Friday, January 21
The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 155
The firstborn of many brothers
When the Father sends the Son into salvation history, he is doing something astonishing: he is extending the relationship of divine sonship from its home in the life of God down into human history.
The relationship of divine sonship has always existed, as part of the very definition of God, but it has existed only within the being of the Trinity. In sending the Son to us, the Father chose for that line of filial relation to extend out into created reality and human history.
The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 155