Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 37
For not a few till date, it took quite some hustling to own things, to own a plot or hectare of land for example, but in the beginning it was not so. The first “thing” and/or the first “land” that God wanted His true lovers to own, inherit or be rewarded with was God (Gen. 17:8/Josh. 13:33/Num. 18:20/ Heb. 11:16).
Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 36
If the Godhead is called The God of the Living, The Son of the Living God and The Spirit of the Living God respectively (Mk 12:27/2Cor. 3:3/Matt. 16:16), then it is spiritually safe to agree that the first relationship and institution that God intended was with a living man, a breed of faith and love whose eternal walk with God was archived in the volume of the book; in the scriptures of truth (Heb. 10:7/Dan. 20:21).
Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 35
Great mercy comes our way the day the Lord confronts our theology concerning a long held notion that says, “Adam was made in the image of God”, and the Lord does so by comforting us with truth which says “Man was made in the image of God”. The first Adam was called to attain God’s image and likeness but didn’t, and the first man to do so was the last Adam (1Cor. 15:45c/Heb. 1:3).
Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 34
David, in his childlike nature, found himself wondering why God’s mind was full of man because after all, man’s mind was full of everything but God (Ps. 8:2-6/139:17-18). Child abuse and drug abuse were most likely not rampant in his day, but pleasure abuse definitely was.
Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 33
Barely beholding the behavior of infants (little children) would remind us of how unnatural it is to see adults who are child-like at heart or children of the kingdom! When we thus see someone who struggles to forgive, offends habitually, pays lip service to repenting, is burdened by the cares and fears of tomorrow, would rather be independent than dependent, or who disregards order/spiritual authority, we have simply witnessed a conversation of an adult at heart rather than that of a child at heart. The course of this world has been subtly causing such a one to “grow old” rather than “grow young” (Ps. 110:3/103:5)
Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 31
A humble way to relate with the declarations of the New Testament is to always acknowledge that we know it not as we ought (1Cor. 8:2), and by approaching the epistles of the apostles this way, Christ-like change becomes inevitable because we would be positioned to receive much more comfort (coming forth) of the Holy Spirit who helps in comparing spiritual with spiritual and in paraphrasing the holy scriptures beyond the letters.
Another Look at The Essence of Sonship - PART 32
Once upon a time, John as a disciple and an apostle in the book of Acts carried out exploits that the church direly needed and still celebrate, but he remained unaware of the actual exploits of those who know their God (Dan. 11:32) until he kept various appointments with grace and mercy, where he received the central message and the key emphasis of the New Testament – “GOD IS LIGHT”!