Sons and Daughters

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Sons and Daughters

• Romans 814-28

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Woe to those weak and timid souls who are divided
between God and their world! They want and they
do not want. They are torn by desire and remorse
at the same time. They have the pains of virtue
without tasting its sweet consolations. O how
wretched they are.Francois Fenelon
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Sons and Daughters

• For all who are being led by the Spirit of God,
  these are sons of God. For you have not received
  a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but
  you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by
  which we cry out, Abba! Father! The Spirit
  Himself testifies with our spirit that we are
  children of God, and if children, heirs also,
  heirs of God Romans 814-17

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Sons and Daughters

• Adoption brings privilege Romans
  814-17

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Sons and Daughters

• Because you are sons, God has sent forth the
  Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba!
  Father! Therefore you are no longer a slave, but
  a son and if a son, then an heir through God.
• Galatians 46-7

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Sons and Daughters

• Adoption brings privilege Romans
  814-17
• Adoption brings suffering and frustration
  Romans 817-23
• Suffering is inevitable and universal
• Suffering is temporal
• Suffering is minor
• Frustration is godly

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Sons and Daughters

• Adoption brings privilege Romans
  814-17
• Adoption brings suffering and frustration
  Romans 817-23
• Adoption brings hope Romans
  824-25

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For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also
we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ who will transform the body of our humble
state into conformity with the body of His glory,
by the exertion of the power that He has even to
subject all things to Himself.Philippians 320-21
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Sons and Daughters

• Adoption brings privilege Romans
  814-17
• Adoption brings suffering and frustration
  Romans 817-23
• Adoption brings hope Romans
  824-25
• Adoption brings help Romans
  826-27
• Adoption brings meaning Romans 828