Identity in Sonship

God has spoken to humanity in these last days through the truth of Sonship. "Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end."(Hebr.1:1-5)

The authority and power demonstrated by Jesus during His earthly ministry was not linked to His office of Messiah, but to His Sonship." I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.(John 5:19) True spiritual authority will be released in these days through a people who walk in a revelation of Sonship - it will not be our "offices" or "ministries" of apostles, prophets etc. that will release authority, but our intimate relationship with Dad as sons! "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me." (John 6:54-57) It is in an intimate organic relationship with the Son that the Life of true sonship will be experienced. What a firm foundation for identity! I am a son of my heavenly Dad!

The revelation that motivated Paul's ministry was a revelation of Sonship."But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man,"( Gal. 1:15-16) "Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3:25-26) "Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir." ( Gal. 4:6-7) Sonship brings freedom; freedom to be who God created you to be; freedom from rules and regulations imposed by man and freedom from the tyranny of self-image. As this reality is fleshed out by the sons of God, all of creation will be set free from the bondages that were put on it by humanity losing their identity. This is God's strategy; "In bringing many sons to glory"(Hebr 2:10),all of creation will be brought into the same freedom as that of the sons!
"The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God."(Rom. 8:19-21) Come on, Sons of God! Take a firm grip on your identity, declare with boldness who He has made you, walk in the reality of sonship and allow the Pattern-Son to flow through you; creation is waiting in birth pangs for your manifestation! This manifestation starts with you appropriating what Father says about you by faith. It grows as you continue to look deeply in the mirror-reflection of your true identity as revealed by Jesus! (James 1:25)