• Review: Romans — God Saves Sinners Completely
  • Justification
  • Position
  • New life
  • Regenerate
  • Not under law
  • Indwelling
  • Growth
• The Text
  • The sons of God and their adoption
    • Assurance — Rom 5-11
    • Sonship — Explain sonship
    • Includes male & female
    • The Spirit of Adoption
      • Brought in
        • Not naturally
        • We were not in
      • Establishes position
        • Full legal heirs — adult sons
      • Contrast
        • Slavery — Sonship
        • Fear — Bondage
        • Family — Freedom
      • Regeneration
        • Nature — Condition
        • Adoption
        • Position — Privileges
      • A Roman custom
        • Julius Caesar — Octavian
        • Later called Augustus Caesar
        • Legal prestige
      • Jewish concept
        • Hosea
        • Esther
        • Relational care
  • The Relationship to the Father
    • New: Father
    • Jesus: Our Father
    • Garden — Mar 14:36
    • "Abba" endearing
    • Our dear Heavenly Father
    • Little children
    • Love, trust, personal, intensely
    • Gal 4:6
    • Object — Subject
    • Truth — Emotion
    • Position — Experience
    • "Dear Heavenly Father"
    • With feeling!!
    • The Holy Spirit enables us to call God — "Father"
    • The Holy Spirit teaches us
    • "Great is Thy Faithfulness"
    • A test — Can we say "Dear Heavenly Father"?
  • The witness within
    • The inner revelation
    • The assurance
    • Through the Word of God
    • By the Word of God
    • The inward conviction
    • "Spirit Himself assures our spirit we are children of God"
    • He saves
    • He adopts
    • He assures
    • He wants us to know — 1Jo 3:1
      • Beyond intellect and argument
      • Subjective
      • Produced by the Holy Spirit
• The Sons of God and Their Inheritance
  • Heirs of God! — 1Pe 1:3-5
    • Hebrews
    • The testator
    • Death
    • The will — testament
    • Testator: Honest — Wealthy
    • Death occurred
    • Will: New Testament
  • The ground of heirship — children of God
    • Not as a result of creation
    • Not natural descent
    • Not meritorious service
    • Not by ceremonial observation
      • Only by grace — adopted into the family of God
  • To all the children
    • Same grace
    • Same mercy
    • Same qualification
    • Same relationship if children — then heirs
  • Adequate for all
    • Enough
    • Sufficient
    • Inexhaustible
    • "All things" Rev 21; 1Co 3:21
  • Joint-heirs with Christ
    • Possess with Him — Eph 1:20-23; Rom 8:32
    • Immeasurable riches:
    • Gift
    • Right — We are sons, not slaves
    • The partnership
• The Sons of God and Their Suffering
  • It is real — Our calling
    • Phl 1:9; Jhn 15:18-25; 1Pe 1:6-7; 2:21; 4:12-13
    • Suffering proves relationship
    • Job
    • Opportunity to display the relationship
  • It is temporary
    • "This present time"
    • Mat 6:19-24
• The Sons of God and Their Glory
  • There is no comparison
  • The glory is certain
    • We will be glorious
    • "I am firmly convinced"
    • Revealed in us!
    • Roman Christians were suffering
    • Paul was suffering
    • Hold on
    • Persevere
    • The best is coming
    • It is not here
    • Not in this world
    • We have the guarantee
    • The down payment

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