“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,

by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”

I Peter 1:23

The moment Eve took and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and gave Adam to eat as well, sin entered into the world. The knowledge of evil was released into all of creation, and all the generational seeds of Adam until this present day were affected and made corruptible. Every newborn child who has ever entered the world was born into a corruptible seed or sinful nature that comes as a result of the rebellious action of the first man, Adam. Even though Adam and Eve were created in the image of God as a triune being who possessed three attributes of the physical body, the soul, and the spirit, they were not meant to handle the knowledge of evil. That is why God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16) Sure enough the day they ate of it, death has reigned in all of creation and all the seeds born after them have died a spiritual death, a soulish death, and a physical death.

You might say, Why doesn’t God just simply forgive Adam and Eve for what they have done and move on? God’s word is yea and amen, and everything that proceeds out of His mouth must come to pass and will not return to Him void. Since God gave the commandment to Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and they broke it, God, in His righteousness, must pronounce judgment on all parties that were involved for allowing the knowledge of evil to enter into the world. The good news is the story of man did not end there, because He made a way for us through the impossible situation we have put ourselves in by giving us His Son, Jesus. When Jesus was born into the world, he was enclosed in the flesh, the corruptible nature of the first Adam. The big difference between Jesus and Adam was that although he walked around on earth in a physical body of the fallen nature of the first Adam, that is susceptible to sin, Jesus did not sin. The word of God says, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) In other words, Jesus lived a perfectly sinless life in body, soul (mind) and spirit all the days of his life as a man. Jesus did not give in to any temptations of the flesh. But at the cross, Jesus willfully chose to lay down His life to become sin for us, by the will of God. This was the only way that God could transfer all of the sins of the world and the consequences of it, beginning from Adam until this present day, unto Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. Why did God have to cause his own begotten son,  Jesus, to go through all that suffering? It was the only way for God to be able to forgive our sins because of Adam. God’s righteousness requires the payment of blood for our sins. The word of God says, “Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.” (Hebrews 9:22)

At the cross, the greatest exchange between mankind and God was made. “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.” (Romans 8:3-4) In Jesus, we are reborn incorruptible from corruptible. We are made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus from our unrighteousness. We are made blessed from lack and poverty. We are made whole from sicknesses and diseases. We are made temporal to eternal. We are made alive who were once dead. We are forever made accepted in the Beloved as sons and daughters of God. All because of the blood of Jesus!

Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

This Devotional is from:

“Live The New You – 365 Days Devotional in Living the Real You”