Where Humanity Failed, Jesus Succeeds

And what it's pointing to is that all these people, this list of 77 names, they all fail. They all don't pass the test. But Jesus, who is at the beginning of the list, is the way through the list back to God who's at the end of the list. That's what it's pointing to. Jesus is the way. When mankind failed, Jesus succeeded. Jesus makes the map. He's the one who completes it. If you go if you were to reverse this, you would be going through history hoping for the one who would succeed and it ends at Jesus who truly did succeed where humanity fails. [01:25:16] (38 seconds)  #JesusIsTheWay

He's gonna see with the the the in a sense, the desirous things of life, The questioning of identity. The desirous things of the world. The riches. The kingdoms. All the things are gonna be offered to him. Would you desire it, Jesus, to take it for yourself? And he's gonna say no. He's gonna pass the test, and he's doing it for you and for me. Much like in the scriptures, he would baptize for the repentance of sin for you and for me. He will then stand as the new humanity who passes the test for you and for me and faces the devils and wins. This is how you overcome. This is how you walk in victory. [01:28:15] (40 seconds)  #OvercomeThroughJesus

That's the power of the whole thing. He passes the test for you. And so what happens is that Jesus, as in a sense, the last Adam signifies a reset in humanity. A new humanity would be formed that those who put their faith in Jesus aren't a part of the failure of Adam anymore. They are a part of the success of Jesus as he overcame the test, and he passed it. And what's really gonna be unique is guess what Jesus is about to do in the next section of scripture. He's gonna face the test. What we're gonna talk about next week is Jesus is gonna go into the wilderness, and he's gonna face the serpent that Adam failed to defeat, and he's gonna win. [01:27:27] (48 seconds)  #NewHumanityInChrist

After this comes the consequences, but I want you to notice what happens to the woman when she listens to the serpent. She sees the fruit that she's not supposed to partake of. She looks with her eyes and sees it's desirable. And then what does she do? She decides she wants to, so she reaches out and she takes it. And that action influences the world around her. This is the pattern that you will pick up if you read the entire book of Genesis and you keep going. You will notice that scenario over and over and over and over again. Someone sees something they're not supposed to have. They desire it in their heart, and so they reach out and they take it when they shouldn't. Constantly. [01:16:23] (42 seconds)  #DesireLeadsToDownfall

What the Old Testament is constantly going to try and do is find a person that will actually stand this test and win. This is why this pattern pops up constantly. See with their eyes, engage with their take. It's because will they pass this test? This is the one test. Literally, humanity's test. Will you stay faithful to the Lord or will you not? Everyone fails. All of them. Every person that you can think of. All of them. They all failed the test. They cannot pass this one. They can't do it. They can't do it. They'll all see with their eyes, desire what they shouldn't, and take it, and it'll affect the world around them constantly. [01:20:26] (52 seconds)  #HumanitysTest

Amazing how God gets set up as the bad guy through this deception. That God is through his command of holiness, through his command to follow, through his command to work the garden, through his command to not touch tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that what God is doing, he's actually withholding something good from you. He's actually holding it back to you. The reason he says do not touch that is because he he's actually the bad guy in the scenario and don't he doesn't want you to find out the true richness of what's on the other side of touching that tree. [01:13:52] (37 seconds)  #GodIsNotTheEnemy

That through him, it's not my job to be successful in this. He did it for me, and then he changes me. This is the I love this moment. This is why it's so good. He threw Jesus passing the test for me when I engage in that and I participate in that and I put my faith in him and I receive salvation and I go to follow him, he does a work in me and the bible calls it sanctification. It's the process of being made a life or given a life that is like holy and set apart for God. Sanctified. Change. He begins to change me, and here's what you begin to find. All of the sudden, you start to pass the test. Not because of your own power, but because of his power. [01:29:44] (45 seconds)  #ChangedByChrist

Even the story of king David, what his falling moment, the iconic king in the new in the Old Testament, one who Jesus is prophesied to be in his lineage. We're gonna read that in a minute. David's falling moment where he commits adultery and he sees Bathsheba, the woman he commits adultery with, is he sees her you'll see you just go read it. He sees her with his eyes. He desires her, and so he takes her and commits adultery. Constantly, over and over and over again. This is the pattern that leads to humanity's failure all the time. Sin or that destructive thing, that destructive force always looks really good to the eyes. [01:17:04] (44 seconds)  #EyesLeadToSin