5. BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE
BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD
The
fifth important thing we all need to believe, is that Jesus Christ is the
Begotten Son of God. This entails believing that He attained perfection through
living a perfect sinless life in the flesh as the Son of Man, and became
perfected at the resurrection, and became our resurrection and the life.
For
the gospel which God promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy
Scriptures regarding His Son, who as to His human nature was a descendant of
David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the
Son of God, by His resurrection from the dead.
“Jesus
Christ reflects the glory of God and bears the exact representation of His
being, upholding the universe by His word of power. After He had provided
purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven,
so He became as much superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is
superior to theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, ‘You are My
Son, today I have begotten You”? Or again, “I will be His Father, and He will
be My Son”? And again, when He brings His first born into the world, He says,
“Let all God’s angels worship Him” (Hebrews 1:3-6).
Jesus
Christ as the Son of Man was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death, but as the Begotten Son of God through the resurrection, He is
crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the
grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
“For
it was fitting that He, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many
sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through
suffering. For both the One who makes men holy, and those who are made holy
have all one origin. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
saying, “I will proclaim Thy name to My brethren, in the midst of the
congregation I will praise thee.” And again, “I will put My trust in Him.” And
again, “Here am I and the children God has given Me” (Hebrews
2:9-13).
Believing
in Jesus Christ as the Begotten Son of God promises a much greater and
guaranteed reward than believing in Jesus Christ as the Son of Man. Those who
believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of Man has the gift of eternal life; but may
not necessarily receive the reward of everlasting life. For it is written; “And
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man
be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal
life. 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” (John
3:14-16).
Unfortunately,
it is not everyone that is able to differentiate the difference between eternal
life, and everlasting life. I remembered back in 2008 when I first wrote an
article defining what is Everlasting life, someone informed me that the topic was
discussed on AOL "America on line", and someone commented on my blog
stating, "Lucius one day you will say that the Holy Ghost and the Holy
Spirit are not the same".
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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