7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the
ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a
living being. (Genesis 2:7)
They say that Adam didn’t have a belly
button. That he was created as the
perfect human without human intervention.
God formed him from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him and
he became a living soul. He was perfect,
without sin, living in union with God.
But perfect as he was he was not God.
In Luke 1 the Holy Spirit came upon the
virgin in power and formed in her a new life.
He was to be called Jesus and, as Matthew states, Immanuel (which means
God with us). He was perfectly man and
he was perfectly God; the New Man.
45So it is written: “The first man Adam became
a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46The spiritual did not
come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47The first man was of
the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48As was the earthly man,
so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are
those who are of heaven. 49And just as we have borne the image of the earthly
man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. (1 Corinthians 15:25-49)
There is that famous picture of Michelangelo’s
where the finger of God comes out of heaven and touches the finger of man. It is at the point that God literally touches
man that we recognize the reality of God in our world, that moment when we recognize
the babe in the manger as the fingers of God and man touching, and when by
faith we received the Spirit of the Almighty into our own souls and it shocks
us like a spiritual sonic boom in our souls.
You do understand that I am not really
talking about Adam and Mary right? For you
and I are the focus of Christmas here and now.
Jesus died for sin some 2000 years ago creating the assembly of
believers (the church). Today, his death
still holds and he is still forming his church (the assembly of believers)
among men. Today is the day for you and
I to recognize God on earth through the baby Jesus in the manger. For faith in Jesus is retroactive.
16So from now on
we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ
in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is
in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18All
this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians5:16-18)
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