03 The Manifestation of the Sons of God

Being On Earth What We Are In Heaven

FROM what we looked at in the previous chapter, we must have a clear knowledge and understanding of the will of God (revealed in and accomplished by the finished work of Jesus) and also its implications, in order that we might then embrace the new person that we are created to be in Christ, and the new way of life that we are brought into in Christ.

Having made a way for the purification of our sins, and having brought many sons to glory, a new phase then begins in and through our life.  This phase is the revealing and manifestation on earth of the fruit of Christ’s finished work.  That which is to be revealed is the glorified new creation.  Jesus himself was the seed planted in the ground from which this new offspring (created in his own likeness) is brought forth.  Just as God said to Adam and Eve, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it’ (Gen. 1:28), so God now expects this new creation to come forth and be manifested through Jesus Christ, filling the earth with the knowledge of his glory.

Therefore, despite what our initial reasons may have been for becoming a believer, we need to understand that such things as attending church, doing good works and trying to live a good life (as necessary as these things are), are not the ultimate aim of what this new life of the believer in Christ is about.  These things are good and necessary, but being a new creation (and therefore living the kind of life that we are destined to live on earth as the children of God) goes far beyond these things.  God’s call to his people is summed up in the words of Isaiah 60:1-2, ‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you… the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.’

Furthermore, the old life, the life lived in the flesh, had its expiry date tagged onto it.


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