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INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever done something… And thought your parents were going to figuratively kill you?
Maybe it was an accident…
Or maybe it was outright sin and disobedience.
Maybe you didn’t think you were going to get caught … and then you were.
But nevertheless, you were afraid of what your parents were going to say.
We all have had those kinds of moments.
ILLUSTRATION:
I knew one person, who put bunch of boxes next to a burn barrel.
(They probably were around 12)
What they did not realize is that the barrel was hot enough they would catch on fire.
To make things worse… The fire spread to the wood for their dad's new barn.
That person knew they were toast.
And this happened around noon.
And so they went up and hid underneath their bid ... All afternoon hiding from mom and dad.
And their father tried to coax their child out … but they wouldn’t budge.
That child stayed right there underneath their bed in fear of what their father would do.
But did that child have a reason to be afraid?
Their father loved them, unconditionally, even if they burn’t the barn down.
That child's father still loves them today, unconditionally.
So often we try to hide our faces from God when we have sinned against our heavenly father.
We approach God with fear and guilt,
....rather than realizing he's a father who loves us anyway.
Have you been there?
We so often run from God -
Because we think our sin is too great.
Because we are afraid of what our father might do.
But this passage challenges us not to approach God in fear ... But as children of a loving father.
So I ask - How do you approach God?
And observe how this passage teaches us to approach God as adopted children of God.
PROP: We ought ought to live as the Children of God.
TRANS: and this text teaches 2 realities of how we should approach God.
CAVEAT:
But let me clarify today,
if you have not put your faith in Jesus saving you on the cross.
You need to understand that the penalty for your sin is everlasting punishment in hell.
And everything I am saying today is only true if you have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
So from this point on, everything I'm saying I'm assuming today that you already believe in Christ.
And so for you who might not know the Lord,
realize everything I'm saying to you is what you could have if you were to trust in Christ today.
>>>>> But understand - what I am saying is only true of the Christian.
We as Christians ought ought to live as the Children of God.
and the first reality of that - is understanding
1) Our Identity - We are children of God.
Perhaps the greatest question of the new millennium has been – who am I?
As we have observed the collapse of traditional society… Increasingly we find people who are in search of – who am I?
In a world without God – which America is increasingly becoming… The greatest philosophical question we struggle with is who am I?
Jerry Bridges introduces this way -
The man sitting to my left at dinner referred to himself as a carpenter.
Carpentry is his vocation, but it is not who he is.
A lady with a broken marriage said to a friend, "I'm just a failure."
Although she failed in her marriage, that is not who she is.
I grew up in a moderate poverty.
To this day my default answer to the question," whom am I?" Is "I am the little boy growing up on the dirt street alongside the railroad tracks."
But that is not who I am.
Bridges, Jerry.
Who Am I? Identity In Christ .
Cruciform Press.
Kindle Edition.
We almost always answer this in terms of a .... subjective human experience.
But my subjective human experience simply is not who I am.
>>>Whether a good thing or a bad thing.
As Christians our identity is to be found in our relationship with Christ
and not in our subjective and often negative life experiences.
(Who Am I? Identity in Christ by Jerry Bridges)
And what this passage teaches us is that we are not our subjective human experience …
A carpenter,
a failure,
a poor kid,…
But the children of God.
Our identity because of Jesus Christ is as a child of God.
What does that mean?
What does it mean that your identity is that you are a child of God?
Based on our text this morning, that means we are –
a) Not slaves to sin.
(Romans 8:12-13b)
The heartbeat of this section and Romans has been… That our union with Christ death has set us free from our slavery to sin.
Paul reminds us of that in v. 12. Let's read verse 12.
What does is it mean we are not slaves to sin?
We are no longer debtors to the flesh.
Background:
In the day of Paul most slaves were there because they had fallen into debt
...
And so were literally under the obligation to obey their masters.
In our past life, before Jesus Christ, we were obligated and compelled to obey our master – sin and flesh.
If our flesh desired
anger,
or immorality,
or gluttony…
Then our bodies obeyed our master.
ILLUSTRATION:
Fourth of July is one of those holidays I love.
I love the red white and blue.
I love the fireworks.
I love families using their freedom spend time with their loved ones.
It’s just a great holiday to celebrate the great freedom we have in this country.
However,
is the freedom we have in this country greater then the freedom we have in Christ?
… Easter ought to be far more a day for fireworks and celebration than Fourth of July.
Paul makes the point, we are no longer obligated to the flesh.
We as children of God are no longer slaves to sin.
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