In the sermon 'The Genealogy Of The First And Last Adam - Genesis 5:1-5' by Jason Dohm, the speaker discusses the genealogy from Adam to Noah and its significance in Christian theology. Adam is referred to as the 'first Adam,' representing the head of the human race that inherited a corrupted nature due to sin. The sermon draws parallels between the creation narrative and the global flood, emphasizing that genealogies in the Bible are not just historical records but theological bridges leading to Jesus Christ, the 'last Adam.' Jesus offers hope by enabling individuals to transition from Adam's race, marked by sin and death, to a new spiritual race characterized by righteousness and life. The sermon also stresses the theological importance of genealogies in leading from Adam to Noah, then to Abraham, David, and ultimately to Jesus Christ. The speaker highlights the need for personal reconciliation with God through Jesus, underscoring that salvation is not inherited but achieved through faith.

Title of the message this morning is the genealogy of the first and last Adam. What do I mean by first Adam and last Adam? Well I'm drawing on language from 1st Corinthians 15 where the Apostle Paul calls Adam, the first Adam, and calls the Lord Jesus Christ the last Adam because each is the representative head of a race. If you were born on planet Earth, your flesh and blood line runs up to Adam, who we've been studying about in Genesis chapter 1. And that's unfortunate in the sense that you've inherited a nature bent against God with corruptions.

Gary likes to say you were born on death row and that really is true of people. But there is hope for us. The Bible sets hope forth for us that you can change races and become part of a spiritual race and the head of that race is the second Adam using the language from 1st Corinthians 15, the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, what is our text today? It is the connection between creation week, Genesis chapter one, day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, And then chapter two starts with day seven that God sets apart to be his own day.

So the connection between creation week and the history of the global flood. So we're really getting a transition that takes us to the global flood starting in chapter 6. God gives us a family line that spans the time from the first person, Adam, to the generation of the global flood, Adam to Noah. That's what we're getting in today's text. It's about a thousand years, which means that Adam was alive for most of that whole span of a thousand years.

We'll find out in our text today that he lived to the ripe old age of 930 years old and he was alive at the time that Noah's father, Lamech, was alive. So we're given this family line that spans creation week to the time of the global flood, but it isn't every family line. Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters, but the only line that is traced is the line through Adam to Seth to Enosh, etc., etc. And we know that because we have this phrase in today's text, and he had other sons and daughters, but we don't learn anything about those other sons and daughters. Why?

What made this the line to trace? Many lines aren't traced. This is the one that is traced. Why is that? Well, the immediate answer is to get to Noah.

This brings us to Noah in the time of the flood. But the more distant and the more important answer is it gets us to Jesus Christ. In scripture, God is getting us from the first Adam to the last Adam, the first Adam that plunges the human race into destruction and the last Adam that rescues those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. So that's what this text is about. The immediate purpose is to get us to Noah in the time of the flood, But the more distant and also more important purpose is to get us to Jesus Christ, the last Adam.

Let's pray. God, I thank you for this text. We often find genealogies numbing, the succession of names, we're coming into a time of that. We want to be able to look at this chapter in a new way and squeeze every drop of truth and every drop of good out of this text. And so we pray for the help of the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit will be present with me helping me to speak truth in a way that is helpful, the truth of this text in a way that is helpful and helping everyone who is listening to be able to understand the value of the things that are in your word.

Thank you for giving us your word. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Amen. Alright, as we subdivide we are going to start with verses 1 and 2. Hopefully your fingers are still in Genesis chapter 5 and I'll follow along as I reread verses 1 and 2.

Genesis chapter 5 verse 1. This is the book of the genealogy of Adam and The day that God created man he made him in the likeness of God He created them male and female and blessed them and called them mankind in the day they were created. So if you're looking at the handout taking notes that way you see the first section the beginning of the genealogy day six of creation week day six fills in those two blanks. The beginning of the genealogy, day six of creation week, we're actually being taken back to the very beginning and in Genesis chapter one, God had this family line recorded. God wanted this family line written down.

And so we have a book of the genealogy of Adam. Adam is the first name, the first person on the list, And we are given all of these connections back to day six, meaning that the things that are said in our text, you can take right back to the language of chapter one. In fact, let's do that. I look back at chapter one, I'll be reading Genesis 1, 26 through 28. We ought to be very familiar with that by now.

Genesis 1, 26 through 28. Just notice how many of the phrases from this we find in our text today. Then God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God, he created him.

Male and female, he created them. Then God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. So Mankind is created in the image and likeness of God. We are image bearers of this amazing creator God.

