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4 But awhen the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, bborn cof a woman, dborn under the law,  
5 ato redeem those who were under the law, bthat we might receive the adoption as sons.  
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth athe Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,1 “Abba, Father!”  
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, aand if a son, then an heir of God2 through Christ.  

Fears for the Church

8 But then, indeed, awhen you did not know God, byou served those which by nature are not gods.  
9 But now aafter you have known God, or rather are known by God, bhow is it that you turn again to cthe weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?  
10 aYou observe days and months and seasons and years.  
11 I am afraid for you, alest I have labored for you in vain.  
12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. aYou have not injured me at all.  
13 You know that abecause of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.  
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Galatians 4:6

Because we have been adopted, because God has redeemed us from our former father/owner, He gave us a measure of the same Spirit—that vital, animating essence that He and the Son share (John 15:26). The Holy Spirit links our mind to God's (Romans 8:16; I Corinthians 2:10-16) and allows us to begin to see things as He sees them—to discern spiritually.

David C. Grabbe

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