Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1162 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
God's Forever Family Part 2 - Worldview Wednesday


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.  Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.  Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1166 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.  Creating a Biblical Worldview is important to have a proper perspective on today’s current events.  To establish a Biblical Worldview, it is required that you also have a proper understanding of God and His Word.  On our Worldview Wednesday episodes we are in a series in which we are covering another detailed review of a book from one of today’s most prominent Hebrew Scholars Dr. Micheal S. Heiser.  We are taking a deep dive and will share Dr. Heiser's insights into the question, which is also the title of his book: ‘What Does God Want?’
God’s Forever Family Part 2
As we continue our book review, as part of God’s forever family, we will first focus on our Everlasting Identity with God.  Today as part of His Kingdom, we are to be imagers of God.  That is, others should see God through us.  We cannot fully portray God today, but we will someday be transformed and made like Jesus.

1 John 3:2 declares:  Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

The same thought is expressed in different ways in Romans 8:29: For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Philippians 3:20-21  But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.

2 Corinthians 3:18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.

Our destiny, which is already in process, is to become completed imagers of God in the manner of the ultimate image of God—Jesus.

The Bible finishes our story with resurrection and transformation. We are raised to everlasting life and given a glorified body, akin to the one Jesus had after his resurrection. Paul refers to it as a ‘‘immortal body” (l Corinthians 15:35-58)

My favorite passage about our final destiny and glorification is a little more obscure. It's a scene in the book of Hebrews, where Jesus introduces us to God and God to us. Jesus stands before God and "the congregation," the heavenly sons of God. He confesses boldly that he feels no shame in having us as siblings in the family and then says to God and the supernatural members of the family.  This is in Hebrews 2:11-12: So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.  For he said to God,

“I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters.
I will praise you among your assembled people.”

This is your ultimate destiny—becoming a permanent, legitimate member of God's family. In the end, you belong in God's family. It's what he's wanted from the very beginning.