Sons & Daughters

We are defined by our identity as sons and daughters of God; not our weight, our reps, our personal records, or our diet plans. As receivers of the gift of Grace, we get to be in the family business doing God’s will for the good of the world.

Key Points

Your Father is God, the Maker of Heaven and earth, your Refuge and your Sustainer.

As a son or daughter of God, you receive an inheritance that does not wither or fade.

You live in the Kingdom of God (that is both now and not yet), living in accordance with God’s principles and by His Spirit.

We get to train up the next generation to identify first as sons or daughters of God.

We get to train up the next generation to walk in the Spirit of God, not the spirit of this age.

We are sons and daughters of God by FAITH, not by striving or perfection.

We are united because we are the family of God, the Church, the bride of Christ!

Our reward is safe in the heavenly places, where Jesus reigns. We don’t have to strive for affirmation or acclaim right now, because we know nothing we do goes unseen.

Scripture

“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” Luke 6:35

“And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams…” Acts 2:17

“You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” Acts 3:25-26

“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” Romans 8:14

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’” Romans 8:15

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” Romans 9:26

“for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.” Galatians 3:26

“It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?” Hebrews 12:7

Quotes

“That we might live into everything that God purposes for us as grace-made daughters [and sons] of God.” ― Ruth Chou Simons, When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

“Image-bearing means becoming fully human, not becoming divine. It means reflecting as a limited being the perfections of a limitless God.”― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us