Live Like an Heir | Spiritual Authority: Sons & Daughters | Chad Everett

Can you be an heir and still live like a slave? In Live Like an Heir, from the sermon series: Spiritual Authority: Sons & Daughters, Pastor Chad Everett continues through Galatians 4 and challenges us to recognize where we may be living beneath what God has already made available through Christ. Through faith in Jesus, we are born into the family of God as sons and daughters, and if we are sons and daughters, we are heirs. But Galatians 4 shows us that an heir who remains immature can live no differently from a slave, even though the inheritance already belongs to them. Spiritual maturity is not determined by age or how many years we have followed Jesus. As we grow in God’s Word and put His truth into practice, we grow in our understanding of what is already ours in Christ. Jesus’ story of the two sons in Luke 15 reveals two ways we can miss this. Failure can convince us that we no longer deserve to live as sons and daughters, while faithful service can become striving to earn from God what He has already made available. Both can leave an heir thinking and living like a slave. The Father is calling His sons and daughters to know Him, grow in spiritual maturity, receive what He has provided through Jesus, and live like an heir. “Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” --Galatians 4:7 NKJV The Roads Church - https://theroads.church