Make It Real March 2010

Question: I am hearing a lot about a born again believer being referred to as a son of God and even as a little god, is this biblical?

Answer: As believer’s we need to come to an understanding of who we are in Christ. We need to understand who Jesus really is as well as what relationship we are to have with the Heavenly Father. It is essential to know how the Holy Spirit works in the believer. As we mature in our relationship with God, we will have fellowship with God the Father, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Try not to intellectually or legalistically separate the Godhead to such a degree that you no longer have the freedom to just pray and speak to God without questioning whom you should be talking with. God is One and we cannot put the mysteries of this awesome God into our little theological boxes.

The first place to go when you hear teaching that causes a shaking to your own way of understanding God, is to His Word. Every revelation that we will ever need to understand is in His Word. Every new teaching or revelation must line up with the Word of God. The Word of God is the plumb line for truth. Jesus is referred to as the Word of God that became flesh and dwelt among us. (John chapter one). The Holy Spirit is sent as the teacher of all truth and as the One to bring us into the full knowledge of Jesus Christ and of the Father.

I suggest you download a bible program such as e-sword and do a word search whenever you hear a new teaching or revelation. You also need to study the New Testament teachings and especially the teachings from the four Gospels. Every revelation must be grounded in the truth concerning Jesus Christ. Anything that takes away from the focus of our Savior and the work of the cross of Christ is not coming from the Holy Spirit. Any teaching that does not acknowledge that Jesus is the Creator is coming from a spirit of error. Jesus has always been and will always be. He is God without a beginning or end. Human beings have a beginning, prior to God creating the heavens and the earth in Genesis mankind did not exist. Jesus did exist though He is not referred to as Jesus until He was born into this fallen world. In the Book of Colossians we see clearly that Jesus was the first to come forth from God and that in His coming out of God . He actually was God placed in some type of bodily form. Then He began to speak forth a creation that He could experience. He loves what He creates. He created for His own pleasure. I encourage you to take the time to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the truths about Jesus and creation from the text in Colossians. Read the Word and allow the Holy Spirit to breathe life into the teaching concerning Jesus as the Creator.

Col 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,
Col 1:2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ in Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Col 1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying continually about you,
Col 1:4 hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love toward all the saints,
Col 1:5 because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,
Col 1:6 coming to you, as also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit even also among you, from the day in which you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
Col 1:7 even as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-slave, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
Col 1:8 he also showing to us your love in the Spirit.
Col 1:9 For this cause also, from the day in which we heard, we do not cease praying on your behalf, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Col 1:10 for you to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;
Col 1:11 being empowered with all power according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joy;
Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,
Col 1:13 who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins;
Col 1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.
Col 1:16 For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or rulers, or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Col 1:17 And He is before all things, and all things have subsisted in Him.
Col 1:18 And He is the Head of the body, the assembly, who is the Beginning, the First-born out of the dead, that He be preeminent in all things;
Col 1:19 because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him,
Col 1:20 and through Him making peace by the blood of His cross, to reconcile all things to Himself; through Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in the heavens.
Col 1:21 And you then being alienated and hostile in your mind by evil works, but now He reconciled
Col 1:22 in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and irreproachable before Him,
Col 1:23 if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

In this passage of Scripture I have highlighted some portions to clarify some of my previous points:

• We are to come into a full knowledge of our God. Which includes understanding the three persons of the Godhead: Father, Jesus Christ the Son , the Holy Spirit
• We have been delivered out of the authority of darkness into the Kingdom of His Son
• Jesus is the exact image of the invisible God, first to come forth from the Father. All things are created through Him and for Him. He is before all things.
• Jesus died in His fleshly body to make the way to present us holy and without blemish
• We are to stay grounded in the faith (of the Gospel of Christ)
  

Next month we will continue this study as to what God means when He calls us sons and daughters. For the record, I would never refer to a human being as a “god”. The early apostles would rend their garments when anyone thought that the miracles had anything to do with them. Join me next month as we look deeper into these concepts.