Offspring Of The Word. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. Thursday, September 16th,2010

Of his own will begat he us
with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures
(James 1:18).
In our opening scripture, the
Apostle James shows the
Christian as an offspring of
God ’s Word, in just the
same way Jesus is revealed
as the Word of God made
flesh (John 1:14). Thus the
Christian is born of the
Word;we ’re offspring of the
Word. God gave birth to us
through His Word. So, as
Jesus came forth of the
Word, we also are given
birth to in the realm of the
spirit to be like Him through
the Word.
The Apostle Peter in his
epistle puts it this way:
“ Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the Word
of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever ” (1 Peter
1:23). So as a Christian,
your life is the life of the
Word; you hail from the
Word. This happened when
you received the Word of
God, the gospel of Christ ’s
salvation, into your heart to
be born again. The promised
eternal life was imparted to
your spirit, and from that
moment, you were awakened
to the fatherhood of God.
From then on the nature of
death ceased to be, and the
corruptible human life was
supplanted with God ’s divine
life.
Can you now see that you’re
not an ordinary person if
you ’re born again? Christ has
taken up His abode in you,
and you ’ve become one spirit
with Him. No wonder the
Bible says you ’re a partaker
of the divine nature (2 Peter
1:4); for as Jesus is —the
Word made flesh—even so
have we been made offspring
of the Word.
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, thank
you for the entrance of
your Word has enlightened
and catapulted me unto
higher realms of glory today.
I thank you for the great
love you ’ve bestowed upon
me wherewith I’m qualified
to be a partaker of the
divine nature! I go forth
today conscious of my
identity as an offspring of
the Word, with the
incorruptible life of God in
my spirit, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
Further Study:
1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that
Jesus is the Christ is born
of God: and every one that
loveth him that begat loveth
him also that is begotten of
him.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be:
but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as
he is.