Obligation and Grace

Pastor Martin concludes his series on adoption by setting forth the responsibilities that flow from it, framing every obligation with the gospel pattern 'do because you have.' Following a thread he credits to J. I. Packer's Knowing God, he unfolds three great obligations of the adopted: pleasing the Father (drawn from Matthew 6 and 2 Corinthians 5:9), imitating the Father (from Matthew 5:43-48 and Ephesians 5:1-2), and glorifying the Father (from Matthew 5:13-16 and 1 Corinthians 10:31). He illustrates throughout with the pardoned criminal brought into the king's household and closes by urging believers to meet every temptation with 'I am a child of God.'