Section 3
Therefore, it is easy to subdivide it. This book is subdivided into three main sections. Chapters one through eight compose the first section, chapters nine through eleven, the second sec tion, and chapters twelve through sixteen, the third section. In this booklet we shall tempo rarily set aside the middle section and consider only the first and last sections.
PERSONAL SALVATION
The first section deals with the personal sal vation of the individuals who believe in Christ. In other words, it is a section on personal sal vation. We do not see the Body in this section. We have the many brothers of Christ, but not yet the many members of the Body. In chap ter eight we read of the many brothers of the Firstborn (v. 29). Although the many brothers are undoubtedly the members of the Body of Christ, chapter eight does not refer to them as members, but as brothers of the firstborn Son. In chapter eight the concept has not gone so far as to reach the Body. It is still a matter of the divine life producing the many sons. So the many sons are called not the many members of the Body of Christ, but the many brothers of the first born Son.