Grace, the Forbidden Gospel - Online Christian Library

And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving
spirit. (1 Cor 15:45 NKJV)
A.W. Tozer wrote the following: “What we need to restore power to the Christian testimony is not soft talk
about brotherhood, but an honest recognition that two human races occupy the earth simultaneously: a fallen
race that sprang from the loins of Adam and a regenerate race that is born of the Spirit through the
redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”
Now carefully consider the following two statements:
1) No amount of holy living or law keeping could move us out of our fallen state in first Adam. We were
stuck there and the only way to be saved was to put our faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9-10).
2) Likewise, the moment we come into last Adam (Jesus Christ), no amount of bad behavior or “unholy”
living can move us out of this position of perfect righteousness.
Although most Christians believe the first statement to be true, they have somewhat of a problem believing
the second. The first thought that comes into many people’s minds when reading the second statement is
this: “This guy is saying that I can just go out and do whatever I want!” This is mainly due to the fact that
people don’t understand the power of the New Creation yet and don’t have a revelation of what a person is
actually turned into when they are born again. When the Holy Spirit lives inside a person, such a person does
not want to sin – they actually want to serve God, to live an upright life as an example to others and to love
their neighbor, because this is the desire of the Holy Spirit within them. So in essence we can actually go out
and do whatever we want, because if the Holy Spirit is really living inside us we will want to do good!
Another reason why most people find the second statement (above) so hard to believe is because we forget
that God does not relate to us based on our own level of obedience anymore. God is a spirit and since we
are also spiritual beings He relates to us (blesses us, loves us, provides for us) based on our spiritual status,
not according to our physical behavior. And since our spirits have been for ever made righteous, God is for
ever pleased with us regardless of our behavior. God sees the perfect obedience of His beloved Son
whenever He looks at us and remembers how He fully defeated sin through Jesus’ death on the cross.
God does not count any of our sins (past, present or future) against us. He is not surprised when we sin. He
is not shocked by the ungodliness going on in the world today. God is perfectly content, at rest and at peace,
all the time enveloped in the amazing love of the Trinity (imagine the amazing love between the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit!). God is secure in Himself, secure in His bride and secure in us, His children. He does not
count our sin against us – He already had the rod of His punishment broken on the back of Jesus. God
established everlasting peace between Himself and mankind:
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Rom 5:1 NKJV)
Why then do we still try to justify ourselves by working so hard to gain God’s acceptance?
But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for
righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes
righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin”. (Rom 4:5-8 NKJV)
Our sin was imputed (accounted) to Jesus, so we can rest in our Father’s love, knowing that God will never
count our sins (past, present and future) against us anymore!
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