Have you ever thought seriously about what it means to be a son of the Living God?

Just what does that mean?  What things are affected by it?  What privileges come with it?  How did you become a son?  Are girls sons, too?

Galatians 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Obeying the law cannot make someone a son of God.  Self-righteousness will not make a son of God because you cannot behave your way into sonship.

Sonship is a birthright, not a behave-right.  You must be born again to become a son.

You must be born of the Spirit!  There’s no natural pathway into sonship because it is a supernatural birth that makes such a thing possible.  Jesus did not give His life on the cross merely to make servants.  It goes much further than that.

It is important to remember that a person in Christ is there through a supernatural birth by the power of the Spirit.  If it can be forgotten or reduced to something ordinary, then the rest of one’s journey becomes at risk of being reduced to merely natural things.  One can lose sight of how supernaturally they were brought into the kingdom and made a son.

Colossians 2:4 Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

To lose sight of who you are in Christ is to lose your identity.  To forget you are a son by supernatural birthright is to forget who you are, and inevitably, you will end up living according to the natural and perhaps even follow the course you were on before coming to know Christ.

Forgetting your supernatural birthright can lead you to fall prey to cunning and divisive arguments that go against anything supernatural and lead you to put your confidence in your flesh.  It can open you up to thinking that the traditions of men are where spirituality is—things based on this world’s basic principles as opposed to Christ’s supernatural work.

I encourage you today to remember your supernatural entrance into His kingdom, remember your spiritual birthright made possible by Jesus bleeding on the cross to pay for past, present, and future sins, and you believed it to be true.  Go back to what you did to receive Him and walk in that today and always.  Sonship is based on faith in Jesus, and the certification of it is being born again by the Spirit, not by the works of the law.