Please take your Bibles and turn along with me to Romans chapter eight. Romans chapter eight, we're gonna be looking at verses 15 through 17 this morning. Looking at the joy and assurance of our sonship and having God as our father. Romans 8, verse 15, the Apostle Paul continues to write to these Christians living in Rome. He says to them, for you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba, Father, The spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God. And if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. This is the word of God. Thanks be to God for his word. Let's pray together. Our God, we stand amazed at the truth of your word, once again, as we open it and read it, and are challenged to accept what we read. That we who were once your enemies, estranged from you, children of our father, the devil, have now become children of God, sons of God, with God as our father. And if we are children of God, then we are also heirs of God and fellow heirs with Jesus Christ, Christ our brother. These things are too great for us to fully comprehend, too incredible for us to fully fathom. And yet it is true. This is true of us as Christians. We have a inheritance that is God himself, that is equal to the inheritance of Christ. How can these things be true? And yet they are ours because of the glorious promise of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So sink these thoughts deeply within our hearts this morning. Cause us to be assured of our sonship. Cause us to rejoice in the reality of that sonship and our inheritance. We ask this in Christ's name, amen. For much of chapter eight, the Apostle Paul has been emphasizing and explaining to us the crucial role of the Holy Spirit in our lives as Christians. The Christian at the moment of salvation receives the Holy Spirit in full. And the reception of the Holy Spirit means that the Holy Spirit comes to indwell the believer, to live within us. The Holy Spirit, at the moment of faith, begins to take up residence inside of us, a residency that is permanent and that is powerful to transform us into greater and greater Christ-likeness. this happens because the Christian by definition is a person who is led by the Holy Spirit that's what Paul says in verse 14 look with me there Romans 8 14 for all who are being led by the Holy Spirit the Spirit of God these are the sons of God Those who are being led by the Spirit are the sons of God. To be led by the Spirit is to have oneself in submission to the Spirit. It is to be under control of the Spirit. It is to follow the Spirit's lead. This is what characterizes the true Christian. They are led by the Holy Spirit. Not perfectly, mind you, not this side of eternity, but we are persistently led by the Spirit. We are persistently in submission to the Spirit's leading and we are progressively transformed by the Spirit as we follow Him into greater and greater Christ likeness. Paul says that all those who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. Now when Paul says these are the sons of God, he means that these are the true Christians. Christians are the sons of God. Paul chooses a very interesting phrase here to call us Christians. To designate us as the sons of God. Now friends, that is really significant. He doesn't say that we are the servants of God, although we certainly are the servants of God, right? We are the slaves of God. We are slaves of righteousness, slaves of Christ and slaves of God, which Paul stated clearly back in Romans chapter six in verse 22. Paul also doesn't say that we're merely the friends of God, although that is certainly true as well. Paul made that clear back in Romans chapter five, verses nine through 11, where he explained there that we have gone from being God's enemies, opposed to God, and God opposed to us, to being his allies and his friends. Here in Romans 8, 14, Paul goes further. He says that we aren't merely servants of God or slaves of God, and we aren't merely friends of God, but wonder of wonders, Paul actually states here that we as Christians are the sons of God. Sons of God. In the Old Testament, God referred to his chosen people Israel as my son. Israel was God's son. and God was their father. Fast forward to the New Testament. And this is what we read in the opening chapter of John's gospel. John chapter one verses 11 and 12 says that he, Jesus, the eternal word, came to his own and those who were his own, that is the Jews, did not receive him. But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become what? Children of God. even to those who believe in his name. So receiving and believing in Jesus are part of this new birth of being born again spiritually. And by being born again spiritually, we become children of God. This is important because we aren't born into this world as the children of God. That's not our natural state and status. We are born into this world, not as the children of God, but as the, spiritual descendants of fallen Adam. That's what we learned back in Romans chapter five. Not only are we the spiritual descendants of Adam, but we're also spiritual children of the devil. This is exactly what Jesus said to those who were still unbelievers in John chapter eight. You can turn to John 8. I want you to see that. Keep your place in Romans 8 and turn to John chapter 8. