In our second podcast looking at what it means to be the child of God, we're going to take time today to look at a new blood line of freedom we've inherited as God's children.

May we live unchained to the terrible effects of sin today,

as we learn to walk out our new identity in Christ.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast.

Our scripture for today comes from 1st John 3 verses 2 through 3.

God's word says, Beloved, we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when

he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

To be the child of God is to be ransomed from a nature bent against God and held captive by the

bonds of sin and brought into a new life freed from sin and filled with the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 317 says,

Now the Lord is the Spirit,

and where the Spirit of the Lord is,

there is freedom.

If you are a believer you have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you.

At salvation you were filled with God himself who longs to produce the incredible fruits of righteousness and freedom instead

of the sin that robs you of the abundant life afforded to you by Jesus' sacrifice. You have been given a new bloodline of freedom. The

sinful nature of Adam no longer flows through your veins. You've been made clean and given a new nature by which you can

live freed from enslavement to sin. Paul writes in Roman 6 through 7, we know that our old self was crucified with Jesus in order

that the body of sin would be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved

to sin.

For one who has died has been set free from sin.

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