Lesson for June 21, 2026
Our Spiritual Assets — Lesson 15

Royal Family of God

At salvation, believers become part of the most unique family in history — the Royal Family of God. No longer merely God’s creation, believers are children of God. God’s Word has a lot to say about the subject of the Royal Family throughout the Bible, to indicate this new relationship.

Children of God is a term for our new family relationship. The word in Greek for child is “huios,” and emphasizes our family relationship with God. The unique thing about becoming a son/daughter of God is that believers have actually been “adopted” by God into His family. This “adoption” is a result of a new birth (regeneration). No one is born into this world as a believer in Christ. Therefore, we have no family relationship with God at physical birth. What we have is spiritual death, which is separation from God, without the human ability to do anything about it. However, God has made a way for us to enter into a family relationship with Him. This way is through faith alone in Jesus Christ. Once we become children of God, the potential exists for us to function as Royal Family of God. (Romans 8:14–17)

Adoption means to be placed into a family as a son or daughter. It is the Greek word “huiothesia,” and carries with it the meaning of being placed as an adult child. This means that believers have the potential for much more than what the term “child of God” implies. All believers are “children of God” and will spend eternity with God. But not all believers will fulfill the responsibilities of royalty as mature children of God. Therefore, not all believers will receive equal rewards in eternity.

As children of God, believers have royal responsibilities, but they also have privileges that never before existed in history. One of the privileges of royalty is that we now have a royal inheritance. We do not know all that this inheritance entails, but we do know that is far above anything that the human mind can imagine. God has prepared for each of us our very own personal portfolio of assets.

We have also received something unique to the Church Age, in which we live. All believers receive the gift of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which is our power source for the execution of the Christian Way of Life. Without the Holy Spirit, no one in this age could fulfill God’s plan for their life. It takes a supernatural power to live a supernatural life. Allowing the Holy Spirit to teach us and guide us is the means of glorifying God. (John 14:16–26; Ephesians 5:18)

Becoming spiritual royalty is dependent upon a relationship with someone of royalty. For believers, it is their relationship with Jesus Christ that makes them royalty. Christ actually has a number of royal titles and also has a royal family. As the Son of God His royal family is God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. As the Son of David His royal family is the descendants of King David. As the King of kings and Lord of lords His royal family is the Church. It is this unique church family that we have the privilege of being part of as Christians.

God interrupted the Age of Israel in order to send His Son as our Savior and to establish a royal family for the King of kings and Lord of lords. Every person during this age who believes in Christ as their Savior immediately becomes Royal Family of God. While Christ was on earth during the Hypostatic Union, He also set up and lived a way of life as an example for us to follow.

For thirty-three years Christ tested and proved this unique life. Operating by the power of God the Holy Spirit, He was able not to sin and fulfilled His royal destiny by going to the Cross in a state of sinless perfection. His utilization of this system proves to us that all believers have the potential of glorifying God by fulfilling God’s plan. This royal family that we now belong to has an honor code that believers are expected to follow. Adherence to this honor code brings magnificent blessings and rewards. Failure to adhere to these honor codes brings misery and shame.

These ten honor codes are as follows:

1. Love all people with impersonal love:
   Impersonal love is based on your integrity and demands that you do not hold a grudge or resentment toward anyone. Personal integrity rejects self-pity and does not seek pity from others. Impersonal love is treating others the way that Christ would treat them.
2. Respect the privacy of the royal priesthood:
   All Christians have spiritual freedom, but they also have a responsibility to others not to cause a stumbling block by the exercise of their liberty in Christ. It also means that we are to respect the rights of others. It means that we are to refrain from gossip, maligning, judging, character assassination, or listening to others as they do these things. We are to “live and let live.” Privacy is essential to freedom. Every believer has the right to grow spiritually at their own pace without interference from others.
3. Recognize that all believers have equal potential:
   Every believer advances to spiritual maturity at a different rate, if at all. It is our responsibility as royalty to be thoughtful and courteous to all believers, regardless of their stage of growth. The potential exists for any believer willing to learn and apply doctrine to advance to spiritual maturity. Some will and some will not, but in either case it is between them and God.
4. Build integrity and do not distort morality:
   Integrity is superior to morality. Integrity is based on the useable Bible doctrine that you have stored in your soul. Morality is included in integrity. Morality can be distorted into a system of legalism, but integrity cannot. Integrity embraces morality without distortion because integrity recognizes that morality is not the Christian Way of Life.
5. Know that divine blessing is never the result of human production:
   Talent, personality, intelligence, self-sacrifice, and human ability do not merit the blessings of God. The only reason you are blessed is that you possess the righteousness of God and have developed the capacity in your soul to receive blessings. Capacity comes from time logged in the study and application of Bible doctrine.
6. Depend entirely on the integrity of God:
   You cannot depend on God’s integrity until you get to know Him — His character and attributes — and how they relate to the Christian Way of Life. It is confidence in God that motivates you to exhibit love for God and impersonal love for people. Since the Christian Way of Life is a life of thinking, knowing, and understanding, God’s Word renovates your thinking from human viewpoint to divine viewpoint.
7. Remember that the honor code is for all believers:
   The Royal Family Honor Code is for all believers, regardless of age, I.Q., social status, race, spiritual maturity, or gender. It is God’s honor code. Therefore, we are not to become arrogant because we have discovered a superior way of life. It is God’s laws, mandates, and doctrines that sustain and advance us, and it is always a matter of God’s grace, not our human effort.
8. Strong believers have greater responsibility than weak believers:
   Every believer in Christ is royal family, but not all are at the same stage of spiritual growth. The spiritually strong believers have a responsibility to the spiritually weak believers to lead by example. The strong should be setting an example of tolerance, kindness, goodness, patience, faithfulness, honor, and generosity. While they maintain a relaxed attitude, the strong believers must also maintain a sense of humor about self, about life, and about others. Impersonal love implements all behavior of the strong toward the weak.
9. Orient to authority:
   Strong believers recognize the importance of submitting to authority. First, they submit to the ultimate authority, which is God. And then they submit to the authority of their pastor, as he teaches accurate Bible doctrine. Under the doctrinal concept of the privacy of the priesthood, each believer is to be given freedom and privacy to grow spiritually at their own pace without interference from another believer.
10. Support your local church:
    Supporting your local church means attending Bible class on a consistent basis, being positive, and being attentive when you’re there. It means that believers should pray for their pastor and others in the local body. And they should support the local church with their offerings. Giving is commanded in the Scripture, but no one is ever to be coerced to give. God measures giving based on the motivation, not the amount. New Testament giving is not a set amount or percentage. We are commanded to give as we determine, in a joyful manner because of our appreciation of Bible doctrine. A believer is not to give money if it would in any way jeopardize the health or welfare of their family.