{"id":3879,"date":"2008-11-20T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/1-corinthians-1545"},"modified":"2008-11-20T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T02:02:04","slug":"1-corinthians-1545","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/20\/1-corinthians-1545\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 15:45"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The last Adam.” 
              — 1 Corinthians 15:45 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jesus is the federal head of his elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh
and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and
representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so
under the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one with the Lord from
heaven, since he is the Second Adam, the Sponsor and Substitute of the
elect in the new covenant of love. The apostle Paul declares that Levi
was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him: it is a certain
truth that the believer was in the loins of Jesus Christ, the Mediator,
when in old eternity the covenant settlements of grace were decreed,
ratified, and made sure for ever. Thus, whatever Christ hath done, he
hath wrought for the whole body of his Church. We were crucified in him
and buried with him (read Col. 2:10-13), and to make it still more
wonderful, we are risen with him and even ascended with him to the
seats on high (Eph. 2:6). It is thus that the Church has fulfilled the
law, and is “accepted in the beloved.” It is thus that she is regarded
with complacency by the just Jehovah, for he views her in Jesus, and
does not look upon her as separate from her covenant head. As the
Anointed Redeemer of Israel, Christ Jesus has nothing distinct from his
Church, but all that he has he holds for her. Adam’s righteousness was
ours so long as he maintained it, and his sin was ours the moment that
he committed it; and in the same manner, all that the Second Adam is or
does, is ours as well as his, seeing that he is our representative.
Here is the foundation of the covenant of grace. This gracious system
of representation and substitution, which moved Justin Martyr to cry
out, “O blessed change, O sweet permutation!” this is the very
groundwork of the gospel of our salvation, and is to be received with
strong faith and rapturous joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The last Adam.”                — 1 Corinthians 15:45 Jesus is the federal head of his elect. As in Adam, every heir of fleshand blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head andrepresentative of the race as considered under the law of works; sounder the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}