Children of God Part 1

The Redeeming Purpose and Work of Christ is Complete and will Endure Forever, It is the Crowning Achievement of Jesus to Restore to the Father His Children, That which He Has Always Longed For!

John 1:9-14 NIV

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

HNTC Teaching of John (B. Purpose of the Lamb (1:6–13))

John taught incarnation, creation, and rejection all in one verse (v. 10). Depravity and blindness thwarted God’s efforts to reach out to his own creation—and still do. As Marcus Dods declared,

There He was, the Creator Himself, that mysterious Being who had hitherto kept Himself so hidden and remote while yet so influential and supreme; the wonderful and unsearchable Source and Fountain out of which had proceeded all that men saw, themselves included—there at last He was ‘in the world’ He Himself had made, apparent to the eyes of men, and intelligible through their understanding; a real person whom they could know as an individual, whom they could love, who could receive and return their expressions of affection and trust. He was in the world, and the world knew Him not (Dods, p. 25).

Everything is Illuminated Through Christ

How to Know Him despite obstacles JESUS!! The Law Taught us our Sin, Jesus Taught Redemption!

Rejected in His own World

Rejected by His own People

We are redeemed though Christ

1 John 2:12 “I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.”

Look at vs 12!!

Have you recieved Him

I remind you how He Shows us the Heart of God and Puts HIMSELF on the line

John 3:16 “16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Isaiah 53:4–6 “4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

How do I receive Him ?

Romans 10:8–13 “8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Consider this, when Jesus is teaching in Luke 15, who’s He talking to and who’s he talking about Whether you are the 1 in 99 that is the lost sheep or the 1 in 10 that’s a lost coin or the Prodigal…you are worthy of redemption in His Narrative and in the face of His critics…THAT IS RECKLESS LOVE!!

That is what he thinks of you…AND WHAT HE’S DONE FOR YOU!