The Experience of Adoption

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As a new Christian, I thought of salvation as taking things off of me: that my sins were taken off. But at the very same moment, there’s another part of that legal transaction: something is put on me. I’m adopted as God’s own son. Galatians tells us that because we’re legally adopted, we have an agent—it’s the Spirit. The Spirit is sent not into the world but into our hearts. And the Spirit comes to give not the objective status, which we already have, but the subjective experience of sonship. Let’s break it into three things: 1) what is promised, 2) what it’s like, and 3) how it comes. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on February 8, 1998. Series: Galatians: New Freedom, New Family. Scripture: Galatians 3:26-4:7. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Are you seeking to change something in your life but find yourself falling into the same habits?
0:07.6	Is there any hope for lasting change? This month Tim Keller is preaching through the book of Galatians, which is all about how Christians can experience true transformation in Christ, and how our issues are not solved by our good works, but by allowing the Gospel to transform every area of our lives.
0:26.3	After you listen, we invite you to go online to Gospel inLife.com and sign up for our email
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0:34.6	Gospel quarterly journal with articles that feature how the gospel is changing
0:38.9	hearts, lives and communities as well as highlighting other gospel-centered resources.
0:44.0	Subscribe today at GospelonLife.com.
0:47.0	Looking at the book of Galatians this year.
0:57.0	And this section which Jeff looked at with you last week and I'm going to pick up the last
1:06.4	actually just the last couple of verses but to make sure we see the the passage as a whole let me read you all of it, Galatians 3 26 to 4 verse 7.
1:19.3	You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
1:27.0	For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
1:32.0	There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male
1:37.0	nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahamum seed and airs according to the promise. What I'm saying is that as long as the heir is a child,
1:49.0	he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. He is subject to
1:54.4	guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. So also, when we were
1:59.4	children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world, but when the time had fully come,
2:06.5	God sent his son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of sons.
2:16.5	Because you are sons, God sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, the spirit who calls
2:21.6	out Abba Father. So you are no longer a slave but a son.
2:27.0	And since you are a son, God has made you also an air.
2:35.0	This is God's word.
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