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ROMANS 8: 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.” 16 FOR HIS SPIRIT JOINS WITH OUR SPIRIT TO AFFIRM THAT WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN.

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ISAIAH 64:6 ALL OF US HAVE BECOME LIKE ONE WHO IS UNCLEAN, AND ALL OUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS; WE ALL SHRIVEL UP LIKE A LEAF, AND LIKE THE WIND OUR SINS SWEEP US AWAY.

ROMANS 8:15 INSTEAD, YOU RECEIVED GOD’S SPIRIT WHEN HE ADOPTED YOU AS HIS OWN CHILDREN.

I AM GOD’S CHILD

I HAVE A NEW IDENTITY

ROMANS 8: …WHEN HE ADOPTED YOU AS HIS OWN CHILDREN. NOW WE CALL HIM, “ABBA, FATHER”

JOHN 1:12 BUT TO ALL WHO BELIEVED HIM AND ACCEPTED HIM, HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD.

LOVED FORGIVEN ACCEPTED FAVORED COMFORTED PROTECTED

ROMANS 8:15 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.”

I HAVE NEW AUTHORITY

MATTHEW 28: JESUS CAME AND TOLD HIS DISCIPLES, "I HAVE BEEN GIVEN ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH. 19 THEREFORE, GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

EXOUSIA: DELEGATED POWER

POWER TO OVERCOME SIN POWER TO LIVE VICTORIOUSLY

ROMANS 6:6-7 WE KNOW THAT OUR SINFUL SELVES WERE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST SO THAT SIN MIGHT LOSE ITS POWER IN OUR LIVES. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN. 7 FOR WHEN WE DIED WITH CHRIST WE WERE SET FREE FROM THE POWER OF SIN.

PSALMS 44:5 ONLY BY YOUR POWER CAN WE PUSH BACK OUR ENEMIES; ONLY IN YOUR NAME CAN WE TRAMPLE OUR FOES.

I AM A CHILD OF GOD I HAVE A NEW IDENTITY I HAVE NEW AUTHORITY

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