Quotes About Sonship

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." (Rom. 8:15)

That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.

If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

It is a journey from doing things for God to doing things with Him. I was a really good steward for many years. I used to do what I felt God asked me to do, but now I have discovered that it is much better, and much more fun, to do things with Him. It is a journey from slavery to sonship.

Saying `our father' isn't just the boldness, the sheer cheek, of walking into the presence of the living and almighty God and saying `Hi, Dad.' It is the boldness, the sheer total risk, of saying quietly `Please may I, too, be considered an apprentice son.' It means signing on for the Kingdom of God.

The supreme test of Sonship is the forgiveness of sin. The test that your imagination is Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is your ability to forgive sin. Sin means missing one's mark in life, falling short of one's ideal, failing to achieve one's aim. Forgiveness means identification of man with his ideal or aim in life. This is the work of awakened imagination, the supreme work, for it tests man's ability to enter into and partake of the nature of his opposite.

Inheritance is as integral to sonship as sacred space is to the priestly office.

You are eternally loved by God; you are eternally his son or daughter; what he wants for you is always right and best; and what he has planned for you is immeasurably better than anything you could have dreamed for yourself.

And Gileadís wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our fatherís house, because you are the son of another woman.”

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ëI am the Son of God.í”

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”

Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.

I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever.

then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?

He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ëYou are My Son; today I have become Your Father.í

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.