The trinity is a mysterious doctrine. Jesus is the Son of God. He was with God in the beginning. He is God. He serves and obeys His Father.
What?
As God, Jesus is not a created being. Before recorded history, Jesus enjoyed perfect communion with the Father and Spirit. Later, He left His place to be born of a virgin as a baby boy. As God, He knew the law and could obey it. As a man, He was tempted. As God, He was fully capable of showcasing His divinity at any time in any way. As a man, He did not count equality with God as a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a servant (Philippians 2:6-7). He died humbly, submissively and sacrificially as a man, but rose again, an immortal who has never not been alive.
But why is it important for us to remember Jesus as God's Son? I found a few ideas in Romans 8 -
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn of many brothers (v.29).
Jesus is God's Son. We are being made like Him so that He will have many brothers and God can have many sons. And a word to the ladies - the term used in Paul's epistles for "son" was actually a legal term used in the adoption and inheritance laws of first-century Rome. When Paul uses it, it refers to the status of all Christians who have been adopted into God's family by the blood of Jesus. Men and women are now equal in God's eyes and will all enjoy the privileges, obligations and inheritance rights. What a glorious thought.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (v.31-31).
This is God's grace. An indescribable gift. Unmerited favor. He gave up His only Son. There's nothing God withholds from His children if it's not for their good.
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who who died - more than that, who was raised - who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us (v.34).
No one can condemn us because God's Son died for us. And lives for us. And prays for us. And kind fathers delight to answer the requests of their children. And is God not the best Father of all?
God is well pleased with Jesus His Son (Mark 1:11). If you are in Jesus, this means that God is well-pleased with you. Because Jesus died for our sins against His Father, God sees Jesus instead of us. He sees sons instead of sinners.
Praise Jesus, by whom we have received this Spirit of adoption as sons! Because Jesus is the Son of God, and has claimed us as His own, we too, can cry out, "Abba, Father!" (Romans 8:15).
And thanks be to God, who so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
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