Pastor John in the last podcast, you talked about the importance of the

historicity of Adam and the local church especially. In this episode, I want to

follow up and ask you about Adam in relationship to global missions. Why does

the historicity of Adam matter for missionaries? When I was preaching through

Romans, this is now what year, nine years ago, probably more than that, took me

eight years to get through. I got to chapter five and I had never thought

before that time how amazingly relevant Romans 5, 12 to 21 is

mythologically. It begins just as sin came into the world through one man and

death through sin and so death spread to all men for all have sinned and then he

goes on to compare Adam and Christ as the heads of two different humanities. All

of us are in Adam because he's our head and and those of us who receive the

Gracious and Christ Jesus are in Christ Jesus and thus he's our new head

creating a new humanity. What what that said to me was every single tribe, every

people group in the world, thousands of them. If you go in there and learn their

language and learn their culture and find a way to communicate with them, you never

have to fear that the message you bring is somehow irrelevant for them in

their culture because they all, you can tell them this, you preach this, there was

an original human being from which we all came. That's the way Paul goes about

in Acts 17 and your problem is exactly the same as my problem because your great

great great great great great great great great grandfather rebelled against the

creator God and he fell in sin has been bent against this God ever since and that

God has set his son Jesus Christ into the world so that that disobedience could

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