All In The Family | What Makes You a Child of God? | 1 Peter 1:14-16

let's all stand first Peter turn to first Peter chapter one and this would be very simple this morning as we are going verse by verse chapter by chapter through the book of Peter today we'll find ourselves in three powerful verses and it's first Peter chapter 14 our first Peter chapter 1 verses 14 15 and 16 I will read the even-numbered verses and if you would read verse 15 out loud out of the New King James Version Bible New King James if you don't have New King James don't say a word just come along just just hum nice and loud I'll begin verse 14 as obedient children not conforming yourselves to the former lust as in your ignorance because as it is written be holy for I am holy let's pray father we ask you to give us ears to hear what your Holy Spirit the author of the Bible speaking through Peter 2000 years later 21 centuries to our ears this morning we pray father that we as a church family is the family of God would receive from you Lord your truth for this age for this day you are the God that is always relevant it's for us Lord to obey you and thereby Lord be effective and meaningful in life and we thank you Father in Jesus name Amen you can be seated and today we're looking at a message entitled all in the family how many you are Christians this morning raise your hand according to God's Word we are in the family of God God is the designer of family he created the structure of it it is God it's amazing to realize there's a lot of religious writings in the world but the Bible stands out and beyond all of them just the audacity of the Bible not to mention the accuracy of the Bible the prophetic nature of the Bible the Bible's ability to speak to every human heart and mind the bible's ability as the word of itself says that it has the power to cut between the bone and the marrow or the thoughts and the intentions of your own heart and mind the power of God's Word the Bible the Bible is loved it's the most loved book in the world it's the most hated book in the world it's pretty amazing nobody's smuggling the Tibetan Book of the Dead into China nobody's smuggling books of Mormon into inland China or Saudi Arabia but in an ongoing basis people are smuggling the Bible into countries that have forbidden the Bible they may tolerate all kinds of cults and religions but the Bible cannot be allowed in totalitarian regimes why because the power of the Bible changes a person from the inside out and when that happens God brings you into his family we saw last week that God's family is made up of Jew and Gentile alike that God says he's no respecter of persons and so Peter is writing to a people made of Jew and Gentile who have come into one family the family of God and we saw that in our previous study last week in fact just look back up into verse 13 one of the most powerful verses in 1st Peter verse 13 said therefore gird up the loins of your mind get control of your mind bring it under control to God's Word be sober remember what that Mert word meant take the level and put the bubble that's in the glass right in the middle have a level mind and a level life be thinking Level II and that's skewed one way or the other but be balanced and to rest your hope fully that is with old Wade with all trust with all of your person upon the Grace and I loved it the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ remarkable that grace listen Church the amount of grace it took to get you out of bed this morning and get you here and through this day is huge you and I will never know it fully but God's grace to get you out of bed and live this day is epic in scope huge listen I got to be honest with you all the pastor's already know this I told them this morning I didn't want to come here today I was with you last week and I enjoyed myself but I also really enjoyed vacation I don't know if it's jetlag or what but I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning and I was tempted in my mind I'm gonna call in sick and then the Lord said but you're not sick but lord I kind of made me feel a little sick and I came and I stepped him through the podium at first service didn't want to be here but as I got into the word it got into me and I was reminded that I've been transformed listen my body had to take a back seat to the moving of the Holy Spirit maybe you didn't want to be here today either I I sympathize with you but maybe God has you here for a purpose but I can tell you this right now that inside of you if you're a believer there's a whole new agenda afoot there's a whole new will that's in action and the Bible says that God's grace is not only upon your life to get you through today but we studied last week that it's God's grace that is going to arrive at what point at at what event look at verse 13 at the end at the revelation of Jesus Christ God is bringing imagine hallelujah the moment Christ descends from heaven there's going to be a bucket load of grace poured upon your life in that very second and we're gonna need that like an elevator has it were to pick us up and we'll be received into the everlasting arms of Jesus God's grace is abounding and the believer appreciates that but right here today in this moment understand this that God's grace is at work and the redemptive work of Christ listen in two phases Christ died at the cross for your sins and that is finished he rose again from the dead for your justification and that's how you get to heaven by putting your trust in him but in a very real way God work is yet to be completed that at the revelation of Jesus it will all be done the Dead will be resurrected who believed in Christ are those of us please Lord may it be today that when the trumpet is blown the shout is given and we will be transformed in a moment the Bible says in a twinkling of an eye we'll be caught up to meet the Lord in the air what a tremendous glory that is and right off the heels of that Peter now begins to introduce us to verse 14 so as we continue on with the series of excitations if you're a note taker write it down all of us in the family of God where do we begin all in