The actual realization of sonship is possible only through Christ.
Thus the demands of holiness are met and the prodigal is restored to the privileges of sonship which have been forfeited by transgression.
His subjection to the limitations involved in a human growth and development,--reaching the consciousness of his sonship at his twelfth year, and working no miracles till after the baptism.
But, to his mind, the reality of Sonship seemed to require subordination to the Father.
The Cerinthian Ebionites, who put the baptism of Christ in place of his supernatural birth, and made the ethical sonship the cause of the physical.
If a man the child whom he took to his sonship and has brought him up, has not numbered him with his sons, that nursling shall return to his father's house.
Dare ye claimsonship to our heavenly Sire, Who serve brute vices, crouching in the mire To hounds and conies, beasts that ape our race?
What facts, we may ask, could Jesus have shown to establish His claims to Messiahship and to Sonship of the Father?
He simply confessed His Messiahship and Sonshipof the Father.
Under Point XII we shall elaborate the proofs in favor of the Messiahship of Jesus and of His divine Sonship of the Father, as far as the scope of this work will permit.
That feeling of sonship may with some races manifest itself in fear and trembling, and it may drive whole generations into religious madness and devil worship.
The adoption of the human nature into Divine Sonship began with its conception by the Holy Ghost, but was more definitely determined in His baptism, and perfected in His resurrection.
Logos, to whom the predicate of sonship belongs only in regard to the decree of redemption and incarnation.
The third sonship being in need of purifying must still remain in the Panspermia, and is as such the subject of future redemption.
If he would have them believe they are slaves, it is when they are sons, and have received the spirit of adoption, and the testimony, by that, of their sonship before.
And such a servile religion is no doubt better than a hypocritical sense of sonship unaccompanied by the fear of sin.
And the evidence of His divine sonshipwas in part miraculous; but it was not mere miracle.
The one anointed Jesus' spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship 313:1 in Science.
Hereby is signified the Holy Spirit, the pledge of sonship (Gal.
Though the attaining to and the perseverance in the Divine sonship is chiefly the work of God, yet it is also man’s, carried out with the aid of grace.
All his difficulties he casts into the lap of the Almighty and of Christ, in the true Divine sonship of whom he declares he believes firmly.
The teachings of Jesus were addressed to the hearts and intelligences of men, and therefore the grade of sonship of which he spoke has reference to the expression of Infinite Being in the human heart and intellect.
In the capacity for thus recognising its identity of nature with "the Father" is it that the potential fact of sonship consists, for the prodigal son was still a son even before he began to realise his relation to his "Father" in actual fact.
The sufferings of Jesus he regards as necessary in order to test the reality of the life of sonship towards God, and brotherhood towards men, which he came to earth to exemplify.
Cast Yourself down, and so test and attest Your faith in God; and doing so You will give to these multitudes indubitable proof of Your Sonship and Messiahship.
But now what is the freedom based on sonship which our Lord here claims?
And now, mark, that in both these aspects our Lord alleges His true sonship as the reason why He is exempt from it.
The sense of Sonship underlies the complete resignation of the second prayer as of the first.
Christ then here claims in some sense, Sonship to Him to whom the tribute is paid, that is, to God, and therefore freedom from the obligation to pay the tribute.
Man is God's son, but the effort to realise that sonship in the joy and trust of a devout heart and in the humble round of daily life sometimes seems to him cant or superstition.
The experience of religion, the experience of the fatherhood of God, of the sonship of man, of the moving of the spirit, is surely one experience.
Now this mystery of sonship or adoption represented in Isaac, as the mystery of election had been made known in Abraham, is in divine order.
None of her sons is important to Oxford--the meanest of them has in his sonshipthe same quality as the greatest.
Remember the words of the Apostle connecting sonship with redemption, Gal.
Nor does it set aside redemption, for it is on redemption that the whole sonship depends.
Somewhat earlier than this, in the early chapters of Luke, and probably of Matthew, is an idea of sonship which approximates to the physical notion of the heathen world.
Far from rejecting the Davidic Sonship in this saying, Jesus, on the contrary, presupposes His possession of it.
In any case the metaphysical conception of the Divine Sonship of Jesus is of secondary origin.
The Galilaean teacher, whose true character was marked by deep religious inwardness, was doomed to destruction from the moment when He set Himself upon the dizzy heights of the divine sonship and the eschatological expectation.
There is no question of dissociating the Davidic Sonship from the Messiahship.
Jesus, but also because it is universalistic in outlook, and because it implies the doctrine of the Trinity and, consequently, the metaphysical Divine Sonship of Jesus.
If for sonship there must be a birth again, why, surely, the very symbol might convince you that such a process does not lie within our own power.
The very emblem of fatherhood and sonship might teach us that that depends upon the Father's will and the Father's heart.
First, then, sonship with Christ necessarily involves suffering with Him.
It is much to say that for sonship there must be a divine regeneration.
Is your sonship proved by the depth and sincerity, the simplicity and power, of your throbbing heart of love to your Father in heaven?
Now, of course, whatever may be the operation of suffering in fitting for the possession of the Christian inheritance, either here or in another world, the sonship and the sorrows do not stand on the same level in regard to that possession.
Secondly, the text leads us to the principle that there is no sonship without a spiritual birth.
They who hold that sonship is obtained on the condition which these passages seem to assert, do also rejoice to believe and to preach that the Father's love broods over every human heart as the dovelike Spirit over the primeval chaos.
Correspondence, the spirit of sonship which meets His taking us as sons, the faith which clasps the promise, the reception which welcomes bestowment, must be stamped upon the inward life.
If our security were dependent upon our testimony--our sonship upon our discipleship, where should we be?
Sonship is one thing; discipleship is quite another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
