Once a Child Always a Child
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
For the last day of our weeklong focus on being the child of God, we’re looking at how our status as God’s child can never been taken away from us.
May God give you confidence and joy today in your new identity in him. And may you see how powerful his sacrificial love is today as we make space to see and live out our identity as eternal children of a good God.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 10:28, and today's worship is Who You Say I Am by Hillsong Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | In the last podcast of our weeklong focus on being the child of God, we're looking at |
| 0:09.2 | how our status as God's child can never be taken away from us. |
| 0:14.3 | May God give you confidence and joy today in your new identity and Him. |
| 0:19.4 | And may we see how powerful His sacrificial love is today as we make space to see and |
| 0:24.7 | live out our identity as eternal children of good God. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | As a disciple of Jesus, we have full assurance of eternal face-to-face relationship with |
| 0:39.4 | our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:41.0 | John 1027-30 says, My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. |
| 0:47.5 | I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out |
| 0:52.9 | of my hand. |
| 0:54.1 | My Father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them |
| 0:59.7 | out of the Father's hand. |
| 1:01.8 | I and the Father are one. |
| 1:05.3 | Once we have become a child of God by confessing with our mouth and believing in a heart |
| 1:10.0 | that Jesus Christ is truly Lord of all, we are the child of God forever. |
| 1:16.9 | No sin, struggle, trial or rebellion can pluck us from the Father's hand and as children |
| 1:23.0 | of God, we no longer look to this world but to our total restoration, redemption and |
| 1:30.0 | glorification as our source of hope. |
| 1:34.1 | There is peace and transcendent joy in the truth that this world is not our final resting |
| 1:39.1 | place. |
| 1:40.1 | Your pains and trials are temporary and pale in comparison to the incredible life that |
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