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Sonship
With God
"Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the sons of God."
(1 John 3:1). "Father" and "son."
Blessed relationship; life of life. There is fatherhood in
God, but it can be realized by the man only by being born
of God. God must come into man's humanity and man must
come into God's divinity that he might realize God as his
Father and himself as God's son. This is made possible in
Christ. God's divinity and man's humanity are united in
Christ. God can come to man in Christ's divinity, and man
can come to God in Christ's humanity. God's divinity can
enter into our humanity and we become partakers of the
divine nature. We can come to know God only in Christ. We
can not see God only as we see Him in Christ. We can come
to be like God only in Christ Jesus. Christ is the image
of the invisible God. ( Col. 1:5 ). Christ will show us
the Father in Himself. (John 14 :8, 9.) You can become
like God only to the extent you see Him in Christ. Suppose
you never saw your mother's father. Your mother loved,
honored and revered her father. She thought he was the
most exemplary man she knew. Her highest ambition was that
her son be a man like her father. She knew that to have
him grow up to be such a man she must show her father to
her son. She imbibed the spirit of her father. His
character was inwrought in her being. She taught in word
all she could to her boy about his grandfather, and she
showed the image of her father to the boy by living the
life, and thus the boy saw his grandfather in and through
his mother and was fashioned into his image. If we will
listen and obey Christ's teaching, look into His holy life
and imitate it, we will grow into the likeness of the
Father.
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