They which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one, Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:17b(KJV)
Some basic truths can be gleaned from the above verse.
1. The reign of the sons of God shall begin here on earth. They shall be manifested for all to behold. Romans 8:19.
2. Only children of God which recieve the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall partake of this reign. Others, despite being children of God shall not be different from unbelievers. This is revealed in Gal 4:1 which states that, 'The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all'.
3. Their reign is by one, Christ Jesus. Eph 4:13 talks about a time when we shall all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Verse 15 of Eph 4 says that by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ.
Some times we look at the word of God and what we see does not match with what we see around... even in the life of some christians. Well, the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all (Gal 4:1).
God's will is that by the knowledge of the Son of God, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up into him in all things, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. This is reality.
We do not become the reality by observation (Luke 17:20) but by inward transformation through meditation (Rom 12:2).
Note, we always set the airconditioner's control to the temperature we want our room to be, not the temperature it is now. Likewise, we behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Cor 3:18). The word of God is the image which shows us our true image. If any hears the word and cannot live the life, then he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass, who forgets what manner of man he was once he goes his way (James 1:23-24). But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed (James 1:5). As we speak this reality in love we shall be transformed into the image of the glory of God unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. It is so.