Unlike any other creation, we bear the image of our creator. God wanted it that way. God wanted a reflection of his image to be visible on the earth. And human beings exist in two genders, male and female. Both bear the image and likeness of God.

Men bear the image and likeness of God. Women bear the image and likeness of God, but there are also distinctions in the two genders. So we are both image bearers, male and female, but we are not perfectly alike. And we were created enjoying the blessing of God. Back to Genesis chapter 5 verse 2, He created them, He blessed them.

So that's the sequence, the creation, but they were created enjoying the blessing of God. Created by God, blessed by God. Created enjoying God's blessings. We were named by God that actually isn't said in chapter one but it said here God called us mankind in the day that we were created. And we've talked about the significance of naming rights at several points previously.

The right to name is tremendously significant. Here's what Matthew Henry says, man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master. Amen to that. We didn't make ourselves, so we're not to rule ourselves, we're to be ruled by our Maker and our Maker is God. And He's expressing His kingship in claiming the naming rights to name mankind who He made in His own likeness and image.

Created by God, blessed by God, named by God, and all that that means. Now, this takes us back to, this takes us back before chapter three. So the start of chapter five is taking us back before sin, before disobedience and rebellion and the consequences before that. It takes us back before the fall, Sin, murder, death, multiple wives. We've seen all of that after sin and before chapter five, we had the false sin, murder, death, multiple wives.

We've seen all that come out of this first act of rebellion and that's an important comment because a contrast is being set up. God actually wants us to go back and to consider the state of mankind before sin came into the world, enjoying the blessing of God. So, and he's going to bring us into what he's contrasting that with as we work through the text. So that's the beginning of the genealogy. The first Adam is at the head of every genealogical list.

If you trace it all the way back to the start, everyone's genealogy ends up in the same place. The first Adam. God is reminding us of the original creation and that state of blessing. Now, verse three, Genesis five, verse three, follow along as I reread it. And Adam lived 130 years and begot a son in his own likeness after his image and named him Seth.

Here in this verse we have another likeness. If you're taking notes on the handout, likeness fills in the blank. Another likeness. So in 1 and 2 it was Adam made in the image and likeness of God. Here in verse 3 we have another likeness.

I believe we should understand it this way. God made Adam in God's own image and likeness. Then after sin and the curse for sin, Adam fathered children in Adam's own likeness and image. So something incredible has been lost here. And that likeness and image, the likeness and image of Adam was fundamentally different than the condition of Adam and Eve before they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

We were one, human beings were one thing before that act and we were a very radically different thing after that act. Something happened in our very nature. Something happened at the core of mankind. Corruption came into the nature of the head of the human race, Adam, and so corruption has come into the nature of the human race, period. All of his descendants had the corruption that came into Adam at the point of time of that act of rebellion.

There is clearly a contrast being made between how God made Adam on day six of creation week, expressing God's original design and intent. So chapter one, God's original design intent, Adam would be an image bearer and living under his blessing. So that being contrasted with the descendants of how the Adam, how the descendants of Adam would be after disobedience and rebellion in Genesis 3. Seth is the embodiment of that verse, but it isn't limited to Seth at all. If you've been born a flesh and blood descendant of Adam, then what is said of Seth being in the image and likeness of Adam is also true of me and true of you.

Here's a note from the Reformation Heritage Study Bible. Adam fathering a child in his own likeness also implies that he passed on to his children not the pure image of God but an image broken and ruined by sin." When you look around and you see what you see, when you look around, what explains that? This explains that. Adam did not pass along the pure image of God that was all true of he and Eve before sin but an image broken and ruined by sin. Remember this chapter is the bridge to God's destruction of the world through the global flood.

So here we are right we're on the bridge between the creation of man and the global flood. A global flood, the destruction of the world through a global flood because of the explosion of sin and evil as the generations progress. So we're getting the explanation of that. This is the explanation of how the human race ended up here. How could something, remember creation week, day one, good, day two, good, day three, good, day four, good, day five, good, day six, very good.

How did we end up with a global flood and all this destruction? This is how? Let's look at apostle Paul's the Apostle Paul's commentary on this in Romans 5. So turn to Romans 5. We'll see how Paul speaks of this.

I'm going to warn you it's a lot longer than the sermon text. And when we were working through Romans, we spent three sermons on what I'm getting ready to read now. So I'm just going to give it to you. There's a lot there and we'll barely touch on just a little of it. If you want to go back to those sermons, they were preached at the end of March and early April in 2023.