the family our children we write that down God says in his Bible that we are children verse 14 opens up with three words as obedient children let's look at that for a moment the word child our children that's used here is not a spoiled child it's not an ignorant child it's not a child that is in rebellion there's words in the Greek language there's words in the Bible for that God doesn't use that word in the authorship of verse 14 the Holy Spirit uses a word that means this a child who follows his father as obedient children the child of God desires to follow his father look children especially when they're young it's the problem is when they get older I agree with Mark Twain Mark Twain said that you know when you have little kids and all that kind of stuff as they begin to grow up there comes a point in time were you you know when they they get about 12 or 13 years of age age Mark Twain said at that point you put him in a 55-gallon barrel with a hole in it and you feed them through the hole from about 13 he said about 21 when they reach about the age of 21 you just seal up the hole [Laughter] but when children are young have you noticed that when they're young all they want to do is please you it's the cutest thing in the world you can say something to them like can you bring pop oh you can you bring daddy the paper can you can you bring me that can you bring and they just get all excited in fact just yesterday we were babysitting our grandsons in my five and a half year old grandson ollie he said Papa Papa can I help you with anything isn't that great yeah I heard that guys well that's what I thought Oh God this is what I thought in my mind Oh God may he never lose that right there's something in a child isn't it awesome that Jesus said for you and I to enter the kingdom of heaven we must become like a little child believing trusting obedient it's sweet and that's the word that's here that you and I as children of God we are now in obedience to our Father now look I don't know how to tell you this except just tell you the truth you belong to either one of two families in this world right now did you know that and the Bible says that you and I are either children of God or children of Satan it's a man yes what yes what the Bible says humanism says something different does it not humanism says something like we're all well what's funny about humanism actually is that it's atheistic most often and it is unbelieving in God and and man is the focal point of his universe right humanism but when it does employ religion it will always say we're all of the brotherhood of God we are all one we are all children you know jesus said jesus said if you don't know your Bible you are either of your father which is above or you are your father which is from beneath the devil if you don't like what I just said take it up with God he said you belong to a family it's either one or the other and you might say today how could I believe in a family that I don't exist I don't believe in God well Jesus made it very clear there's a family of unbelief there's a family that says no to God no to God's will no to God's Word I will not have God rule and reign in my life and yet the child of God it is our delight to follow God the word obedient here means to simply follow it's a powerful word as obedient children Peter's given a statement of assumption this is this is given this is what Christians do now look this is a second service today and you're here right now but you do know that coming to church does not make you a Christian declaring yourself to be a Christian does not make you a Christian your membership in a church doesn't make you a Christian none of those things have any value of you entering heaven none whatsoever there's only one way for you to become a real true child of God and that is to be in the family and to be in the family jesus said you must be born again and to be born again you must respond to the Holy Spirit's birthing in your life and listen you're an earthly family you have a last name and you know who's in your family and God is saying and implying strongly that all of us that are in the family that we know that we're in this family that God has given us this family in fact look back in verse 2 of this chapter listen to the awesome Grace and brilliance of this first Peter chapter 1 verse 2 he says that we are the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father that means God picked you chose you before the world before time ever began that's the word for knowledge in sanctification of God the spirit so now you've got God the Father God the Holy Spirit it's the Holy Spirit's job to do a work in you you're gonna remember that here in a moment you're gonna want to anyway it's the Holy Spirit's job to sanctify you notice for what for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of God the Son that's Jesus Christ God the Father God the Son the Holy Spirit at work and one verse in your life as a believer if you're a child of God think the Trinity is at work in your life is that awesome look we're working around here that church is being remodeled and all this stuff there's cones out here so you don't trip over stuff and all that there's indicators that work is underway and all over your life maybe we should put those cones in our head because we are a work where were under construction in our lives as believers God is that work in all of his children's life he's at work in your life but we inherit by the way characteristics of family it's true spiritually it's true in nature for example what do you have what did you get from your mom and dad did you get your dad's ears or your mom's nose what is it you know you can look in pictures you can determine that and we may or may not like that it all depends and it all depends you know you may look and said man I got this and I got that hey well listen that's just the way that it is it is genetically passed down and it is you and in the same token spiritually there's a spiritual DNA that's passed down to all of us who are children of God that we've come to faith in Christ in the flesh there's things that you and I