Section 2
divine life. Hallelujah, sin has been taken away, Satan has been destroyed, and the divine life has been released!
Having seen these aspects from the Gospel of John, we may go on to consider the remain ing four aspects. Christ died on the cross as the Firstborn of all creation. In this aspect of His status, He brought the entire old creation with Him to the cross. Christ also died as a man, the last Adam, bringing the old man to the cross. Furthermore, He was crucified as a man in the flesh. Second Corinthians 5:21 says that He was made sin for us. Sin is related to the flesh. There fore, Romans 8:3 says that God sent His Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin. On the cross He condemned sin in the flesh. Finally, Christ died as the Peacemaker, the One who abolished the ordinances of human culture and living. Hence, on the cross Christ was the Lamb, the serpent, the grain of wheat, a man in the flesh made sin for us, the last Adam, that is, a man in the old creation, the Firstborn of crea tion, and the Peacemaker. In this sevenfold status He died as our Redeemer.
Just as we have considered the Man-Savior's sevenfold status in His death, we also need to see a number of points concerning His resurrection.