So you can get back to these if You find this interesting and want a further explanation of the text. I'm getting ready to read Romans chapter 5 verses 12 through 19 Romans 5 verse 12 Paul writes this Therefore just as through one man sin entered the world, so that's right where we are, Adam, the man through whom sin entered the world. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of him, Jesus, who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned for the judgment which came from one offense Resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification For if by the one if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. Therefore, as through one man's offense, judgment came to all, resulting in condemnation. Even so, through the one man's righteous act, a free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so also by one man's obedience, many will be made righteous." So that was a lot. I don't know whether you tracked with all of it, but The last verse is a wonderful summary, so let's just reread the last verse again, verse 19. For as by one man's disobedience, Adam's disobedience, many were made sinners, all of his descendants sinners. So also by one man's obedience, Jesus Christ's obedience, many will be made righteous." That is the summary statement. Let me pluck just a few of the big points out of there.

Sin entered the world through one man. We've been studying him. It's Adam. The first name on all of our genealogies and the head of our race according to flesh and blood, Adam. All the sin that you see, if you trace it upstream, You trace it to that act of rebellion and Adam and the corruption that came into our nature as a result of that another big point here Adam and Eve sinned against an explicit commandment.

Don't eat from that tree. But until Moses and the giving of the written law, all of their descendants were sinning against the law written on their God-given consciences. So there was the way that Adam sinned, there was an explicit commandment and they sinned against it. But he says that even until the law was given at the time of Moses, death reigned even though they didn't sin according to the likeness of Adam's sin, which was against an explicit commandment, but they were all sinning against the law written on their God-given consciences. Now I'm importing that from outside this text, but it was earlier in Romans and it's a key part of the logical flow of Romans.

That even though the law hadn't been given on Mount Sinai yet, that everyone living then was violating their conscience all along. They were doing what they knew was wrong and death was reigning because of sin. Even during that time when there was no explicit command, they were still sinning against their own consciences. But here's the last big point I want to take out of Romans 5. All that's true, death reigning through sin, but Jesus Christ was sent by God and he came voluntarily to offer himself as the head of a new spiritual race.

You don't have to stay a member of the race of Adam, which is destined for condemnation because we all sin. A new spiritual race as a gift of the grace of God. God in his grace sent Jesus Christ so that you could be part of the race of Jesus Christ and could receive righteousness through his righteousness. It is His righteousness. So if you miss everything else, know this.

The problems of Genesis are solved by the person and work of Jesus who is Christ. We've got all sorts of problems in Genesis. We're studying the problem. It's helpful actually to study the problem. How do you solve the problem until you study the problem?

So we're studying the problem but know that the problems of Genesis are solved by the person of Jesus Christ and the work of Jesus Christ and only there. Adam brought corruption into the nature of every one of his descendants. If you're a descendant of Adam, and if you're human, you're a descendant of Adam, then you have corruption in your nature, a bent away from the things that God loves and a bent towards the things that God hates, isn't that a terrible condition? That condition is because Adam brought it in because of his rebellion against God. But Jesus can make you a completely new man or new woman, give you a new heart and comprehensively cleanse you from the guilt, the penalty, and the power of every sin.

So you don't have to stay as you were born. You can become a new man or a new woman in Jesus Christ and be comprehensively, just think about this, comprehensively cleansed from the guilt and penalty and power of every sin. Praise God for that. The bad news about you makes the good news of Jesus Christ so exceedingly good. If you don't think much of salvation in Jesus Christ, then you don't understand yourself very well.

You don't understand what it would take to make you clean in the eyes of God. This brings us to Seth and his descendants. As I've been saying, many, many family lines are being passed over. You only get this one. Seth and very particular ones of Seth's descendants are being given to us to get us to Noah, and through Noah to get us to Abraham, and through Abraham to get us to David, and through David to get us to King Jesus.

That's why we're studying this genealogy. All right, verses four and five. Genesis five, verses four and five. After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were 800 years He had sons and daughters So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died These two verses we have the lifespan and death of Adam. If you're filling in blanks on the handout lifespan and death fill in these two blanks.

The lifespan and death of Adam. In verse 3 we might have been tremendously impressed that Adam begot Seth at the age of 130 still fathering children at 130 go Adam go until okay you might you might have been impressed until we get to verse four and learn that Adam lived 800 years after that, still fathering sons and daughters. So that his total lifespan was 130 plus 800 equals 930 years. We have no frame of reference for that. We get old, we need tremendous amounts of care.

In our 80s, 90s, If you live that long, they were living ten times that long during the time that we're studying. God created things radically different than they have come to be after we brought sin into the world. One of the mistakes in studying Genesis is to see through modern lenses as if that world wasn't radically different. If you need a sign that things were radically different, look at these 10 times lifespans. We lived in 90 if we get old, they lived in 900 when they lived to old age.

