Galatians

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Heart Searching Allegory

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Backsliding

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Certainty of our Salvation

Certainty of Our Salvation Gal 4:1-7 we are the recipients of many aspects of salvation: regeneration, justification, conversion, union, sanctification, and adoption. 1. What you were before You were Saved. Galatians 4:1-3 1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: You lived the life of a slave Slave to the nature inherited from Adam – things we are do by natural inclinations. Slave to the things of the world – things we learn from influences and observations. What is the first thing you remember doing that gave you guilt feelings Who was with you when that happened? What input did the person with you have? Who was the first person to make you wonder if the Bible was true? When did you first learn that the secular world has a different view of life than the Christian? When did you first learn of evolution? When were you first told that there are no real morals – we chart our own? When did you first try to tame your conscience? 2. What God has done to save you. Galatians 4:4-5 A. To Provide Redemption 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. The fulness of time: Daniel, Isaiah and others specified time and place of Messiah’s birth and purpose Daniel said it was: to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Isaiah said: 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isa 9:6-7, 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. B. To Make Adoption possible Romans 8:15 “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” Romans 8:23 “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Romans 9:4 “Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;” Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 3. What you are now. Galatians 4:6-7 a. Once a person is saved, they are a child of God. b. Once a person is saved, the Holy Spirit of God lives in their heart. c. The Holy Spirit within us calls out to God the Father. Because you are a child of God, you are no longer a slave. Instead, you are an heir.