The spirit of Sonship
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11 But 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 dwells in you.
To understand where we are going in Romans 8 we have to revisit Romans 7.
1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
This is God’s desire that we be joined to Christ and the desire of the devil is to stop this is cause pain to the believer.
"Pain is not a problem in and of itself. But rather, it is a symptom, a sign of something gone wrong. When one places their hand on a stove, the problem is not the pain but it's the fact they are doing something that shouldn't be done. The pain in this world is simply a sign that something is wrong; something is seriously messed-up. Without pain, we may never realize that something is wrong.' ~ Paule Patterson III
The story is told about the baptism of King Aengus by St. Patrick in the middle of the fifth century. Sometime during the rite, St. Patrick leaned on his sharp-pointed staff and inadvertently stabbed the king's foot. After the baptism was over, St. Patrick looked down at all the blood, realized what he had done, and begged the king's forgiveness. Why did you suffer this pain in silence, the Saint wanted to know. The king replied, "I thought it was part of the ritual."
Many people believe that pain is a normal
Pain came from the fall To separate God son and daughter from Him
16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”
It is the intent of evil to inflict pain. Through pain Satan gain a place.
Pain tempted Jeremiah to doubt the character of God.
18 Why has my pain been perpetual And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream With water that is unreliable?
Pain make us doubt God as good and as a father
I heard Professor Bruce Waltke describe a Christian’s response to pain this way: We once rescued a wren from the claws of our cat. Thought its wing was broken, the frightened bird struggled to escape my loving hands.
Contrast this with my daughter’s recent trip to the doctor. Her strep throat meant a shot was necessary. Frightened, she cried, “No, Daddy. No, Daddy, No, Daddy.” But all the while she gripped me tightly around the neck. Pain ought to make us more like a sick child than a hurt bird. Bruce Waltke
Pain can cause our heart to be hard. The heart…
1. Refuses to become vulnerable
2. Refuses to be bonded
3. Isolated and alienated (death of the soul)
4. Heart of stone
26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
God wants to take our hurt and our hard heart and make it soft.
Heart = leb mean mind.
Pain can control the way that one thinks
because of this the heart must
1. Must use increasing energy to keep truth out of awareness.
2. Increased activity to avoid being present to oneself (tv ect)
3. Hiding and covering.
Pain kept inside can produce chronic sadness and depression. Pain repressed can hit others through anger, rage, blame, and a critical spirit.
God will help us in our pain.
But there is Good new..
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 dwells in you.
There is Hope
12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
13 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.
flesh/pain….
But it does not stop there. The leading of the Holy Spirit causes one to be a son.
14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
This is one of the most amazing things 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.
15 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! Father!”
16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,
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.
that leads us to what we said in the beginning God desires
17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
Joined to Christ...
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
incomparable
19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
21 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.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
23 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.
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.
There is a responsibility that man has to come into sonship.
All of the earth and everything that was created is dependent on it. There is a freedom that God the Father Himself gives.
It comes in our minds, our bodies, and our soul.
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.
Free to set others free.
3 So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.
4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
Make this declaration with me today.
I am no longer a slave, I am a son. And today because of the work of Jesus Christ and the Spirit of Adoption, I am an heir to my Daddy in heaven.