Romans 8:1-17

28 Jan 2010 | | Posted in FlyNo Comments

Fly….

As many of you will know, we have just begun a very exciting and important series of sermons in the church (check out the mbc website for details: www.mbc.org.uk). It has the potential to release so many of us from the chains – expectations, sin, lifestyle and culture – that keep us bound in beliefs and patterns of behavrious that are a direct denial of how Father God sees us, of who we are in Christ and the power we have in the Holy Spirit.

Over the past few weeks, we have built a strong and really exciting base from which we can stop “taxi-ing” and get “lift-off”.

We talked about the Father, and what it means that we are sons of God. Understanding that the Son of God became the Son of Man so that the sons of man might become the sons of God means that many of us are increasingly realising and living out of experiental sonship and not just positional sonship.

We spent some time recognising that our openness to receiving the perfect love of our heavenly Father is directly related to the way in which we have been fathered. Many took very brave steps to actively forgive our dads and ask Father God to “daddy” us.

We also opened the scriptures to Colossians 3 and worked through what it means for you and I to be “in Christ”. It is mind-frying and heart-exciting to understand that Jesus actively decided to minister and operate solely out of his humanity (See Philippians 2). Every time he healed someone, every time he spoke with prophetic authority, he did so out of his humanity, under the authority of the Father and in the power of the Holy Spirit. Can it be true that we get to operate under the same authority – to have the same anointing and the same power? (See Ephesians 1:19-21)

We taught around “Flying with the Dove” and proposed that you and I will never fly unless ‘powered’. We just invited the Holy Spirit to come, asking the Father to give his good gift  (Luke 11) - and He came!

A few questions for you to think about:

  • What are the things that keep you grounded?
  • Are there ‘clothes’ that you wear that are incompatible with Jesus Christ in you?
  • What does operating out of Jesus’ anointing – the Father’s authority and the Holy Spirit’s power – look like practically for you?

- Karl