Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" Galatians 4:6-7 "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God." Romans 8:14-15 God calls us sons because He enjoys the reality of having begotten us in Jesus Christ. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, that fades not away." 1 Peter 1:3-5 We continually draw from that reality. Our Sonship relates to our whole life as believers. Our Sonship is established in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. "We were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, Even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:3-4 We seek to live as people who have been resurrected.

Our relationship with Jesus Christ God continually confirms our Sonship. It is God's intent is that our Sonship be continually manifested. The resurrection is the seal of our Sonship. "God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ... made us alive together with Christ ... and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus ... For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:4-10

We have received the earnest of the resurrection. Because the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead is quickening your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. The resurrection is nigh thee, even in your mouth, and in your heart and in your actions. We manifest the resurrection when we preach by faith, walk by faith and live by faith Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Romans 1:4 The power of the resurrection manifesting within us will also attest to our Sonship. "As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." 1 Corinthians 15:49 God wants to overcome within us the nature of the world, and transform us through the power of the resurrection so that we will be governed by the nature of Jesus Christ. The challenges of life are intended to provide a means for His divine nature and the power of His resurrection to manifest.

Ephesians 2:6: "God has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." We are aware that He is the resurrection and the life and we are seated with Him in a manner that must be constantly revealed. The Lord wants to make the power of His resurrection, a reality working in us. The power of His resurrection is about all things being put in subjection under the feet of the believer - His sons. "For in that he intended to put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him - His body. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:8-9 The power that God desires for us to experience is that of being a co-worker with Christ - and laborers together with God. He wants us to manifest His complete authority over the works of darkness and enjoy with Him the Creation.

The power of His resurrection causes our lives to become a living word because He lives we shall live also in the power of His divine nature and all that pertains to Him. We are meant to take off the old man and experience, a living word. Because He lives we shall live also in the manifest reality of the Son of God in His glory. The word is an actuality - a way that we experience Him and His relationship to the Father. One can live by it. By it, you can live and move and have your being. "For the word of God is alive, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12 We will be His ministers moving as a flame of fire. From the very beginning God revealed Himself as the great Divider-Dividing between light and darkness, day and night, clean and unclean. He is still continually dividing-going to the depths of what we are (the Spirit interceding for us) in order to prepare for Himself, a people who will be able to totally follow Him. Galatians 2:20: "We have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer we who live, but Christ lives in us; and the life which we now live in the body we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us. We believe that we can become overcomers because we see that the power of Christ's death and resurrection is capable of overcoming the fallen nature in us. We believe that we can know Him and the power of His resurrection. We press towards the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

It is God's intention that His Son would be the firstborn, the forerunner of many sons who would be formed after the image of God Himself. We who are made partakers of this life shall also be made to share in the image of His Son. We see in the man Jesus all that God intends to reproduce in the church. It is through the Holy Spirit and the power of His resurrection that we express what Christ is -- becoming the embodiment of His nature. We are what is seen of Him who is invisible. We believe that we have precious promises and that we are His workmanship. The Lord has increased our determination. We run to obtain the prize of His high calling.