Hallelujah Bread #14 (D)

Who Are the Children of God? Final Part

The children of God must necessarily be "Born of The Spirit."

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

We were not born "God's Children" though this is a widely held belief. The first verses in John's Gospel point to the ability to BECOME a child of God. This transformative state is confined to those "who believe on his (Jesus') name.” The text follows:

HB 14 (D)

Worldly Christians it seems, are far more engaged in pursuit of worldly rewards, name, fame, power, recognition, and acquisition of things. They have set their hearts (the seat of affections) upon things of this world things that perish, and not things which are eternal / heavenly. John has exhorted against this pitfall, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (1 John 2:15)

Children of God and Children of the Evil One:

The Bible makes it clear; that some human beings who are Evil and some who are Good. We all are born under the control of the god of this world, of the Evil One, Satan. Through God's grace toward us those that God calls and who call upon His Name are transformed from darkness into light; into the Sons of the Most High.

Yes the "good news" is that we can change our status after we realize the truth about our fallen nature and the gift of God. Ephesians 2:v3 explains: We were in times past counted among the children of the evil one. But in God's time we were delivered from that state and translated into the Kingdom of God's dear son. AMPC translation of Ephesians 2:3 - - Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God’s] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind. This is the Phillips translation of the same verse:
To you, who were spiritually dead all the time that you drifted along on the stream of this world’s ideas of living, and obeyed its unseen ruler (who is still operating in those who do not respond to the truth of God), to you Christ has given life! We all lived like that in the past, and followed the impulses and imaginations of our evil nature, being in fact under the wrath of God by nature, like everyone else. The final thought is this, we can be changed. We can be rescued from destruction. We can escape the wrath to come both temporal and spiritual. We can change our parentage from a fallen child of the evil one to being a child of the living God.

Christ has redeemed us. We are redeemed from the curse of the law, Christ having been made a curse on our behalf. (Galatians 3:13)

The consequences of not receiving our Savior Redeemer: John 3:16 to 3:18 The offer of redemption is made clear in these verses:
16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. And finally Chapter 3 of John concludes with this verse for further emphasis:
3:36) He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

Date of Edit:03-08-2021