This is not a Fathers' Day sermon, but it may help us to understand the passage better if we think about fathers for a few moments. As the heads of their homes, fathers often make decisions that for good or bad affect everyone in the home. When I accepted the call to serve as pastor of Juanita Community Church in 1976, my whole family moved with me! In this passage, Paul presents Adam as the natural and federal representative or head not only of his immediate family, but of the whole family of man, the human race. Adam also provides a type or pattern of another spiritual or federal head of a new humanity, who is Jesus Christ. Paul then compares and contrasts the first Adam with the last Adam, each making critical decisions and engaging in distinctive acts that produce very different results for all who are included in them...
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Pastor Bruce Ray has been senior pastor of Juanita Community Church in Kirkland, Washington since 1976. He also serves as a Police, Fire & EMS chaplain. Books include Withhold Not Correction and Celebrating the Sabbath (both published by P&R Publishing). He is a member of the...