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. John chapter 8, verse 42. John 8, 42. Jesus said to those who were listening to him, some were exercising a measure of belief. They were exercising a measure of trust in Jesus but it wasn't saving faith as yet we know this because of what Jesus says about them in John 8 42 he said to them if God were your father you would love me if God was your father you would love me because I am God's son For I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on my own initiative, but he sent me, verse 43. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father, who? The devil. And you want to do the desires of your father. Like father, like son. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As the father goes, so go the sons of the father. So it is spiritually. He goes on to say that the devil was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature for he is a liar and the father of lies. The devil does as the devil is. Being precedes doing. And so it is for Satan himself. He is evil and he does evil. He is a liar and he practices lying. Skip down to John 8, 47. Jesus says, he who is of God, that is, has God as their father, hears the words of God. For this reason, you do not hear them because you are not of God. You are not a son of God you do not have God as your father now Jesus also spoke of Christians being sons of God in his sermon on the mountain Matthew 5 9 where He says, blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God. Those who are peacemakers, those who make peace with others are called sons of God because they're like their father in heaven who is a peacemaker himself. He is the ultimate peacemaker, right? He took a relationship that seemed doomed, that seemed impossible to reconcile and he has reconciled it through the gift of his son, Jesus Christ. And now we follow in our father's footsteps. We imitate the actions of our father when we make peace with others and help others make peace with others. And so we're called the sons of God. Because we bear a striking spiritual resemblance to our spiritual father in heaven. Now I want you to turn in your Bibles to John three. John chapter three, again, we're laying the groundwork here for what it means to be a child of God, to be numbered among the sons of God. John chapter three, you know what's happening here in John chapter three, Jesus is visited by a Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews, part of the Sanhedrin, a man by the name of Nicodemus, a man of significant stature and reputation, and he likes what he's hearing from Jesus. He doesn't fully understand everything he's hearing yet. He's intrigued, he wants to know more, but he doesn't really want others to know that he wants to know more. So he comes to Jesus by night. Look with me, John chapter three, verse one. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher. Rabbi, teacher, we know that you're from God. He's already there. He knows that Jesus has a divine message, that his message bears the imprimatur of God himself because of the signs and miracles that Jesus was performing. And that's what he says next, Jesus answered and said to him, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again or born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Verse four, Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he's old? What are you talking about, Jesus? I don't get it. How can a man be born when he's old? He can't enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born, can he? Come on, Jesus. I thought you were a good teacher. You're leaving me more confused. Jesus answered, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Childbirth is a very watery experience. There are a lot of bodily fluids involved. And Jesus says here, unless you're born of water, unless you have a physical birth and a spiritual birth, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. You've got to have a fleshly birth and you've got to have a spiritual birth, a birth of the spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, you must be born again. Jesus is telling us here that we must all be born again. We must all be born from above. We must all have a heavenly birth. a spiritual birth that comes sometime after our physical birth. Think of it this way. If you're born only once, you will die twice. If you're born twice, you will die only once. That's what Jesus is explaining here. If you're born once, if you're only physically born, and you never experience a second birth, a new birth, you're never born again, you will experience not only physical death, but also spiritual death, separation from God in hell. But if you are born twice, you're born physically, and then you're born again, you're born spiritually by trusting in Jesus as your savior, then you will only die once. You will only experience physical death. You will not experience spiritual death. And the moment you die physically, you will go straight into the presence of God and enjoy blessedness and joy for all eternity. So born once, die twice. Born twice, die once. So we become a child of God, a son of God by believing on Jesus and at that very moment of faith we are born again by the Holy Spirit and we become From then