0068. The Believer Is a Son

The Believer Is a Son

"Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus" (2Ti_2:1).

1. How Do We Become "Sons of God"?

Answer. From the human side: We become sons by receiving Christ. "As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name" (Joh_1:12).

Answer. From the Divine side: We become sons by the new birth; "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God".

Illustration: A darky was carrying a drummer over a squally lake in his sail boat, when the drummer said: "Mose, you handle your boat so well, I wonder if you understand the philosophy of the wind." The darky replied: "No, sir, boss, I don’t understan’ de philosophy of de wind, I jus’ knows how to hold de sails." And this is true. We cannot understand the philosophy of the new birth, but, bless God, we know how to hold up the sail of faith and to catch the breath of the Spirit, and God does the rest.–"So is every one that is born of the Spirit" (Joh_3:6-7).

2. What Should "Sons" Do?

Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Sonship is one thing, fellowship is quite another. We cannot lose sonship; we may lose fellowship. When sons sin, they break fellowship. We should carefully guard our daily walk lest we lose our Heavenly Father’s smiles. A good proof text is: "Keep yourselves in the love of God" (Jdg_1:21).

Heb_12:5-11 shows how God deals with sons when they sin against Him.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR