Origins (of Our Birth Right)
From the letter to the First Church in Rome, 1st century
-written by the Apostle Paul
Romans 8:15
[This is the 11th message of this series]
Prologue
For sure when the first message of this series was written down, the idea of this series going over three messages was remote.
But just like any other time when we start doing what the Holy Spirit is nudging us to do, the outcomes are far beyond our expectations.
By God's grace, this is now the eleventh message of this series and almost daily there is a new message being dropped by the Holy Spirit and when it will end, we do not know or care for. (God is looking for obedience not sacrifice).
Freedom
Jesus of Nazareth have set us (captives) free. He paid the full price (our ransom). And He settled the price (of admission) into God's eternal Kingdom.
This Kingdom is unseen with the naked eye from our current existence. But we all have an inkling that there is more to life than meets the eye. The unseen is just as real as the seen, and our gut tells us so.
Deposit (Our Guarantee)
When we believe what Jesus preached and accepted Him as our Savior (an act that we decide to do on our own) then we were given the right to become children of God*.
Whom we already were but we lost our birth certificate sometime in the ancient past and so we couldn't prove it. Not until the arrival of the Spirit of God -- the Holy Spirit, the day when the church was born.
[*When His followers asked to teach them how to pray, Jesus of Nazareth told them to call God, Father]
The Message Paraphrase puts it nicely this way:
It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free —signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This down payment from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life. Ephesians 1:13-14
The Best is Yet To Come
The Kingdom of God has come down to us, meeting us where we are at. But its fullness is yet to come. Admittance into God's family is taking place one person at a time.
Once we all were lost but now we are found.
Let us come home, all of us who have gone astray and lost our way. And let us call all the other lost souls -- the lost sheep still out there, wandering and wondering.
Yes God is calling us home. Will you answer the call?
The Message Paraphrase puts it nicely this way:
It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free —signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This down payment from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life. Ephesians 1:13-14
The Best is Yet To Come
The Kingdom of God has come down to us, meeting us where we are at. But its fullness is yet to come. Admittance into God's family is taking place one person at a time.
Once we all were lost but now we are found.
Let us come home, all of us who have gone astray and lost our way. And let us call all the other lost souls -- the lost sheep still out there, wandering and wondering.
Yes God is calling us home. Will you answer the call?
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