LAST ADAM'S EFFECT - PART 4

FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2026

Reference: Colossians 2:6-7 New International Version (NIV)

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness."

Today's article is majored on the second or next versified segment:

"Rooted and built up in Him."

Last Adam's effect gives absolute balance to this very segmentary statement, meaning that we are being rooted in last Adam and built up by His grace alone. And one of the significant ways He builds us up is by providing an enduring effect of the Word of His grace. To that effect, Acts 20:32 reads, 

"And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up..." (ESV). 

This message influences our faith walk as we imbibe or assimilate and process the realities it conveys into becoming our habitual mindset, strong belief, and attitudinal or transformed disposition, such that the message is firmly fixed in us, building us up like an edifice as we advance in His glory that we behold in the Word, and because we now have the power within, which is the power of the Holy Spirit, we are empowered to be transfigured into what we assimilate. And also the Spirit provides us with the power to do and to will of His good pleasure as we continually embrace the teaching of the Word. 

What is quite special about the message of divine grace?  Its replete with last Adam's effect. The Bible says, "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (ESV). The message of divine grace has the sufficient ability to get the children of God rooted and built up so they can effectively remain and live in Christ. Hence, the message conveys two systems of processing and establishing divine realities in a saint.

The first metaphor is likened to the root of a tree, going deep down into the soil and settling there (arboriculture), denoting that the message determines how our radicles are inwardly shaped in last Adam, such that we become firmly established in Him, unlikely to be shaken or influenced by outside force or resistance. The second metaphor, which is to be "built up in last Adam", has got to do with the "edificial construction" of our faith, in a way that is amply capable of sustaining our Christian walk effectively, persistently, plus outwardly, resulting in true godliness, spiritual growth and virtuous development.

 

How does the last Adam's effect establish our root and building construction in Him? He has given teaching priests to the saints, which is a lasting answer to Moses' prayer under the old covenant. To instantiate this phenomenal verity, Moses' prayer in Psalm 90:9-12 reads:

"For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom" (WEB). 

Did you get the insight embedded in the above passage, which was part of Moses' devout petition to Supreme Deity? Notice that in verse 9, Moses noted that "all their days were spent or had passed away in God's wrath." Why so? The Old covenant law highly exposed God's people to His severe anger, which was on account of being required to adhere to an obligatory practice of fulfilling a list of "thou shall nots," and yet, not being able to fulfil them faultlessly.

To that effect, as a man who had severally seen God demonstrate his anger on His own people, he asked God a question. What question? "Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?" Then in the next verse, he demanded for the revelation of teaching ministry so that they could manage and live their days on earth purposefully, in accordance with the accurate teaching - based on God's perfect will.  

"So TEACH us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom" (Psalm 90: 12). 

Beloved, did God answer Moses' prayer which demands a teaching ministry? Yes, of course. He answered it in an abundant measure through Christ, who brought the message that proclaims divine grace and truth. WHO WILL TEACH US? Today, the message is now taught through teaching priests, bearing in mind that Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Ephesians 4:11-13 (NLT) reads:

"Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do His work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ."

The teaching ministry of the Word of grace and truth will remain relevantly "under way" until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son. And it is on account of an abundance of grace which the last Adam brought to us, such that we no longer live under the wrath of God, like Moses' expressions which conveyed the knowledge of the power of God's anger or His wrath.

In lieu of God's anger, we now accessibly comprehend the power of His unconditional love, as we receive and digest the message of His grace and truth, because, more effectively, through the last Adam's effect, we are now properly taught to number our days, thereby gaining the heart of accurate wisdom and applying its divine principles appropriately, by following the will of God in any given situation, through the abiding influence of the Holy Spirit, and under the New Covenant. Stay tuned for part 5. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Luke 6:48; John 15:5; Ephesians 3:17; Colossian 2:7.

Guided Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I immensely thank, honour and worship you for teaching me how to number my days effectively as I open my heart to the constant flow of divine wisdom through the ministry of the Word, under the dispensation of your grace and truth brought to all and sundry by the last Adam, in Jesus' Name, Amen!

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