on, a child of God, a son of God. Now that is all the backdrop for what Paul says in our text this morning about being the sons of God here in Romans 8. So go back to Romans 8 with me. We're gonna see in these three verses four features of the Christian's spiritual sonship. so that we as Christians can know the joy and assurance of being a son of God. Four features of the Christian's spiritual sonship. The first feature is this, the marvel of our adoption unto sonship. Let us marvel at our adoption unto sonship. We see this in the first part of verse 15. Romans 8, 15, Paul says, for you, Christian, have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons. Paul says here that we as Christians have not received a spirit of slavery, but a spirit of adoption. The first use of the word spirit here in this verse is being used rhetorically. Paul, in explaining what the spirit is and what the spirit produces, first points out what the spirit is not and what he doesn't produce. That's often helpful to say, listen, let me tell you what I'm not saying before I tell you what I am saying. And that's what Paul's doing here. We have not received a spirit of slavery or of bondage. What characterizes the spirit of God and his work in us is not a spirit of slavery or bondage. This slavery is a particularly negative and nasty kind for it leads, Paul says, to fear again. Paul is talking about a spirit of slavery to sin and guilt because of the law of God's demand for personal, perfect, perpetual holiness. That's what God's law demands of us. Personal, perfect, perpetual obedience to the commands of God. And we can't do it. is a kind of slavery to the law. And that slavery to the law, which we can't fulfill, we can't be obedient to, only produces in us fear, fear of just judgment from God, divine condemnation. Well, Paul is making it clear here, this is not the kind of spirit that they have received. In becoming a Christian, they have not received a spirit of bondage leading to fear again. Instead, a strong contrast here, we've received a spirit of adoption as sons. The Holy Spirit is not a spirit that brings bondage leading to fear again, but a spirit that brings sonship leading to joy. Paul uses the legal language of adoption here, the spirit of adoption. Adoption was a well-known Greek and Roman legal institution and provision. The Greek word is made up of two words that literally means place as sons. Son placing or put in position as a son. It's to make someone. the equivalent of a son. Under Roman law, a person could adopt a child or even an adult as their legal son. And the adopted son would then receive all the legal rights, privileges, and status that a naturally born son would have. Adopted sons were considered the legal and familial equals of natural born sons. Now you may say, why does Paul focus in here on the masculine, the male sons? Well, the male sons is used here by Paul because that's what the dominant practice in Roman times was. Sons were typically adopted. A man would adopt a son if he lacked a male child who would serve as an heir and carry on the family line. The issue of being an heir is also central to Paul's thought, and that's likely why both male and female Christians are referred to here as adopted sons of God. It's not that Paul is confusing genders here, or that he's forgetting women, or that he's got a issue with women, or something like that, he's simply using the Roman practice of adoption as a spiritual metaphor. And in keeping with that metaphor, he refers to both males and females, Christian males and Christian females, as the adopted sons of God. So Paul picks up on this well-known Roman legal practice and uses it here as a metaphor for the Christian's new relationship to God. We have been adopted by God as his sons. And as God's adopted sons, we now enjoy all the rights, privileges, and status as the bona fide children of God. Think about that. This hasn't always been our story as Christians. We once were not the children of God. We were the children of our father, the devil, to put it in Jesus's words. Our spiritual family, we know, went back to Adam, fallen Adam. And our inheritance from him was only sin, rebellion, guilt, and divine condemnation. But now that's all radically changed. We're no longer children of our father, the devil. We're no longer descendants of Adam, inheriting his ghastly estate. God is our father, and we are his sons and daughters. Our family tree is now traced back to Christ, for we are in Christ. and made a new creation. We enjoy a new relationship to God as our father, a relationship that is of the closest and most intimate kind. We are God's sons, God's children. Of all the relationships in the world, there's really nothing like the relationship between a parent and a child. The love of a parent for a child is unique among human relationships. With the exception of my love for my wife, I love my kids more than I love anyone else in this world. I'm sorry, folks. I do love you. I love you dearly. But my love for my kids is greater, and I think that is God-given. That is natural. It is good. It's not something to be fought or looked down on. It's how we are made. And that goes for the unbeliever, too. Unbelievers love their kids, too. And thank God for that. That's part of