Following His lead

From slave to sonship

Takeaways from "Fatherheart of God" lecture

- Isiah 51:1 - To gain understanding is the beginiing of wisdom. When we begin to understand our family, we begin to understand where we came from.  The bible refers to the rest of us as orphans. (John 14:18) before we know Jesus that is. That's what Jesus tells us. But because of the cross we become the sons of the Lord and we give ourselves to God. But we still love our orphanhood even though we are Christians. People in our lives they all hurt us. people of authority, friends, etc. But we need to know where we are from. and we are all at different levels of coming out of orphanhood. Sometimes as Christians we love  by the head and not by the spirit. because we are programmed by other Christians to live a certain way. 

- Mathew 22:37~40 says we need to love God first, then others, then myself. But sometimes we need to love ourselves first before others. Because some of us can love others, but not ourselves. They live in an orphan spirit. I know God loves me, but i don't love myself. Sometimes pastors go to missions to fulfill a love deficit. They don't love themselves, and want to receive love, but the end up hurting thier ministry. 

- Sometimes we feel God is a punisher, we think that because of an earthly father. ex) movie Annie. She was brought up on an orphanage but could not except her new father's love. 

The journey we will take is from slavery from to sonship. The definition of the Son is to be lead by the father. 
A slave is bound by fear. ex) what will people think of me? Our actions are derived from our want to be loved.

Slaves : lead by the flesh
- Fear, disregarded, Bondage, Flesh, "reason", no inheritance, ignorance
- driven by performance
- replaceable
- you don't reap the benefits of your hard work. 

Son : lead by the spirit
- Fearless, Belonging, Freedom, Spirit, Revelation, Inheritance, Knowledge (privilege to learn)
- always forgiveness
- able to get things, availability 
- once a son, always a son

Serving God is not a duty. It's a relationship with God. 
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