Tuesday, April 28

Children of God

1 John 2:29 - 3:1
“If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone that does righteousness is born of Him. Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. Therefore, the world knows us not because it knew Him not.”

“Let us never again think of the Christian as just someone who is trying to live a good life, trying to be a little bit better than everyone else, a person with a belief in doing certain things, going through certain forms and ceremonies and keeping certain regulations dictated by the church. Christians do all that but before all that is this vital fact that they are children of God. They have been born again, born from above, born of the Spirit. They have received something of the very nature and life of God Himself. They are transformed people. They are new creations. And they are thus absolutely, essentially different from those who have not experienced that.

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