A New Family
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Intro and Tension
Intro and Tension
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Title: A Fathers Love
**pray**
This theme - What Sefless Love Has Done
In Romans 8 -
**Diamond Gospel**
Week 1: New Position | Week 2: New Creation - We are to be spirit led
This week; Look wt how we are Adopted as Sons and Daughters - What does this mean?
All through Gospels - Jesus wants us to see God in certain way. Yes Lord, Sovereign, Yawheh - but uses “FATHER” 70 times in gospels. 160 in NT.
Something we struggle with.
Want to know how much in OT = 15
only 2 when addressing God. In Fact God says;
Jeremiah 3:19 (ESV)
And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
God’s Heart, is that you would see him as Father.
There is stroy - Mary and Joseph - lost Jesus in crowded city - 3 days - found him;
And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
Look what is said;
And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them.
Did not understand - how God can be referred to as FATHER.
Some of us - still here. How can such a big God be so intimate?
OT = Gap between us and almighty God. Jesus came to bridge Gap.
Jesus taught, this is how we refer to God.
Remember - When you pray - Pray like this.
“Our ____”
Taught it and lived it.
Jesus Baptism;
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Last thing on cross - “Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit”
What is Jesus doing?
He is saying - There is relationship here you can have with Yahweh - Yes for thousands of years, seemed like distant God - but I have come - and there is something on table for you.
Relationship is on the table for you today.
Problem
If God is showing He wants you to see Him as Father - Enemy will do everything to destroy fatherhood.
Not a bash on fathers today.
Enemy knows that if he can crack up concept of father - by breaking relationship with earthly dads - Create stumbling block for relationship between us and heavenly father.
God is not a reflection of your dad, he is the perfection of your dad
A relationship where you can call God Father, is on table today.
Look at ths;
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him!
This powerful Lord - Yawheh - creator of universe
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Fatherless context | Broken World situation | No one is going to be fatherless.
This is the offer, for all those that call on Jesus
What does God want us to see today (going to get back to Romans)
1. You are Beloved - WOW
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Sefless Love moved first. and it moved on you!
I will never Forsake you | Climb up hills for you | Paid the PRICE for you!
Let’s go back to Romans 8 with this in mind.
2. God is a father you can Trust
Maybe you’ve been part of divorce - I have - Maybe you’ve been part of a father that made promises - didn’t come through.
Maybe - You’ve had a dad that said he would show up - never showed up -absent - Left a wound. There is healing today.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
So then, What then? If HS is living inside you - He wants to what? Lead you - but it requires your co-operation.
Jesus baptised- God says to Jesus - you are LOVED - then what - He is LED by Spirit into Wilderness.
Not driven, not forced, but LED.
God is a father you can trust, because God moved first.
3. You don’t need to fear.
Dad came to school, said he was going around australia for 1 year. My brother, I remember, crying, for hours locked himself in a classroom - I didn’t see him for 10 years.
I am grateful, for me, that wound healed, but for some, it hasn’t.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans Term - Adoption in Rome = big deal - You forsake everything that you had and you get new Family.
You now have ability to cry out to God, in a relationship that Jesus had with the Father.
Abba, Father.
This is payoff here - not just going to heaven - I have a father!!! He is so powerful and present, that I don’t have to be afriad.
That’s the second thing in this scripture; Did not recieve spirit of slavery.
Assumption, before Holy Spirit, you had Fear.
but now, your spirit cries ABBA, FATHER - and I know, I have father in HEAVEN.
4th Thing - You are a child of God.
Great song - Child of God - Great.
Go home - Feel not good enough - don’t know if measure up - have it all together.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Drop off old labels. Pick up NEW Identity.
Prison Signs
This is good stuff! Heirs = We get an inheritance = Adoption, by Blood - We are connected now -
then little thing - Provided we suffer. Because it’s real - suffering is real - Pain real, broken world, real - God superscedes broken world. and through it all;
You will have a father that is present, that is never going to leave nor forsake you.
It means;
You are beloved
2. God is a father you can trust.
3. You are loved and you don’t need to fear
4. You are a child of God.
Angle of Gospel - You have new family, new inheritance.
What does it look like for you to live out of this place? First, you need to heal.
Backflip and bandages story |
Some of us, need to stop bandaging wound -
bring the wound, to foot of cross - and look at Jesus’ wounds, who give you life.
One person in the Old Testament - Was given revelation of God as Father - I pray today, that you will come forward, get healing for your soul, and the God of Revelation will also give you revelation that He is your father -
and you can trust Him to be LED into LIFE.
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.