Who Are We?
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus
(Galatians 3:26).
In Acts 3:25, when the Apostle Peter was
preaching to the Jews, he said to them, “Ye are
the children of the prophets, and of the covenant….”
Peter was speaking spiritually. He didn’t mean they
were the children of the Prophets in the sense that they
were born by the wives of the Prophets; no. There’s
an understanding we need to get from this that’s very
important: When he called them the children of the
Prophets, he meant children of the promise, or the spoken Word.
Now, if they were the children of the Prophets and
of the covenants, who then are we? A major problem
in the world today is identity crisis. Many don’t know
who they are. They’re still grappling with the questions:
Who am I? What am I doing on earth? What’s my life
about? The believers in the early Church didn’t argue
with him (Peter), because they knew he was telling
them the truth about their identity. They weren’t in the
covenant; they were the children of the covenant.
Many Christians celebrate the idea that they’re in
covenant with God. No! We’re not in covenant with
God; we’re children of the covenant. That’s who we
are; we’re the result of the covenant. Galatians 3:27-
29 says, “For as many of you as have been baptized
into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s
seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
The Apostle Paul, in the foregoing scripture, lets us
know that we’re as much Abraham’s seed as the Jews
that Peter addressed in his epistle. The new creation
is the actual spiritual seed of Abraham. We’re heirs of
the promise. Romans 8:17 says, “…if children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ….”
That’s who we are; that’s our identity! It’s a present-
hour reality. Hallelujah!
Confession
I know who I am, and what belongs to me. I’m Abraham’s
seed, an heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ. Christ is in me;
in Him I live and move and have my being. Greater is He that’s in
me than he that’s in the world.
Satan and the world are under my feet. I live in victory, divine
health and prosperity, and my life gravitates upwards and forward
only, from glory to glory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further study:
1 John 4:4; 1 John 3:1
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
ezekiel 39-40
2 Peter 2
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
revelation 3:1-10
hosea 9-10