FUTURE MANIFESTATION OF OUR SONSHIP

FUTURE MANIFESTATION OF OUR SONSHIP

                  

          -There is to be a Revelation of our Sonship (Rom. 8:19). "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God."
At the Coming of Our Lord this Revelation will occur. The world often fails to recognize us as Sons, but regards us as hinderers of progress sometimes.

            - It will bring to us an incomparable Glory (Rom. 8:18). "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
What we have already is wonderful, but the coming Glory is beyond all comparison.

            -So stupendous are the implications of this revelation that all creation waits eagerly for it (Rom. 8:19-22). "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope," "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
When this consummation of our Sonship is reached, the very environment of the world will be changed to harmonize. It is not fitting for the Sons of God to inherit such a world as it is today.

     -This manifestation will bring the Redemption of our bodies (Rom. 8:23). "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."

"Waiting for our Adoption", i.e. completion in experience.
"Have the first-fruits" now in experience. We have today the Spirit of a Son!

Some day we shall have the body of a Son!