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Greeting
Good Morning Family
If you’re new, guest, visiting…Welcome.
We’re Glad You’re Here to Worship Christ with us this morning.
My name is Rob.
I’m one of the ELDERS here at Hillside.
Introduction
It’s an exciting time for us right now as a church family.
We’re learning some new things, rekindling some old things, strengthening some things we already do.
But we have a purpose and a vision for the future.
We have a direction.
Three areas of HBC Cultural Growth.
Prayer, Stewardship, Missional
Coming at this with a clear biblical understanding that What we do is dictated by who we believe we are.
So our understanding of and belief about who we are directly affects what we do individually and and what we do as a body and family.
Only by having a clear picture of our identity will we be able to grow into a family that prays, understands stewardship, and joins God everyday on his mission.
We are a new Creation!
This is what Baptism symbolizes.
Old man is dead and buried.
And we are raised as a new creation to walk in new ways with him.
Baptismal Identity - picture of who we are as this new creation.
Just like the video outlined, Baptismal Identity...
We are God’s Family
We are children of God who love one another as a family.
We are Jesus’ Servants
We are servants of Jesus, our Lord, and we serve Him by serving others.
We are the Spirit’s Missionaries.
We are sent ones empowered by the Spirit to show and share Jesus to others.
For the next three weeks we’ll dive into each of these as we rediscover or rekindle who we are.
In the name of the Father...
We are children of God who love one another as a family.
Today: If we are children of God, and we who believe are, then the only reasonable outcome is that we love one another like family.
John starts with this command to love one another, then he tells us why.
He says we are supposed to love one another because love is from God.
What exactly does that mean, that love is “from God”.
And is there something about this statement that should cause me to want to obey the first part, to love one another?
John goes on, “everyone who loves is born of God and knows God”.
There’s an emphasis in this verse on this phrase, “born of God”.
This “born of God” is literally to be fathered by God.
John is saying to other believers, “we have to love one another because that’s what it looks like to be fathered by God”.
So it is this being born of God that should cause us to love one another.
And John has placed a lot of emphasis in this letter already on this love of God and being born of God.
Look at the beginning of chapter three.
This love, as John understands it is amazing and extravagant.
He emphasizes the greatness of the love of God in this sentence.
John understood the love of God to be something special.
When he wrote his gospel account he always referred to himself as the one who Jesus loved.
This love is not new to him and yet it still grips him and there’s emotion behind this statement.
The love of the Father is Great.
He bestowed it on us.
Nothing that we did made God decide to give us his love.
In fact, if we were banking on our work or something about us to somehow bring us into a right relationship with God, then we are missing it!
If we were to get what we deserve it would be what...
Wyatt, what do we deserve?
DEATH and punishment that lasts forever.
Sometimes we can get caught up in life, busyness, work, parenting, kids hockey games, fishing, church activities, etc.
And we can lose sight of the greatness of this love.
Why is it so great?
Because we deserve death.
We deserve to pay for our crimes.
We deserve the death that we’ve asked for.
And God made us his Children!!!
This should seem a little crazy.
This should seem too good to be true.
And what makes it great is that it’s not too good to be true.
It is true.
It is real.
All we have to do is believe.
That’s it!
After the multiple finger-wagging moments of rebellion against the Creator of the universe his great answer is to give us the right to become his kids!
And yet somehow it’s easy to lose sight of it.
Easy to forget or get distracted from it.
Easy to forget we’re adopted into the most royal family in existence.
Maybe we haven’t gotten distracted from the adoption...
Perhaps we get distracted from how great the adoption actually is.
how big of a deal it is
Sometimes we just lose sight of who we were, like Israel forgetting about what happened in Egypt.
“Adoption into the family of God is the highest privilege the gospel has to offer.”
J.I. Packer
Let’s take today, right now, to be reminded of it.
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She didn’t do anything.
She’d been there for 3 years and yet knew vividly where she’d come from.
The pink room they set up for her didn’t cause her to forget the past.
Remembering the past caused her to be overwhelmed by the love she had been shown.
When we have a right view of God...
Holy, Righteous, Perfect, Completely Good.
And a right view of the Sinners in the hands of an angry God.
How much more then???
How much greater and more magnified is our adoption
than even this sweet little girl.
AND SUCH WE ARE!
Having been shown this magnitude of undeserved love
by God
Shouldn’t the only natural reaction to that be to show this same love to one another?
If we truly believe we’re children of God, then shouldn’t we love as we have been loved?
Throughout the new testament this is set up as a natural cause and effect.
And we end with the last verse from our text this morning!
This is what it looks like.
I pray that as we move forward,
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