Be a Son Not a Slave

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Many men have fallen into the trap that their worth is based on their performance. This is a slave mentality that needs to be broken. Join us for a deep podcast discussing how God really views you: as a son!

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0:00.0	You are a son.
0:02.4	You're not a slave.
0:05.4	Those of you who think of the father as a master,
0:09.4	think of yourself as a slave. He is not your master and you are not a slave. He is your father, your son.
0:19.0	This is a major theme in Galatians and Romans. I'll read this from Romans 814 through 16.
0:24.5	All who are led by the spirit of God. The Father's sons have the spirit of God.
0:29.2	Those who are led by the spirit of God are what?
0:33.4	Sons.
0:35.2	That is a legal authoritative designation.
0:39.6	For you did not receive the spirit of slavery. Your sons not slaves to fall back into fear but you have received the spirit of
0:47.1	adoption as sons by whom we cries quoting the prayer of Jesus,
0:53.0	Abba Father, the spirit himself bears witness
0:55.6	with our spirit that we are the children of God.
0:59.8	In the ancient world, the Roman Empire
1:02.2	of which this was a part, had widespread slavery,
1:05.3	upwards of 25% of all men, were slaves.
1:10.4	This is a tragic and horrific situation, but if you were a slave it meant a few things.
1:16.4	Number one, you had no legal rights.
1:20.2	You only had legal rights if you were a son.
1:29.0	Number two, you had no inheritance rights as a slave, only if you were a son. Furthermore, a slave could never become a son.
1:35.0	These were two categories,
1:37.0	and if you were a slave, you were always a slave.
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