Minor #9

Truth:
1. Apart from Christ we cannot be sons of God.  Our sonship is altogether in Christ, by Christ, and with Christ.
2. In addition to His being the unique, only begotten Son of God from eternity, Christ, after incarnation and through resurrection, was begotten of God in His humanity and through resurrection, was begotten of God in His humanity to become the Son of God in another sense, in the sense of being the firstborn Son of God.
3. The cords in the cords of a man have different segments, each involves Christ's humanity in His incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.
4. The love of God, the divine love, comes to us through Christ's humanity.


Life experience/Application:
1. God's everlasting love, His unchanging, subduing love, is altogether in Christ, with Christ, by Christ, and for Christ.  Apart from Christ, God's everlasting love could not be prevailing.  God's unchanging love is prevailing because it is a love in Christ, by Christ, and for Christ.
2. Sometimes we may want to eat too much or eat in hast, but God wants us to eat slowly and gently with patience and endurance.