IS JESUS GOD’S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON?

Jesus - Yehoshua is not God's "only" begotten son. That sentence is not properly translated from the Greek. If Jesus is God's only begotten son, then what are we. We have been begotten by the Spirit of God to be placed as sons in His household, having Jesus as our elder brother!

Jesus was uniquely begotten in the womb of Miriam [Mary] by the Spirit of God - Yehovah. Luke 1:26-38: In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God - Yehovah sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary, who was also a descendant of David. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord [Yehovah] is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled by his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God - Yehovah. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus - Yehoshua. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God [Yehovah Elohim] will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God - Yehovah. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God - Yehovah will ever fail.” “I am the Lord’s - Yehovah's servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

Jesus was the second one created by God - Yehovah, the first was Adam formed from dust and Jesus was formed in the womb of Mary. That is why Paul calls Jesus the second man and the last Adam. 1 Corinthians 15:46-48: The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven [created in the womb of Mariam by God's Spirit]. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth [Adam's descendants - the human race]; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven [those who by the Spirit of God become new creations in the lord Messiah Jesus].

When one repents - dies to self when baptized he/she dies with the Messiah Jesus and rises up out of the water to newness of life - as a new creation in the lord Jesus. They are at that time grafted into the commonwealth of Israel [Romans 11] and by the Spirit of God are placed as the sons and daughters of God in His household. Also, lest we become conceited about all this we must remember that we are bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus when he became a sin-offering on the stake. That means that we are his slaves - bondservants and also as he was acting as the agent of his God and his Father Yehovah, we are also slaves of God - Yehovah, and as such we own nothing, all we have materially we are to act as stewards over what God has given us.

So to sum up: we are slaves of God - Yehovah, sons of God - Yehovah, brothers and sisters of our elder brother Jesus, and have been grafted into the commonwealth of Israel enabled to inherit the promise made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Jesus. To top this off we at the resurrection will become immortal glorified men and women as Jesus is now, and we will co-rule with him in his 1,000-year rule and inherit all that he will inherit as the "seed" of Abraham.

There is nothing in this world to compare with what God - Yehovah has in store for us who love Him with all our heart, minds, being, and strength, and obey the words He gave to Jesus for us to put into practice in our lives. What a privilege to be a son/daughter of the only true God - Yehovah and be able to come before His throne as His sons/daughter to ask for what we need knowing He will provide according to His will all that we ask of Him. What a privilege it is to be a slave of God and as such a slave of righteousness!