Introduction
We can become “children of God”.
Questions
1. What did God do to enable us to be his adopted children?
v 4 and 5 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, ... that we might receive the adoption of children.
2. What has God done for us because we are his children?
v 6 and 7 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
3. How are we like Isaac?
v 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
Summary Points
- v 1 to 7 A child who is an heir is no different from a bondservant before he inherits. So we used to be bondservants in the natural order of things. But God sent his Son so that we can be adopted by him as his children
- v 8 to 11 Paul is dismayed that they want to go back to the law
- v 12 to 20 Paul is perplexed about the difference in the Galatians’ attitude from when he first visited them
- v 21 to 31 Paul contrasts being in bondage to the law and the freedom of being children of promise