MinistryMessages
June 29, 2017
This entry is part [part not set] of 3099 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
Go to My brethren and say to them, “I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.”
– John 20:17
When Christ was resurrected, He was declared the firstborn Son of God, and at the same time we became His many brothers (Rom. 1:4; 8:29). To understand this, we must realize that as God, Christ was eternally the Son of God (John 17:5), but as a man He shared in our created human nature (Luke 1:31; Col. 1:15). Through His resurrection He was glorified and exalted as a man, and hence as a man declared to be the Son of God. As such a one, He is now “the firstborn among many brothers” (Rom. 8:29).
Adapted from Born Again: Our New Life in Christ,
by Titus Chu; page 78.
Tomorrow: “Enjoying Christ as Our Older Brother” (3)