Reforming Truth Church

Galatians 3:26-4:7

Galatians

Taught by Jeremiah Hurt on 2022-06-05
Series: Galatians

Scripture Covered

Galatians 3:26 - 4:7

26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave1 nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

4:1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,2 though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles3 of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Footnotes

[1] 3:28 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
[2] 4:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 7
[3] 4:3 Or elemental spirits; also verse 9

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