Children of God: The Who, When, & How

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,

that we should be called children of God!…

- 1 John 3:1

This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:1-3 and gave us the who, when, and the how of the children of God:

• Who are the children of God?
  • They are regenerate
  • They are adopted
  • They are sojourners
• When will they be known?
  • Already and not yet
• How should the child of God live then?
  • With a Christ-centered hope
  • With a Christ-centered purity
    • How do we purify ourselves?
      • Identify what is explicitly sinful
      • Seek to give ourselves to righteous things

In explaining 1 John 3:2 about when the children of God will be know, Pastor Emilio talked about a theological term called “Already and Not Yet”. Hear his explanation of this term:

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