We believers in Christ are children of God, and we gradually grow in life to become the sons of God, those who are peacemakers, expressing Christ as the Son of God, the Peacemaker, the One who lives in us; the sons of God will inherit the New Jerusalem for eternity, the eternal city of peace! […]
Enjoy Sanctification and Sonship: Chosen to be Holy, Predestinating us unto Sonship
Our becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead was initiated by God the Father in eternity past; He chose us to be holy (the same as Him in His holy nature), predestinating us unto sonship (the same as Him in His life), and we can partake of this by […]
We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Sonship and in God’s Manifestation
The believers in Christ are God-men, and they have the divine right to participate in God’s sonship and also to participate in God’s manifestation. Hallelujah! We were born of our human parents to have the life and nature of our parents and are therefore sons of men, enjoying the rights of a man. As […]
Let’s pray for the saints to realize that as members of the Word of God, they are also God’s oracle, speaking for Him
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would realize that as Christ, the firstborn Son of God, is the Word of God—God’s oracle for the speaking and dispensing of God—they, His brothers, as members of the Word of God, are also God’s oracle, speaking and dispensing God for the spreading of God and the […]
We are Children of Light Walking in the Light and Lighting the Lamps as we Meet
This week we are enjoying a particular wonderful matter in Exodus which is lighting the lamps in the sanctuary of God, which is done by those serving as priests clothed with the glorious garments (typifying the expression of Christ). After God finished speaking concerning the tabernacle and the furniture, and just before the introduction of […]
The Saving Life of Christ Accomplishes the Organic Goal of God’s Dynamic Salvation
The righteous shall have life and live by faith (Rom. 1:17) – the righteousness of God is the procedure of God’s salvation judicially, the life of Christ is the purpose of God’s salvation organically, and the faith of the believers is the substantiation of God’s salvation practically. The gospel of God has a solid structure: […]
The Center of Paul’s Gospel – Romans chapter 8, God’s dispensing, and the sonship
The center of Paul’s gospel is Romans chapter 8. Here he unveils the dispensing of the Triune God as life into the tripartite man. This is the focus of God’s economy: God coming into us to be our life so that we may be His corporate expression. This is experiential. The law of the Spirit of life (v. 2) is the Triune God operating in us. He first makes our spirit life (v. 10) then spreads to make our mind life (v. 6), then to impart life to our mortal body (v. 11) and to enable us to put to death all our natural living (v. 13). By this spreading of life within, we mature from children (v. 16) to sons (read more in 8:14, note 3). The goal of this expanding dispensation is our conformation to the image of God’s firstborn Son (v. 29). Lord, daily spread Yourself in our entire being until we fully express You. [guest post as the last part of the series, The Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery, ITERO 2011]