pick up but look there are things communicated by DNA and then in our home life there are things in this natural life there are things that have been communicated to us by what is known as learned response behavior you may have seen your when bad news came to your home you may have seen your mom or your dad go to prayer and from an early age you learn to pray in fact I see it in these services it's so beautiful you guys only attend one service on Sunday I attend all three and I sit in various places and I watch and I see worship there's always near the back where the little kids are at during worship mom or dad's got their hands up and you and you see a little junior his hands go up he doesn't know what he's doing buddy what's the eastern response behaviors watching dad dad's got his hands up jr. puts his hands up why because dad's got his hands up trouble may have come to your home as a child and then you saw your dad not go to prayer but he went to Jim Beam he went to the altar of Jack Daniels and you learned how to deal with your problems by drinking because you saw your dad respond to challenges by drinking learned response behavior in the same token God shows us his spiritual nature and the Holy Spirit comes inside the believer and teaches us on how to walk with God how to follow him and what do we wind up doing when we were once of a different father in this world now we are a new father in a heavenly world and we learned how now to deal with problems differently don't don't we and we work through life completely following him being a child of God the obedience that's spoken about here it's a very wonderful word it means that we we desire to follow friends this is important to me all of you hear this loud and clear share this with your friends no where does God put you in a headlock to make you follow him did you know that he will never yoke you up to a burden and drive you like a slave God delivers you out of slavery it's all about a loving relationship that's what God wants with unions you don't have that you need that when you see him your heart Wells up with love for him just like a young child to a father and so dad puts on his boots and he works in the yard and you see jr. try to put his little size 2 foot in a size 12 boot and he's trying to follow in dad's steps that's a beautiful thing and think of yourself spiritually you and I are following God and he that's all he says you you come let's go let's do this and it's a joy to walk in obedience she's not gonna put you in a headlock he'll invite you to come he invited you to come into the family in the first place and he invites you to walk with Him all all the way through to the end God is good that way verse 14 goes on follow with me that we are to be now not conforming or a nonconformist we would say our selves to the former lusts you had a circle the word former it means who you and I were before remember that do you remember you used to have these Oh watch how do I put it these spontaneous impulses to obey the demands of another whatever much flesh wanted I went with it now I ask questions later I thought this I grabbed it that was it and then I thought about the consequences I was in the world what are you looking at me like that for you're so you're like you are we are we uh are we uh are we here we're all here so do you remember your former lusts he does and she does yes you do listen I tell you what well you know what maybe you don't maybe you're still in them and you've never been born into the family so you don't know what former is but I go to church every Sunday ain't no matter think of it I just made that up by the way I think I think that's God talking to us maybe there is no former in your life I've never had a change I just go to church and I just I've always done my thing whatever I want to do if it's at his expense if it's at her expense I grab all the gusto I can I live for me it's me myself and I keep in touch with myself I'm a legend in my own mind the world's here to serve me the world is my whoo but for those of us who once were like that and Christ got ahold of us and showed us his love and His grace and his power to forgive we remember the former lust and they're dangerous to us they're scary and they come in all kinds of forms but they're dangerous and he says watch out don't conform to those former lusts you want to know why this is important the word conformed means to fall back into the mold to fall back into the mold to take something out imagine something that is shrink-wrapped is that the right word or mold ejection molding that's not the right word either it's molded you bought it it rhymes at your door through Amazon you open up the package and you peel the plastic away from the item have you noticed that the plastic that you peel away from the item it holds the shape of what the thing is and then it's easy to put the thing back into the molded plastic think of it that's what cast a silhouette good words exactly that get up here and teach the rest of this message that's a good word listen it's very easy to take the thing and put it back in the packaging that it came from because it holds the mold of what it once was the world is listen the world is holding its mold of your old life it's there you know it's there it's just things like this hey you want to get back in oh come on just slide back in I'm waiting for you you know that temptation and you resist it you fight this is the life of the Christian and Peter is saying watch out don't go back to that mold that's silhouette that cast that had once been your life oh man I tell you what I wish you could have been with me on Tuesday but hey wait a minute thank God many of you were many of you were in Sacramento and you know what great show of people tremendous ABC News was there CBS News was there and and listen people from across this state stood and gave testimony to the state Senate on why it's a bad idea to pass a B 29:43 for our religious freedoms and for hope they listened to everything 51 people got up young people ranging from about 18 to 30 years of age and they went up to the microphone in front of our state leaders