God has many sons

 

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

I am sure some of you are now scratching your heads and thinking – “this verse so clearly says that God gave his only Son, how can He then have many sons?” The answer lies in the word only, which is the Greek word monogenē, derived from monos (only, unique, solitary) and ginomai (only-born, sole) and means only-begotten; unique.

At the time of His birth, Jesus was the only son of God born of a woman here on earth, which in that moment, made Him very unique indeed.

Who then are the other sons of God? We read of some of them in Scripture - In Luke 3:38, where Luke lists the genealogy of Jesus through Joseph, Adam is referred to as the son of God. We know that God created Adam, he was not born here on earth. Luke 20:36 calls the fallen angels we read of in of Gen 6, sons of God, and we know that God created the angels. In Job 38:7 God asks Job where he was when the sons of God shouted for joy at the creation of the earth, showing that God created them long before the earth came into being. None of these sons of God we read of up to here, were born on earth, all were created by God.

But my friend, do you appreciate that you are also a son/daughter of God? You can read this in many places in the Bible, for example Gal 3:26 “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” The moment you chose Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour, you were adopted into God’s family; Jesus calls you His brother/sister; you became a new person and received the Holy Spirit – awesome! Along with Jesus, you are now unique sons/daughters of God, born here on earth, but with citizenship in heaven, entitled to all the privileges this brings.

There is someone who now is extremely jealous of your new status, as he himself can never aspire to this level of sonship.

In Job 1:6 we learn that Satan was also created as a son of God: “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.”  This happened again in Job 2:1. Through his own choices, he rebelled against God and lost his precious position in heaven. His ongoing opposition to God ensures that he will never regain what he had lost, and he knows this full well.

Do you now understand why he hates believers in Jesus so much? That all he wants to do to them, is steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10)?

Points to ponder:

Meditate on what it means to have the privilege of being a son/daughter of the Most High God. When the realization of it saturates your soul, you will also call out with David: In God I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me? And revel in the fact that Jesus has disarmed Satan and his demons on the cross – your adversary has no weapons! (Col 2:15)

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