God, The Father | Connor Hatch
From Galatians 4:4–7 NIV
📖 Galatians 3:24–26 NIV So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
Main Idea:
Through Faith in Christ, I am forever and fully a child of God.
📖 Ephesians 2:1–3 ESV And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
📖 John 8:44 NIV You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
As God’s Child…
1. I am and .
📖 Galatians 4:4–5 NIV But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
2. I am and .
📖 Galatians 4:6 NIV Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
📖 Galatians 4:8 NIV Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
3. I am an in His .
📖 Galatians 4:7 NIV So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
📖 1 Peter 2:9 NIV But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
📖 Galatians 5:13 NIV You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
:
A. We our as God’s children .
B. We in the of .
C. We as in His .
📖 Genesis 3:15 NIV “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
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