The sonship of Christ: Exploring the Covenant Identity of God and Man by Ty Gibson

Author:Ty Gibson [Gibson, Ty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Why is Christ called “the Son of God”? Discover an answer so simple you’ll wonder why you never saw it before, and so beautiful it’ll take your breath away.
Publisher: Editorial Safeliz
Published: 2021-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

“Jesus emerges in the biblical narrative as the one Man who is true to the human potential, true to the original ideal for which humanity was made, true to God’s image. As such, He is the Son of God that Adam was supposed to be.”

chapter fifteen

THE LAST ADAM

Okay, well, the book of Daniel just blew our minds, didn’t it? Wow, what a breathtaking vision of the Messiah’s mission! Now let’s hear from the apostle Paul on the same theme, exploring his powerful insights in 1 Corinthians 15.

Whereas Daniel presents Christ as “the Son of Man” who will set up an everlasting kingdom unlike anything the world has ever known, Paul presents Jesus as the “last Adam,” the final rendering of Man, through whom all the top-down systems of our world will be overthrown.

Now if that’s not a provocative and tantalizing prospect, nothing is.

First, Paul wants us to understand that the gospel consists of a single historical event that acts as a microcosm of the new humanity—the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. This, Paul says, is “the gospel . . . by which also you are saved” (1 Corinthians 15:1-2). We will call this piece of history the Christ event.

The reason Jesus alone, as a self-contained historical occurrence, constitutes the gospel, is that by His life, death, and resurrection He didn’t merely offer redemption to humanity, He fully achieved the redemption of humanity in Himself (Romans 3:24). He lived a perfect life of love, died for our sins, rose from the dead, and ascended to the throne of God—all as a human being. And, according to Paul, Jesus did not achieve all of this as just any human being, but rather as “the last Adam” who, in effect, replaces “the first man Adam” (verse 45).

Jesus is the prototype of a new human race.

Jesus is humanity 2.0, officially launched and available for download.

Jesus is the one human in whom all humans are now represented, and into whom all humans are now invited for the acquisition of a new identity.

Hypothetically, for the sake of making the point, consider this: even if every human being were to refuse the salvation achieved in Christ, humanity, right now and forevermore, occupies the throne of the universe. A specimen of the human race is already there, in the victory position at the right hand of the Father. So the gospel is good news, not good advice. It proclaims salvation as an already-accomplished reality in Christ, rather than what we must do to manufacture any additional aspects of that reality.

This is so amazing already, isn’t it? And Paul is just getting started!

Next, Paul dives deeper into the implications of the resurrection part of the Christ event. He wants us to understand what the resurrection of Jesus means for each of us as individuals and, more to Paul’s key point, what it means for all of us collectively as a world system.

Apparently, some individuals in Corinth were saying “there is no resurrection of the dead” (verse 12). So Paul is addressing that denial and, in the process, he lays down some amazing insights.

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