Monday | 07 July 2025
It is important to recognise that while the Son, in identity, dwells in a believer’s heart, the seed of their sonship, brought forth through the travail of Christ, is sent forth by the word of God and then germinated in their spirit by the Holy Spirit. By this means, they are conceived as a son of God, having been born of the divine nature. Through new birth, Christ’s life has become their life, but the expression of this life is unique to their name as a son of God. Gal 2:20. They have become a totally new creation! Moreover, through new birth, the believer receives a heavenly body, which is reserved for them in heaven.
After a person has been born again as a son of God, the Father then places them into the church, by making them a member of the body of Christ. Col 1:18. This immersion into the body is one of three dimensions of baptism. 1Co 12:13,18. Having become Christ’s, they are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise made to Abraham. That is, their spirit, which is the lamp of the Lord, has been lit, and they are manifest as one of the stars that Abraham saw when the Lord said to him, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them … So shall your descendants be.’ Gen 15:5.
Significantly, a new son of God is raised by the Father to heavenly places as a citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem, the church. The psalmist prophesied of this amazing implication of new birth and baptism by the Father, writing, ‘And of Zion [where the heavenly Jerusalem has been established] it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her; and the Most High Himself [that is, the Father] shall establish her.” ’ Psa 87:5. The heavenly Jerusalem is the context where sons of God are to lay their life down in love for one another according to their name as a son of God. 1Jn 4:7.
Further Study:
Gal 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Col 1:18
And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the pre-eminence.
1Co 12:13
For by one Spirit, we were all baptised into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:18
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
Gen 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.’ And He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’
Psa 87:5
And of Zion it will be said, ‘This one and that one were born in her; and the Most High Himself shall establish her.’
1Jn 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
References:
It is important to recognise that while the Son, in identity, dwells in a believer’s heart, the seed of their sonship, brought forth through the travail of Christ, is sent forth by the word of God and then germinated in their spirit by the Holy Spirit. By this means, they are conceived as a son of God, having been born of the divine nature. Through new birth, Christ’s life has become their life, but the expression of this life is unique to their name as a son of God. Gal 2:20. They have become a totally new creation! Moreover, through new birth, the believer receives a heavenly body, which is reserved for them in heaven.
After a person has been born again as a son of God, the Father then places them into the church, by making them a member of the body of Christ. Col 1:18. This immersion into the body is one of three dimensions of baptism. 1Co 12:13,18. Having become Christ’s, they are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise made to Abraham. That is, their spirit, which is the lamp of the Lord, has been lit, and they are manifest as one of the stars that Abraham saw when the Lord said to him, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them … So shall your descendants be.’ Gen 15:5.
Significantly, a new son of God is raised by the Father to heavenly places as a citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem, the church. The psalmist prophesied of this amazing implication of new birth and baptism by the Father, writing, ‘And of Zion [where the heavenly Jerusalem has been established] it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her; and the Most High Himself [that is, the Father] shall establish her.” ’ Psa 87:5. The heavenly Jerusalem is the context where sons of God are to lay their life down in love for one another according to their name as a son of God. 1Jn 4:7.