Christ's Victory as Complete as Adam's Failure

[Thompson, Darryl]

Christ's Victory as Complete as Adam's Failure

     For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Rom. 5:19  

     Christ is called the second Adam. In purity and holiness, connected
with God and beloved by God, He began where the first Adam began.
Willingly He passed over the ground where Adam fell, and redeemed Adam's
failure.  

     But the first Adam was in every way more favorably situated than
was Christ. The wonderful provision made for man in Eden was made by a
God who loved him. Everything in nature was pure and undefiled. . . .
Not a shadow interposed between them and their Creator. They knew God as
their beneficent Father, and in all things their will was conformed to
the will of God. . . .  

     But Satan came to the dwellers in Eden and insinuated doubts of
God's wisdom. He accused Him, their Heavenly Father and Sovereign, of
selfishness, because, to test their loyalty, He had prohibited them from
eating of the tree of knowledge. . . .  

     Christ was tempted by Satan in a hundredfold severer manner than
was Adam, and under circumstances in every way more trying. The deceiver
presented himself as an angel of light, but Christ withstood his
temptations. He redeemed Adam's disgraceful fall, and saved the world. .
. .  

     In His human nature He maintained the purity of His divine
character. He lived the law of God, and honored it in a world of
transgression, revealing to the heavenly universe, to Satan, and to all
the fallen sons and daughters of Adam that through His grace humanity
can keep the law of God. He came to impart His own divine nature, His
own image, to the repentant, believing soul.  

     Christ's victory was as complete as had been Adam's failure. So we
may resist temptation, and force Satan to depart from us. 

>From My Life Today - Page 323