Restoration of Sonship
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to look at the moment in Jesus’ story of the prodigal son, where the Father restores his sonship. May the incredible love of the Father displayed in this moment of Jesus’ story give us a glimpse into how our heavenly Father feels about us today.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 6:18, and today's worship is The Place You Found Me by DCC Collective.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to look at the moment in Jesus' story of the prodigal son, |
| 0:10.0 | where the Father restores his sonship. |
| 0:12.0 | May the incredible love of the Father displayed in this moment of Jesus' story |
| 0:18.0 | give us a glimpse into how our Heavenly Father feels about us today. |
| 0:22.2 | Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Our verse for today comes from 2 Corinthians 618. |
| 0:43.7 | Scripture says, |
| 0:45.8 | And I will be a father to you, |
| 0:48.5 | and you shall be sons and daughters to me, |
| 0:50.3 | says the Lord Almighty. |
| 0:59.4 | By the sacrifice of Jesus, you and I have been made sons and daughters of the Most High God. |
| 1:00.9 | We've been redeemed and transformed into children and heirs to the kingdom of God. |
| 1:06.8 | Romans 8 15 through 17 says, for you do not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, |
| 1:13.6 | but you've received the spirit of adoption as sons, |
| 1:17.6 | by whom we cry, Abba, Father. |
| 1:21.6 | The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children then heirs. |
| 1:30.3 | Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. |
| 1:39.3 | In the story of the prodigal son, the Father clothes his wayward and rebellious son with a robe, a ring, and sandals. |
| 1:50.0 | All three of these symbols represent a restoration of sonship in different ways. |
| 1:56.0 | The son, who returned to his father to simply be employed as a slave, was immediately restored |
| 2:03.0 | as a child and heir. The father had no desire to make his son pay for his own sins. He |
| 2:10.6 | simply wanted restored relationship with his child again. And our Heavenly Father feels the same way about us. At salvation, we were restored |
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