and they said we want you to know hi I'm making this part up now my name is Susie she said but she said my name is Susie and I was formerly a lesbian and I found out that I could change God changed my life and and I don't take this hope away from me and the next person got up behind her and this person was a homosexual this person was with an aligned gun and testified and at the end of it the chairman of the committee said thank you for all of your testimony by the way one hour and twenty one minutes of people hundreds of people giving testimony that life can be changed and at the end thus the seven despots of this state said we believe it's not possible for you to have changed and City right behind me were four of those that had been changed young young girls I turned right around and I said don't listen to a word she just said about what God has done in your life can you imagine telling somebody you can't change God changed me did God change you God changed his life but listen our leaders say no to that no listen they might say no but the God of heaven says yes Jesus Christ came to change us Hiep he wants to give us and he has given us hope and I was lost in my sin and God invited me into his family and I'm grateful for that and he says that we are not to be conformed any longer to the former lust as in your ignorance that means when you and I were living in the world we didn't know we knew down deep inside on the general sense that what we were doing was wrong but we couldn't put our finger on it and then God began to speak listen maybe you're here today or maybe you're watching right now and God is speaking to you and you're beginning to think Heights Wow and there's a spark inside of you hope you know at the end of this service today you're gonna be asked to write your favorite verse on the floor did you know that we're gonna end early today and you're gonna get up and you're gonna write your favorite verse on the floor why because carpet new carpets coming in on Monday and they're gonna cover it up and there's verses all over the floor already just from first service and one guy came up here and he wrote down his favorite verse cuz that's where he accepted Christ right there he came right up here is that awesome and I've already seen people doing it during worship writing their favorite verse down on the floor and it's gonna be you I do that it's gonna be covered up because you know what known to God known to God just like I'm standing on top of Bibles right now you didn't know that but known to God right think of the beauty this week as these carpet layers will come in and they're going to trial this blue under this floor they're already gonna be on their knees and then they're gonna be reading verses why not go all the way and accept Christ we got to pray for their salvation this week there'll be hundreds of carpet layer type people working here putting this in and they're gonna get thousands of verses change lives as they read their these verses they will no longer be ignorant boy you read the Bible you find out that this truth in 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4 2nd Peter 1 verse 4 says that you and I may be partakers of the divine nature what a statement having escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust did you know that lust ain't let's be honest church listen lust is awesome why do you think it's a temptation lust it burns guys listen I'm not talking to women never been one don't plan on being one I can only talk to guys right now right here guys women just tune out guys lust I'm talking my physical lust isn't it weird physical lust guys I think this is a testimony to the Holy Spirit where does physical lust touch you in your body I find it remarkable it's not here and it's not in other parts it's right about here a little bit below the heart and a little bit above the stomach there's a burning there's a burning that starts and if it's left unchecked it begins to consume the entire body until you act it out and the Bible says watch out for that Moses said since pleasurable for a season but then that season is up and sin always has the price it always pays its wages and its death but the Bible says in 2nd Peter 1:4 that we have a new nature ladies and gentlemen this is the miracle above all miracles not the means of the blind eyes or the the the ability to walk have you been crippled that's that's that's miracle on the D level I'm talking miracle a level is that God would put his divine nature in one of his children that you would care more about heaven and want to know God and draw closer to God and to desire to obey God is a miracle and that's what happens to every child of God and Jesus said you can tell the difference and Matthew chapter 7 verse 20 Jesus said this therefore by their fruits you will know them strong statement right by their fruits you will know the boat what fruits by what comes out of their lives you know all of us listen okay we are unauthorized to condemn anybody did you know that when we say don't judge because we're not supposed to judge the word is actually condemned none of us have the authority to condemn anyone else but Jesus says be a fruit inspector look at someone's life watch them and you are to conclude what kind of fruit they're producing this should sober us all up a little bit right think of this if I were to turn on a camera put it in my house put it in my truck put it on me for 30 days live-streaming my life 24/7 at the end of 30 days you should be able to determine if I'm a Christian or not by you watching and that's true for your life imagine your life being recorded on camera or viewed stream live 24/7 that's what God sees and Jesus said you'll know them by their fruits what are they producing in their life what comes out of them determines if they're a child of God or not what a sobering thought but true we would all agree this truth for anyone else but when we think about it ourselves it gets very sobering to watch lives and as I said a moment ago children pick up on that in your home if you have young kids or grandkids those kids are being shaped cast in a mold as they watch