Happy Father’s Day!  Do you remember calling out to your dad for help?  Seemed dad always had the answer, and he could fix anything!  We have the same privilege to call upon our Heavenly Father with whatever trials or difficulties we face in this life.  This gift has been afforded to us by the indwelling of God’s Spirit.

• Mortification – The insistent, continual, putting to death of your sinful nature
• Adoption – The positional transmutation to become a member of God’s family
• Glorification – The participation, in resurrection, of the enjoyment and worship of God, without a sinful nature

Romans 8:12-13

Therefore, brother, we have an obligation — but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.  For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live

Romans 8:14-16

Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.  For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.  And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Hebrews 2:14-15
“14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

Galatians 4:4-6
“4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 8:17

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.

• Mortification      Romans 8:18-22
• Adoption               Romans 8:23
• Glorification        Romans 8:24-25

Conclusion

#1 – Act like a member of God’s family,
#2 – Because you are a member of God’s family, and
#3 – One day you will share in the glory of God’s family?

Application

1. Ask God for “help” – “Abba, Father”
2. Wait patiently with confident hope!