Transcript Only a few accept the right to become children of God.

God has adopted us as His children.
 “When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth
His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
those who were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption as sons” (Gal 4:4-5).
 God has “predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus
Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
will” (Eph 1:5).
Only a few accept the
right to become
children of God.
John 1:10-13
The World
Israel
Us
Jesus “was in the world.”
 “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (Jn 1:14).
“The world was made through Him.”
 “By Him all things were created that are in heaven and that
are on earth” (Col 1:16).
“He came to His own.”
 “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel” (Matt 15:24).
Only a few accept the
right to become
children of God.
If you are not a child of God, you need to be born of
God.
 “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God” (Jn 3:3).
 “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water
and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (Jn
3:5).
“But John doesn’t connect being born of God with
baptism!”
 With the this morning’s narrow text, that is true.
 But Jesus does--He speaks about being born of “water and
the Spirit.”
 “According to His mercy He saved us, through the washing
of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5).
 There’s another text we’ll mention later.
Being born of God means that I am part of a family.
 God is my Father.
 I can pray to Him.
 “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name” (Matt 6:9).
 He will bless me with what is best (according to His will).
 Matt 7:7-11.
 Jesus is my brother.
 “Both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are
all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them
brethren” (Heb 2:11).
 We are brethren.
 That speaks of our love for one another: 1 Pet 1:22-23.
Being born of God means that I need to live differently.
 Rom 6:1-4.
 Let us live the life that comes from above!