There are Christians, who wonder if they are born again and have become a son of God (detta gäller både män och kvinnor). They doubt their salvation and wonder if they have received the baptism with the Holy Spirit. How do you know if you are born again and have become a son of God? Vad kännetecknar en Guds son?
A change of kingdom
Tacka Fadern, som har fått oss att mötas för att få del av de heligas arv i ljuset: som har räddat oss från mörkrets makt, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: I vilken vi har återlösning genom hans blod, även syndernas förlåtelse (Kolosserna 1:12-14)
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (romare 8:2)
When you repent, by faith in Jesus Christ and His work of salvation and be baptized in water and receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit, you are born again and have become a son of God.
A change has taken place in the spiritual realm. Because when died to the flesh and your spirit was raised from the dead, you were transferred from the power of darkness into the Kingdom of God. This change of kingdom means a change of (andlig) citizenship and a change of law.
Through regeneration you have become a new creation; a new man and your nature has changed.
A son of God will experience a change of nature
But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13-14)
Skåda, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not (1 John 3:1)
The nature of the father of fallen man; the devil has died with your flesh and the nature of the Father of the new man; God in your spirit, has been raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Once you have received the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit abides in you. Therefore you don’t have to call upon the Holy Spirit and invite Him over and over again. Because once the Holy Spirit comes in you, He will abide in you and be forever with you (Åh. John 14:17).
Minst, as long as you decide to stay in Jesus Christ and live after the will of God and not depart from Christ by living like the world after the will of the flesh in which the devil reigns.
God will replace the heart of stone by a heart of flesh
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them: och de skola vara mitt folk, och jag skall vara deras Gud (Hesekiel 11:19-20)
I det gamla förbundet, God made His will known to the gammal man, by giving the law to Moses, 50 dagar efter påsk.
Och i det nya förbundet, God made His will known to the new man by giving His Holy Spirit 50 dagar efter påsk (Läs också: Vad hände 50 dagar efter påsk?).
The evil heart of stone, in which the will of the devil was written and always exalted itself above God and resisted against the will of God and His commandments was replaced by a living heart of flesh, in which the will of God was written (Läs också: What is an evil heart?).
Because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the law of God, which represents His will, is written in your new heart.
The Holy Spirit represents, precis som Jesus, the will of the Father and His righteousness and holiness and reproves the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
A son of God will experience a change of behavior
Why do ye not understand My speech? even because ye cannot hear My word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe Me not. Which of you convinceth Me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe Me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God (John 8:43-47)
I speak that which I have seen with My Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father (John 8:38)
The change of kingdom and the change of nature will cause a change of behavior. You shall no longer walk as the old man in pride after the carnal wisdom, kunskap, kommer, and the unsatisfied lusts and desires of the flesh, like the world, in unrighteousness and persevere in sin.
But because of the change of heart, which has caused your nature to be changed, you shall walk as the new man after the Spirit in righteousness after the will of God and the commandments of Jesus Christ.
Because you have received His nature and His will abides in you and because you love Jesus, you shall do what He has commanded you to do (Läs också: The commandments of God and the commandments of Jesus).
A son of God does by nature the things contained in the law
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel (romare 2:12-16)
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (romare 8:3-4)
When you have become a son of God, you shall automatically do the things of the moral part of the law by nature, since the law is the will of God. You shall be a law unto yourself and fulfill the law, precis som Jesus (Läs också: Is man able to fulfill the law?).
Vad kännetecknar en Guds son?
What are the most important characteristics of a son of God? The most important characteristics of a son of God are not charity works and humanitarian works. The characteristics of a son of God are not signs and wonders. Because Jesus said, there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22).
These words, which were spoken by Jesus, show that you don’t have to be born again to walk in the supernatural and do signs and wonders. Signs and wonders don’t proof that you are a son of God (Läs också: Do you have to be born again to walk in the supernatural?).
A son of God shall love and fear the Lord and walk in righteousness
By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil (Ordspråk 16:6)
But the characteristics of a son of God are, that a son of God loves God with all his heart, själ, sinne, and strength and fears the Lord. Therefore the son shall depart from evil (sin and iniquity) and shall no longer walk in unrighteousness but shall walk in righteousness (Läs också: Älskar du Gud av hela ditt hjärta?).
A son of God shall never compromise with sin and shall never tolerate and accept the works of the kingdom of darkness, but expose the works of darkness and destroy and remove them.
When a person has become a son of God and the Holy Spirit abides in the person, the person shall do the Guds vilja. Since the person has the nature of God.
The righteous works, which derive from the nature of God, prove that the person is a son of God and has the same nature as his Father.
A son of God shall never approve the works of the devil, let alone to walk in it.
Because they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts (Galaterbrevet 5:24)
A son of God is led by the Spirit
Ty om ni lever efter köttet, ja ska dö: men om ni genom Anden dödar kroppens gärningar, ni skall leva. För så många som leds av Guds Ande, de är Guds söner (romare 8:13-14)
A son of God shall walk after the Spirit in the truth of God. Therefore a son of God shall walk in the will of God.
A son of God shall speak the truth of God. He shall expose the lies and works of the devil and destroy them through the Word in the authority of Jesus (Jesu namn) och den Helige Andes kraft.
A son of God bears the fruit of the Spirit
A son of God walks after the Spirit and shall bear the fruit of the Spirit, which is the righteous love of God (love for God and out of that love, the love for your neighbor), glädje, fred, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Läs också: Andens frukt och ‘What does it mean you shall love your neighbour as yourself?).
sa Jesus, that you shall recognize the tree by its fruit and that is still the case.
A son of God shall do the will of his Father
For whosoever shall do the will of God, detsamma är Min bror, och min syster, and mother (Mark 3:35)
A son shall listen to his father and obey his father and shall do the will of his father. Because a son has the nature of his father.
Therefore the sons of God, who have the nature of God shall walk after the Spirit in obedience to His Word and do the will of their Father. Just like the sons of the devil, who have the nature of the devil, shall listen to their father and shall walk after the flesh in obedience to his words and do the will of their father.
'Var jordens salt’
