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"Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God." - 1 John 3:1.

When by a divine rescript we are designated the sons of God, a pledge is given that the following petition of Christ shall be fulfilled in our behalf: " That the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them." Christ is the Son of God; but we are to be exalted to his own height of glory and majesty; we are to sit with him upon his throne; and it is to be manifest to all the universe that we too are sons of God. He has this pre-eminence over all, that he is what he is by virtue of his own incomparable merit; and we shall be what we shall be by virtue of the same merit, not ours but his. When Christ shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

There are so many mere honorary titles in this world, that men are led to look upon the titles given in the word of God, as also honorary. But this is a serious error. When God gives titles, he bears testimony to the character of a man, makes known the man’s relation to Him, and gives an earnest of what he intends to make of him. Christ gave Peter, in the days of his instability, when he was like a wave, driven with the wind and tossed, gave him even then the title of Peter, or rock, foreshadowing what he intended to make of him.

Beloved, we are now the sons of God, - called so and constituted so. "We have consequently unlimited life, unlimited wealth, unlimited privilege. Much has been bestowed, much is yet to be bestowed. When God says to me, " Thou art my son," he opens to me the door of an ascending stairway leading up to his throne. By the grace of God the steps are there before me and the liberty to ascend; but every several step is to be gained by an expanding faith, is to be conquered by the grace of God in me. If I have feeble conceptions of what God means by calling me his son, I shall linger in the lower steps; if I have higher and more correct views I will run boldly up the pathway of light. Let me believe that God has gone as far as it is possible for God himself to go in the enunciation of my privileges; that he has told me to look upon the seraphim and cherubim as no nearer to him than I myself am or am to be; that I have part and lot the most intimate in all the glory, majesty, affluence, power and blessedness of God; that my name is written along with his own over everything; that every being in the universe is commanded to love me under pain of being accounted guilty of treason against the Sovereign of the skies. I am a son of God, and therefore the representative of the invisible God. The world indeed knoweth us not, because it knew him not. But there is to be, in an hour known to God, the manifestation of the sons of God.

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