Spiritual Gifts part 60: The most bitter cup and the most sweet name
Pastor-Teacher Spiritual Gifts Part 60: That most bitter cup and that most sweet name.Biblical adoption is that grand design of God by which He confers or bestows upon us the status or the standing of adult sons and daughters. Biblical adoption shows up in connection with the moment of salvation, yet it also shows up in God’s thoughts in eternity past, and then again at the Rapture.
Gal 4:6 In both passages we also have the same Greek verb, krazo, which is "to cry out“.
Mat 27:50 If you desire to glorify your Father as an adopted son, you must follow the lead of your older Brother Christ and learn how to handle suffering for the cause of Christ. Before he receives the inheritance, he must pass through periods of suffering. This points to the anxieties, tensions, and persecutions that result from being followers of the One who was rejected by the world. The abundance of our entrance into Christ’s kingdom is to a great extent determined by our endurance in following Christ in spite of the problems, difficulties and persecutions, 2Pe 1:11. As Christ suffered and entered into His glory (1Pe 1:11), so fellow heirs with Christ are called to suffer during this present time (1Pe 2:21, Phi 1:29) as we prepare to join Christ in glory.
1Pe 2:21 Consider the sufferings that Christ endured as He went about on a daily basis submitting to His Father’s will for His life.
Luk 9:22
Luke 9:23
The word here for Son is huios :
“learned” is the aorist active indicative of
“obedience” is the Greek noun He came to understand through experience what it meant for a human being to constantly be obedient to the Father’s will, and that it meant dying daily. He experienced all our grief, all our sorrows, all our disappointments, all our sadness, and out of that in His humanity He learned things. That is why today He is the perfect, most wonderful, High Priest who constantly pleads our cause before the Father, Heb 7:25. He experienced just how difficult it is at times for human beings to submit to the will of the Father. Son by nature (deity) though He was, He learned from the things He suffered—obedience!" The sound of the words in the Greek adds another layer of meaning. The words are near in sound but seemed far apart in meaning.
The suffering servant passage in Isaiah is another example. Isa 52:13-53:12.
Christ had been THE SON of God for all eternity. Only a human being who has suffered in the same way can truly understand what the other person is experiencing. |