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! Romans 8:14-25
!! Romans 8:14-25
*Tape #8126*
*Pastor Chuck Smith*
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Tonight we begin with verse fourteen.
In 1 John, he wrote, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God.”
What a wonderful thing it is to be a son of God! Now there are those who talk about the universal Fatherhood of God.
That is, the creator of all things.
But not all men are sons of God.
You remember Jesus was talking with the Pharisees.
And they were bragging about the fact that we have Abraham as our father.
We’re sons of Abraham.
Thus, God’s chosen, elect people.
Jesus said if you were sons of Abraham, then you would have believed in Me.
For Abraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it.
They said you’re not even fifty years old.
What do you mean, Abraham saw You?
He said, before Abraham was, I AM!
But then Jesus went on to say that you are the sons of the devil.
So beloved, now are we the sons of God. /For as many as are led by the Spirit of God /(Paul tells the Romans)/, these are sons of God. /Those that are led by the Spirit of God.
So the question is, “Is my life being led by the Spirit of God?” Do I seek to know the will of God and to follow the will of God? Do I seek the leading of the Spirit?
It is unfortunate that there are many people today who are resting their hope for salvation in something other than a relationship with Jesus Christ, being filled and led by the Spirit.
A lot of people are not even worried about their salvation because they were baptized when they were infants.
And they are trusting in that experience as an infant that they weren’t even conscience of, to somehow secure their salvation.
But as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
/15//For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
/In the early church as the Gentile believers began to multiply, there were certain of those in Jerusalem who were still following the law of Moses, yet they were in the church.
They came to the Gentile believers.
They said you can not be saved unless you keep the law of Moses and are circumcised.
And so they called the church council to determine the relationship of the Gentile believers to the law.
Peter testified before the council of how the Lord had sent him to the Gentiles.
And how they had received the Holy Spirit.
Peter said, I suggest that we not put them under a yoke of bondage that we ourselves were not able to bear.
So Paul here is declaring, for you did not receive the spirit of bondage, that is, you do not have a legal relationship with God.
The Jews had a legal relationship with God.
God had given to them the law.
God had said if you will keep this law.
Do these commandments.
Then I will be a God unto you and you shall be my people.
But it was a legal kind of a document, an arrangement, that God had with them.
But God does not want a legal relationship with you.
God wants a loving relationship with you.
So the Lord said through Jeremiah the prophet, and in that day I will not write My law on tables of stone like the ten commandments.
But I will write my law on the fleshly tablets of their heart.
God wants you to serve Him from your heart!
God wants you to yield to the Spirit.
As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
You don’t have this legal relationship.
You’ve not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.
Remember when God gave the law to Moses, the people were so afraid of the presence of God.
They said to Moses, you go up to the mountain.
You talk to Him.
And you come down and tell us what He said.
But we are afraid to approach the mountain.
The fear.
You’ve not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.
But you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
Now Abba, is the Hebrew word for father.
And it is used again in Galatians, where Paul speaks about our saying, Abba, Father.
So it is just the Hebrew.
It is just saying Father in Hebrew and then the Father in Greek.
So Abba, Father, Father.
The Abba is sort of an endearing kind of personal.
It would probably be translated into English as Daddy.
Like a child, that recognition of his daddy.
You know, my kids never did call me father.
When they were little they called me daddy.
And as they grew bigger, they called me, dad.
Hey, dad.
It was never, Father, may I speak to you?
You know.
No, it was never that way.
It was closer, more intimate kind of a relationship.
And the Spirit of adoption, whereby I have this close, intimate, relationship with God.
Where I say, Oh, Daddy! Father!
And it speaks of that intimacy of close relationship.
/16//The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, /Now the Spirit of adoption.
That’s a Greek word that speaks of adults, being placed as an adult son.
Here /teknon,/ children.
And it literally means “born one, a child”.
We are born ones, or children of God.
Notice where I relate to God or where I meet God.
His Spirit bears witness with my spirit.
God is a superior Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Man is an inferior trinity of spirit, mind and body.
Now the natural man, his spirit is dead.
And thus he has no relationship with God.
Because God only relates to us spiritually.
Jesus said to the woman of Samaria that God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
God's Spirit bears witness with our spirit.
Now when I am born again, my spirit comes alive.
The natural man, by birth, is body and soul.
The spirit is dead.
Body uppermost.
Like an animal, he is ruled by his body appetites.
But when you are born again, there comes this new life.
A new relationship with God because now the spirit is alive.
Jesus said you’ve got to be born again!
That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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