us as they listen to me me and Papa our mom and dad by the way let me say this I believe it's mom and dad's business ordained of God and I can prove it from the Bible that you and I teach our kids from the beginning his or her reality until your child comes to faith in God you are like a god to your kids did you know that that's how God created this family structure it should be natural for a child to go from their dependence upon you the parent to God his or her parent above are you with me okay you want to feel some atmospheric resistance hang on to your seats that means you encourage your son to grow up to be a man that means you encourage your daughter to grow up to be a woman the Bible says in proverbs 20 to train up a child in the way that he or she should go and when they are not or when they are old they will not depart from that way it's not just a verse about teaching them spiritual truth it's about teaching them life you teach your son to be a man you teach your daughter to be a woman God ordained it that way those are not my words it comes straight from the manufacturer God our culture evil is good good is evil black as white white as black wrong is right right is wrong our world is flipped and now we're starting to reap of the disastrous consequences of as it were a parentless world and you know what I mean by parentless world I'm talking about a godless world Lisa just read me an article yesterday maybe you saw it in the news a man who had become a woman now that he has its son he wants them now he has regrets he wants to revert now back to being a man so he can in his words teach his son how to be a man and the very group that encouraged him to go one way is condemning him because he wants to go back our nation has lost its mind God says I've created you male and female on this Father's Day I want to announce that God has created father's and he's created mother's men can only contribute so much into a child's life as a father and then mom picks it up and mom can contribute only so much and then dad picks it up it's the way it works and you say this stuff today and it's almost like I'm sinning against the cultural police I guess I am sinning against the cultural police it's not politically correct to say these things and yet its life God says that we are his children he's not confused by that in Matthew chapter 7 verse 13 jesus said enter in by the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many that go in by it because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life and there are a few who find it are you on that path that listen it's a path that is antithesis to this world this world's the broad way Jesus says it's narrow the words of God are life Jesus said in John chapter 7 verse chapter 10 verse 7 Jesus said to them again most assuredly I say to you I am the door definite article the door not many doors there's not two doors there's one door of the Sheep all who ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the Sheep did not hear them yeah and that beautiful statement God's sheep will not follow strangers yeah good news huh are you a Christian today you'll never be deceived the Holy Spirit in you sets your compass if listen if I say something that's biblically off you're gonna know it you know how you're gonna know what the Holy Spirit's gonna say mm-hmm and you're all gonna hear him it's awesome jesus said they don't listen to others thieves or robbers verse 9 I am the door if anyone enters by me he might be saved he could be what's it say we'll be saved what confidence God gives us listen if you're a child of God today you have confidence in him he'll never abort you I can show you many verses where God to invite you into his family I don't see any verses where God says get out even the prodigal son which is a picture of God what happened the son ran away and the father waited did he not the father waited and loved on his son and waited and when that knucklehead boy came to his senses the Bible says he ran back in his father poured out his grace upon his returning son is that you today have you run far from God and God is saying to you come on that now hurry up let's go I invite you back you're my child that's why you're not happy in the world that's why you're not happy out there living for yourself you're a child of God you're sinning against God and you're miserable thank God you're miserable we wish more miserable nough Sepang you why because you don't belong in the world you need to come home with us rest the second thing all in the family are different did you know that we're different in 1st Peter verse 15 chapter 1 verse 15 he says but as he who called you is holy you also be holy in all your conduct we're different the Christian is different the word holy is the Greek word Hagee else it means to be set out from an apart from all others it means to be dead dedicated or appointed it means to exist all together differently it means listen to this PEGI else it means to be declared a saint did you hear that everybody to be declared a saint to be declared who does the declaring god does god says this but as he who called you is holy now i shared this with last service i thought they were gonna get excited they didn't so I was very excited studying the Bible this week and came to this discovery will you just act like you're excited when I get okay Peter right here quotes right out of the Old Testament him being Jewish what he's trying to communicate to his audience perfect fit he's quoting Leviticus chapter 11 verse 44 1144 Leviticus 11 44 it says for I am the Lord your God you shall therefore consecrate yourselves for you shall be holy for I am holy God says look at that verse Leviticus 11 44 look what it says I'm the Lord your God you shall therefore consecrate yourselves that means you decide to follow me that's all the test of you that you as a word get up out of your seat and follow Jesus just like the disciples did 21 centuries ago and you shall be what's the word who's saying this and he says what to you about you you shall be holy declares God this is what is about this what the Bible says you want to argue