common grace. It's the oddity to find a parent that doesn't love their children, that neglects them or doesn't care for them or abuses them. That is the outlier. as it should be. Children are loved by their parents. Sons are loved by their fathers. I'd do anything for my kids. I'd even lay down my life for them if need be. I'd give them a body part if that would help them in their time of need. My children bear my name. They are always welcome at my table. They will inherit all my wealth and possessions, whatever there may be of it. That is the spiritual status that has been now conferred upon us by God and His Spirit. God has adopted us as His spiritual sons, and fathers love their sons. We now, as Christians, as adopted sons, have all the blessings, rights, privileges, and status that goes with being a son of God. And that is absolutely mind-blowing. a mind-blowing reality, and we're going to see more of that. Hopefully, this just whets your whistle for what's to come. Secondly, let's look at the true nature and extent of our sonship. The last part of verse 15. Again, Romans 8, 15, you have not received a spirit of slavery, leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba, Father, In these last few words of verse 15, Paul is drilling down here a bit deeper to give us a greater sense of how significant this is that we are the adopted sons of God, and therefore children of God. He says we've received a spirit of adoption as sons. The Holy Spirit has given us new life. He's caused us to be born again, born from above, and he has affected our adoption as sons of God. And by this very same spirit, the Holy Spirit, we cry out, Abba, Father. The word Abba is the Aramaic word for father. Now Aramaic was the language spoken in the land of Israel during the days of Jesus. Jesus spoke Aramaic. All the disciples spoke Aramaic. Everyone living pretty much in Israel at the time spoke Aramaic. This was the heart language. This was the language that you grew up with. It was the language of your home, Aramaic. And so the word Abba is the Aramaic word for father. The Greek word translated father here is pater. So we have the Aramaic word for father and the Greek word for father placed side by side by the Apostle Paul. So we have to ask ourselves, why does Paul do this? Well, some have concluded that Paul included the Aramaic word abba because it's believed to be a more affectionate word for father than pater, the Greek word. Abba, so it is believed by some, was a word that was used by little children of their fathers, something that we might translate as daddy or papa, more affectionate. But there's evidence that the word Abba was also used more generally by adults to speak of their fathers. Likewise, if Paul wanted to use a child's word for father, he could have used the perfectly good Greek word, Papas, which is Papa or Daddy, but he doesn't do that. So I don't think Paul uses Abba here to kind of pull at our heartstrings and to communicate that somehow this relationship is one of a little child with an adult father, a daddy, a papa. It's popular in some circles to, in prayer, address God as daddy God or papa God. Is that what Paul's getting at here? No, I don't think so at all. I think they're missing the point. That's not what Paul is doing here by using the Aramaic word Abba. I've given you in the sermon notes in the church app, a couple of articles if you wanna read further on this and dig deeper on it, go for it. A couple articles there that you might find interesting about the use of the word Abba here. So why does Paul put the Aramaic word Abba and the Greek word pater, father, side by side then? Well, I want you to turn with me to Mark chapter 14. It's important that you see this with your own eyes. Mark chapter 14. And what's going on in Mark chapter 14 is Jesus is in the garden of Gethsemane. This is the night before his crucifixion, and he is praying. He's praying to his father. He's pouring out his heart. He's sweating, as it were, great drops of blood. He is agonizing over what he is about to undergo on the cross, as he who knew no sin became sin for us. Mark 14, 36, look what Jesus says there as he begins to pray. And he was saying, Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. Now, don't think that Jesus is there in the garden and he's somehow, you know, this is a glitch in his mind and he's somehow slipping in and out of Aramaic and Greek. And he's going back and forth. Jesus prayed his prayer in the garden in what language? Very likely. Aramaic, why? Because that's the language he spoke. Because that was the language of his heart. That was the language he grew up speaking. So he's speaking his first language, Aramaic. And when you address God as your father in Aramaic, you do so by crying out, Abba. Well, then what of this second word, pater, father, why? Well, Mark is including it here. He includes it for his Greek readers, a translation of what Jesus has just cried out. in his own native tongue. In this moment of great grief and anguish, Jesus appealed to his heavenly father as Abba, because he spoke Aramaic. And Mark is just simply giving us a bit of the genuineness and the reality and the pathos of Jesus's cry in the garden as Jesus spoke from his mother tongue and said, Father, Abba. Now back to