Title: Sons and Daughters
1Sons and Daughters
2Woe to those weak and timid souls who are divided
between God and their world! They want and they
do not want. They are torn by desire and remorse
at the same time. They have the pains of virtue
without tasting its sweet consolations. O how
wretched they are.Francois Fenelon
3Sons and Daughters
- For all who are being led by the Spirit of God,
these are sons of God. 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! The Spirit
Himself testifies with our spirit that we are
children of God, and if children, heirs also,
heirs of God Romans 814-17
4Sons and Daughters
- Adoption brings privilege Romans
814-17
5Sons and Daughters
- Because you are sons, God has sent forth the
Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba!
Father! Therefore you are no longer a slave, but
a son and if a son, then an heir through God. - Galatians 46-7
6Sons and Daughters
- Adoption brings privilege Romans
814-17 - Adoption brings suffering and frustration
Romans 817-23 - Suffering is inevitable and universal
- Suffering is temporal
- Suffering is minor
- Frustration is godly
7Sons and Daughters
- Adoption brings privilege Romans
814-17 - Adoption brings suffering and frustration
Romans 817-23 - Adoption brings hope Romans
824-25
8For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also
we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ who will transform the body of our humble
state into conformity with the body of His glory,
by the exertion of the power that He has even to
subject all things to Himself.Philippians 320-21
9Sons and Daughters
- Adoption brings privilege Romans
814-17 - Adoption brings suffering and frustration
Romans 817-23 - Adoption brings hope Romans
824-25 - Adoption brings help Romans
826-27 - Adoption brings meaning Romans 828