with it that your business I'm not I'm gonna obey it he says in you shall be holy how does that happen God because I'm holy for I am holy okay number two Leviticus 19 verse 2 speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel and say to them you shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy he doesn't say straighten up your act stand up tuck your shirt in be holy no he's saying guess what you're a my child I brought you into this family you have a new DNA and it's holiness it's holy you are positionally declared holy by me God I'm holy you're related to me you're mine i D where you only now get up and go and act like it you don't act like it to become it because you've been declared it you go act like it there's a big difference one is a relationship with God that he is purchased and empowers and the other one it's called religion and you can find it in any cult anywhere around town you pick which one you want this is life listen Leviticus 20 verse 7 consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy for I am the Lord your God and you shall keep my statutes and perform them I am the Lord who who sanctifies you God does he does the work God shows you his will he shows you his word and you stand and you go I can't do it and God says that's right you can't and the Holy Spirit rolls up his sleeves in you and he goes to work and his word becomes your delight you look to his word for direction you look to his word for guidance you look to his word for comfort his word is more valuable to you than food Leviticus 20 verse 26 this is my favorite and at the end of this one you can act all excited Leviticus 20 verse 26 and you shout listen to what he's and you shall be holy to me for I the LORD am holy and I have separated you past tense from the nations from the peoples that you should be mine I love it I love that God is the one doing it he's doing it he takes you out of your life and he gives you a new life and then he puts his spirit in you and he says okay walk with me and this grace takes you all the way through how wonderful is that church I want to show you something first of all it's in Ephesians chapter 2 and then I want to go into a little of description if to verse 1 the Bible says once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins but you used to live in sin just as the rest of the world obeying the devil the commander of the powers of the unseen world that's pretty creepy he is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God all of us used to live that way following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature by our very nature we were subject to God's anger just as everyone else look at verse 4 but God but God now I want to show you something on the screen this I don't know how it appears on the screen but maybe it's a little different but I'm gonna read it to you for clarification life without Jesus life with Jesus and you judge life without Jesus Church we're ignorant of God's Word in his will we don't care we don't know life without Jesus we are fatherless and orphaned life without Jesus were controlled by our passions life without Jesus our lives have no meaning or purpose we're aimless interestingly though life without Jesus were affirmed by the world we're affirmed by society they love us when were of the world Jesus said the world loves its own think now the systems at play there's the spiritual world and there's this physical world and they clash but what about life with Jesus have you experienced this change as a child of God life with Jesus knowing Christ and God now you know him you know now that you're a child of God and that you're in the family of God you're now controlled by obedience you might want to do something but your love for God says I'm gonna obey think of that for a moment life with Jesus is now a life with meaning and purpose you're no longer aimless life with Jesus interestingly enough now you're misunderstood by society we're not as the sticker is and some of the cars in the parking lot not of this world and you know that we're not of this world we're aliens now we belong to a different worlds I've said this to you before I want to repeat it it's a wonderful feeling to feel alienated in your own world I like it I like the fact that I don't feel at home here in this world anymore I don't recognize this world thirdly in verse 16 all in the family means that were adopted you know the Bible says were adopted when he says because it is written he's talking about again the Old Testament be holy for I am holy what are we talking about this we're talking about adoption the Bible tells us that God has adopted us into his family in Romans 18 excuse me Romans chapter 8 verses 14 to 16 Romans 8 14 to 16 the Bible says that the Spirit of God that dwells within us as sons prompts us to call him father there's a supernatural intimacy that God has created within you and that verse goes on to say that that causes within us a connection with God he's no longer alienated and we are not alienated from him my dear friend today if you feel alienated from God you need to really check all your bases and ask yourself are you in the family of God and you may say well Jack you know what the church family is messed up of course it is it's a family we're all related well not everybody gets along exactly we're related is it amazing now I might get in trouble for this but I think from the beginning Satan has been trying to figure out the church so he could destroy it right don't you think he's like a lion the Bible says roaming around seeking who may devour and I think he does that to try to destroy Jesus's Church in the earth but have you noticed we argue and bicker and fight back and forth and denominations bite and chew on one another and even even just personality Christian personality and this Christian personality I'm talking about personality not famous people they eat on each other they bite on each other it's terrible it's carnal it's not right but let's remember this first of all Jesus died for our sins not our personalities now some of us need to get our personality sanctified okay God didn't make