Turn to your Bible, if you would, to Galatians chapter 3 verse 22, I'm going to go ahead
and start reading.
Galatians chapter 3 verse 22, the Bible reads,
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto faith, which should
afterward be revealed.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us into Christ, that we might be justified
by faith.
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under the schoolmaster.
And where I derive the title of this message this morning is found in verse 26, it says,
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Title of this sermon this morning, or this evening, is not everyone is a child of God.
How many times you go out soul-winding, evangelizing, preaching the gospel, and out of nowhere the
person will say, well, we're all children of God.
How many times have you heard that?
Raise your hand if you've heard that before.
More than once, raise your hand, keep it up.
More than 10 times, keep your hand up.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say, we're all the children of God, I'd be
a wealthy man.
But you know what?
The Bible doesn't teach that.
Here's the thing, at the end of the day, you can sympathize for why someone in the world
would think that.
Because, you know, think about it, we're all made by God, so it makes sense that we're
all children of God, but they don't understand the things of God.
The Bible says the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they
are foolishness unto them, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.
Right?
So the Bible says clearly in John 1 12, we preach this all the time when we show people
salvation, but as many as received him, Jesus Christ, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
And I'm not going to go into a side false doctrine, but there are some weirdos out there
who think that when you believe, everyone becomes a son of God, not a child of God,
but a son of God.
Look, God has daughters as well.
Anyone who believes on Jesus is a child of God.
If you don't believe, you're not saved, you're not a child, you're not in the family.
But the good thing about this doctrine is that it leads us right into the concept of
being born again.
I mean, that is a term that most people outside of Christianity have heard before, a born
again Christian.
Well, what does this mean?
The Bible clearly teaches that once you believe on Jesus Christ, you become a child of God,
you must be born of the Spirit.
The Bible clearly teaches that they that worship God must worship him in spirit to the unsaved
doesn't get this.
They think God will one day audibly speak to them from the sky, maybe in a dream or
something like that.
But the Bible says holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
And at the end of the day, when it comes to preaching the gospel, and you talk to somebody
on this very subject of, well, we're all children of God, don't get rude with them, don't get
ready to turn to your Bible and just cut them off in the path meekly, right?
Be ready always to give an answer to any man that asketh you of the hope of the reason
that is in you with meekness and fear.
So obviously the Mormon who thinks, oh, we're all children of God, you can cut them off
in the path, but the average person, they're just trying to say something that makes sense
to them.
We're all children of God.
Yes, men were made in the image of God and mankind was made by God.
But if you are not born again, you are not a child of God.
See, the thing is, I want people to realize that this doctrine is separated by us as Baptists.
How many Protestant churches that are like United Methodist preach, oh, we are all God's
children, they're preaching from a Bible that doesn't clearly teach that only believers
are on the Lord Jesus Christ are children of God.
I mean, the United Methodist Church, other Protestant denominations will start spouting
that, so unsaved people will associate that doctrine to Christianity.
Let us be different.
Let us show the people of this world that to become a child of God, you must believe
on Jesus Christ.
The title of this sermon this evening is We're Not All Children of God, Believers in Jesus
are Children of God.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Dear Holy Father, thank you so much for allowing us this opportunity to sharpen our skill and
to get the opportunity to preach.
Please fill the next man with boldness of the Holy Spirit to preach your word boldly.
In Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.