~~~~~ Servant or Son? ~~~~~

Are we servants or children of God? What is the difference in a servant and a son? Well let’s look at some Scripture to find the answer.

Hebrews 3:1--Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

v2--Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

v3--For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

v4-- For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

v5--And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a SERVANT, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

v6--But Christ as a SON over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Now, this states that Moses was a SERVANT over his house. Moses is with the LAW.

Jesus was a SON over his house. Jesus is Grace.

Now watch this borne out in other Scriptures.

Gal. 4:1--Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

v2--But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

v3--Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

v4--But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

v5--To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of SONS.

v6--and because ye are SONS, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

v7--Wherefore thou are no more a SERVANT, but a SON: and if a Son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Now one might think it is speaking of being young in Christ when he said as long as we are a child we differ nothing from a servant, but No. That is not what he is saying. Go back and look at it again: He said BUT when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, made under the law to redeem then that were under the law, so we could receive the adoption of SONS.

So what it is really saying is this: as long as one is under the law, he is a child, he is under the tutors and governors, being the law. The law is the school master, or the tutor. So we go to the school master as long as we are a child.

It is the same thing Paul said was the ‘in part�? BUT when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part is done away with. The ‘in part�?is the being under the tutor, or law. For He said when I was a ‘child�?I thought as a child, I acted as a child (remember, this is one under the law)--; BUT when I became a MAN (Son) --(one under Christ, or in Jesus�?house)-- I put away childish (law) things.

When that which is perfect = Grace, or being in Christ -- is come, that which is in part, (law) or (childish) is done away.

That is when you change from being a ‘servant�?to being a Son.

The Book of Isaiah and other places calls Jesus a servant of God. Why? Because he was made under the law. He came here as a Servant.

But look at Romans 1:3--Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

v4--And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.

Now don’t you see that when Jesus was RESURRECTED from the dead, He came out from under that Law and brought in Grace? This is when He changed from being a Servant to being a Son, sitting on the throne with His Father? Now he is no longer a Servant, but a Son over His own house.

By: Jo Smith