Beloved, Now We Are Sons of God | 1 John 3:1-3

ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo

February 16, 2025

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Lord's Day: Feb 16, 2025 Preacher: <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> Series: <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a> Topic: <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/adoption">Adoption</a> Scripture: 1 John 3:1–3, 1 John 2:23–24, Romans 8:29–32, Hebrews 12:5–11, 1 John 1:9, John 1:17, Galatians 4:4–7, Matthew 7:7–12 <h5>I.  As the letter progresses, these crescendos keep compounding, keep building up into something glorious! Into a glorious reality, a glorious gospel indicative</h5> <h5>II.  Our Adoption as Sons: Verses 1a and 2-3</h5> <h5>III.  God first foreknows us, but justification is the beginning of the how—how He accomplishes and applies our redemption</h5> <h5>IV.  Now God calls us His children</h5> <h5>V.  “What manner of love is this?” That the Father has given us?</h5> 1 See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we would be called children of God; and we are [already]. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not been manifested as yet what we will be [guaranteed, by His adoptive love]. We know that when He is manifested [rather: “when it does become evident”], we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure [hagnos, same root from hagios "holy"]. 1 John 3:1-3 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; 6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He flogs every son whom He receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our benefit [our good], so that we may share His holiness. 11 And all discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful, but to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Hebrews 12:5–11 4 “[Because] when the fullness of the time came, God [the Father] sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God [our Father] sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father! [Our Father!]” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God [great expectations!].” Galatians 4:4–7 <h5>The Baptist Larger Catechism, Q. 67: What is adoption?</h5> A: Adoption is an act of the free grace of God [the Father] in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, by which all those who are justified are received into the number of His children, have His name put upon them, have the Spirit of His Son given to them, are under His fatherly care [and discipline], are welcomed to all the liberties and privileges of the sons of God, and are made heirs of all the promises and fellow heirs with Christ in glory. <h5>An Orthodox Catechism, Q. 80: How does the Lord's Supper remind you and assure you that you share in Christ's one sacrifice on the cross and in all his gifts? </h5> A. In this way: Christ has commanded me and all believers to eat this broken bread and to drink this cup. With this command he gave this promise: First, as surely as I see with my eyes the bread of the Lord broken for me and the cup given to me, so surely his body was offered and broken for me and his blood poured out for me on the cross. Second, as surely as I receive from the hand of the one who serves, and taste with my mouth the bread and cup of the Lord, given me as sure signs of Christ's body and blood, so surely he nourishes and refreshes my soul for eternal life with his crucified body and poured-out blood. We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a> 4712 Montana Ave El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> Contact us at: <ul> <li>web: <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a> call/text: (915) 843-8088 email: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a>

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