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All kids fear the garage sale. The garage sale is the dreaded time when Mom comes roaring through a child’s bedroom with an empty box that reads “garage sale” written with thick, black permanent marker. The purpose? Get rid of stuff the child no longer plays with or needs and make a meager twenty five cents for a toy that to a child at one time seemed priceless. Now, these toys aren’t priceless forever. There comes a point when the toy is left to fend for itself at the bottom of a toy box or the back of a closet. The toy’s former glory is only remembered after some stranger barters their way to t0 a five cent treasure. The toy begins as a child’s treasure, later becomes something that’s not that important and eventually becomes priceless and treasured only after it’s gone. It seems as though Adam treated the identity of the human race the same way. Priceless, yet something that could be traded. Priceless once again. Adam gave away something that was eternal and beautiful for something that was temporary and fading. Our identity, authority and life in God. In one fatal decision, he placed us on the table at the garage sale and sold our souls like a cheap toy to the lowest bidder. He thought he was getting a great deal, but, sold a priceless treasure for a nickel. Life traded for death. His decision brought about sin, death and condemnation. This is why Jesus had to come do what He did. He came as a second Adam. Adam came as a sinless man bringing the identity and authority of Jesus Christ to the planet. He gave it away. Jesus came as a sinless second Adam to reclaim what the first Adam gave away. With the first, life was traded for death. With the second, death was traded for life. Just as death came through Adam, life came through Christ. Just as sin and condemnation came through Adam, forgiveness and justification came through Christ.