So we have no frame of reference for this. God created things radically different than they have come to be after we brought sin into the world. This is one representation of that. Now, why do people live so long? Well, you know my favorite answer.

The tax doesn't say. The tax just doesn't say. But commentators speculate on environmental advantages before the global flood. John MacArthur says there was a vapor canopy and that filtered out the harmful part of the sun's rays and it was a much more helpful environment and to that I say maybe I mean it isn't it is an explanation but there's no particular warrant in the text for that for for that so so maybe maybe it was more for that. So maybe it was more healthy, maybe when you filter out all the harmful parts of the sun's spectrum and you live longer, maybe.

But there are definite implications of these long lifespans that we can notice meaning We don't get an explanation of why they live longer, but you can you can notice that there would be things that resulted from that and we should do that. One is it would be good for filling the earth. Adam's still having children at 130 and then he lived 800 more years and he had sons and daughters during some some portion of that time That's great. If you if your job is filling the earth being fruitful and multiplying filling the earth and subdue it That's great for business It's a good for progress in every area. You think of how quickly humanity has progressed.

This is one of the reasons for that. In chapter 4 we saw the sons of Lamech. Lamech was a wicked man and even in his genealogy, his family line, he had a son that made advances in livestock. They were became nomadic for the benefits of moving where the good pasture is. There was he had a son with advances in music, maybe even inventing these instruments, but certainly advancing music.

He had a son who advanced metalwork. Now, when you're solving problems, when you're working in a category, longevity matters. I've got a dad who is just now finishing a career in research. This is the end of the progress in his research and maybe others will pick it up, maybe others won't pick it up, but longevity matters. The longer you work on a problem, the more progress you make.

So long lives are good for progress in every area. Again in our text we have this reminder that we are being given a single family line where many others are being completely passed over. And he had sons and daughters. Just leaves it at that. Moses leaves it at that.

He had sons and daughters. Oh yeah, who were they? They don't lead to Jesus, so you don't need to know. That's the answer to that question. The Bible, for spanning 4, 000 years of history, is a really small book.

You think It's a big book, but for spanning 4, 000 years of history, it's a small book. Those other family lines don't lead to Jesus, so we don't need to know. Finally, we encounter this phrase for the first time, And he died. We haven't seen that phrase yet in Genesis. And he died.

People have died. Cain killed Abel. Lamech killed a man for wounding him. We've seen that in prior chapters. But it wasn't said this way.

We didn't have this phrase either of those places. But it is said this way here, and it will be said this way seven more times in this chapter for a total of eight times in chapter five, and he died. As we work through the genealogy, you get to the end of a lifespan, and it's punctuated by this phrase, and he died. To take it back to Paul's language in Romans five, death is reigning through sin. The wages of sin is death.

God promised, you disobey me, you'll die. And that is being fulfilled before our eyes. We're seeing spiritual death, the corruption that has come into our nature that is being passed from father to son to father to son to father to son and physical death. And he died and he died and he died and he died and he died And he died and he died and he died and he died and he died that's all in our chapter The curse for sin ends in these words in Genesis 3 19. So this is the very end of the curse after sin in Genesis 3 for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

This is what happened to Adam and he died. 930 years, a long life, and he died. Future genealogies in scripture will not include this feature, and he died. You'll never see it again in a genealogy in scripture. I think that's true to say that.

But God wants us to hear this drum beat here. He's, you have this drum beat. The wages of sin is death. The wages of sin is death. The wages of sin is death.

You are dust you will return to dust Okay applications. Let me give you three Jesus imparts life. This is one of three Jesus imparts life to all who entrust themselves to Him. It's just another way to say faith. Jesus imparts life to all who entrust themselves to him.

Think of this, and he died. And he died. So that's the end of the drum beat for the believers. A genealogy, he died, he died, he died, Christ came, Christ died in the place of sinners. And in that, he has the ability to impart life to you.

When he imparts life to you, to anyone who comes to him by faith, who entrusts themselves to him, he begins to restore all that was lost. So, Just make a list of the things that were lost, that the human race lost when our forefathers, our most distant parents, eight of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, start making a list of all the things that were lost. Jesus starts to restore those things in your life when you come to him by faith. Here's a couple of places in the New Testament. Listen to Ephesians 424.

Ephesians 424, this is Paul exhorting Christians, that's important to say, because if you say this to an unbeliever, it's a cruel thing to say, because they have no spiritual life and no spiritual power to even undertake this. So Paul is saying this to people who were born again and have spiritual life. Ephesians 4 24. Christians put on the new man who was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness. Go back before sin in Christ.

