Sober thinking should apply to our thinking about God and Jesus, if we are truly believers. This especially applies to four areas under constant threat today from various religious teachings typically framed as Christian. Keep soberly to the very teachings of Jesus Christ himself. Jesus taught that it is not himself but rather the Father who is the Most High God. He, Jesus, taught he is the Son of this Father. He is Son of this Most High God. Secondly, in close relation to this teaching, he taught that he and the Father are distinct, in that his own testimony about himself forms a testimony truly distinct from the testimony of the Father. The Father testifies about Jesus by the miraculous works the Father gives Jesus to do. Thirdly, in the matter of those who are chosen by God, it is not about human descent but about spirit. It is those who do things like Abraham did who are children of Abraham in the sense of being the chosen people. It is not about human descent. It is the spirit a person exhibits which gives a person their relationship to the God of Abraham. This is a permanent relationship, not one of slavery to anything or anyone. Slavery is temporary. Sonship is permanent. Fourthly, the teaching of Jesus is that he intends, and hopes, that there will be truly faithful believers who will endure the ultimate times of apocalyptic wrath of God leading up to his return, when he will then both transform these his faithful followers into immortal humans like himself, and when he will immediately also raise to immortality those faithful followers who have died worthy of this resurrection, just as he was resurrected by God. Keep soberly to these teachings of Jesus Christ.
