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God treats us in a preferential way

Dr. Roberto Miranda

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: In Christ Jesus, we are called children and friends of God, not slaves or useless servants. Through grace, we can aspire to good things and preferential treatment from our Heavenly Father. We can approach the Throne of Grace with confidence, asking for blessings as sons who have a good relationship with their father. The blessing and inheritance we have received through Jesus Christ are so great that it requires a special revelation to understand it fully. We are a chosen lineage, a holy nation, and a people purchased by God, and we must be deeply grateful, love God with all our hearts, and serve Him with all enthusiasm. We are useless servants who have done what God has asked us to do, but we are also adopted sons.

Even though God is total sovereign and could treat us in an enslaving way, God calls us His children and Jesus calls us His friends. I have here written that: "Now in Christ everything is by grace, not because we deserve it."

That dark and oppressive image that Christ paints through the parable reminds us that this is the way things are judicially in the Kingdom of God and that if God wanted to treat us like this, He could very well do so. But then we must thank God that He treats us differently, that through the Grace that we have through Christ Jesus we can aspire to good things from our Heavenly Father, to preferential treatment, to receive information and teaching from part of Him who will share with us everything that has to do with His Kingdom as John chapter 15 verse 15 says.

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