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Prayer
Last week we looked at the simple statement.
Since we are the children of God, our lives will be marked by familial love, and unfriendly rejection.
Being before Doing.
How our identity is what produces our actions.
We are adopted into the family of God by the sin covering work of Christ on the cross.
We also saw how it was more than just a mere title, we are in fact children of God.
Barriers of Self-Hate and Self-Love.
Solution of Self-Forgetfulness.
Since we still live under sin’s corruption, of both our world and hearts, we wait for the full expression of our Adoption into God’s Family.
Until this adoption is fully revealed, we must purify ourselves by focusing our hope on Him.
Before we get into this passage, I want to be clear.
When we talk about the children of God, we don’t want to confuse the notion that everyone is a child of God.
In a general sense, we are all children of God because we are made in the image of God.
We are ALL children of God because God is our creator.
But we are NOT all children of God in a specific way.
So we can say “God loves Sinners” (Objectively)
But we also must affirm specifically, “God loves Me” (Subjectively)
Which is dependent upon our response to Christ.
1 John 3:1 (NKJV)
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
If you are a Christian, than this is true of you.
It is a reality that we live in right now.
He goes further in verse 2.
1 John 3:2 (NKJV)
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be,
The Children of God (vv.
2-3)
“What We Will Be”
John is saying that we are currently are God’s children, but there is a sense in which what will be has not been revealed yet.
So what is the dynamic of this already and not-yet?
Some have called this the great tension of the Scriptures.
The tension is: we still live in the age of sin’s corruption AND we live as children of God.
We must never seek to remove this tension.
The Already
“Present Reality”
1 John 3:2 “Beloved, now we are children of God,”
Even while living in a sin stained, sin tarnished world.
John can confidently say, we are the children of God currently.
It is the same concept that we talked about last week which was adoption.
Since we still live under sin’s corruption, of both our world and hearts, we wait for the full expression of our Adoption into God’s Family.
Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, by mean of which we are received into the number and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.
This adoption is God’s free act of grace to receive us as children into His family.
It is God’s unmerited favor to wicked and sinful people to bring them into His family.
What exactly does it mean to be received into the number?
When the Bible refers to the Christian, it refers to them as those who are called out.
When it refers to Christians, it calls them to be ‘Holy’
Called to Holiness
Those who are set apart from the world.
Those who have a new nature.
To be received into the number is to be called into the family of God.
1 Peter 1:14-15
1 Peter 1:14 (ESV)
As obedient children,
Notice even how Peter grounds the believer in the identity of being chosen by God.
He grounds the Christian in the fact that he is a child of God.
So he begins with their identity and then commands them.
Since you are God’s children, don’t be conformed to your former way of life.
Since you are a part of God’s family, no longer be guided by your former unawareness of sin.
The life of the Christian is the life of the here and now being called to holiness.
Remember how we talked about self-hate and self-love last week, those are two directions on the same pendulum.
And that pendulum is called PRIDE.
But what Peter is saying here is we are called to holiness, that is a Godward focus.
Or devoted in a Godward direction.
See this is abundantly good news, God has actually freed us to be a part of His family.
He has actually called us into His family and to reflect His Godward commitment everywhere we go.
Here is a test for you
Religion: When you sin, you’re worried about others perception.
When you sin, you run and hide from God.
When you sin, you seek to self-excuse.
Christianity: When you sin, you’re concerned that you have hurt your Father’s heart.
This is what it means to be received into the number of God’s family.
1 John 3:2 (NKJV)
Beloved, now we are children of God;
Since we still live under sin’s corruption, of both our world and hearts, we wait for the full expression of our Adoption into God’s Family.
Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, by mean of which we are received into the number and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.
What exactly do those privileges entail?
We could pick any number of the privileges of our adoption as children.
I want us two focus in on two.
Treasures in Jars of Clay
What Paul is saying here is that God has shown in our hearts the knowledge of Christ Jesus.
We now see God as He is, as revealed in Jesus Christ.
And we are NOW the children of God, but listen to what he says next.
So Paul is NOT saying, look how wonderful we are.
Look at our greatness.
He is saying, we are these weak and fragile pots which are easily broken.
But we carry around with us a message, which is the treasure.
Listen to how he describes his experience in the here and now....
Since we still live under sin’s corruption, of both our world and hearts, we wait for the full expression of our Adoption into God’s Family.
Paul is saying that in this present moment, we are weak and fragile.
We are those who are easily broken.
Easily crush, easily destroyed, but this message is imperishable.
Since we still live under sin’s corruption, of both our world and hearts, we wait for the full expression of our Adoption into God’s Family.
The second privilege I want us to focus on have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.
Looking in A Mirror
And the looking into the mirror is made up of two components...
Unveiled Faces
Paul is picking up on what happened in the Old Testament when Moses came down from off Mount Sinai.
He was forced to cover his face because when he met with God his face literally shone.
The people begged him to put on a covering just so they wouldn’t have to actually look at his shining face.
Paul links that covering with the way the Jews faces were veiled.
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