John 1:12 - 13 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Knowing that we are “the sons of God” is knowing that we are saved, we do not think, suppose, hope, nor do we wait till we die and see. When We “receive” Jesus Christ as our Saviour we then know that we are God’s child. This means that we have “Sonship” and that we are “Heirs” of God and “Joint-Heirs” with His True Son Jesus. God said in Eph. 1:6b “…wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” We did not make ourselves acceptable but God mad us acceptable as sons. We are not acceptable because of our own doing but because He made us acceptable in His own Son, Jesus. The only way we can “know” our sonship is that by Him making us acceptable in Jesus means that we are preserved in Jesus. God preservation of us is described in John 10:28 - 29 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.” This passage falls in line with Romans 8:28 – 39 when God ask, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” V. 31, and in verse 33 “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.”. Then God went on to ask in verse 34 “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died…” and in verse 35 it is asked “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Then Paul summed it all up in verses 38 - 39 “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Our sonship created in Jesus Christ by the very God and Father that made us such is not temporal but it is eternal. This is why God said in Eph. 4:30b “…whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Sealed by Him, the Holy Spirit, whom can lose nothing. As Sons of God, we are not our own, we do not control our life not our eternal standing in Christ. Paul wrote in Col. 3:3 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” The word “dead” means dead to sin, dead to the things of this world, we are protected in Jesus Christ, who profoundly said in Joh. 6:39 “And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” We were “born” into the family of God as His elected children, we did not choose it, it was not a decision, it is not something we worked for, it was a gift of God by His grace. God is not going to dismiss us as His children, none of us are perfect except in Jesus Christ. We have our commends in the word of God but in reality, some will fail a little and some will fail a lot, but we are God’s and God has us protected by the blood of our Saviour. We must be reminded of the Prodigal Son, God reminds us that if we fall into sinfulness, we are still His sons, He will not just cast us away. The Blood of Jesus is all the power we need to never fall from sonship. About the worse thing a believer can do is to be disobedient to their Father, but if it happens Jesus has promised that He will lose none. We are “born of the Spirit” and that not of the flesh, therefore, we are not subject to condemning ourselves. John 3:5 “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
