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Welcome to Day 1511 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomA Family of Imagers Part 3 \u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome 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.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1511 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\u2019s current events.\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\xa0This week, we will finish our study based on a course I completed taught by Dr. Michael Heiser on our Worldview Wednesday episode. Our study is titled \u201cSons and Daughters of God: The Believer\u2019s Identity, Calling, and Destiny\u201d Throughout this multi-week course, we have demonstrated that, in the Old Testament, \u201csons of God\u201d and \u201choly ones\u201d refers to supernatural beings whose Father is God and who work with God to carry out His will and that this divine family was present before humanity. By fully engaging with biblical texts such as Psalm 82; Psalm 89, and Deuteronomy 32:8\u20139, our study showed that this divine family functions as a template for God\u2019s human family. God desires of humans, as His imagers, to participate in His council. This study addressed issues such as polytheism, the nature of the (little \u2018g\u2019) \u201cgods,\u201d and Yahweh\u2019s uniqueness. This study applies insights to the New Testament texts and shows how the metaphor of being in God\u2019s family informs our sense of identity and mission as believers.
A Family of Imagers\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 30: Believers as Family, Participants - 3
Introduction
Hebrews 2 is a bit more of an obtuse example of the kinds of things we\u2019re talking about because Hebrews\u2019 language tends to be kind of complicated, but it\u2019s a pretty powerful one. So I wanted to include it because this section of Hebrews is, I think, especially telling when it comes to these family relationships and bringing things full circle, being presented to God as the fulfillment of the original plan.
Family Members in the Divine CouncilWe read in https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+2%3A10-12&version=NLT (Hebrews 2:10-12), God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation. 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.\xa0For he said to God,
\u201cI will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters.
I will praise you among your assembled people.\u201d
Family Members Sharing the Same StatusNow, look at the language here. We have a scene where the writer is talking about Jesus. God is in the picture, and we have this \u201cson\u201d language; we have sibling language here (\u201cbrothers and sisters\u201d). The scene is amazing because here we have Jesus introducing God, as it were: \u201cI will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among your assembled people.\u201d What\u2019re the assembled people?\xa0Among your assembled people?; It is in the throne room of God; it is in the presence of all who have gone before. The whole cloud of witnesses\u2019 idea is something that Dr. Heiser mentioned in the Unseen Realm. The notion of a \u201ccloud of witnesses\u201d goes back to divine council language by ratifying treaties and agreements and covenants and guarantees.
So we have believers who have gone before members of the council now; they have become grafted in. As normal human beings, fallen but redeemed, and