Sonship. He shares our humanity, and we share His Sonship.
He became a man, so we can become sons of God.
Much love!
Agree, Your one-liner is good summary.
...It's the difference between;
Gods Understanding
AND
mans understanding
OF
How and What that means that becomes misunderstood.
* God
IS A Spirit without Beginning, that Does Not Change.
* Men
HAVE A Spirit with a Beginning, that
"Can" Change. (By, Through, Of the Power of God.)
* God
IS NOT Man.
* A man
IS NOT God.
* God
CAN appear, in the
LIKENESS AS a man. Look, Speak, BE "CALLED a man."
* Men
CAN appear, in the
LIKENESS AS "a god." Look, Speak, Be "called a god".
The MYSTERY IS:
God's SPIRIT Does NOT CHANGE.
God CHANGES the "spirits" of "willing" men.
The REVEALING IS:
hangs on the word "LIKENESS".
The REVEALING IS:
God IS NOT Seen by the eyes of earthly men.
A mans spirit, (natural or quickened), IS NOT
Seen by the eyes of earthly men.
WHAT IS "seen" by the eyes of earthly men; IS a "REFLECTION" of Gods Spirit...'with' a man, OR "with-IN" a man.
Gods Spirit, "with" a man...the man is called; "a godly man".
^ THAT, "can BE", a Temporary Condition, OR a "Permanent Condition".
^ TEMPORARY ? The man STOPS believing.
^ TEMPORARY ? The man is NOT "with" God.
^ TEMPORARY ? God is NOT "with" the man.
^ PERMANENT ? The man 'CONTINUES" believing, (enduring) to the END of his NATURAL BODILY life.
^ AT the End of a mans BODILY life, whereby the man, CONTINUED in Belief, CONTINUED "with" God...THAT MAN,
THEN has obtained status "of SAINT".
Gods Spirit, "with-IN" a man...the man is called; "a saint".
^ Gods Offering, BY, THROUGH, OF, Gods WORD, (JESUS) God SENT to Earth,
IN the "LIKENESS AS A MAN...
^ TO: speak, preach, teach Gods OFFERING; TO mankind.
^ TO: GIVE "willing" mankind (who Accept Gods Offering)...BY, THROUGH, OF, Gods POWER (CHRIST) whom God REVEALED the KNOWLEDGE (of His Power) TO Men...
^ THAT ONCE and FOREVER, God WILL BE "WITH" a willing man, and "KEPT" "WITH" a willing man.....expressly by GODS POWER, BEING..."WITH-IN" the willing man, FOR THE DURATION of "that willing mans..."NATURAL bodily life".
WHICH IS: precisely Gods POWER "IN" a willing man, WHICH IS EFFECTING An ASSURITY of that mans ENDURANCE TO BE WITH God FOREVER .
* It's called, A NEW BETTER TESTAMENT of ASSURITY, for a man to KNOW for Certain: Dispite all the cunning trickery, evil, wickedness increasing exponentially IN the World, and a man TRYING "by his own power" "enduring" to "remain godly" to the end of his bodily life....his "endurance"...
IS "guaranteed", IS "already effected"...
BY, THROUGH, OF, Gods POWER, "with-IN" a willing man...PERIOD!
Gods WORD of assurity.
Heb 7
[22] By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Gods POWER.
1 Cor 1:
[24] But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Gods KNOWLEDGE
1 John 3:
[20] For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Gods WISDOM
1 Cor 1:
[24] But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Gods CONDITION
Rom 10:
[9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Gods PROMISE
You shall BE "saved" and
"KEPT saved UNTO HIM", by HIS POWER IN you.
John 14
[16] And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide "with" you for ever;
[17] Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
[26] But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost...
ETERNAL SECURITY
OP ^
Yes..."IF" an individual man, willingly accepts Gods Offering, According to Gods, Order and Way.
Glory to God,
Taken