Monday | 02 June 2025
On the day of His resurrection, Jesus Christ was the immortal Sheaf of firstfruits. He has brought forth immortal seeds of sonship that are able to be planted in the mortal children of Abraham. These are sons and daughters of men, who hear the gospel of God and believe for the sonship that it promises. 2Pe 1:2-4. As this immortal seed, which is the divine nature, is germinated in our spirit, we are born as sons of God and made mortal members of His corporate body, of which He is the immortal Head.
As sons of God, we are branches connected to the root of the Vine, who is Christ, and bring forth fruit as we reveal Him by doing the works that He accomplished for us in the course of His travail. This is the implication of journeying with Christ on the pathway of salvation that He pioneered for us. Upon this pathway, we are changing from glory to glory so that, on the day of resurrection, we will be revealed with Christ as men in the image and likeness of God. 2Co 3:18. Rom 8:29.
We see that, through the gospel, we are first made sons of Abraham. We are then begotten as sons of God as the immortal seed of our sonship, brought forth from the travail of Christ, is germinated in our natural spirit. We are then progressively being made men in the image and likeness of God through a daily fellowship in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Luk 9:23-24. On the day of resurrection, we will be manifest as sons of men when we receive our spiritual bodies.
Abraham was illuminated to this tremendous promise. Gen 15:1. By the faith that he received by hearing the gospel, he was enabled to see and believe for the manifestation of the sons of God – a multitude of sons who would be born of the divine nature in their mortality, who would then be made spiritual men in the resurrection. These were ‘the stars’ of heaven. Gen 15:5-6. Joh 8:56.
Further Study:
Genesis 15
References:
2Pe 1:2-4
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Co 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Rom 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brethren.
Luk 9:23-24
Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.’
Gen 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.’
Gen 15:5-6
Then He brought him outside and said, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.’ And He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Joh 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.