New Clothes for God’s Beloved Adopted Children

Old Testament Complimentary Passage:
Deuteronomy 7:6-11

Sermon Outline:

1. In love, God chose you to be holy
2. Put on God’s heart toward sinners
3. Put on God’s forgiveness of sinners
4. Love completes the outfit

Family Discussion Questions:

1. Does God pick people who are better than others?
2. Does God love Christians because we are better than others?
3. What does it mean to be holy?
4. How is God patient with us? How should that make us treat others?
5. How should we feel about people who are suffering?
6. How should we feel about people who are having a hard time obeying God?
7. Does a Christian have to forgive people?
8. What does compassion look like from God’s perspective and how does it differ from the different views we see in the world?
9. We are told to forgive “as the Lord has forgiven” us. What does that mean? How can people distort that teaching?
10. What is love from God’s definition? How is that a necessary foundation for all the other commands in this passage?
11. What does it mean to be holy as God is holy?
12. How does the phrase, “chosen to be holy” correct both legalists and antinomians (permissive)?
13. How do these commands differ from the manmade religious commands which Paul said earlier to reject?