Modern Man is a Has-been

There is no quick way to say this but Modern Man is history. He’s toast, finished, and doomed. Stick a fork in him… he’s done. This is not a Chicken Little “the sky is falling” message. I am only saying what the Word of God is saying about him. “Behold, I make all things new!”(Revelation 21:5). This proclamation infers the end of the old and the introduction of the New. Paul says; Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: (species or kind) old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The people of God are often marginalized and impugned as out of date, old fashioned, irrelevant, and out of touch. The exact opposite is true. According to the Bible, the people of God are uniquely modern, as modern as man can be. It is those souls of the Old Creation who are out-dated and fading into irrelevance.

The reason for this is simple; the future belongs to Christ and the people of God. This is what the Bible is trumpeting. The meek shall inherit the earth. According to the Bible, God is starting over. The creation that has produced this evil and corrupt present age will give way to the New Creation. God has contrived an ingenious strategy to recover all that was lost and institute all He intended in the beginning.

God is moving ahead with a totally New Man. John states in his Gospel that the Word became flesh. (John 1:14). This is not a minor incident. He is saying that Divinity was fused together with humanity, resulting in the appearance of a totally new kind of man. The world has never seen anything like him. The Old Man is corrupt and received the properties of death from his ancestor, Adam. Everything reproduces after its own kind. While there are differences in each person, there are fundamental consistencies in every human being, things we inherit from our common ancestor. Romans 5:12 says; Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men.

Here we see the necessity of the virgin birth of Christ. Jesus took His humanity from Mary. He takes His divine nature from His Father, bypassing Adam, being conceived by the Holy Spirit. He is the first man to walk the earth that did not possess the inherited corruption that is found in Adam. Jesus Christ is the New Man! But there is more!

John continues by saying; “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” ( John 1:12-13). The Bible is saying that we have been born of God. What we see here is the same thing that happens in Christ, happens in those born of the Spirit. God has devised a way to circumvent the negative consequences we inherited in Adam by putting Adam to death in us. At the same time He has given us a new birth that literally and figuratively remakes us into the likeness of the New Man, Christ Jesus. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29).

The writer of Hebrews says concerning this; For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one (of the same family as it says in the NIV) for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers. If the Word of God calls us brothers, that means we are of the same family with a common Father and inheritance. It also means we have a common future! Jesus is the firstborn among many brothers! For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. (Ephesians 3:14).

The New Man is not limited to One, but to all who are in Christ. By saying there is a New Man, the old is destined to the dustbin of history and is being abolished. Modern man is a has-been.

Upon careful reading of the Bible, the Word is saying that God has a totally New Man who will be the Man He engages with now and in the ages to come. It is through the resurrection of the dead that the future belongs to Christ and all those who are in Christ. Peter says; Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade-kept in heaven for you. (1 Peter 1:3-4). Paul says; For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the first fruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).

By the Word of God, we have been to the future and it is a glorious sight to behold! As we feed our minds and spirits on the truth, we are escaping the gravity of this present age and are lifted up on eagle’s wings into the freedom of eternal life. We are men and women of Another Age. We are the New Man and Christ is the Cornerstone that all other stones must be cut from.

This truth is essential to our understanding when we think ahead to the Age to Come. The Kingdom of God on this earth will be glorious and wonderful because of the absence of all that belongs to the Old Man (Adam) and the presence and dominion of all that belongs to the New Man, Christ Jesus.

So, you see, modern man is a has-been. The future belongs to the New Man, who is the new modern Man.

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