Friday | 24 October 2025
The work of Christ’s messengers is to make known, by the Spirit, the mystery of God. That is, they are to declare the details of Yahweh’s covenant purpose, which is to make men in the image and likeness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Gen 1:26. The process through which this purpose is accomplished reveals the name of the Father, the name of the Son and the name of the Holy Spirit.
The accomplishment of Yahweh’s covenant purpose for us is the fulfilment of our adoption as a son of God. This is when we receive, in full, the blessing that was promised to Abraham and to all those who, by faith, have become his children. Gen 22:18. Gal 3:7-9. The promised blessing is a spiritual body, which we receive on the day of resurrection for eternal fellowship with Yahweh in the new heavens and earth. The apostle John signalled two realities necessary for obtaining this blessing, writing, ‘Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God’. 1Jn 4:15.
In the first case, a person must receive God’s initiative towards them. Through the ministry of the gospel, they are made accepted in Christ, the Beloved, where they have the opportunity to receive the adoption and then be born again as a son of God. Eph 1:6. The outcome of this initiative towards the hearer is that God abides in them, and they belong to God as part of the company of the Firstborn, which is the church. Heb 12:23. By this means, they receive a birthright! This is the right to the blessing of being a partaker of the divine nature as a son of God with a unique participation in the fellowship of Yahweh. Joh 1:13. Having received the birthright, a son of God must choose to abide in God.
Further Study:
Ephesians 3
References:
Gen 1:26
Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’
Gen 22:18
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.
Gal 3:7-9
Therefore, know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ‘In you all the nations shall be blessed.’ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
1Jn 4:15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Eph 1:6
To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Heb 12:23
To the general assembly and church of the Firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect.
Joh 1:13
Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.