THE SECOND MAN

THE SECOND MAN

Many think that because He was perfect in flesh and blood, that the christian is to come to the same perfect Man. He was in the likeness of flesh of sin, but He ^[p. 228] knew no sin. He was sui generis (of his own kind) and was made flesh in order to bear the judgment on man in flesh and blood.

He, the perfect One in the flesh, bore the judgment on man, and judicially terminated that order of man, in the eye of God, on the cross. There the end of all flesh has come, so that He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one, wherefore He is not ashamed to call them brethren.

He is of a new order - out of heaven - and though He was altogether lovely in the eye of God here as a Man in flesh and blood, He gave up His life. He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and no one can walk here, as He walked, who is not in the power of His life.