Matthew 5:45 KJV
That ye may be the children of your Father which
is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and
sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
The Bible
uses the term children or sons of God to describe a variety of aspects of our
relationship with God
- We are born again as sons of God
- We are adopted as His sons
In this
case, as we imitate the character of God we take in His appearance.
No man is
saved by imitating the work of God any more than a child can become the son of
a man other than his own father by imitating his actions. As children of God,
however, obedience to these teachings give us the likeness of the One who has
adopted us into His own household. It is not essential for the adoption but it
is essential if anyone else is to recognize that we have been adopted.
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