Over the years, I have heard a number of people refer to
humankind as being “all God’s children”.
It’s one of those sayings that sounds good, but is patently false.
What is true is God is the Source of all creation. And Jesus is at the center of it. (John
1:1-4) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. He was
with God in the beginning. Through him
all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In
him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” Jesus is the “living” Word. [It was this truth that the Spirit used to
open my mom’s eyes and salvation] I am
not going to address the Trinity this morning. Spiritual reality is so
different from our human reality. We try
to cram spiritual understanding into the shoes of our natural understanding and
those “feet” are just too big! They don’t
fit. The temptation is to reject
Spiritual truth because of the limitation of our natural understanding. Common mistake. (1
Corinthians 2:14) “The person without the
Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but
considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are
discerned only through the Spirit.”
So back to the main point – God’s children. We are all God’s natural creation but we are
not all His spiritual children. We must
be adopted into His family. (Ephesians 1:5) “having
predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the
good pleasure of His will” I
cannot adopt my own children. Without
that adoption I am bound for hell. Once
adopted I have eternal life with God in heaven.
Pretty simple really. Saying we
are all God’s children may sound sweet but it is a bitter falsehood – a deception. Only the Spirit of God can convince people of
that truth. We have an obligation to
share the Gospel when given the opportunity.
And you will have the opportunity.
Don’t give people who are lost false hope. “Speak the truth in love.”
(Ephesians 4:15) CHARLEY
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