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Moving from Immaturity to Maturity...
Galatians 4:1-7 NIV
“What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”
You have to grow up to move up!
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.”
1 Corinthians 13:11 NIV
Receiving Adoption as Children (Galatians 4:5)
“to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.”
Galatians 4:5 NIV
Receiving the Spirit of Sonship (Galatians 4:6)
“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.””
Galatians 4:6 NIV
Receiving Inheritance as Heirs (Galatians 4:7)
“So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”
Galatians 4:7 NIV
Maturity has great priviledges but not without equal responsibilities.
