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FIRSTbORN: BORN REDEEMED
There is something special about being the firstborn. Twenty-three of the forty-four presidents of the United States were firstborn, including Barack Obama. The overwhelming majority of CEO's are firstborn. In Bible days if you were the firstborn male you were the heir to the family fortune. It was the firstborn's responsibility to execute all contracts. It was his birthright because of his birth order.
When God placed humanity "In Christ" at the Incarnation, humanity became "Joint Heirs;" we became Firstborn! Understanding the FIRSTbORN thread that runs from Genesis to Revelation will help us better understand how God in Christ Jesus saved us. We will come to understand when empowered, what an advantage it is to live as a Firstborn son of God.
God the Son became Jesus the FIRSTbORN so that He might be the first of many firstborns. The FIRSTbORN understanding of the Gospel is the "Good News.” The fact is that Jesus became our elder brother to bring us back into the family as the Firstborn sons of God. Jesus, the second Adam, undid everything that the first Adam had done. Adam lost our status as sons of God; Jesus restored all of us to the family. Jesus became the FIRSTbORN, the "Saviour of the World."
The chief characteristic of a firstborn child is a desire to please their parents. Firstborns feel the burden of leadership within the family. The firstborn child understands their performance will in many ways determine the success or failure of all the children who come after them.
To make us all "Firstborns,” God the Father sent His Son to be the first human born a Son into the family of God. The Son became a human with the clear intention that He would become the Way back to God for all who came before and all who would come after. Jesus the FIRSTbORN became the Way by recreating within Himself an entire world of firstborns sons, perfect as He. Then upon His death, He atoned us all back to the Father within His FIRSTbORN spirit.
About the author
The author has five years as a research assistant doing biomedical research at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, 20 years of industry experience in the marketing and sales of data communications infrastructure. The author holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology from Oakwood College. The author has received numerous awards and recognition from every company with whom he has been affiliated. These include being recognised as the worldwide sales and marketing leader in two separate Hi-Tech multi-national organisations. In 2007 the author took a sabbatical of sorts from his sales and entrepreneurial endeavours to work the night shift as a heart monitor tech for a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He was released from the time-consuming demands of co-founding several businesses, OPTELICA with the late Grayland Johnson and EGBN with his brother James E Dykes Jr. As a result, the author was able to use his research skills to focus on writing the vision that God gave to him concerning a new understanding of the plan of salvation. One thoroughly grounded in Scripture, revealed in greater detail for those upon whom the end of the world comes. For 10 years The author laboured in relative obscurity putting down in writing the groundbreaking FIRSTbORN understanding of the gospel, and the subsequent redeemed new nature of all humanity after the cross. 2017 is a very significant year for the gospel. August 31st is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The author believes the Reformation remains unfinished. In a soon to be released book the author creates 95 FIRSTbBORN theses in the hope of sparking the finishing of the Reformation. The author firmly believes, after years of intense study, that if the "FIRSTbORN" understanding of the gospel is widely adopted and preached by the priesthood of believers, that the second coming of the Lord will be hastened.
