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So now there is another member of the Trinity that is often times forgotten in this process of sonship.

This Person is the Holy Spirit.

The Father sends Jesus because of His great desire for us to be in his Family.

Jesus came doing the work of His Father in heaven saying,

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Jesus came to make man a part of God’s family.

When you began to think of the work and life of Jesus Christ--He is the Lamb of God and also the bridegroom.

He came down to save and forgive us and also to marry us.

Then one day he just leaves.

Is that right?

I remember after high school I started to date this girl that I really liked.

I chased after her for months and finally after all that time of pursuing we started to date.

Sound like a great story, right?

Not so much.

Because on Christmas eve after I gave her a present, she dumped me.

Now, that’s not right.

Jesus didn’t treat us like a bad girlfriend.

He told his disciple,

"But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” (

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Jesus does not do us wrong.

He does not just leave us but He sends us some help.

In fact, He left so that the Helper can come to us.

This reminds me of some of my favorite and most comforting words, “God is not a Jerk.”

The Father sends His Son to gain sons and His Son sends His Spirit to make sons.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.

In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.” (

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Notice again this passage, God the Father of our Lord Jesus has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.

Notice spiritual blessing in heavenly places.

Now how did this happen?

It happened in Christ Jesus by His works; just as He (the Father) chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.

Notice, He has chosen us in Him before He formed the world.

Meaning it has always been God’s plan to form and make us sons and daughters and to bring His creation to Him so what we could stand unashamed before Him with no condemnation.

He has done this because of His love for us and because of that love He predestined us to adoption.

The word “predestine” in the Greek is proorizō meaning to make a decision or to decide before hand.

It is such a blessing to think that God has always wanted to adopt me.

It was always His plan, it was always His desire, and it was always His wish.

And He sent Jesus to grant the wish of His heart.

He sent Jesus to fulfill His heart’s desire.

But the key word we find here is the word “adoption”.

This adoption is much different than earthly adoptions.

In an earthy adoption, the adopted person can receive my name and my home and my family.

But they never receive my DNA, my physical traits or my blood.

When God adopts us it is different.

He, the Holy Spirit, starts the work of regeneration.

We get a new name, a new home, a new family, by the Spirit we receive God’s DNA, we start to look like him and act like him, but the best part is we receive a blood transfusion.

The phrase here “adoption as sons” comes from the Greek word uihothesia.

Uihothesia is the compound of uihos which means son and tithēmi meaning to place or ordain.

So literally adoption means “to place as sons.”

Adoption is a work of the Spirit.

The Father draws, Jesus seeks and finds, and the Holy Spirit does the work of adoption and place us as sons right in the presence of the Father

“and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”

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It was the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus up from the dead and the promise of the Holy Spirit is,

“if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.” (

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It is this Spirit who quickens our body and gives us power over our flesh, which is life.

“So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”

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But it does not stop there.

The leading of the Holy Spirit causes one to be a son.

“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”

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This is one of the most amazing things that the Holy Spirit does, but one has to submit to this work and follow after the leading of the Spirit.

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Daddy, each day lead me by your Spirit….

As one is entering into sonship, which is being led by God’s Spirit, God the Father does a work in his heart ridding him from fear and bondage and giving him a pure love for the Father.

“For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a Spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba!

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Abba is the purest form of Father.

It is like a child crying out.

Daddy!

Oh how I love you, Daddy.

My heart beats with love for you.

Oh that you would pour out your love for me.

It is the Holy Spirit that bears witness to our sonship and joins us to Christ.

“For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.”

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Creation waits anxiously with longing and anticipation for the sons and daughters of God to appear and to manifest into what we were created to be.

Not just human beings, but sons and daughters.

Creation which was subjected has a hope that it would also be set free from corruption into freedom upon the glory of the manifestation of sons of God.

Creation groans for the Spirit of adoption...

the Spirit groans for sons...

The Spirit and the bride say "Come"...

O to be in love with God as much as He is in love with me...

The Holy Spirit “helps our weakness,” v 26

Comes to the aid of someone

There is a freedom that God the Father Himself gives.

It comes in our minds, our bodies, and our soul.

The Holy Spirit come alongside and helps bear the burden

1. Man is weak because of the flesh

It’s a freedom that the world needs to hear.

It is freedom that the world longs for.

It is freedom that is found in being a son.

2. The Holy Spirit comes in the midst of weakness.

3. The Holy Spirit come alongside and strengthens one in the time of weakness.

Man in the flesh has his time of weakness.

The Holy Spirit is faithful to come alongside to help.

Make this declaration with me today.

The Holy Spirit intercedes for man when He prays.

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The Holy Spirit goes to God on man’s behalf.

“So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.