My Son

WORDs of Saving Grace - My son

Proverbs 3:11-12

11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

What an amazing title to be called a "son of God".

Notice that Jesus when speaking of Abraham and the Rich Man did not refer to him as "my son", but rather just son.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

This is because if we are not a child of God, then we are a child of the devil as Jesus spoke of in John 8.

John 8:44

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.

Jesus gives us a clear opportunity to be "born again" and become a child of God, not based on what we have done, but what He has accomplished!

This is the Good News of the GOSPEL!

John 3:7

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.