Jesus in John chapter 5:35 "A slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever." There is an understanding of sonship to God that is as preached by the only-begotten Son of God. He preached that God makes sons by remaking people by the spirit of His teachings and by obedient following of those teachings and that the Holy Spirit would also indwell and well up within such people and their lives would then become devoid of their previous characteristics (lies, murder, other major sins characteristic of Satan) and take on characteristics of God (truthfullness, love, faithfulness and opposites to sin). When this is permanent it can be really regarded as being born of God. God treats such people as sons by disciplining without ever forsaking them, as God through prophet Nathan told King David about his future son typified by Solomon who would build the Temple. This is the kind of sonship that The Son of God came to bring about in many.
2 Samuel 7:14-15 "I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you."
2 Samuel 7:14-15 "I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you."
