Broken
Like Humpty Dumpty in the famous children’s
poem about his fall from a wall and being broken,
so that all the king’s men couldn’t put him together
again; we people were likewise broken from a fall.
The fall of the first man Adam in the garden of Eden
into sin caused the fall of all of us because we were
“in Adam” when he sinned. Our only way out of that
brokenness of this sin nature was to be taken out of
Adam at the cross of Christ and by God placing our
old sin nature “into Christ” at the time of His death,
so that when He died, our old nature died too. Jesus
was designated by God the Father as the “Last Adam,”
in order for Him to be identified with the broken Adam
and also all of us, who were broken in Adam. By this way,
God the Father was able, through the perfect and unbroken
Jesus, to proclaim us in Him, as righteous and that we
humans were no longer controlled by the old sinful nature.
Just as we were made sinners by being in Adam, we were made
righteous and unbroken by being “in Christ” when the King
of the universe made Him whole, as us and for us, after the cross
and resurrection from death and the tomb gave us a new nature,
which is free from the rule of the old sin nature, provided we
receive this truth into us and His gift of unbrokenness through
God’s grace by faith and trust in Jesus Christ, the Lord of all.
Genesis 3:17-24; Isaiah 53:6; John 3:3-16; Romans 5: 6-21; 6:3-11,
23, 7:1-6, 10:9-15; 1Corinthians 1:30, 15:42-49; Galatians 2:20;
Ephesians 2:8-15; 2Corinthians 5:14-19; Colossians 1: 19-22,
3:1-5, 2:9-15.)