Romans 8.15. You'll see that what Paul does here is he simply lifts that right out of Mark's gospel and puts it into his letter to the Romans. He does it in Galatians as well. And he quotes Jesus' Aramaic expression, Abba. And he quotes Mark's Greek translation, Father, Pater. Abba Father. Just as Jesus, in the moment of his greatest anguish, appealed for the help of heaven by addressing God as his Father, Paul is telling us here, we can too. Paul's point is not about the intimacy and familiarity and the sweetness of a little child with his adult father, Well, that's certainly a reality as well. Paul's point is that we can appeal to God in the very same way as Jesus by calling him our father. There's nothing magical about calling out to God in Aramaic. That's not our language. You call out to God in your language, your mother tongue. You say, father, and he will hear you. Why? Because he's your father. And he loves you and you're his child. And he's responsive to you as a earthly father is responsive to the cries of his earthly children. Even more so, our heavenly father is responsive to the cries of his children. We have the very same right to address God as our father, as Jesus, the eternal son of God, has the right to address his heavenly father as father. If that doesn't amaze you, I just don't think you've thought deeply enough about it. When it comes to our access to God, we are on the same level of relationship and approach as Jesus himself. So that as Jesus cried out, Abba, Father, and was expected to be heard by his Father, even so we can do the same when we cry out to our heavenly Father. Let's look thirdly at the settled assurance of our sonship. The settled assurance of our sonship. Romans 8, 16. Paul goes on, he says, the spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are the children of God. Now, not only does the Holy Spirit serve as the agent of our adoption as sons, affecting it, causing it to be, but the spirit also helps to make us aware that we are God's children. He affirms it and assures us of this truth. Paul says the spirit himself testifies with our spirit. The Holy Spirit testifies with our human spirit. The second word spirit here in this verse refers to the deepest part of us, that immaterial part of us, that inside part of us. Our thoughts and perceptions that help to make up our inner lives. And so the Holy Spirit is active and testifies with our spirit that we are the children of God. Well, what is this work of testifying that the Holy Spirit does with our spirit? Well, the word testifies here means to bear witness to something, to some fact, to testify to its truthfulness, to the reality of it. The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. The Holy Spirit in testifying to and bearing witness with our spirit is confirming the genuineness of our status as children of God, that it is indeed the case. In both Jewish and Roman law, at least two witnesses were required to establish a fact in court, Deuteronomy 19.15. And I think Paul is using this legal motif the courtroom, as it were, having mentioned adoption, now he goes to the issue of witnesses and testimony. And he says, look, there are two witnesses to the reality that you are indeed a son of God. The first witness is the Holy Spirit. The second witness is your own spirit. And these two things bear witness of each other and testify the truthfulness that you are indeed a child of God. And in this way, from the testimony of two witnesses, our status as children of God is confirmed. Now, how does the Holy Spirit do this practically? Well, he doesn't do it through voices or miracles or signs and wonders and things like that, typically. He does it both subjectively and objectively. Subjectively, he gives us an internal peace. peace of knowing that we are forgiven, that we've been justified and declared righteous in God's sight, that we're no longer under any divine condemnation. Romans chapter 8 and verse 1. That's the subjective inner peace of knowing that you're right with God. More objectively, the spirit testifies with our spirit that we're children of God through his word. By illuminating our minds to understand the word of God's meaning and by helping us to apply it to our lives and in the process transforming us into greater and greater Christ likeness, thus affirming that we are indeed the sons of God. Spirit also testifies with our spirit that we're children of God by producing in us spiritual fruit. that gives testimony of his presence and power in our lives. Spiritual fruit outlined in Galatians 5, 22 and 23, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. All of this helps to assure us that we are indeed sons of God, and we bear the image of our Father in greater and greater ways as the Spirit continues to bear fruit in our lives. That brings us to the fourth feature of our sonship, the immeasurable inheritance of our sonship. Verse 17. Paul says, that we are the children of God and if we are children then we are heirs also heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. Paul's building an argument here as he always is, right? In his letters. He's building an argument here. He says, he has said already that we are adopted as sons of God in verses 14 and 15. He has said we are the children of God, verse 