Sunday Morning: June 6, 1999
Text: Galatians 4:6-7 "And because ye are [present active] sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son [sonship] into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
Romans 12:3 "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
Galatians 4:7 "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
Galatians 1:10 "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
THE CRY OF A SON
Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption [sonship], whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
Mark 14:36 "And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt."
Romans 8:17 "And if children [not a son], then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."
Romans 8:18 "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
John 1:12 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons [te>knon, mature child] of God, even to them that believe [present active participle] on his name:"
John 1:18 "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."
Matthew 2:2 "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
Matthew 5:44-45 "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45. That ye may be [aorist middle subjunctive] the children [sons] of your Father which is in heaven: &ldots;"
Hebrews 5:7-8 "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers (in the garden before crucifixion) and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8. Though he were [ei>mi, being, present active participle] a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;"
Zechariah 13:6 "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."
Mark 14:36 "And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt."
Philippians 3:10-11 "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead."
Romans 8:14-15 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are [present active] the sons of God. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption [sonship], whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
Galatians 4:6 "And because ye are [present active] sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
Galatians 4:7 "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
Galatians 1:10 "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
Philippians 2:5-9 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:"
Hebrews 12:2-3 "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him (the hope of glory) endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds."
Galatians 3:1 "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"
Galatians 3:2 "This only would I learn [desire] of you, Received ye the Spirit (of sonship) by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 3:3 "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit (of sonship), are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"
Galatians 3:4 "Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain."
Galatians 3:5 "He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit (of sonship), and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 4:19 "My little children (not sons), of whom I travail in birth again until Christ (the spirit of sonship) be formed in you,"
Revelation 21:7 "He that overcometh [present active participle] shall inherit [future active] all things; and I will be [future middle] his God, and he shall be [future middle] my son."
Colossians 1:27 "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"