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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 8:15-17a - Spirit Led Part 2

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Romans in Outline No. 82

1.1  THE HOLY SPIRIT ASSURES US OF OUR ADOPTION

Romans 8:15

2.1  The contrast: the spirit of bondage

3.1  WHAT THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE IS

4.1  Slavery to sin

John 8

4.2  Slavery to law

Acts 15:28

3.2  WHAT THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE DOES: FEAR

2 Timothy 1:7

2.2  The secular adoption

3.1  THE GRECO–ROMAN CUSTOM

3.2  THE HEBREW IDEA: GOD’S ADOPTION OF ISRAEL

2.3  Spiritual adoption

3.1  THE FORMER POSITION

3.2  THE CHANGE FACTOR: GOD’S LOVE

Romans 5

3.3  THE NATURE OF ADOPTION

Galatians 4:4-7

4.1  The adoption agent: the Holy Spirit

4.2  The permanency of the relationship

4.3  The legal action with experiential results

4.4  Adopted but born

John 1:12

2.4  The relationship: “Abba, Father”

1.2  THE HOLY SPIRIT ASSURES US THAT WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN

Romans 8:16

2.1  The witness of the Spirit

1 John 5:7

3.1  “WITH OUR SPIRIT” NOT “TO OUR SPIRIT”

3.2  CONFIRMS BY WORKING IN OUR LIVES

2.2  The status of children

3.1  THE CONTRAST WITH “SONS”

Romans 8:14

1.3  THE HOLY SPIRIT ASSURES US OF OUR HEIRSHIP

Romans 8:17a

2.1  What it is to be an heir

3.1  THE ONES WHO INHERIT

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

3.2  THE INHERITANCE

4.1 Blessing

1 Peter 3:9

Ephesians 1:3

4.2  Salvation

Hebrews 1:14

4.3  Eternal life

Titus 3:7

2.2  What it is to be a joint–heir

Romans 8:15-17a

15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, (NKJV)

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