The Seed of David became the Son of God: how we can Cooperate with God’s Intention

Jesus Christ is the seed of David, having a dignified human nature which was exalted and glorified along with His divine nature; the seed of David – Christ as the Son of Man according to the flesh – became the Son of God, implying that God’s intention is to make Himself man so that man […]

God’s Gospel is to Build God into man and man into God to gain a corporate God-man, the Body

Our gospel is the gospel of the sonship, which is the seed of David becoming the Son of God; God’s gospel speaks of the process of Christ being designated the firstborn Son of God in resurrection, and we being produced as the many sons of God to build up the Body of Christ. What a […]

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]