The Making of a Son: To Be Born Again, You Simply Believe, but the Making of a Son Requires All the Circumstances and Situations of Life

By Warren Litzman

If you were to search to find out how the heavenly Father would treat one of His offspring, you would find the answer in Luke 15. All the depth, the agony, the love, and the correction that would be exemplified toward an erring child is vividly shown in this parable. Many of God's children today are going through hard times and wondering how the Father is dealing with them.
The Making of a Son gives insight into how God treats His children, whom He dearly loves. You will receive a new and thrilling understanding of your relationship with your heavenly Father as you read this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9780999268445

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The Making of a Son

© Copyright 1993, 2007 WRLitzman Grace Media, Inc.

Reprinted 2022.

Cover art and illustrations used with permission, copyrighted © 1993, 2007 by James E. Seward.

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Christ-life Publishing House

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ISBN:  978-0-9992684-4-5

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Father and His Son

Chapter 2

The Far Country

Chapter 3

The Revelation of What Is Real

Chapter 4

The Freedom of Repentance

Chapter 5

The Restoration of the Son

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Introduction

One of the most important effects of sin on the spiritual life of a believer, whether we look in the Old Testament or in the New, is to be found in Luke 15:1–32. This portion of Scripture contains what could be called one parable in three parts, consisting of the stories of the lost sheep, a lost piece of silver, and a lost son. Though three incidents are told, there is but one underlying purpose. The value of this portion of Scripture in the present connection is in its revelation of the divine compassion that our Father has in restoring one of His children. It is a deep unveiling of the Father’s heart. For instance, the emphasis falls upon the shepherd, rather than upon the sheep; upon the woman, rather than upon the lost piece of silver; and upon the father, rather than upon the sons.

We must remember that these scriptures have to do with conditions by which God dealt with believers before the Cross. Therefore, they have to do primarily with Israel, who were the covenant people of the Old Testament, the sheep of His pasture, and their position as such was unchanged until the New Covenant was made in His blood. Being a covenant people, they could return to the blessings of their covenant on the grounds of repentance and confession if those blessings had been lost through sin. According to the Scriptures, this is true of all covenant people. Israel’s covenants are not the same in character as the New Covenant that has been made in His blood for today’s believers, but the terms of restoration into the blessings of the covenant are the same in one case as in the other. The fact is that the covenant abides through the faithfulness of God, but the blessing of the covenant may be lost through the unfaithfulness of the believer. The blessing is redeemed, too, not by forming another covenant but by restoration into the unchanging privileges of a heavenly Father who has made His promise to us and keeps it.

The writings in this book deal with God keeping His promise to His children on the basis of the blood covenant. Modern-day believers must move from the old covenant, where God expected man to do something within himself to be pleasing to Him, into the new covenant where the work is finished, and Christ has done it all on our behalf and is all and all in us.

Chapter 1

The Father and His Son

A Certain Man Had Two Sons

Luke 15:11 begins this story by simply saying, A certain man had two sons. This verse continues a theme that runs throughout the Bible: In His eternal plan, including our individual lives, God operates through two sons — the spiritual son and the carnal son. Always remember that God never deals with a sinner as a son. If you have the thought that this story is about a son who needs to be saved, you will miss the point of Jesus’ parable. The truth in this story is that this father had two sons, and each of them could claim an inheritance from their father.

In Genesis 4 Adam had two sons, Cain and Abel — a son who obeyed the gospel and another son who disobeyed. The New Testament tells us that carnal, unbelieving, and disobedient people are like Cain (Jude 11). Reading through the Old Testament, we see that Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Isaac was the true son of the promise, and Ishmael was the son of human effort. Isaac also had two sons named Esau and Jacob. David had two principal sons, Absalom and Solomon. Throughout the Scriptures, God’s plan is often unfolded to us by stories of two sons. This understanding supplies more meaning to the narrative of the two sons who lived with their father in Luke 15.

The first son recorded in the Bible was Lucifer, who was called son of the morning (Isaiah 14:12). But Lucifer was a created being, not a son born from God. Jesus of Nazareth on the other hand was the firstborn Son of the Father. Jesus is God, but there is no part of God in Lucifer. He is a created being, and nothing that is created has any of God in it. Until we believe in Jesus Christ, the only part of human beings that even resembles God is our soul, which God breathed into us (Genesis 2:7). But, after accepting His redemption, we have Christ in us, our hope of glory. This is an actual part of God, His very nature in the person of Christ.

The Scriptures teach that there are two lives by which believers can live. There are two faiths which they can hold. There are also clearly two loves, two types of knowledge, two categories of wisdom, two gospels, and two varieties of righteousness. The two lives are the carnal and the spiritual. Faith can be of works or of rest. There is self-love and the love of God. A believer can possess earthly (carnal) knowledge or heavenly (spiritual) knowledge. There exists man’s humanist gospel and the gospel revealed by the Spirit. We can possess personal righteousness or the righteousness of Christ.

This is the essence of the story of the lost son in Luke 15: One of the two sons is carnal; the other is spiritual. They represent the choice that faces us as believers. It is an act of love to change from a carnal believer to a spiritual son, to cease from works and enter into God’s rest, to go from self to Christ. Exchanging our earthly interpretations of Biblical ideas and truths for spiritual understanding of Scripture is also an act of love; and this is God’s goal: our love for Him.

The nature of God is love, and this love is also all He desires from His children. We are on the earth so that God’s love can be manifested through us. A believer is a full-fledged son who, from the moment of salvation, lacks nothing of God’s life and nature. The believer only lacks the comprehension of how the Father operates to bring forth the manifestation of His love.

Born a Child; Made a Son

The purpose of being born again is to be God’s child. But we have been programmed to be religious. So we think we are living here on earth to make it a better place. As a result, we are not functioning like children of God as we should. This is because the sons of God are not only born; they are also made (raised). How then do we change from carnal, religious believers into truly spiritual sons? How can we sort out the two sides of our lives? This happens through the circumstances and situations which God allows in each of