On our second day, looking at what it means to be the child of God, we're going to take time today to look at a new bloodline 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 15 podcast.

Our scripture for today comes from 1 John 3 verses 2 through 3. Scripture 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've 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 Romans 6 verses 6 through 7.

We know that our old self was crucified with Jesus in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing

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