The central thought of the book of Romans is not justification, sanctification, or even glorification, but sonship – God desires to have many sons to bring into glory, and for this Christ Himself as a man in the flesh was designated the Son of God in power in His resurrection (Rom. 1:3-4) to be the […]
“You are My Son; today I have begotten You” – Christ was begotten to be the Firstborn Son of God!
According to Psalm 2:7-9, in His resurrection, Christ was begotten by God to be His Son who inherits all the nations and possessess the whole earth! These verses are crucial in our Christian life, since they prophesy about a great truth concerning Christ’s divinity, His humanity, and God’s economy as revealed in the second Psalm, […]
God became man to make man God in life and nature but not in the Godhead
There it is: I have repeated what Athanasius said in the 4th century – “He was made man that we might be made God”. This is God’s desire and His intention – to make man the same as He is. God wants to be expressed in a collective way, through many human beings constituted as […]
the seed of man became the son of God!
This is actually our gospel, as Paul said in Rom. 1:1-4, 1. Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2. Which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3. Concerning His Son, who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh, […]