Hopeless and Godless in a world where Satan holds the authority of death, man's condition was desperate.

...............He didn't have any grounds for prayer.

.........................God hears prayers only on the grounds of grace alone.

Man needed a mediator who could stand before God in righteousness.

...............Man needed someone who could represent the human race and go to God on his behalf.

Adam had once enjoyed his fellowship with his Father/God.

.........................But when spiritual death entered him, he immediately felt he couldn't stand before Him.

............................Genesis 3:8
"And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."

When God created man, man had righteousness which gave him legal right to come to Him.

...............Man gave up these rights when he gave them to Satan [sinned] and he was left without hope and without God.

"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" Ephesians 2:12

This describes the condition of spiritually dead man. He had no covenant claims to God; he gave up every right God had given him.

God declared that there is none righteous.
[Romans 3:10].

.......And there is none that understands and seeks after God [Romans 3:11].

Romans 9-18 gives fourteen charges against the human race in its Spiritual Death condition.
..........9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
........10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
........11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
........12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
.......13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
.......14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
.......15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
.......16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
.......17 And the way of peace have they not known:
.......18 There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Man's mind and understanding became darkened by the god of this world.

..........2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,

Man became alienated from God,

Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Man's identity with Satan caused the judgment and unrighteousness of Satan to be his also.

..........John 16:11
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Man's sin had joined him to Satan.

..........Colossians 1:13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness
..........Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
..........1 John 3:10
.....the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Now he stands before God, not only politically as a subject of Satan, but as one in union with him.

Man's need of a Mediator is seen in India with its millions of priests trying to absolve hopelessness and leading their soul hungary people deeper and deeper into darkness.

Man in his condition of Spiritual Death, recognizes that he has no standing with his creator.

............The temples, altars and priesthoods of all nations confess man's consciousness of sin, his fear of death and judgment, and his not being able to approach God in his own righteousness.

Jesus pic

After Adam sinned:

*He was cast from the presence of God.

*He had lost his fellowship with the Father.

*He stood with Satan's unrighteousness.

*He had no standing with God and no right to go to Him.

After man had died spiritually, his first need was to receive Eternal LIfe, which is God's nature.

..........God couldn't give His own nature to man except on the grounds of righteousness, which is man's second need.

....................Man's third need was that he needed a Mediator, someone who could go to God for him.

Scriptures of Jesus' requirement for being the Redeemer.

...............John 8:29,
in His walk on earth,
For I do always the things that are pleasing to Him

...............2 Corinthians 5:21;
...............Isaiah 53:4-6; and
...............Romans 4:25,
As man's sin-substitue

...............Colossians 2:15;
...............Hebrews 2:14-15;
...............Pilippians 2:9-10; and
...............Revelation 1:18,
As the conqueror of Satan

Scriptures of how man cannot redeem himself.

...............Ephesians 2:12
Hope, and without God

...............Romans 3:20
by the works of the law shall no flesh be accounted righteous.

................1 John 3:10
Children of Satan

...............John 8:34
he that committeth sin is the bond-servant of sin

...............Ephesians 2:2-3
walking accorning to Satan

...............Colossians 1:13
man in the authority of Satan

...............Hebrews 2:14-15
Satan holds the dominion of the realm of spiritual death, and man in bondage to him

Scriptures of Hell as confinment.

...............Revelation 20:13-15
If any was not found written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire

...............2 Peter 2:4
But cast them down to Hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved unto judgment

Scriptures of the judgment of man.

...............Romans 5:16-18
Through one trespass the judgment came unto all men

...............John 16:8
Convicted of judgment

...............John 16:11
Of judgment because the prince of this world hath been judged.
Satan's judgment became mans

...............John 3:36
the wrath of God abideth on him

Scriptures of the righteousness of man.

...............Romans 3:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; . . . . .

...............Romans 3:9-10
. . .they are all under sin;. . .10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:. .

...............Romans 5:16-18,19
Of one unto condemnation. . . . The many were made sinners.

Man's need of Eternal Life requires [first of all] righteousness.

.......................Man's need for righteousness requires a [human/God] Savior.

It was through one man [Adam] that judgment had come.

.......................Therefore, one man [Jesus] without sin shall be able, on legal grounds, to pay that penalty; so that the human race shall be free from guilt and unrighteousness if they confess His Lordship!

God must take man's sin nature and put it on His Son.

......The Son must go under judgment and spiritual death.

.............When He has paid the penalty for man, He will be made righteous again and that righteousness will be given to man.

God's Son has to come out of His Father's Glory and lay His own Glory and Majesty aside, that He had enjoyed with the Father.

*He must come to earth,
*take on a human body and
*conquer Satan

God created man knowing that he could fall.

...............Making a creation like that put the responsibility on the Father God. He has to provide a plan to get him back.

...............The only way for man to be given Righteousness would be for the Incarnation of God's own Son.

Only God is greater than Satan!

......Man and God had to be united by one person.

...............The Incarnation is the only answer. Only the joining of God and man will provide a Redeemer who can and will walk in righteousness as a man, has the ability to pay man's penalty and conquer Satan.

No angel can be man's Redeemer. An angel can't fulfill God's demands of justice.

................No man can fulfill the requirements either, because of his nature with Satan.

Not only does this Redeemer have to be free from Satan's rule as He lives on earth; He has to be a being greater than Satan.

..........One who, after the penalty has been paid, will be able to conquer Satan, taking away his lordship and legal dominion over man.

.................He has to conquer death, and bring life and immortality to mankind.

Man's spiritual death has to be laid upon this Redeemer.

*Then the judgment of Satan falls upon Him.

*He has to meet the demands of justice.

*He must go to Hell and stay there until every legal requirement has been satisfied.


He defeats Satan spiritually not arm wrestling.....

This Redeemer has to meet Satan in temptation, just as Adam and Eve did but cannot give in to Satan's will.

...........This man has to act in man's place
...............[he has to be his substitute].