TRIBE | Sons & Daughters

Message Recap

[I Corinthians 13:11-12]

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but t hen we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
 

[Mark 10:15]

I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.
 

There’s a difference between been childish & being childlike

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1. Claims Us

[Romans 8:15]

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”

[Matthew 3:17]

And a voice from heaven said, “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy.”

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2. Challenge Us

[Matthew 4:1-4]

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. 2 For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry. 3 During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Trust God to know when to hide you & when to guide you.

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3. Corrects Us

[Hebrews 12:7-13]

As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? 8 If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. 9 Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever? 10 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. 11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

When your Heavenly Father corrects you its not to shame you. It’s to shape you.

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4. Carries Us

[Psalm 121:1-2]

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

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