Jesus has another name that he is not often referred to, and it is Adam. 1 Corinthians 15 says that he was the 2nd, or “last Adam.” Even though Jesus was the Son of God, He was also the Son of Man, and He lived on the earth for 33 years as the Son of Man. Jesus was the author and the perfecter of faith, and according to Luke 4:1, He lived continually filled with the Holy Spirit. As the last Adam, Jesus came to show us how the first Adam was intended to live in union with God, bearing His image and revealing His likeness. Jesus was the prototype of the New Creation, and as such, He wasn’t just an example for us, but He was also an example of us, as the 2nd Adam Jesus represented all of humanity and lived the supernatural life that mankind was created to live. At the Cross, Jesus totally identified with the fallen first Adam, who we were all sons and daughters of. By taking fallen humanity into Himself at the Cross, He became the sin-sick first Adam and took collective fallen mankind to the place of execution, and burial, and then on the 3rd day after the crucifixion of the first Adam, Jesus rose from the dead with collective humanity united to Him. In rising up as the victorious 2nd Adam from the grave, we rose up, with Him as totally new creations. Jesus died as us, the first Adam, that we might rise up and live as Him, the victorious 2nd Adam. 1 John 4:17 says, “… As He is, so also are we in this world.” The life that Jesus lived qualified Him to die the death that he died, and the death that He died was so that we live the life that He lives. My spiritual father used to say repeatedly, “The Christian life is very simple; it is the life He lived then, lived now, by Him, through us. Go back and read the Gospels again and be captivated by the possibilities of life being lived in union with the 2nd Adam. Jesus lived on earth as an example for us by being an example of us, and in His crucifixion, He put to death all of us, that He might live again on earth through us, His new body.
