1. Message: True Fellowship: Beloved Children of the Father March 17, 2013

2. Family Traits: True Children of God 1) True children of God remain faithful to God – they persevere to the end.

3. Family Traits: True Children of God 2) True children of God are confident & hopeful of Christ’s return.

4. Family Traits: True Children of God 3) True children of God will not shrink back in shame when Christ returns.

5. Family Traits: True Children of God 4) True children of God become God’s righteous children only through divinely initiated new birth.

6. Family Traits: True Children of God 5) True children of God are lavishly and incomprehensibly loved by the Father – to be made God’s children.

7. Family Traits: True Children of God 6) True children of God go unrecognized as God’s children by the world just as Jesus went unrecognized as God’s Son.

8. Family Traits: True Children of God 7) True children of God live in faithful understanding that they are not yet, what they will eventually be – finally formed into the likeness of Christ.

9. Family Traits: True Children of God 8) True children of God live in this world with a purifying hope of the world to come.

10. Our Response 1 )Contemplate the lavish love of God in making you his child. 2)Live in this world in response to that love.