Children of God (Rom 8:15-23) - Paul M. Williams

Romans 8:15-23 Paul continues in this chapter to set forth the redemptive purposes of God in Christ Jesus for mankind.  Turning away from looking at the believers experience in the here and now, Paul now looks ahead to the future wherein shall be revealed the full redemptive purposes of God in the glories which await us at the coming of Christ.  When asked how this can be?  The answer lies in our adoption as sons and daughters of God!  As such we have been grafted into the family of God and have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba, Father!!  As such we have now become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together!  This sermon seeks to lift believers' eyes above this world to see the wonderful inheritance that has been laid up for us in the ages to come when the Saints shall inherit the earth in a Kingdom that is yet to come wherein creation itself awaits the manifestation of the sons of God at which time it too shall be delivered from bondage into the glorious liberty of the children of God.