‘The Spirit We Have
Received.’
Romans 8:15.
a) It is not a Spirit
of Bondage Again to Fear.
i)
1 John 4:18.
Perfect Love Takes Away All Fear.
ii)
Hebrews
2:14-15. No More Fear of Dying.
iii)
2 Timothy
1:7. Is a Spirit of: Power, Love, and Self-Discipline.
iv)
1 Corinthians 2:12. It is for us to know the Wonderful Things that God has
given to us.
v)
Galatians
5:22-23. It is a Spirit that Makes Us Fruitful.
b) It is a Spirit of
Adoption
i)
Romans 8:16. Teaching
us that we are God’s children.
ii)
Isaiah 56:5.
Gives us the everlasting names.
iii)
Galatians
4:5-7. The Freedom God gives us:
a.
v 5. Adopted
as His Very Own Children.
b.
v. 6. God
sent the Spirit of His Son into our Hearts.
c.
v. 6. Now we
can call God, ‘Abba Father.’
d.
v. 7. Now we
are God’s own Children.
e.
v. 7.
Everything He has belongs to us.
iv)
Ephesians
1:5. It is God’s Unchanging Plan and Great Pleasure to Adopt us into His own
family by bringing us to Himself through Christ Jesus.
v)
Ephesians
1:11-14. Praising God because: -
a.
v. 11.
Because of Christ, we have received an Inheritance from God.
b.
v. 11. God
chose us from the beginning.
c.
v. 12. God’s
purpose for us to trust in Christ and to praise God.
d.
v. 13. We
have heard the Truth: The Good News that God Saves Us.
e.
v. 13. When
we believed in Christ, He identified us as His own by giving us the Holy
Spirit.
f.
v. 14. The
Holy Spirit is God’s guarantee that He will give us everything He promised and
that He has purchased us to be His Own People.
c) Bringing Us into Intimacy with the Father God.
i)
Luke 11:2. To
That We Can Pray to Him.
ii)
Luke 22:42.
To Empower Us to Do His Will.
iii)
John 20:17.
So That We Can Take His Message to Others.
iv)
Romans 5:5.
Experiencing His Love in Our Hearts.
v)
1 John 3:1-3.
So that We Anticipate Seeing Jesus One Day and Keeping our Life Pure.
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‘It
is Pleasing to God’
a) Ephesians 1:5. That Through Jesus Christ We Are Adopted
as God’s Children.
b) Ephesians 1:9. That the Plan He Designed Long Ago, which
is Centred on Christ, Be Revealed to Us.
c) Philippians 2:13. God is Working in Us, Giving Us the
Desire to Obey Him and The Power to Do What is Pleasing to Him.
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Chris.
(Copied and Typed by Priscilla)
