What does it mean to carry a name that was given to you by God himself? This message takes us deep into one of the most identity-shaping truths in all of Scripture. Drawing from 1 John 3:1, where the apostle declares that we are called children of God and that is what we are, we are invited to sit inside the room where those words were first heard. It was a room of have-nots, of women with no legal standing, of slaves who were counted as property rather than people. Into that room came words that were nothing short of politically explosive, because in the Roman Empire, only Caesar could claim the title of child of God. For ordinary people to take that name on was an act of radical, courageous faith. And yet that is exactly what the text calls us to do. The message draws a powerful parallel between the legal act of adoption in the ancient Roman world and our spiritual identity in Christ. In Roman law, a biological child could be disowned, but an adopted child could never be. That covenant was irrevocable. When we understand that we are adopted into God's family, not as a lesser category but as a permanent and chosen inheritance, it reshapes how we see ourselves entirely. We are not provisional. We are not placeholders. We are named, and that name carries weight.