Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Galatians 4:5, “To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”
When we are redeemed, we receive the sonship.
Receiving the sonship simply means receiving the Son with all that He is and all that He has accomplished.
We were redeemed to receive the sonship as a gift given by grace.
The sonship is not something we work for or grow into.
To receive the sonship is instantaneous when we receive Christ and are born again.
It is not something we receive after a long process of being dealt with by God, or something we receive as a reward for work we have done.
What is the sonship?
Galatians 4:6 tells us: “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”
In other words, the sonship is the formation of Christ in us.
He has been sent into my heart–not just into my spirit, but into my heart.
Here it is not a matter of Him growing into my heart.
Nor is it Him taking over my heart little by little.
He has been sent(aorist tense / punctiliar action) into my heart.
He has been instantly formed in me through regeneration.
The moment the Lord is formed in me through regeneration, I immediately begin crying, “Abba, Father.”
And my crying “Abba” is synchronized with His crying “Abba,” and vice versa (Gal. 4:6 and Rom. 8:15).
This crying is my direct participation in the sonship, which includes the Son’s very own relationship with the Father.
My orientation is the Son with the life of the Son (1 John 5:20).
When I am weak, when I am “out of it,” when I cannot make it, my focus is no longer on myself.
I am now inwardly aligned with Christ.
This is what it means to handle everything with Christ.
I am one with Him.
I am loving Him.
Christ has been formed in my heart as the object of my love and attention.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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