Conformed to the Image of His Son by Goranson Jacob Haley Wright N. T

Author:Goranson Jacob, Haley,Wright, N. T.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press

5.5. CONCLUSION

In Romans 8:29 in particular, Paul refers to Jesus as God’s Son, designating him as the firstborn of God’s eschatological family. Paul picks up the motif of Israel as God’s firstborn, a designation that is applied to the Davidic Messiah of Psalm 89: the one called from among God’s people in order to represent them as God’s firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. This messianic identity is supported by the echo of Psalm 110:1 in Romans 8:34, where the Son is described as being at the right hand of God. But Paul does not present Jesus only as the long-awaited Davidic king. Paul also presents Jesus as the new Adam, the paradigmatic and preeminent representative of a new, redeemed humanity. Jesus is the perfect image of God, who in his resurrected and exalted state is the firstborn of both a new humanity and an eschatological family of God—brothers and sisters who participate in the life of this resurrected Son. And it is to this participation in sonship in Romans 8 that we now turn.

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