Are You A Son?

A study of the word father: God -- as Father == chastened the children of Israel, His son.  When He saw that they could not keep His holy commandments, He sent His only begotten Son to keep them in their stead and to pay the supreme sacrifice for us, as sons.  We have the wrong understanding of the correction He ministered to His children for their disobedience.  In the Old Testament, it was called the rod of correction because there was no salvation.  There was no mediator between God and the people.  Job said if only there was a daysman (Job. 9:33 a mediator) between me and God.  God told the children of Israel in advance what would befall them if they were disobedient (see Deut. 28:15-26, and Lev. 26). 

Today, we call tsunamis, floods, snow storms and other calamities as acts of God.  Do we understand the significance of Christ dying on the cross?  It was so there would be a Mediator between God and man.  He gave the supreme sacrifice of His only begotten son so that under grace his born again sons would not have to face His chastisement and wrath.  Jesus is our peace.  He is our propitiation, which is a sacrifice to avert the wrath of God.  We used to sing a song, “Jesus paid it all.  All to Him I owe, sin hath left a crimson stain, and He washes white as snow.”  He died a death we could not die (because we had sinned).  He paid a debt we could not pay (Heb. 9:22 the law demanded a blood sacrifice) because we were so destitute we couldn’t afford a lamb.  He became our sacrificial lamb and brought us out of the prison house.  Now are we the sons of God.  His mercy protects us from what we do deserve (we deserve to be punished) and his goodness gives us what we don’t deserve (Eph. 1:3 all things that pertain to life and godliness). 

 

Gal. 4:6 Because ye are sons God hath sent forth the Holy Ghost into your heart whereby ye cry "Abba Father."