New Jerusalem, Corporate Sonship to Express God

From eternity until His death and resurrection, Christ was the only begotten Son of God (John 1:14; 3:16). Through death He redeemed us, paying the high price to bring us back to God. In resurrection He imparted His divine life into us. We were regenerated, born again.

First Peter 1:3—”Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Now Jesus Christ is the Firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29; Col. 1:18) and we are God’s many sons, Christ’s brothers.

Just as the sons are the expression of their father in the physical realm, possessing his physical life and nature, so those who receive Christ by believing in Him are to be the expression of their heavenly Father in the mystical realm, possessing His divine life and nature. When we were reborn by receiving Christ who is the divine life, we became the sons of God, the children of God.
Although we have been regenerated in our spirit, our soul must pass through the process of sanctification and transformation, and ultimately our physical body will be glorified. When our bodies are glorified, “we will be like Him” [1 John 3:2].*

God is “leading many sons into glory” (Heb. 2:10), which glory will consummate in New Jerusalem “having the glory of God.” This glory is the full expression of God by His corporate sonship, all of His sons sanctified and built together to be one living manifestation of Him, the New Jerusalem.

* From page 18 of Ed Marks, The New Jerusalem—A Corporate Person, Affirmation & Critique Monograph, A&C Press, © Living Stream Ministry (2025).

Posted by Don on May 29, 2026

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