What is the new convert? A child of God
The following list is adapted from a lesson on new converts.
The new Christian is a child of God who has entered the family of faith, Gal 6.10.
- The new Christian took advantage of the opportunity to become a child of God, John 1.12, as not everyone is his child.
- Jesus described immersion in water as the new birth – the spiritual birth, John 3.3, 5.
- God’s child, and only his child, has the right to address him in prayer as “Our Father, who art in heaven” Matthew 6.9.
- The reason for his purification through obedience was in order to live and demonstrate brotherly love in God’s family, 1Peter 1.22.
- Whoever calls God Father must be an obedient child who walks in the fear of God, 1Peter 1.14-17.
- The child of God shows that God is Father because he loves like God; he has a comprehensive love (the sense of “perfect”) that includes the just and the unjust, Matthew 5.43-48.
- Only the child of God can receive the inheritance from his heavenly Father, “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you” 1Pedro 1.3-4.
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