All men have a basic need to feel love, be wanted, to belong to somebody or something, and have a loving, caring, relationship. People want to know love, not just know about it, and they want to feel it also. With this loving, caring relationship that God calls us to is SONSHIP. Not all people have the right to be called SONS, for example, an unbeliever is not the adopted son of God. Sonship is a sp cial privilege of relationship, created by God for the enjoyment of both God and man. The unbeliever may be God’s offspring, but they are not His sons. They cannot claim any special privilege with God. They are condemned sinners. We are not children of God by descent or by merit as the Jews claim to be. For example, “… Do not begin to say to yourself, ‘we have Abraham as our father…’” (Luke 3:8).
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