Oakwood Church

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

1. Adoption into the Family of God

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons.”
Romans 8:15

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

2. Accountability in the Fight against Sin

“So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.”
Romans 8:12

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

2. Accountability in the Fight against Sin

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.”
Romans 8:13

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

3. Assurance of your Faith’s Genuineness

“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
Romans 8:14

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

3. Assurance of your Faith’s Genuineness

“The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”
Romans 8:16

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

3. Assurance of your Faith’s Genuineness

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”
1 John 5:13

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

3. Assurance of your Faith’s Genuineness

“No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.”
1 John 3:9

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

4. Access to the Father, Directly

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’”
Romans 8:15

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

5. Anticipation of your Future Glory

“We are children of God, and if children, then heirs – heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.”
Romans 8:16-17

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

5. Anticipation of your Future Glory

“Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”
Romans 8:17

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

5. Anticipation of your Future Glory

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
Romans 8:18

The Gift of Spiritual Family:

1. Adoption into the Family of God (v.15)

2. Accountability in the Fight against Sin (v.12-14)

3. Assurance of your Faith’s Genuineness (v.14,16)

4. Access to the Father, directly (v.15)

5. Anticipation of your Future Glory (v.17)

God’s Invitation to Everyone in Christ:

1. Be Forgiven

2. Be Free

3. Be Filled

4. Be Fruitful

5. Be Family, Forever