Sunday Message — The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost The Holy Spirit Gives Us Not a Spirit of Fear but the Spirit of Adoption
Sunday Message — The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost The Holy Spirit Gives Us Not a Spirit of Fear but the Spirit of Adoption Text: Romans 8:12–17 Opening This morning is the seventh Sunday after Pentecost, and I want to preach on this: the Holy Spirit gives us not a spirit of fear but the Spirit of adoption. Because the season after Pentecost runs more than twenty-seven weeks this year, I am staying with this subject and letting it unfold week by week. I do not know how long we will keep going, but for now we have arrived at week seven. Today I want us to see that the Spirit gives us not a spirit of fear but the Spirit of adoption, and to look closely at what direction the Spirit actually moves in, and what work He actually does, inside our hearts. The key question of the morning is this: fear, or trust? As always, I will move through five questions. One. How Did I Fight the Spiritual Battle This Week? I fought again this week. What is the most important thing in the...