Children of God

 Bible Verses 
Phil 2:15  That you may be blameless and guileless, children
of God...
2 Pet. 1:4  Through which He has granted to us precious and

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

exceedingly great promises that through these you might
become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption which is in the world by lust.

Words of Ministry 

The expression "children of God" is very rich in its
implications. It implies that God has actually been born into
us and that we possess His life and nature. Christians often
say, "I'm just a sinner saved by grace." Although this, of
course, is true, it is very shallow compared with the
revelation in the New Testament. If we know the truth of the
Word, we shall not say we are merely sinners saved by grace.
We shall have the assurance to declare, "I'm a child of God
born of the Spirit!" If you have truly seen the vision that
you are a child of God, you will be filled with joy, wonder,
and praise. In a proper sense, we need to boast of our status
as God's children. No doubt, we are sinners who have been
saved by God's grace. But because we have also been born of
God, we are now His children. How marvelous!

According to Paul's word in 2:15, we are to be children of
God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverted
generation. The generation in which we live is crooked,
warped, and twisted. We, however, as children of God, must be
different. Because we are God's children, we should be both
blameless and guileless, without blemish. We can be children
of God only by having the life of God. How marvelous it is to
have God's life! All those who are truly the children of God
need to realize that they have the divine life within them.

Along with the divine life, we also have the divine nature (2
Pet. 1:4). Although we cannot fully define the divine nature,
we know that as God's children we partake of it and have it
within us. Every living thing acts according to its own
nature. Everything it does comes out of its nature. For
example, a peach tree produces peaches because it is in
keeping with the nature of a peach tree to do so. It would be
absurd for anyone to charge a peach tree not to bring forth
apples, but only to produce peaches. As ridiculous as this
is, in principle many Christians are doing this very thing.
In giving commandments to others to behave in a certain way
or to improve themselves, they neglect the fact that as
children of God all genuine Christians have the divine
nature. This nature should govern and direct us. Everything
in the Christian life is according to the nature of God. How
wonderful that we have God's life with His nature!