16. And now he says that if we're really the children of God, then we are also heirs of a divine inheritance. Under Roman law, adopted children became the full legal heir to their adopted father's estate. So it is for us spiritually. Since we are now the adopted sons of God, we are his children. And if we are his genuine bona fide children, then we are heirs. Heirs of his glorious wealth. Heirs of his glorious estate. So what does that estate look like? What is this inheritance that we have become heir to? First and foremost, we've become heir of God himself. The phrase heirs of God is an objective genitive. That means that our chief inheritance is God. When we become a child of God, we inherit the greatest thing ever, and that is God himself. God himself is the greatest portion of our inheritance. Communion with God, fellowship with God, the peace of God, the joy of walking with God. Just as the psalmist said in Psalm 16, five and six, the Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. You support my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me. This inheritance is beautiful to me because it is God himself. But not only are we heirs, And not only are we the heirs of God, but we are actually fellow heirs with Christ. Now, if your mind hasn't been blown yet this morning, this ought to do the trick. If you're a Christian, you're a fellow heir with Jesus Christ. You are co-heir with Christ. You are placed on a par with Christ when it comes to receiving the promises and blessings of God. How can that be? It's called the gospel. It's called spiritual union with Christ. We are co-heirs with Christ. What does that really mean? John MacArthur helpfully summarizes it this way. He says, everything that Christ receives by divine right, we as Christians will receive by divine grace. Everything that Christ receives by divine right, we will receive by divine grace. Whatever Christ receives as his inheritance is our inheritance too. Now that's scandalous. Why would I receive all that belongs and is rightfully deserved by Christ? Answer, God's grace to us in his gospel. God's lavish generosity to his children. So that when God doles out his inheritance, He gives us the same portion that he gives to his own eternal son, Jesus Christ. And chief among this inheritance that we share with Christ is glory. Wonder of wonders, how can it be? Christ is divine, I am not. How can I share in his glory? I thought God didn't share his glory with anyone. He's gonna share it with us. His children, His sons. And not just share it, not just give you, well, you know, you're the adopted son, so you get, you know, you get the clunker. And Christ gets the Ferrari. No, we're all getting Ferraris. That's what Paul says in verse 17. We're gonna share in his glory. If indeed we suffer with him so that we may be glorified with him. And we're gonna talk about suffering and glory next week. We don't have time this morning. Because Paul's gonna, he's gonna open that subject up as we move on in these verses. But suffice to say this morning, we are gonna share in the glory of Christ and the glory of God. That almost seems heretical to say that. But that's what the Bible says. That's what God has promised. 2 Thessalonians 2, 13 and 14. Paul says, we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. You are Christians and we always give thanks for you. Verse 14, it was for this he called you through our gospel that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's where we're all headed. Listen, life is hard. Life is difficult. It's a drudgery sometimes. The Bible's clear about that. Life in a fallen world stinks sometimes, but guess what? The best is yet to come. You are going to share in the glory of Christ and the glory of God himself for all eternity. This isn't heaven. But heaven's coming. Glory's coming. And you're destined for it as a Christian. Why? Because you are God's son. You are God's child. And you have a divine inheritance that awaits you, an inheritance that is the very glory of God himself. Now the fullness of what that means, I'm with you scratching my head. I don't know yet. God has revealed enough for us to be excited about it, to stand in wonder of it, and to sing praises inspired by it. But the fullness of what it means, I don't know. That has yet to be revealed, I believe. But it's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be glorious. And it's yours and mine by virtue of our sonship. and by the generosity of our good father. Let's pray together. Lord God, we thank you for the amazing truth of your word that leaves us lost in wonder, love, and praise as we contemplate your great generosity in not just making us your servants, not just making us your friends, but making us your sons and daughters, making us your children. And because we are children, we are heirs. And because we are heirs, we are heirs of God, where we receive you as our inheritance. And not just that, but we are also fellow heirs with Christ, co-heirs with Christ, so that whatever Christ receives, we will receive. What? God, these things are too great and too glorious, too marvelous for us to comprehend now. Eye has not seen nor ear heard of the wonders that await us. Thank you for making us your children. It's in Christ's name that we pray. Amen.