Study Desk

This promise is for all of you and your children. It's for anyone who is called to ride for the Lord."

He has fulfilled that promise to us, their children, by raising up Jesus from the dead. It's even written in the Good Book of Psalms, 'You're my boy, and today I have become your daddy.'

Those who ride for God are children of God.

We long to be given our inheritance as children of God. We will have new bodies and a new life free of pain and suffering. Those who ride for him hold onto this hope since it was given to us when we saddled up for him. We need this hope because we don't have what God promised us yet.

I'm going to come see y'all for the third time. And like the last times, I will not be a burden. I don't want what you have—I just want you riding for the brand. Children shouldn't be the ones providing for the parent when they are able to provide for themselves. It's the other way around.

God made a promise to Abraham and his child. I want you to notice that it didn't say, "and his children." The promise was made to Abraham and God's Boy, Jesus.

And now that you ride for the brand, you are the real children of Abraham. You are his heirs and Abraham's inheritance belongs to you too.

That's what it was like before Jesus came. We were like children. We were subject to the ways of this world until he came.

You are no longer a child slave of sin, but one of God's own children—with an inheritance that will come as well.

Jerusalem is no better off. It is a city that has been enslaved to the Code. She and her children live in slavery to a set of rules.

You cowboys and cowgirls are promised children, just like Isaac was.

So, cowboys and cowgirls, we ain't kids of the slave, we are children of the free.

This is his crazy plan, both the Jews and the outsiders who believe the good news will be God's children and share in a rich inheritance. Both are part of the same crew and will receive the same blessing because they ride for Christ Jesus.

In this way, you will become strong cowboys who will be admired and imitated. You will be true children of God without fault in front of a crooked world. You will shine bright like a campfire on a bald hill on a moonless night.

You will also please the Lord by being thankful for being able to ride for his outfit, to share in the inheritance of his glorious kingdom that is a ranch of a thousand hills. You are his cowboys. You are his beloved children.

You are children of the light, not the darkness. Only those in darkness will be destroyed.

If he can't run his own family and have respectable children, he ain't going to run God's outfit very long without a lot of problems.

A jigger boss must be faithful to his wife and be a good dad to his children.

If there is a young widow, I encourage them to find a new husband, but do it the right way. She should have children, take care of their home, and not give in to idle talk about others. These latter things just open the door to the devil to come in.

Make no mistake, Jesus didn't come and do all he did to save angels. He did it all to save us, the children of Abraham.