From Bondage to Freedom: Embracing Our Adoption in Christ

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba Father. [00:20:34]

Now here in these words we really have the very nerve and center of the great argument of the Apostle in this epistle to the Galatians. He is writing to these people concerning the results of the consequences of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, into this work. [00:01:27]

He himself had been preaching in these areas and under his preaching another number of people had been converted and it become Christians and he had formed them into churches, but unfortunately certain other teachers, false teachers, had followed the visit of the Apostle and they have been teaching these Galatians. [00:01:58]

He can see that many of these Galician Christians were liable to go back into a state and condition of London and the Apostle is very anxious that they should see that in Christ they are delivered from every form of bungle, and that as he puts it later to them in chapter 5 they must stand fast. [00:03:00]

The Apostle shows us the purposes of the objects of the sending of the Son of God into the world. He came in order to do certain things and here we are told what those things are. Very well we test ourselves therefore by asking this question: can we experience these results? [00:05:00]

It is possible, I say, for us to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and yet to be in a state of abundant. Yeah, where people the Apostle makes it plain there was no doubt about there being believers. He acknowledges that he says that they were believers, and yet he says if you accept this teaching. [00:06:34]

There are others in the state of bondage because they have known and have understood intellectually quite clearly this message they haven't applied it to themselves or they haven't gone on applying. They've accepted the theoretical statement about justification by faith. [00:08:27]

The first consequence of his coming of course is the redemption itself. When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law. What for? To redeem them that were under the law. We're redeemed. [00:11:44]

The essence of the Apostles argument just here he says all of us who belong to that old dispensation though we were children though we were fully children of God yes but we were like this air that is still under name and hasn't yet entered into the state of adoption. [00:25:35]

The spirit of adoption manifests itself in this way first he delivers us entirely from the spirit of bondage even so we he says in verse 3 when we where children were in bondage under the elements of the world yes children of God but in London he puts it again in verse 7. [00:30:28]

The knowledge of God what does he mean by this knowledge of God that what do you mean by to know God well it doesn't just mean a knowledge about God it includes this but a mere knowledge about God doesn't give this expression of the spirit of adoption he means this to know God as he alone can be known. [00:36:16]

There is something which is more wonderful even than our knowing God and it's this it's to know that God knows me but show me sir someone God knows everybody not in this sense to be known of God has a very special meaning you'll find the meaning given to you in the book of the Prophet Amos. [00:38:01]