. God can forgive, deliver, and liberate. Both operations have a distinct purpose. The new birth makes you eligible to be sanctified. Sanctification delivers you from the Devils Prisonhouse. Amen!

Plain and simple truth. Bible truth! It says in the Bible through the words of Christ the truth shall make you free. Read it. Live it! Freedom also includes freedom from the Devil's Prisonhouse. The Devils nature can be destroyed. After the Devil's Nature is destroyed you are no longer held captive in the Devil's Prisonhouse.

Food for thought...
Jesus gives the sinner a way to be forgiven.
Jesus gives the believer a way to get rid of the Devil's nature.
Jesus gives the believer a way to "escape" and "break away" from the Devils Prisonhouse.

Liberated completely! Freedom from the bondage of self. Glory to God! It's a better life than being bound and and held captive to the Old Man! No more struggle with self. Flesh Crucified! Buried! Planted together with Christ. Raised in the newness of life. The Indwelling Spirit of God has His way. The total man under complete possession of the Indwelling Spirit. Walk in the newness of the Spirit not in oldness the flesh. Liberated and freed from the Adamic life...by the power of a resurrected Christ. Delivered completely! It's a better life than being bound to the Old Man and the Old Man's selfish ways.

Victory in Jesus...who takes away our struggles and delivers us from the bondage of the Devil's Prisonhouse. He shall baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire...

A man ruled by ...I, me, and mine...43 times in this passage

 

The make-up of a natural man wants to do good but... sin rules him. In the make-up of a man without Christ he "wants to do good" but he can't. Man's choices are often intended to be right but man still does wrong. Why? In bondage to sin, struggling with the flesh, controlled by Indwelling sin. The choices and decisions of a man without Christ are swayed by the Adamic Nature.

The following passage in Romans 7:5 indicates the past life "before  Christ when Paul was under Law"...For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. This passage is not to be mixed up with the heart and life of a Christian who is victorious in Christ. Romans 6 is the Christian life and shows man how to get rid of the Adamic Nature. Romans 8 is the sanctified life after man gets rid of the Adamic Nature. Romans 7 is not the life of a child of God controlled by the Holy Spirit. Only the opposite is true. Notice the I, me, and mine mentioned 43 times in the following verses.

Romans 7: 7-21...Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.  But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

The main expression here? The enslaved will of fallen man. A perfect picture of a man controlled by the Adamic Nature...under sin. Sin controls his choices, actions, and decisions. I, me, and mine...the self centered man.

The human will: tainted with an Adamic Nature

 

Why is the human will tainted with an Adamic nature? Because of the sin of Adam. Adam was not created with an Adamic nature like men are today. Adam fell because he chose to sin. Adam violated God's command in the transgression. After the transgression of Adam man stepped out of Eternity into time. Spirituality was lost. Holiness was lost and obedience to God was lost. The human will became tainted as a result of Adam's sin.

Death also began as a result of Adam's separation from God. The curse of the Fall of Adam caused humanity to be born with a sinful nature from that time on. The human will was tainted with a sinful nature. Man was controlled by sin from birth. The entire human family has been plagued for thousands of years with this inherited fallen state of being. The mind is tainted. The will is tainted. The nature of man is tainted. Tainted so much that man cannot achieve God's favor by choice or decision. Why? Fallen man's choices and decisions are governed by moral depravity.

Here's an example: If you take a man (without Christ) who is a doer in life. This man believes with all his heart the choices and decisions he makes in life are right. These choices and decisions are right in his own eyes but not in the eyes of God. Why? This unbeliever leaves out Christ who gives man a new nature. This unbeliever misses Christ completely yet has an inner desire to do right. His choices and decisions are led by the flesh...not by the Spirit. His will is tainted and controlled by sin. I speak of the inherited sin nature. This man is a rejecter of Christ. He is a rebel against God and no matter what he does outside of Christ his soul is still doomed to everlasting darkness.

Yes, my brothers and sisters the human will is controlled by inherited sin. This sin I speak of is inherited from Adam and does not come by choice. The nature of man is to be self sufficient not by choice but because this man is controlled by sin. Fallen man is a servant to rebellion. Fallen man is defiant against the truth about Christ. He wants to do right but can't because he lacks Christ.

That's why the will of man is tainted? The will of man is what controls mans actions, decisions, and choices? If the will of man is not broken man cannot achieve favor from God in any respect or manner. No matter what man does he still a rejecter of Christ and a rebel against God Almighty. That's why the Bible terms this person as a child of wrath.

Only the power of a living Christ can break fallen man enough to cause him to believe, trust, and/or accept Christ. The will of man goes his own way. When the human will is broken man realizes Christ did it. The power of Christ is enough to brake man's fallen condition. When man believes in Christ the new nature causes man to do the will of God...not by human effort, but by the power of God's Grace. Man will do right because he has the God given power to do right. God said so! Read it!

Romans 5:19...For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

What is the Adamic nature?

 

The Adamic nature is a result of the curse of the Fall of Adam that has plagued the human family since God created man. The Adamic nature stems from the "Original Sin" committed in the Garden of Eden. Every man, woman, and child on planet Earth is born with it. Jesus came to rid man from it. Glory!

The Adamic Nature is a subject of the Bible that is not taught on much today in our Modern Religious World. One reason is because the Adamic Nature (man's propensity to sin) is highly misunderstood. Another reason is because there are divided opinions on the Adamic Nature that vary from denomination to denomination. Some say that Christian's always live with the Adamic nature. Others say that Christian's can never get rid of it. I personally am led to believe the Bible teaches the Christian can be rid of the Adamic Nature's stronghold through crucifixion of self, and the Baptism with the Holy Ghost that follows the new birth.

Here are some Biblical terms used throughout the Bible to express the Adamic nature or man's inherited propensity to sin against God.

• The "Law of Sin and Death" is a spiritual expression of the Adamic nature used in (Romans 8). This Law of Sin and Death is man's knowledge of the inner inclination that cause's sinful man to do wrong.
• The "Flesh" is the physical expression of the Adamic nature. This is the physical act of wrong that a sinful man does in the eyes of God.
• The "Carnal Mind" is the mental expression of the Adamic nature. This is the actual thinking behind sinful man's wrongdoing in the eyes of God.

All the above terms are something man has knowledge of. Law brings knowledge. Knowledge brings obligation, or responsibility.

Rom 8:2...For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

The law of sin and death is mans knowledge of the inner, the physical, and the mental capacity of indwelling sin. Indwelling sin is not the act of sin, it's the nature within man that causes man to sin.

Jesus came to forgive sin and rid man of the Adamic nature. We can confess the act of sin, but Jesus has to get rid of the Adamic nature that cannot be confessed.