The New Man: The Spiritual and Anointed Race: The New Man, #1

By Samuel A. Buah

Which kind of man are you? Adam or Christ

 

With sound biblical interpretations, and through the revelation of the mystery of Christ, "The New Man" brings you to the place of true self-discovery; as it distinguishes between the two species of men that God has engendered.

 

God formed the First man out of the dust of the ground, and gave him the breath of life; thus, he became a living soul. Therefore, Adam, and everyone who is born of a woman with the seed of man, is earthly (human) and natural (sensual) - a carnal man.

 

However, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, the Second/New man, possessing the Spirit of life, was born of the Spirit of God; thus, He became a quickening spirit. Therefore, Christ, and every born-again Christian, is divinely supernatural and anointed - a spiritual man. In this book, you will learn about:

 

• The First man
• The resurrection of Christ
• The spiritual man
• Spiritual men in Christ
• Two cases of spirituality
• The New man
• The mystery of Christ
• The house of Christ
• The resurrection
• The spiritual body

 

This book is written to bring you - the believer - into terms with your spirituality and partnership in divinity, as well as your membership in the race and the body/house of Christ. True self-discovery awaits!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Samuel A. Buah
• Release date: Mar 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215323748

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Introduction

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:1-2).

And God called forth the light (Day) out of the darkness (Night) on the first day, and made the firmament (Heaven) to divide the waters on the second day. Then, God gathered the waters under the heaven unto one place; which He called Seas, and caused the dry land (Earth) to appear on the third day. He also called forth the grass, the seed-yielding herb, and the fruit tree out of the earth. On the fourth day, God created and made the Lights (the sun, moon, and stars), and set them in the firmament of the heaven. The fifth day saw the creation of the great whales, the moving creature, and every winged fowl; which the waters brought forth abundantly. Then, God caused the earth to bring forth the cattle, creeping thing, and beast of the earth, on the sixth day.

After the Creator accomplished each day's work, we find that these two remarks were consistently made by the writer: and it was so and God saw that it was good. These statements implied that each creation was made just as God had intended them to be, and there was nothing bad among them all.

Also on the sixth day, God created man (Adam)—the crown of His glorious creation—in His own image and after His likeness. He created them male and female, and blessed them. Man also came out just as God intended: And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:31).

The LORD God, then, planted a garden eastward in Eden after He formed man. He took and put him in the garden to dress and keep it, and gave a commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Unfortunately, through the deception of the serpent, man disobeyed Yahweh's commandment (thereby transferring his dominion over the earth to the devil, the prince of the power of the air, who, thus, became the god of this age). For this reason, the LORD God cursed the serpent and the ground, and drove man out of the garden to till the ground from whence he was taken.

However, in pronouncing judgment, God also declared a prophecy: for concerning the serpent who beguiled Eve to partake of the tree whereof they were commanded not to eat, He said, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Genesis 3:15).

Then, in Psalm 102:18, the Psalmist prophesied of a people which shall be created; thus, indicating a new race of men that God would bring forth. So the Word (Jesus) came into this world in the form of a man; having been born of God through the virgin Mary. He served His generation by the will of God, and finished His course by dying on the cross to accomplish His mission on earth; which was to save the world from their sins.

Through His condemnation and crucifixion, together with his princes, the serpent (Satan) had bruised His heel: for we are made aware in 1Corinthians 2:8 that it was the princes of this age that crucified the Lord; being unaware of the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God by which Jesus Christ was delivered into the hands of the wicked (see Acts 2:23).

The devil thought that he could hold Jesus Christ in the pains of death, but the Lord knowing very well that His Father would not leave His soul in hades, neither suffer His Holy One to see corruption (see Psalm 16:10, Acts 2:27), went there in fulfillment of His part of the prophecy God declared in Genesis 3:15, in bruising the head of the serpent.

Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us that, Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. In death, our Lord set the devil at naught, and took away his authority. Then in resurrection, Christ spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it, as Colossians 2:15 reveals. He led captivity captive (see Ephesians 4:8).

This means that, He freed all from the dominion of the devil, so that anyone who would believe on His name would no longer be in the kingdom of darkness (death), but be liberated from the bondage and headship of Satan into the kingdom of God's dear Son (life). He bruised the head of the serpent. Jesus Christ now has the keys of hades and of death.

Now, when Jesus Christ (the last Adam) came back from the dead, He was not merely raised back to life, but was actually born from the dead. He died to the nature of the First man (Adam)—the form which He took on when He came into the earth—and was resurrected with a new nature: thus, He became the Second man according to 1Corinthians 15:47.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2Corinthians 5:17). This statement means that, any man or woman who is born again by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (see 1Peter 1:3), has ceased from being of the First man, the natural man; having died to that nature in Christ; and is now of the Second man, the spiritual man.

Hence, every believer should no longer see him or herself after the image of Adam, but should acknowledge and bear the image of Christ. Therefore, beloved, this new man that you are, through the faith of Christ Jesus, is who I seek to bring you into an acknowledgment of: so that as you have borne the image of the earthy, you should now, with a renewed mind, bear the image of the Lord to the praise of the glory of our Father who has accepted us in the Beloved.

Through the knowledge of the Son of the Living God, and the revelation of the mystery of Christ, this book will enlighten you with valuable discoveries into the making, as well as the nature and life of both the First and Second man, the differences between these two species of men, and a deeper understanding into the spirituality and divinity of the new man. By the time you are through reading and digesting this book, you would definitely know and come alive to who you truly are in Christ—an anointed spiritual man. Amen.

(1) The First Man

After God made the cattle, creeping thing and beast of the earth on the sixth day, He said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth (Genesis 1:26).

This statement reveals the purpose of man. God created man, both male and female, to be His representative in the earth: thus, He made them to look like Him. Man was made to rule over the earth and all that lives in it: so God empowered them accordingly with this blessing, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Genesis 1:28).

Then, God rested from all His work on the seventh day. Now, although God had created and made the heavens and the earth, and the hosts thereof, there weren't any plants or herbs or man or animals yet existing in the earth: only that a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground (see Genesis 2:1-6).

It was then that the LORD God began to form the living beings which He had already created and made. The order of the formation from first to last was as follows: man - (plants) - animals - woman (see Genesis 2:7-25). The creation/making and the formation of the living beings were, therefore, two clear and distinct processes.

Now, the ground being watered by a mist, the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7). We know that man consists of spirit, soul, and body (see 1Thessalonians 5:23).

God framed man out of the dust of the ground (see Psalm 103:14). Job 13:12 reads, Your remembrance are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. This is why Eliphaz described men as, "them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is