Heirs of the Promise
The passage this morning will lead us to conclude this life comes from fully embracing that you are a son or daughter of God. That you are an heir of God. And, the word embrace is important and helpful, because it connotes the idea of something already being there. It’s already present- it simply needs to be embraced.
Which is different than how many people today come to view Christianity, and following Jesus. I think many come saying, “Well, what will I need to do to follow Jesus? What will I need to do to have God love me?” Or, “what will I need to give up… to follow Jesus and be accepted by him? And, I don’t know if I want to do that or am ready to do that…”
When in fact, for our life to be “Christ, our life…” it is simply embracing the gift of faith that God has made us his heirs. He has made us sons and daughters adopted into His family. This is the main thing in Paul’s Grace Manifesto of Galatians.
There are three questions I hope can guide us today, through this extremely important and beautiful passage of scripture:
1- How does Adoption into God’s family work?
2- Who is Adoption into God’s family for?
3- What is Adoption into God’s family doing for you? For me?
