Lesson 39 September 8,
2002
4:6-7 The Result of Adoption - intimate relationship
Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into
our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
What
about this into our hearts
what's in view here?
- The more
of the DVPT of life (BD) that you know
and understand; the greater the power and influence of the Holy Spirit in your
life resulting in a greater capacity for life.
Summary
4:6
1. As a
result of our being placed as adult sons, having been adopted God gives to each believer the Holy Spirit as
a badge or sign of the transaction. [Sons and heirs]
2. This
places each of us as Church age believers in a new and different relationship
with God than was possible before.
3. Because
we are adopted sons with the indwelling Holy Spirit we have access and we are
able to come to Him with boldness and confidence. Eph 2:18; 3:12
4. Know
that as a believer, an adopted son, having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
being plus DVPT - doctrine we have the
provision and are able to orient within
our niche and have the impact in time that we ought to have for Him.
5. All of
this flows to us because of our position in Christ, our relationship with Him in whom we are
complete.
4:7 Summary
of this exhortation and Doctrine to the Galatians
Therefore you are no longer a
slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
you are no longer a slave no longer
under bondage, enslaved
Summary
4:7
1. This is
Paul's exhortation to point out the
contrast between their previous status during the time of their being a
minor child under the Law and the reality of their new status as adult sons and
heirs in Christ.
2. It
establishes the foolishness of contemplating a return for any reason to their
previous status of slavery under the Law.
3. Paul has
also made it crystal clear that this new position we have as sons and heirs is
NOT secured by keeping the M/L or any
other system of law devised by man.
4. Summary
of the Theological Argument against Salvation by Works.
a. Justification is not possible from law
keeping 2:16-21.
b. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is not from
law keeping 3:1-5. [Rom 8:9b]
c. Redemption is from the curse of the Law as
well as the enslavement to it 3:10-14; 4:5.
d. The Promises flowing from the Abrahamic
Covenant are greater than the law.
- promises are unconditional while the law is
conditional.
e. The
law's purpose was to define sin so that mankind could clearly see their need of
a Savior 3:22-28.
f. That we
are sons and heirs is not from law keeping
3:29-47.