Sons & Daughters Through Faith | Spiritual Authority: Restored In Christ

What if your relationship with God was never meant to be built on striving, proving, or earning? Many believers know the words grace and faith, yet still live as though God’s goodness depends on their performance. In Sons and Daughters Through Faith, Chad Everett takes us through Galatians 3 to call us back to the foundation of the Christian life: God provides by grace, and we receive through faith.

Receiving What Grace Has Provided

Paul asks the Galatians a simple but confronting question: Did you receive the Spirit by works or by the hearing of faith? That same question still searches our hearts today. Are we trying to earn what God has already given? Are we working to make God willing, or are we learning to receive what He has provided through Jesus?

Sons and daughters through faith do not have to convince the Father to be good. He already is. Faith does not twist God’s arm or persuade Him to care. Instead, faith takes hold of what grace has already made available. Salvation, righteousness, the work of the Spirit, and the promises of God begin with Him, not with us.

Living From Identity, Not Performance

Because of Jesus, we do not obey to become sons and daughters. We obey because, through faith, we already are sons and daughters. That truth changes everything.

When identity rests on performance, life becomes exhausting. Every failure feels like rejection. Every weakness feels like proof that we are not enough. However, when identity rests in Christ, obedience flows from love instead of fear. Growth produces works; works do not produce sonship.

Sons and daughters through faith live from a secure place. They do not strive for a position in the family. They grow, serve, and obey from their place in the family.

From Sonship to Family

Faith does more than connect us to God individually. It places us into the family of God. Therefore, church becomes more than a service to attend or a message to consume. It becomes a family to belong to, serve, strengthen, and grow with.

This message also gives credit to a teaching by Banning Liebscher that helped frame the contrast between viewing church as a restaurant and viewing church as a family. A restaurant serves customers. A family grows when everyone contributes.

That picture challenges a consumer mindset. If church becomes a restaurant, we show up, receive what we prefer, and leave disconnected. But God designed His people for something deeper.

A Family to Grow With

When believers understand that they are sons and daughters through faith, church stops being something they simply attend and becomes a family they help strengthen. Instead of only asking what they received from a service, they begin to consider how God may want to use them to encourage, serve, and build up others.

This message calls every believer to receive what God has provided, rest in their identity in Christ, and take their place in the Family of Faith. God is not building a crowd of consumers. He is building a family of sons and daughters through faith who serve one another, encourage one another, and grow together in Jesus.

Scripture References
Galatians 3:1–29, Ephesians 2:8–9, John 3:3–6, John 14:6, Philippians 1:6