Put on the new man who was created according to God. This image of God has been ruined by sin coming into our race, but it is restored in Jesus Christ in true righteousness and holiness. Listen to Colossians 3, 10. Colossians 3, verse 10. Believers have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him.

We're Going right back to Genesis 1, made in the image and likeness of God, enjoying the blessing of God. That's what Jesus Christ does when you come to Him by faith. He takes someone who has this warped image of the image and likeness of God and he begins to restore that in your life. And to the point where we're actually exhorted to put on this new man who was created according to God. Jesus imparts life to all who entrust themselves to him.

He died. And then he begins to restore all that was lost. Two. Give this one to Matthew Henry. Second application.

Matthew Henry. So important. Grace does not run in the blood but corruption does. So we're talking about family lines here dad mom have a baby Christian dad Christian mom have a baby grace doesn't run in the blood corruption runs in the blood Here's the second part of this quote. A sinner begets a sinner, but a saint does not beget a saint.

No one is born a saint. All of us are born sinners. We become saints by the grace of God. You've heard me say this many times, but it's a good time to say it again. God has no grandchildren, only children.

Those who repent and believe on His Son, He becomes their Father. But the child of someone that that happens to is going to have to repent for themselves and be reconciled to God from themselves. There's nothing in the bloodline that will help you with God. God has no children, only grandchildren. The sinner begets the sinner, but a saint does not beget a saint.

Children, do you understand this? This is so critical. It's good, it's a blessing that your parents have trusted in Christ, but it will not save you. There is a sense in which it is a liability that you have parent Christian parents a risk that you have Christian parents because you'll assume because you haven't been given the freedom to Trace out all of your sinful Inclinations because mom and dad won't let you, that you don't think you need much. Their restraining hand on you has given you the impression that you don't need much.

Okay, but that's not true. You have the same blood in you than the murderer Cain had in him. Seth had the same blood in him that Cain had in him. And if they were going to be reconciled to God they were going to have to be personally Reconciled to God by repenting and believing God has no grandchildren only children Finally I Hebrews 927 Hebrews 927 It is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment. Hebrews 927.

It is appointed for men to die once. Unless Jesus returns in your lifetime, you're going to die. You'll be just like Adam, like Seth, like Enosh, we're gonna go through another 10 names in this genealogy. You'll be like everyone who came before you if Jesus doesn't return to your lifetime. You too will die.

Then what? After this, the judgment. Then we give an account. What have you done with this life? Well I was a good person.

The Bible dares to disagree. You better have trusted in Jesus Christ so that His person and work are accepted for you. So, I was involved in a run yesterday. Early on in the run, more than a thousand of us went past a man who was having chest compressions done on him, like urgently done on him. He was clearly unconscious.

There was, it was clearly a competent person who was doing it and there was no point in a thousand of us gathering around this man so we just kept, we just kept going. Five minutes later, an ambulance comes screaming down, you know what? So first of all, I was running past him because he expected to finish this race before me. You lined up by pace groups. So he was in shape to run a long race faster than me.

He woke up thinking he would start this race, he would finish this race. Like, I don't know if he lived or died. But he woke up with plans for the day and this was a middle-aged man so he had plans out months. He had a schedule of things he planned to do in March, in April, in May, and he might not even be alive today. We have eternal souls.

Do not trifle with an eternal soul. On the day you die, you'll probably have plans for the month after, and the month after that, and the month after that. And You won't have expected we don't know we don't know Do not trifle with your appointed with you Do not trifle with your eternal soul. It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. Then what?

Run to Christ. Run to Christ. Run to Christ. Run to Christ. Well, I didn't know if I was elect.

Oh boy. We're not told to try to figure that out. We're told to repent and believe the Gospel. I'm told to repent and believe the Gospel. I'm so thoroughly reformed and I'm so thoroughly convinced that that's not my territory.

Not my territory. The Bible doesn't exhort me to try to sort that out. The Bible exhorts me to repent and believe in the Son of God Jesus Christ. That is the only way to be saved. And I might not be alive tomorrow.

That could have been me. I think I was older than that guy. I know I was slower than that guy based on where he started. God I thank you for texts that bring us to an urgent appeal to repent and believe the gospel. I know I let many urgent appeals come and go in my own life before your spirit was present to convince me that I couldn't wait another minute.

I pray that that would happen today. Someone or multiple people here today would sense the urgency like they've never sensed it before and repent and believe the gospel, would give up trying to figure out a thousand things but would know that things cannot be right with you if the Bible is true and they would run to your son and find mercy. Thank you for your word that brings us to Jesus Christ and lays all the problems before us so we would consider them so that we would run to your son. We thank you in Jesus name, amen.