Listen Queue
There is nothing in your queue.
You can add media by tapping the “add to queue” icon located near the media player.
May 21, 1989
In writing to the believers at Galatia, the apostle Paul illustrated both the unlimited resources and limited rights that belong to those who are united with Christ through the Gospel. Adopted through salvation’s plan, the believer has been released from the bondage of sin and made a joint heir with Christ in the riches of the Father’s love. Alistair Begg urges us to continually correct our focus and persevere in faith, remembering what we once were as we rejoice in the salvation that belongs to those who are in Christ.
1I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,1 though he is the owner of everything, 2but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3In the same way we also, when we were children, cwere enslaved to the elementary principles2 of the world. 4But dwhen the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, eborn fof woman, born gunder the law, 5hto redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive iadoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent jthe Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then kan heir through God.
8Formerly, when you ldid not know God, you mwere enslaved to those that by nature nare not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather oto be known by God, phow can you turn back again to qthe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10rYou observe days and months and seasons and years! 11I am afraid sI may have labored over you in vain.
Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.
