So though they remained children of illegitimate birth, had they understood how God’s promises come to those of legitimate birth, they could have humbled themselves under the covenant promises, and laid hold of them by faith. Just as Ruth believed by faith a Moabite could find a home in Israel and claim Israel’s god as her own.
Folks, listen. Illegitimate children have no claim on the inheritance of God. Just as you or I have no claim on the Rockefeller or Walton inheritance, neither does anyone not born of the promise have any God to the eternal inheritance. Our fleshly birthright grants us nothing before God.
Is this not what Jesus is explaining to Nicodemus in John 3? You must be born again. Not of flesh and blood but of Spirit, God’s Spirit. Nicodemus, as a teacher of Israel should have understood the nature of new birth, for he should have understood that God’s promised covenant blessings come only to those of legitimate birth; imposters are cast out.
Who is the promised Son, the heir to God’s promises? Jesus Christ, his son. Therefore, one must be of the lineage of Jesus to lay any claim to his inheritance. Jesus had no children. How does one become of child of God?
John 1:12-13 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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