Steve Hunter Bible Study

Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his king

     Welcome to the family of God where all believers are referred affectionately by family titles. We are all seen as “children“ or “little children“.  John 1:12-13 states, “ But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even 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.”  Believers are referred to as “children of God” or “sons of God” over 30 times in the Bible between Genesis chapter 6 and 1 John chapter 5. So, we can clearly see evidence that scripture considers all Christians as God’s children. If we are “children of God” then we must also be “sons and daughters of God” which are synonymous. Galatians  3:26  states, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” If “sons and daughters of God”, then also heirs of the Father. These familial titles express a close and intimate vertical relationship. In being referred to as “sons and daughters of God”, t