Episode 49 - How to Become Children

Today we're gonna finish with our study of John, and we're gonna be looking

at John chapter one, verse six through thirteen. This is titled how to

become Children. There was a man sent from God whose name was John,

the same king for a witness. The true light was heralded by a special

messenger from Heaven, sent from God for a witness. That is a perfect

life which fulfills the purpose of God, although maybe both solitary and brief.

It is not necessary that a man should live long, but if his life

is not to be a failure to necessary that he should live to the glory

of God. As soon as we become children of God by being born anew

from above, we entered into that relationship with Him who makes it possible for

us to become like John, a man sent from God for a witness.

Then how can we become children of God? The answer here is short and

simple. As many as receive him to them gives he the right to become

children of God. That's in John one twelve. No man has the right

to be called a child of God who has not received him. God hath

made of one blood all nations, But the blood of nations is not the

same as the blood of Christ. Great emphasis here is put on upon the

hymn whom we are to receive. The act of receiving avails only because it

brings us into contact with the One John one ten, who made the world.

The world was made by him. He who made the world, can

easily you make a human soul. His creative power was manifested while in the

world by his miraculous works, such as feeding the thousands with a few loaves,

and stealing the tempest with the raging waves again with it, John one

ten, who was in the world, him who made the world, and

he who humbled himself to be born into the world in the likeness of simple

flesh, that he might get into personal touch with man's sins and sorrows in

the world, but not of it among sinners, but entirely separated from them

in the world, as the visible representative of the invisible God who is the

truth. This is John one nine. This is the only life that could

possibly lighten every man coming into the world, because this true light is the

life of men, Him who was eternally perfect with all the perfections of eternity.

He is the true light, the true vine, the true bread.

He is, the truth. To receive him is to receive the light of

life. Who was rejected by his own The world knew him not, and

his own received him not. John one tenth through eleven. They knew him

as the son of Joseph, but as the son of God. They refused

to technology him. Although they lived and moved and had their being in him,

yet they knew him not. They received with eagerness his daily rewards,

but him they received not. No one could convince him of sin, no

one could find a fault in him, Yet his own received him not.

The fact that he was the first rejected and then accepted by his own kinsfolk

is another proof of the divinity of his character. He did the work that

no other man could do, and so attested his claims. And as many

as receive him must be prepared to suffer reproach with him, who has the

authority to make us children of God. As many as received him to them

gave he the right to become children of God John one twelve. This prerogative

is his alone. No church privilege or laying one of hands can give anyone

to right become son of God. The spirit of adoption is a gift of

God. That's in Romans eight fifteen. There is no other way whereby we

could become the children of God, but through faith in Christ Jesus Galatians three

twenty six. Christ came as the scent one of God to redeem us that

we might receive the adoption of God Galatians four four through five. He has

a right to adopt because he has the power to redeem. As many as

receive him, receive redemption from sin and guilt, the power to regenerate the

soul, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the

flesh, nor the will of man, but of God. John one thirteen.

Become a son of God implies regeneration by the spirit of God. It

is not a natural birth, not of blood. It cannot be produced by

any amount of fleshly energy nor the will of the flesh. Neither can it

come by the force of intellectual effort, nor of the will of man.

It is of God and is God's immediate answer to our faith and a son

Jesus Christ. As many as receive him are born of God. How shall

I put you among the children receive him? The next time? God bless