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C:\Documents and Settings\BobBurton\My Documents\ Exegesis\ Romans8vs14ff.odt
Rom8:14-17
Boyup Brook Uniting Church 12.8.07
Reading:Gal.
3:23- 4:7; Rom.
8:12-17 ESV
“Marks of True Sonship”
Introduction:
*I begin with a controversial statement: to all ladies here this morning who through repentance, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, are disciples of His - and thus have been born again of the Spirit of God.
*
“*LADIES, DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE SONS OF GOD? *
*I am not a male chauvinist!
(“an extravagant attachment to a particular group”)*
*With that to think about, let us turn to our Bible Readings:*
*Galatians 3:23 – 4:7 (ESV) and Romans 8:12-17 (ESV).*
*One or two translations in some contexts use inclusivist language: translate “sons” as “children” - equality of men and women.*
*But in these passages we have just read, in doing so, an important truth is lost.
That truth has to do with our status as sons of God.
*
*Galatians 4:6 (ESV) \\ 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba!
Father!”
This is true of all believers.
*
\\ *Paul's argument: “If we belong to the Son, what belongs to Him belongs to us.
All believers are sons of the Father, /not as a matter of our gender, but as a matter of our union with the Son.
/This goes for both men and women.Our sonship is not a /gender/ issue; it is a /status /issue”!
(Goldsworthy, “Prayer and the Knowledge of God” p. 42f.)*
\\ *If you are born again of God's Spirit, you have received the Spirit of Adoption, the Spirit of Sonship, which is the Spirit of Jesus.
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*The same status as He has!*
*He is the Son of God: our union with Him by faith, means that we share that status.
Outside of Christ, men are no closer to being sons of God than women!*
\\ *So my original statement that you ladies are sons of God is not a “put down”, but rather, if there is such a phrase, a “put-up”!
It is not a putting down of women, but if anything, a raising of their status!
*
*Congratulations!
*
\\ *With this in mind, let us turn to the passage in Romans 8: 14-17 which is the basis of our message today.*
“*MARKS OF TRUE SONSHIP”*
!
*I.
OUR ADOPTION AS SONS.*
*Romans 8:14,15 (seeESV) \\ **14 **For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God.**15 **For you did not receive the spirit of bondage (slavery) again to fear, but */*you have received the Spirit of adoption,*/* by whom we cry, “Abba!
Father!”*
\\ *And Galatians 4:4-6** “**But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, **5 **to redeem those who were under the law, */*so that we might receive the adoption as sons*/*.
**6 **And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba!
Father!” *
/*Galatians*/*: We have received adoption as sons.
*/*Romans*/*: we have received the Spirit of adoption (as sons).*
*1.
THE MEANING OF ADOPTION*
*In Roman world of 1**st** century: father with no son of his own, deliberately choose a boy to be his adopted son.
Would perpetuate his name, inherit his estate.
*
*In no way inferior to a birth son.
Just as much loved by adoptive father and reproduce his character!
A common practice among Romans, not so common among Jews.
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*However, there is plenty of evidence from the OT that it was a familiar concept to Jews: Israel is described as in Romans 9:4 **“**They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.”
Israel taken out of Egypt and appointed God's “son”.
(The Meaning of Adoption)*
*2.THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ADOPTION.*
*You and I have been adopted into God's family – He has made us His sons! “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons.”
(Rom.
8:14,15)*
*We do not have to approach Almighty God in fear and trembling!
Not the servile spirit of a slave, not the anxious fear of one who approaches a capricious God with great uncertainty!
*
*One writer tells of a visit to India.
Children as bonded labourers working to repay the debts of their parents – in shackles, hammering rocks into pieces.
*/*Christians are like children who after years in bonded labour HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO A FAMILY! */
*John 8:31-36 **(NIV) \\ **31 **To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, **“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.**
**32 **Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”**
**33 **They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone.
How can you say that we shall be set free?” **34 **Jesus replied, **“I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.** **35 */*Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.*//*
*/*36 **So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.*
*Once we enter into the reality of the experience of ADOPTION, all fear should go!
Many people, because of past experiences, suffer a /SPIRIT OF REJECTION.
/With what I believe is great insight, it has been said that /THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION CASTS OUT A SPIRIT OF REJECTION!
/*
\\ *We need to enter into all that we are IN CHRIST!
Once we realise this, great freedom!*
\\ *Cam with the Chinese girl: (often bribery) “My Father paid for me!” *
*(The Significance of Adoption)*
\\ *3 THE CRY OF ADOPTION.*
“*..you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry 'Abba!
Father!'”*
“*Abba” is the Aramaic term for father used by Jesus (Mark 14:36) *
*It is a term of endearment, but also a term of great respect.
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\\ *Mark 14:32-36 *(NIV) \\ *32 **They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples**, **“Sit here while I pray.”**
**33 **He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.**
**34 **“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,”** he said to them.
**“Stay here and keep watch.”**
**35 **Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him.**
**36 */*“Abba*/*, Father,”** he said, **“everything is possible for you.
Take this cup from me.
Yet not what I will, but what you will.”*
\\ *Jesus under great stress and tension: He was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.”
And yet in deep intimacy He could call on His Father in these terms.
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\\ *The Jews did not normally use this word to address God.
It expressed the unique relationship Jesus had with His Father.
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*A British preacher, Dick Lucas, recalls how in a shop he overheard a young Jewish boy call out to his father: “Abba, Abba.” “I bowed and worshipped.”
REALISED WITH NEW FORCE THE INTIMACY WITH GOD THAT IS OURS THROUGH THE SPIRIT!*
\\ \\ *Let me ask you: do you know this intimacy?
*
\\ *Praying Hyde: a friend asked to pray with him.
Waited 15 minutes or more: then one word: “Father!”
Such a sense of the presence of God filled the room!
(The Cry of Adoption)*
\\ *Have you entered into this freedom?
(Our Adoption as Sons)*
\\ *II.
OUR ASSURANCE AS SONS.
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