The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 127

GUILTLESS AND WITHOUT SIN

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And now, with reference to the Person of Christ, everything depends upon the question whether the original guilt of Adam was imputed also to the man Jesus Christ. If so, then, like all other men, Christ was conceived and bom in sin by virtue is,

of

Where imputed

this original guilt.

there must be sinful defilement.

it is

not, sinful defilement

can not be

and harmless must be undefiled.

original guilt

But, on the other hand, where ;

hence

Adam's

He

that is called holy

was not imputed to were, then He was also conceived and guilt

the man Jesus Christ. If it born in sin; then He did not suffer vicariously, but for Himself personally; then there can be no blood of reconciliation. If the original guilt of Adam was imputed to the man Jesus Christ, then by virtue of His sinful conception and birth He was also subject to death and condemnation, and He could not have received life but by regeneration. Then it also follows that either this Man is Himself in need of a Mediator, or that we, like Him, can enter into life without a Go-between. But this whole representation is without foundation, and is to be rejected without qualification. The whole Scripture opposes it. Adam's guilt is imputed to his posterity. But Christ is not a descendant of Adam. He existed before Adam. He was not born passively as we, but Himself took upon Him the human flesh. He does not stand under Adam as His head, but is Himself a new Head, having others under Him, of whom He saith: "Behold Me and the children whom Thou hast given Me" (Heb. ii. 13). True, Luke iii. 23, 28 contains the genealogy of Joseph, which closes with the words, "The son of Adam, the son of God"; but the Evangelist adds emphatically, "as was supposed"; hence Jesus was not the son of Joseph. And in Matthew His genealogy stops Altho on Pentecost St. Peter says that David knew at Abraham. that God would raise up Christ out of the fruit of his loins, yet he

adds this limitation, " according to the flesh." Moreover, realizing that the Son did not assume a human person, but the human nature, so that His Ego is that of the Person of the Son of God, it necessarily follows that Jesus

can not be a descendant of

Adam; hence

Adam's guilt to Christ would annihilate the divine Person. Such imputation is utterly out of the question. To Him nothing is imputed. The sins He bore He took upon Himself voluntarily, vicariously, as our High Priest and Mediator. the imputation of

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