• What do you think it means to be an “heir”? What does it mean to be an “heir of God”?

• Paul writes that we have received a “spirit of adoption,” not a “spirit of slavery.” How do the examples in the sermon illuminate what a spirit of adoption means for our lives?

• Some Christian theology demonizes “flesh” as evil and “spirit” as good. How can this line of thought be taken in the wrong direction?