Be Lead by the Spirit
Topic 1: Children of God must be led by the Spirit
Pastor Maselo Mosomane
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” Romans 8:14
Everyone who is born again is a child of God. It does not matter how you feel or how you see yourself; the word of God insists that we are children of God. Many people will argue that we are all children of God. How I wish it could be so? It is also God’s wish that all should be saved and be called His children. “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” 1 Timothy 2:3-4.
We all know that to be someone else’s child you’ve got to be born of that person. We know this very well that parent and child relationship comes about through birth. You don’t just reason and convince others that you are so and so’s child and it becomes so. You may be adopted and become legally so and so’s child; but you know for sure that you don’t share the DNA. It doesn’t matter what you call yourself and it doesn’t matter what you call that person; the fact remains; the blood that flows in your veins are different from his.
It is true; we are all created by God. The bible bears witness to this truth. “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27. It is also true that we have a relationship with Him. Yes, we have! He is God our creator and we are His creation. We have a Creator-creation relationship with Him. We were created to be His people. But Jesus came and opened a way for all God’s people to enter into a Father and child relationship with God. When we receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour, we are born into the family of God. We become children of God. “…having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” 1 Peter 1:23
The bible says; “as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” John 1:12-13. Jesus said to Nicodemus that night; “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” John 3:6. This is exactly what makes us God’s children. One, we receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour; two, we become born of the will of God i.e. we are born of God’s seed.
Every person on earth must have two parents - physical parents and spiritual Parent. We have our physical or earthly parents and we must also have God as our spiritual Parent. We are born of our physical parents and we must also be born of our spiritual Parent.
Those who are born again do have two parents. They have their physical parents while they are still in their physical bodies and they also have God as their spiritual parent. When they die, they leave their physical parents and go up to join their spiritual parent in heaven. Some people think that they can have their physical parents as parents even in the spiritual world. No, it does not work that way. Your physical parent cannot fill both posts. He is not qualified to do that. If you don’t have a spiritual parent yet, you need one my friend.
When we got born again we became children of God. As soon as that happened, God positions Himself to lead us. He does so through His Spirit. We all received the Spirit of God when we got born again. He lives in our spirits. One of the reasons He came to live in us is to lead up in the paths of righteousness. Psalm 23:3. Jesus said John 16:13; “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.”
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