This present evil world (part three)

 

The second huge error that the inhabitants of the world are making is to classify everyone as children of God.

Is every human being a child of God? This seems to be the belief of many but; in reality are we all children of God? From the very beginning of human existence the Lord said to the serpent; “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:14-15).

I therefore beg to ask the question, who is the seed of the serpent and who is the Seed of the woman? To know who the Seed of the woman is, the Lord made an everlasting covenant with Abraham saying; “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ” (Galatians 3:16).

So basically, children of God from the human race are those who believe in Jesus the only begotten Son of God. Before the advent of Jesus Christ in the flesh, God chose certain people such as Enoch, Noah, Job, the patriarchs and the prophets and gave them His Holy Spirit. The rest of humanity who died before the advent of Jesus Christ received the opportunity to become children of God during the time the Lord spent in grave.

During the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ He said to the Jews; “       Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth --- those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation” (John 5:25-29).

So during the time that Jesus Christ spent in the grave He spoke to the dead and those who heard His voice received life and became children of God. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison” (1 Peter 3:18-19).

For one to be a child of God, his/her human spirit must be connected to the Spirit of God, but from the time Adam and Eve sinned, man’s spirit was disconnected to the Spirit of God and was connected to the spirit of the prince of the power of the air as confirmed by the apostle Paul who wrote; “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others” (Ephesians 2:.1-3).

Jesus confirmed the fact that we are not all children of God because to the Jews He said; “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it” (John 8:42-44).

The apostle John also made a clear distinction between the children of God and the children of the devil, for thus he wrote: “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother: For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another” (1John 3:10-11).

The truth is, we were all born under the dominion of the kingdom of darkness and were by nature children of wrath our transfer from being a child of the devil to becoming a child of God is when according to the apostle John; “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13).

For this reason, we are to give thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light: He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Colossians 1:12-13).

So the perception that we are all children of God is erroneous, deceptive, misleading and deprives one from attaining their full potential, because for one to be a child of God his/her human spirit must be joined to the Spirit of God because, if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

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To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph