Title: Son of God
(Those who are in the flesh cannot please God; if one in you
If the Spirit of God dwells, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit.
If you do not have the Spirit of Christ, you are not of Christ, and Christ is in you.
If you do, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
If the Spirit of him who raised him from the hermits dwells in you, then Christ Jesus is dead
You will die through his Spirit who dwells in you by him who raised him from the
He will also give life to the body. Therefore, brethren, though we are debtors, we owe the flesh to the flesh.
do not live by the flesh; if you live according to the flesh, you must die; but by the Spirit you
If you put to death the deeds of God, you will live. All those who are led by the Spirit of God are one.
Sons of Nim, you received no more the spirit of bondage to fear, but the spirit of adoption
because we have received it, we cry, Abba, Father. The Holy Spirit Himself goes with our spirit
We testify that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs,
heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, we suffer so that we may be glorified with him
must also be received) (Romans 8:8-17)
There is a hymn called 'Good God' that is sung well in our gospel hymns.
"Good God, good God, so good my God!" It is called.
Do you really believe in God as a 'good God'?
And do you believe that the good God is my God?
For God to be a 'good God' to me, God's goodness and God's kindness
You have to taste it and know it.
In order to taste the goodness of God and the mercy of God, we must first confirm
There is something.
Is it really that I am a child of God? is to do
Guys, do you think that I am a child of God?
I. On what basis do you think I am a child of God?
It should be clear.
In the words of the Lord, John 1:12 says, "Whoever receives him, who believes
To them he gave the right to become children of God, either by blood or by the will of the flesh.
I am not born of the will of man, but of God.”
is.
Those who receive him and believe in his name are children of God.
But such a man was not born of human blood or of the will of man, but only
They said they were born of God.
Who are God's children?
To those who have received Jesus Christ in their hearts, that is, to those who believe in Jesus, God is
said to have been given the privilege of the children of
Those who accept Jesus become children of God, so am I a child of God? Ah
ninji?
How can you check?
There is a way to check that.
1 Corinthians 12:3 says, “Therefore I say to you, speaking by the Spirit of God
whoever does not call Jesus accursed, and whoever does except by the Holy Spirit
No one can say that Jesus is Lord.”
You can understand better if you read the co-translation.
"No one who speaks by the Holy Spirit of God can curse Jesus, saying, Cursed, and no one can say, Cursed is Jesus, and no one except under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Jesus is Lord"
You can not.
What does this mean?
Those who are led by the Spirit of God cannot curse Jesus.
It means that you cannot confess that Jesus is my Lord without doing this.
So, who am I?
Can you curse Jesus? There will never be.
Then I must be convinced that I am a child of God.
If I am a child of God, I can now call God my Father.
☞ If you look at the classification of people in evangelism these days, it is like this.
① A person who goes to church,
② Those who do not know neither Jesus nor the Church;
③ Those who believe in Jesus,
④ People who believe in Jesus and go to church but do not have the Spirit of Jesus are classified.
The most problematic category here is the fourth category.
They say they believe in Jesus and go to church, but they do not have the Spirit of Jesus.
Such a person has the form of faith, but does not have the work of the Holy Spirit.
In verse 9 of today's text, "If the Spirit of God dwells in you, you
is not in God, but in the Spirit; if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,
I am not a man of
If you do not have the Spirit of God, that is, the Spirit of Christ, you are not a person of Christ.
is.
If you are not a man of Christ, you cannot be a child of God, and call God the Father.
Calling is also strange.
Today's text, Romans, is a letter from the Apostle Paul to the church in Rome.
In other words, the letter to those who attend the Roman Church is the Romans.
You can think of these words as a letter to someone who attends a church in Korea today.
I did.
How many people go to church in Korea?
Here we use the subjunctive 'if'.
If there is a person who goes to church but does not have the Spirit of Christ in his heart,
It is a premise that there is also.
We are now in the chapel to worship.
This means that this cannot be the evidence that I become a child of God.
The evidence is elsewhere.
We must be able to proudly confess that Jesus Christ is our Lord.
Everyone who is being baptized today after being baptized!
You cannot be a child of God by being baptized.
Only those who are led by the Spirit of God can become children of God.
Let's follow along.
“Jesus is my master.
Jesus died on the cross for me and is the savior who atoned for my sins.
And he is the Son of God who was resurrected on the third day.”
You should be able to confess this.
Then you have the Holy Spirit in your heart.
Romans 10:9-10 says, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you
If you believe in your heart that he raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
With this heart we believe, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth we confess, resulting in salvation.”
All.
Now, if we are God's children, how should we call God?
'Holy, holy Creator, the omniscient and omnipotent ruler of the universe and the providence of history.
God God!' It is not wrong to call it this way.
But how does God want us to call him?
Everyone!
Let's say I have one son and I'm trying to pass by without going crazy.
What if you did?
I'm sure I'll feel weird.
'Dad' to me, or 'Father!' It should be normal to call it that way.
So will God.
That's why the Lord said you should pray like this and said, "Our Father in heaven..."
I was told to call.
Today we will read verses 14-15 together.
“All those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
I did not receive the spirit of slavery again to fear, but because I received the spirit of adoption, Abba
I cry out to you, Budge."
Abba here means father in Hebrew.
We have now received the spirit of adoption, not the spirit of slavery.
What is adoption?
They were not children when they were born.
However, through adoption, a new identity has been acquired.
As adopted children, we should often call God our Father.
When I was born, I was not a child of God.
It is said that by nature, they were the children of wrath.
But the moment you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, you become a child of God.
It was.
We are no longer children of sin.
It has changed into the status of a child of God.
We are no longer subject to judgment.
You have no idea how precious this privilege is.
Adoption rights are very great.
All inheritance goes to him.
II. God's adoptees must be able to call God their Father. (verse 15)
Do you still feel distant when you call God Father?
If it's still awkward in my heart to call God Father,
Relationships are also awkward.
It's still awkward when we call God our Father,
because it is teaching.
When we call God our Father, there are similarities with the physical father, but one
You cannot be identified with your physical father.
You have to be careful with this.
Everyone!
What is your relationship with your physical father now?
Most of the time it's good, but sometimes it's not.
Sometimes, when we think of God as the father of the flesh,
There is a risk of distortion.
Be careful about this, and use the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, to heal the wounds you have received from your physical father.
Only when you are healed can you fully and correctly understand God.
In my case, my father was the one who listened to me all.
I was born as the youngest of two sons and two daughters, the son of an evangelist, and grew up watching, hearing,
It was just meetings and school life.
Looking back even now, how difficult must the life of a pioneer evangelist in rural areas must have been?
However, although he did not have material wealth, he grew up with a lot of love from his father.
All.
My father hugged me and always called me like this.
"Our nibong, the true nibong, and our nibong, the dog nibong..."
In my hometown there were the Ujin and Jangseon rivers.
The things my father crossed with the deep water of the Ujin River on his back...
It was a poem I wrote myself on New Year's Day...
Confucius said that Mencius was reading Chinese verses...
So father to me! The title contains the image of the father of infinite love.
There is.
Maybe that's why I haven't been a God afraid of all my life.
There are some of us who sometimes worship God with fear.
If your physical parents raised you too conditionally, or if you only raised them strictly, God
There is also the danger of being understood conditionally.
In other words, in order to receive God's love, I must do more good things...
What must I do so that God will love me and bless me...
I think so.
God's love surpasses the love of carnal parents.
God's love is unconditional.
If you accept Jesus as your Lord.
God loves our being sons, He loves our deeds.
not something.
Because all our actions are imperfect.
III. The Son of God is without condemnation in the love of God. (Romans 8:1)
'Therefore now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus...'
said.
Those who are in Jesus are those who are being led by the Spirit of Jesus.
All.
Being the Son of God, there is no condemnation.
God the Father loves our very existence as sons, that our deeds are good.
Not because we believe, not just because our lives are all godly lives.
Even if he sometimes broke his father's heart and fell deep into the world, he came back
Just as he held the son in his arms, kissed him, and gave a feast, as the son himself, we
Tolerating and loving
Heavenly Father is a Father of eternal love who never forsakes us.
Therefore, the Son of God must live under the guidance of the Spirit of God.
Verse 14 says, “If you live according to the flesh, you will surely die, but by the Spirit the deeds of the body
If you kill, you will live. All those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Come in,' he said.
God wants all His children to be saved through Jesus Christ.
All.
Those who live obediently according to the will of salvation are the children of God.
All. ♣