A CHOSEN SON

Portraits Of The Christian Faith

God stopped Abraham from sacrificing his Son Isaac and sacrificed His beloved and eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone was worthy to redeem His chosen people.

A Chosen Son Deceived by the Devil Lost God's Family

Man made in God's image became a son of God. Luke 3:38 reveals Adam as the son of God. Luke's ancestry role begins with Jesus and refers to "the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God." It was Adam, through Eve, by believing the devil's deceptive lies, altered his relationship with God as a son, which resulted in the race connected by blood distorting God's image by which God rejected said race as His family.

"“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44)

A Chosen Son Trusting God Saved the Race

Genesis 5 reveals the line of Seth culminating in Noah, who trusted in God and saved the procreating of Adam's race. Verses 28, 29, and 32 record their ancestry, "Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah ...Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth." As in every case, God chose a man, Noah, at this time, by whom God saved Adam's lost race through an ark of wood.

A Chosen Son By Sacrificing his Son Fathered God's Family

In Genesis 11, the continuing line of Noah and Shem eventually brings forth Abram, who God chose to father His people, Israel. "These are the records of the generations of Shem. Terah became the father of Abram."

In His sovereignty, God chooses to use sinners that He saves by creating something new in their hearts. God does not avoid their lack of faith at times, their fears, lusts, and even sins in the record of their lives. Such sins are placed under the blood of Christ, which has yet to be spilled after their lifetime. Throughout Abraham's life, God set him apart, sanctified him, or changed his lack of character, and eventually brought him to the place of willingly offering his beloved son, believing that God could raise him from the dead.

Hebrews 11: 17 and 19, "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type."

A Chosen Son Redeemed the Father's Remnant

At times, the Bible seems to contradict itself, which God cannot do by His faithfulness, consistency, and omniscience, and by learning how two seemingly separate ideas fulfill a complete purpose, we know the truth.

Revelation #1 - A Savior To Be Born A Prince of Peace

"For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)

Revelation #2 - Jesus Came To Divide Families And Establish A New Loyalty

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. and A man's enemies will be the members of his household." "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; ...and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. "He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34, 36-39)

The place where these seemingly different truths come together is a Loyalty to God in the person of Jesus Christ that trumps all human loyalties. God made the loyalty of family unbreakable, but when Adam's race fell to human pride so that men no longer viewed God as the sovereign who alone deserved praise as creator but themselves as supreme, all human loyalty was shattered.

When Christ sacrificed Himself upon a Roman cross, He bore the sin of human pride, arrogance, and self-exaltation, so that those whom He saved would no longer be one with the eternally damned. When God breathes new life into a chosen vessel, they are set aside to Him and separated from the race of Adam. By unity with the savior, they become united with all other chosen vessels. The reality of a new union becomes clear to the redeemed and will be made clear to all during the earthly reign of Jesus Christ in fulfillment of His promise.

We see this to be true when completing Isaiah's prophecy from chapter nine. "There will be no end to the increase of His government or peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this." (Isaiah 9: 7) What begins in the millennial reign of God's Son will continue following the Great White Throne Judgment, creating a New Heaven and Earth and bringing down to the New Earth the New Jerusalem.

A Chosen Son is God's great love for a lost and sinful world. Our loyalty to God's Son breaks all our loyalties to a world damned for eternity.