By Alberto Valdivia
Sunday Sermon
Text: Galatians 3:23-4:7
The type of relationship that God has designed us is that of father and son. We are more than creatures to him or more than friends, we maintain a deep family ties. God wants to treat us as children and heirs of their wealth. Let's see how we can enjoy this privilege.
The law is a coach who only drives us to God (v.23-25). At that time the sons of kings educated tutors, they were subject to these people, they had to learn from them how to behave as children of the king. The law has been to us as a tutor who taught us how to please God, but has not given us a relationship with him has shown us our disabilities and weaknesses, but we have become children. The law rules enslaved us, mortified our existence but we are not united to God
Faith is what binds us to God as sons through Jesus (v.26-27; 4:4,5). When we believe is when we join God as children, we take the nature of Christ, we are clothed in his presence and in Him we are adopted as children of God. Jesus came to earth to rescue us from sin and the law that enslaved us to buy with his death and thus become children of God. Baptism is the medium that brings us that grace, but only when we believe is when it becomes effective and real in our lives.
Because of Christ we enjoy the blessings of being a child of God (v.28-29, 4:6-7). dispute has broken all social, racial or gender by our union with Christ, we are spiritual descendants of Abraham, and he now promises to reach us we too, have been delivered from the law and the rules we are which unites us to God but faith in Christ. The Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts, transforming us and guide us now son maintain a relationship with God, we can say, "Daddy," we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, we are full the blessings of God
Now, thanks to Jesus, we are children of God, and therefore we are heir to all his blessings. The law did not give us this intimate relationship llevadoa but the grace, and we entered it through faith in Jesus. Let us rejoice in this freedom that we have received and for the privilege of being part of the family of God, as his children.
