Becoming A Child of God, Part 2 (TMF:2974)
Thursday, October 01, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
The right of becoming one of God’s children, indeed something we have chosen by our free-wills, our free-nature, is also shown by John to exemplify the love that the Father has toward us. This isn’t a physical, human birth, like the birth we first have when we arrive on this planet. In contrast, it is a spiritual birth. It’s a birth that’s brought about by God himself in the human’s action and will of believing. It’s a one-time process. The physical part, that rest of the whole picture, the taking off of our sin-natures, that part won’t be accomplished until later, as John said in his first epistle. This happens for us at The Rapture of the Church, which occurs before the end of days. This hope of our being made complete actualizes the purification of our souls, and indeed, we surrender to this in our life’s journey of sanctification. This obedience is what God desires of the human soul, that of avoiding those behaviors which would corrupt us.