¹² Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 8:12,13

• What are you

that you need to

Reveal Answer

?

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Romans 8:14

• You are

by the Spirit as a child of God.

The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 8:15

ADOPTION BENEFITS

• As sons and daughters of God we live with

not

Reveal Answer

.

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
1 John 3:1

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God…
1 John 3:21

Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.
1 John 4:18

• Your Father is

not

Reveal Answer

.

¹² “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? ¹³ And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. ¹⁴ In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
Matthew 18:12-14

“No longer is God the dreaded slave-master we thought that he was. That fear drove us from him. We hid from him, even as we may have dutifully attended church. And that sense of failure and rejection, and distance hardens the heart. But the Holy Spirit of adoption, the Spirt of acceptance and overflowing love, enables us to perceive God as our dear heavenly Father.” —Raymond Ortlund Jr., Supernatural Living for Natural People

¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Romans 8:16,17

• Everything that belongs to

belongs to

Reveal Answer

.

This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance!
Romans 8:15-17