All the Way Back to Adam

“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.” Exodus 14:21, 22

The Red Sea and Jordan

1. The Red Sea was the first of two bodies of water the children of Israel crossed before coming into the Promised Land, Canaan.

2. Although the people walked through both bodies of water, the two were different from each other and unique from each other.

The Red Sea is a Type of Salvation

1. The Red Sea is a type of the blood of Jesus - Even down to its name - The RED sea. The Israelites were taken out of Egypt, delivered from years of bondage, and allowed to go free.

2. Israel did nothing to be delivered. God did everything. God sent plagues, preserved Israel during them, and brought them out on dry land. His command for them was to do nothing but stand still and watch God do the work. We are saved by God’s grace - not our works.

3. Israel was boxed in from the front, behind, and on each side. The Red Sea was in front of them, the Egyptian army was behind and a mountain range was on each side. The only answer was through the Red Sea, by boat, submarine, or through it walking on dry land. The world needs to know there is no other name under heaven, given among men by which we must be saved, but through the name of Jesus. There is only one mediator between God and mankind - the man Christ Jesus. Man is surrounded and boxed in by religions, brotherhoods, and all systems of good works. Nothing can remove the sins and curses of Adam but the Red Sea, the blood of Jesus.

4. Israel’s enemies were destroyed permanently. The same Red Sea which opened allowed the Jewish nation to go free, swallowed up, and completely destroyed the Egyptian army, its horses, chariots, and weapons. The blood of Jesus was our deliverance and Satan’s destruction.

5. Israel left slavery and entered the life of freedom in the wilderness. Although the wilderness was not the Promised Land, it was better than Egypt. It was a necessary place to unlearn Egypt and learn to totally trust in God. It was a place to grow up and prepare to enter Canaan. It was only an eleven-day journey by foot, but it took the first generation forty years to learn its lessons. Forty years was not God’s fault, but theirs. We all have a wilderness after the new birth to begin to unlearn the world’s way of looking at life and begin to understand God’s way. It is called discipleship, maturity, or the place of the renewing of the mind, preparation for the land of Abundance.

6. The water divided in two directions. No sin past or future was left uncovered in taking the children of Israel into their new life. There is no sin you have ever committed or will commit that will remove you from the Christian life or keep you from going to heaven. Cleansing of sins in your daily Christian walk is to preserve you from Satan’s plans and devices in this life and help you maintain your joy.

The Jordan River is a Type of Daily Forgiveness for Believers

“Those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest), 16 that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.” Joshua 3:15, 16

1. The Red Sea was a standing wide body of deep, impassable water. The Jordan was a flowing river from one direction.

2. The Red Sea separated Israel from their freedom. The Jordan separated them from their blessings, their inheritance.

3. The Red sea represents salvation through faith in Jesus’ shed blood. The Jordan represents forgiveness of daily sins in the life of a Christian. It was water in both cases, the blood of Jesus, which saves us as sinners and cleanses us as saints.

4. Man had nothing to do with parting the Red Sea. But men, the priests, had to put the shoe soles down into the edge of the water before it moved back. IN salvation, we simply believe in the finished work of Jesus. In forgiving believers’ sins, we must confess our sins for them to be forgiven. We approach God, no longer as a slave, but as a priest.

5. The water backed up a long way, to the city of Adam. When we confess our sins, nothing back to Adam can stop us from obtaining our inheritance in life. Confession of sins from the Christian stops Satan from hindering us through demons, sickness, financial problems. It is a guarantee from generational curses. Nothing back to Adam is left uncovered. Our past ancestor’s sins, divorce, mental illness, temper, poverty, or cancer no longer have dominion over us. We have a new bloodline, the family God in which there are no curses. I am no longer in Adam but in Christ.

Forgiveness of Sins for the Christian

1. Many scriptures on salvation, say believe, call, receive, accept.

2. “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:9-10

3. Many scriptures describing being out of fellowship and coming back:

   a. Carnal, leaving home, asleep among the dead.

   b. Spiritual, returning home, waking up, returning to fellowship.

“That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.

5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk-in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” 1 John 1:3-2:2

1. Written to Christians for the forgiveness of sins.

2. We approach God as a priest, not a slave.

3. We confess our sins as a priest, we do not have to find a priest.

4. The blood of Jesus cleanses us as it did when we were saved.

5. When we confess what we know, God also cleanses us from what we do not know.

6. Jesus is our Advocate - defense attorney (Job 1:8-12, Zechariah 3:1-7, Micah 7:8, 9, Romans 8:34).

Back to Adam

1. No generational curses.

   a. Their sins do not control you.

   b. You are not controlled by a spirit of divorce.

   c. You may have genetic problems, sickness, mental illness, temper. Break them.

   d. Poverty, sin, sickness can be broken.

2. When the foot of the priests touched the Jordan, the waters backed up all the way to the city of Adam.

3. Nothing in your bloodline back to Adam can stop you from fulfilling your destiny and entering the land of God’s best.