Living as Beloved Children of God

1. "But what I love most is that as you're walking, no matter how many times you walk that trail, how many times you walk that beach, or you wander around the mountain, there is always something new to discover. There's always something new that is there. And it's true with the gospel. The Apostle Paul has us on this journey, and this journey is walking around the mountain again and again, and they're like, hey, we're on the same trail, but yet there's something new here in the mountain of the gospel for us to discover." [00:18:06] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "And so we're to be gospel people, which is unnatural, and which is really supernatural. And the good news, God who's supernatural gives us the ability to be supernatural as His children. And this is why today's message is called Children of God, for us to move beyond the natural and to the gift of being His child, which is supernatural." [00:21:43] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You are true children of Abraham through baptism. Again, we went over this last week, that God has given his faith, God has intervened in our lives, that God who came to us when we were dead to our sins, that we had no righteousness of our own. Paul is making this saying that you don't have righteousness to please God. You're not holy to please God. You are born in that natural sin that has enslaved you. You need God to intervene in your life, and He has through His Son, Jesus Christ, who did the work for you, did the works of righteousness to please God, and even suffered your punishment in your place." [00:24:28] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "He says, no, you're my child. Now live as my child under the spirit of God, which means that you are a perfectly loved child just the way you are. God loves you. God's love is agape. It means it's one way. It's not transactional. It's not, you know, it's not based, hey, if you do better, he gives you more love. If you do less, he pulls his love back. No, he has loved you the same today and he will love you the same tomorrow, whether you do more to please him or you do less and you do more sin. His love is unchanging." [00:32:16] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And so when I started earlier, we play these little sayings that are laws, that are truisms that nobody taught you. Nobody said memorize them, but we know them. And we probably do live by them more than we think. And they work our way into our lives. But Paul's not talking about like little scientific nuances. He's talking about these elementary principles of the world." [00:36:10] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "And so you know, it's number one, we got to realize and remember that Satan is at work. And how does he work? He works through people, groups, and ideas. And Satan is the father of what? Lies. So as he's working through people, groups, and ideas, he's working with lies. And these lies sound very intellectual. They sound enlightenment. They sound good. They appease to the law, the selfishness of man, of pride." [00:37:26] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "And so we have all these lies that have been told to us that we just keep putting on, all these lies of slavery that keep putting on, that keep weighing us down and keep us in bondage and keep us slaves and keep us being the free in Christ as we are as a child of God. And it was. These chains. And we first said, this is unnatural. This is wrong. And maybe we even thought about it, but the chain remained. And the chain remained. And as we grow, all we do is we just take over it. And we grow over it. And all of a sudden, the chain is gone. It's part of the tree. This is the way it's always been." [00:48:43] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "You have been given the light of Jesus Christ to break the chains. You're not an average tree. You are a supernatural tree. You have been redeemed by Jesus Christ who broke all the chains for you to be his child. And you are greater than the chains." [00:49:58] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "You are a child of God. You are with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, and maybe you were bound, but God has found you. You're not lost anymore. You're his child, and you're under the King of kings, the Lord of lords. It breaks every chain. See, Paul talks about the certification of adoption in E. He says in Galatians, and because you are sons, you have sent the Spirit of the Son into our hearts." [00:52:00] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "The problem is, some of you are sitting there going, well, my inheritance is going to be in heaven someday, and you're not activating. You're not spending your inheritance right now. Jesus came. When Jesus came to this earth, He said, I come to give eternal life. I've come to bring life into this world. I've come to bring life into this world. I've come to bring life into this world. He came to give you eternal life now. We're not waiting for our inheritance. The inheritance is yours right now, and it's yours to spend. Spend it. Carry it. Give out the grace. Give the grace to yourself." [00:54:13] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)