YOU ARE HIS CHILD, THAT'S YOUR ID

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⁶ Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” ⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. - Galatians 4:6 - 7 NIV

The Omnipotent one, the Omnipresent one, the Omniscient one, the Creator of all things, the Eternal One, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and Omega, the Most Holy God, the Almighty God who alone is worthy of all glory, honor and praise, is your Father! He is your Abba! Yes, He is.

The Father calls us His children:

¹ See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! – 1 John3:1a NIV    

Jesus assures us that God is our Father:

¹⁷ Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” – John 20:17 NIV

The Holy Spirit confirms it:

¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. – Romans 8:16 NIV

Because of Jesus' perfect sacrifice for our sins on the cross, this awesome Holy God calls us His children and that's who we are. 

By calling us His children God brings us into the same class as Himself, that is, He makes us His equals in that sense. Look at it this way, human babies are human, they may not have all the abilities or their faculties fully developed like an adult but they are no less human than adults. How dare you make yourself equal with God! Religion will scream and protest!

The Jews wanted to kill Jesus for calling God his Father, because by doing so He was making Himself equal with God (John 5:18). The thing is He was and is God and said so Himself. He later said, 'before Abraham was, I AM"...and all hell broke loose literally... they wanted to stone him and mind you, these were the very same Jews who had believed in Him only a few verses earlier! John 8 gives a detailed account of how things devolved from the Jews believing in Jesus to them wanting to kill him for calling God His Father - thus making Himself equal with God. Unbelievable! Our Lord was absolutely secure in who He was; today we can be secure in our identity in Him.

Once we are in Christ, God Almighty, becomes our Abba Father, He calls us His children. Remember, He is the one calling us His children. And because we are now His children, He makes us joint-heirs with Christ. And because we are joint-heirs with Christ, God has seated us with Christ in heavenly places far above principalities and powers.

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us ⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ⁶ and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, - Ephesians 2: 4 – 6 NRSV

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Notice, we are not the ones who seated ourselves in that lofty position, it is God who made us to sit and the Scripture is in past tense meaning, once you are in Christ, it’s already a done deal. You are not waiting to be seated with Christ but you already are right here, right now.

You are not defined by your failures and neither are you defined by your successes, instead, you are who God says you are. He calls you His child, He declares you justified, He calls you righteous, He calls you His joint-heir, He calls you His beloved!

Square your shoulders, lift your head up, see yourself as your Abba Father sees you today!