you a stinker you need to be nice but he died for our sins ace commanded us to get along we've been brought into the family of God were adopted we belong to each other and that being the case it's it's beautiful to realize that God says I called you into my family I adopted you at what point listen the child that's being adopted now look like I speak for my granddaughter's perspective the whole paperwork and scenario I love it her adoption was in the process before she was born when she came out this family severed the umbilical cord from her birth mother and from that moment in fact we don't even remember she's adopted until somebody says oh is that is that the adopted granddaughter oh yeah I guess it is we never think about it do you want to know why the magnitude of love it's just instantaneous you hold a little stranger and in the nanosecond of time it's over she's got Papa wrapped around all fingers not just the baby finger and same with the grandson instant your heart is given over and the Bible says we've been adopted into the family of God that God has adopted us now look if you've given birth to your child you've got you have given birth to your child and we've got we've got to birth kids and what are you gonna do with them they're yours you'd you made them they came out it's like what you knew you're going home with that kid [Applause] there's no you know return what's the policy on this one lifted but where's the words the label no no they're yours probably not the most encouraging word on a Father's Day to give but adoption adoption is we pick that one God says I pick you and he brings you into his family he's not stuck with you if I can say it this way he's stuck on you but isn't gone watching every move I make yes he is because he can't take his eyes off you and what's amazing about our adopted granddaughter is the fact that she looks like us not only does she look like us but she has the same characteristics that her mother had when she was that age how does that happen how can that possibly be but god every one of us have been adopted into the family of God we are related which leads us to the closing point of verse 16 were united all in the family are united my dear friends this is a spiritual fact now watch this don't raise your hand but if you're a Christian today and if I were to ask you are you a Christian you raise your hand well listen listen as much as your hand is up proclaiming that you're Christian you are equally United to those sitting around you who are fellow Christians remember that when you're trying to get out of the parking lot soon we are united and the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 1 therefore be imitators you at the word is you'll appreciate this may meet is you say what my meet this the word is mime you know to mime you know those funny guys that do that thing to mime means the word actually means to be the shadow of someone to be the shadow of someone to walk exactly like they want to move exactly like they move let me read it again therefore being the shadow of God is that precious as dear children and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma in their great the more you and I decide to walk with Jesus mimicking him the father goes when we worship the Lord goes I smell that so you and I we sing where the group is leading us we're singing with them we hear it God smells it got smells I worship isn't it amazing think of that today Father's Day barbecues are happening from coast to coast millions of barbecues today going up and you can smell oh man you know that's teriyaki chicken over there let's let's go to the neighbors you can smell it so does God in your life as obedient children no longer conformed to the former lust of this world but like God is holy we now leave this place wholly because he is and we walk into that holiness we live it and I leave you this picture years ago I used to work at an amazing job fantastic job loved the job when I retired or retired when I resign that position I remember driving northbound on the 55 freeway at a out of that company and I cried all the way home I did I looked like a fool on the freeway loved my job part of that job is so exciting but part of that job was some of the stuff we had to deal with was kind of spooky stuff we had to sometime wear protective suits and stuff because the bacteria the germs that were possibly being exposed to by this human element that we're working on was dangerous listen on one day we were had we had our ties over our shoulders or tucked in our shirts and and we were working we had blood all over the place and we had body parts and it was just awesome I'm telling you was a fantastic job it was great and all of a sudden the next day the lab is shut down quarantined and they're taking us to a local clinic to be tested blood tests and we heard they they what is it what's happening well we're testing for something called HIV or AIDS why well because it's in human blood we've just found this out and you guys work with tons of human blood and all these bodies and well and then we began to find out what later became of course World News from that point on everything we did we had to do with ourselves between ourselves and that subject or that issue in us in a suit or latex protection or a gown are you with me why because what was in them could kill them ladies and gentlemen as a Christian you've been washed clean God has taken the world out of you you are no longer si N+ and he has suited you up in Christ and now you go out into a world and the gospel Holy Spirit truth has covered you and you go out of that world wholly and you go into an unholy world and you're the one that reaches in to rescue those that are distant and doomed to die you're the one that goes into a culture that is si N+ and you love them out of it because you know exactly how it is to be in it but you were washed but you were cleansed but you were made like Jesus this is the gospel of our God and it's great news [Applause]

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Length: 53min 17sec (3197 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 17 2018