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Scriptures, this Lord's Day come from the book of Hosea and Paul's letter to the church in Rome, will begin with a couple of verses from Hosea chapter 1.

Just two verses 10 and 11.

Yeah, at the number of people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured or numbered and the place where it was said to them.

You are not my people.

It shall be said to them.

Children of the Living.

God.

The people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together and they shall appoint for themselves one head, and they shall possess take possession of the land for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

and from Romans chapter 8, verses 12 and following,

So then, brothers and sisters, we are dead.

Or is mount to the flash 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 children of God for you, did not receive a spirit of Slavery to fall back into fear.

But you have received the spirit of adoption when we cry Abba Father.

It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

And if children than heirs Heirs of God and Joint heirs with Christ, if in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

If Earth, Earth hear the word of the Lord.

May the words of my mouth, the meditation of all our heart beat.

Acceptable in your fight.

This day.

Oh Lord.

Our Rock and Our Redeemer, all men.

One of the hats, I wear is a teacher teach at a couple of our seminaries online.

And once you manatees in one's philosophy, philosophy is a great class because you never figure out the answers.

You just always kind of thinking about, in philosophy.

Our students are dealing with these huge questions that really nobody is ever quite figured out the exact answer for in all these Millennia.

Just kind of like, who am I?

Where am I going?

What?

What's my purpose now?

These are huge.

Huge questions of identity and direction in trajectory and so many different people have tried to put their input in their stamps on those things over the years.

And it's just fun to teach that class because it gets people thinking, and out of their comfort zone and maybe doing a little bit more introspection.

In our scriptures today, we start learning a little bit about our identity and we started with with when I was sharing at the Children's message.

So, if you want to go to sleep, you built basically got the gist of it already.

We are part of God's family.

And is this tug-of-war that Paul is going back and forth with talking about the, the pool, The Flash, and the pull of the spirit.

There is this between two worlds, kinds of things that we have us a foot in the Earthly temporal world and we're always battling this thing called the flesh, but we are not obliged bail because we're in price to buy into that whole Lock Stock & Barrel.

Because now, we are purchased with a price, we are given a new life in the spirit.

Now, it doesn't mean everything's perfect.

Always means we're still struggling and we are living in a betwixt-and-between point where we're already, but not yet kind of thing.

And that's what we need to realize because Really if we don't know who we are, if we don't know where we're going, then it creates a difficulty in our life that can lead to anger and depression and mental illness and just crazy things on one extreme, but then on another just can lead you into the doldrums of ho-hum another day.

I'm still here.

Why?

You remember a great Theologian?

I talked about some time ago Carl Bart.

Well, Carl Bart.

I found a young picture of young Bart and this isn't in his his theological Treatise.

This was just An Occurrence in his family.

Life that gave him about this pool of the Flesh and just how we are really often slave to it.

He had a child maybe about 3 years old and then they had another child and they brought the younger child out in the bassinet to meet the older child.

The older child look down at the precious sleeping baby and all the sudden without warning slap that baby upside the head.

Call Bardo was like, is original sin.

That is what it means to be grabbed by the place.

There's no reason to this little kid, but that little three-year-old was like, there's an interloper in my space.

I need Power Ranger position in all those things that we call the deadly sins.

They're already there three year old and now, we are being tugged by the flesh often.

Sometimes there's mud in the middle.

You get drags.

Paul is trying to encourage us to understand, is that we are no longer bound and obliged to follow and live a life fully in the flesh.

But we have been transformed, transformed into people who are of the spirit.

We are bought with a price.

We are adopted by God.

We are one to work anyone.

But now we are someone, we were Buy Rite part of the family but now by confirmation we are, we did not deserve it.

We didn't do anything about it to get it.

But God gave it to us.

If you have a story of adoption in your life and in your family, you'll understand this at a deeper level than most of us are coming from one place.

Perhaps not even knowing where that place was.

I'm being brought not by any Merit of your own or any choice of your own, but because there was some great love that pulled you into a life that was more significant than what you would have had hitherto for.

Amazing.

Tony campolo talks about this idea of significance in a book called who switched the price tags and composure, as a sociologist who also happens to be a Baptist Minister.

And in this book, he talks about our search for significance in how an American culture.

We have muddied the water because we are unsure, what a spiritual thing is.

And what a material thing is.

In Jesus day.

It was pretty clear.

This is one in, this is the other but we have very much confused, the whole matter because we're so smart.

I think about it think of our Madison Avenue, folks.

They have they have made it a business to confuse us about what is valuable and worthy and what has claims upon us.

And what does it mean?

They have studied geology.

They know what makes us tick.

They know what drives us.

Those forces that make us go this way or that way, so they don't have to necessarily advertise their products.

They just have to get at what makes us tick and then put their little brand on there and then our brain just know I want to be with you.

I want to be like that.

So I'm going to buy this you know, how I am.

Picture of grassy Hill in Italy.

Picture People children, young men and women of all Races colors in Creed singing, We want Harmony, we want peace, we want love.

It's moving in it.

Is it a new world order?

Jesus Christ.

Come today?

What is going on here now?

What is it?

Do you remember?

Is Coca-Cola?