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made Adam in His own image and after His own likeness, but Adam became fallen. Now within the fallen humanity there is sin—the evil nature of the Devil (Rom. 7:17; 1 John 3:8). Neverthe less, the humanity created by God still remains. When Christ, who is the very God, was incar nated, He restored the lost and damaged human ity. God sent His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin (Rom. 8:3), that is, in the likeness of fallen humanity.

TWO KINDS OF HUMANITY

When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He had a humanity that had been rescued from the state of the fall. Through incarnation, He put on a recovered, restored, humanity. As the God-man was living in such an uplifted humanity, all those around Him, including His disciples, were living in a fallen, damaged, humanity. Their humanity was not the humanity originally created by God. On the contrary, it was a damaged and deformed humanity.

THE RECOVERY OF THE DISCIPLES' HUMANITY

Through the Man Savior's death and resur rection, the fallen humanity of His disciples was

recovered. In chapters one and two of Acts we see that the disciples had another kind of hu manity, an uplifted and restored humanity. In the Gospels they were arguing about who was greater. But in Acts 1 they could pray persistently and perseveringly in one accord for ten days. They could do this because they had another humanity. Their humanity had been uplifted, restored, and recovered. Not only had they been saved, but their humanity had been restored, recovered, through the Spirit's regeneration and transformation.

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