I Believe in God’s Only Begotten Son
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
11/25/2018 AM
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Text:
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I John 5;
Lord's Day 13
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Psalters: |
34, 60, 3, 125 |
- Great meaning about Him.
- The faith and hope of the Christian church is that the man Jesus is also very God.
- Scripture emphasizes repeatedly that Jesus is the Son of God.
- Scripture identifies Jesus as God’s “begotten” Son.
- And the Christian church maintains Jesus’ Sonship is “only;” i.e., distinct from all others.
- This means:
- Jesus shares the divine nature of God (Col. 1:15-17), and did not shed His Godhead when He became man (John 1:14).
- His being God when He willingly shed His blood makes His cross greatly efficacious.
- Although we are truly God’s children, there is a distinction between Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, and us.
- Jesus is God’s natural, begotten Son, while we are graciously adopted and gifted with the glorious privilege.
- How is our childhood realized? In and through the Son of God, God graciously adopted us and gives us the privilege of being children of God (Rom. 8:16; John 1:12; I Peter 1:23).
- Four powerful implications concerning the glorious nature of our salvation.
- We are given the glorious privilege of being called His children (Gal. 4:4,5).
- Our adoption is the highest expression of God’s love (I John 3:1) and grace.
- Adoption secures for a child the right to the name and property of the adopting parent.
- We are privileged to receive consciously all the rights of Christ, so that all that is His is also ours (I Cor. 3:21,23).
- Abide in the happy and peace-giving confidence that we are in His family and that He will take us into His home to dwell with Him forever.