The Daily Fountain Devotional Wednesday, September 21, 2022
The Daily Fountain Devotional Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
(St. Matthew the Apostle)
TOPIC: SONS AND HEIRS OF GOD
TEXT: Galatians 4:1-6
1 Now 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:
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. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
The Daily Fountain Devotional Wednesday, September 21, 2022
INTRODUCTION TEXT
In today's lesson, Paul made it explicit that when the Galatians and indeed all men were helpless children, they were under the servitude of the law. When they believed in Jesus Christ, they became sons and heirs of God. Jesus, the bondage breaker redeemed us from the shackles of the law and its slavery. Christ has come and He has set us free; we must not submit again to a yoke of slavery (Gal. 5:1)
When a lost, helpless, poverty-stricken, debt-laden sinner repents and believes in Jesus Christ, such a one is washed in the Blood of Jesus, forgiven and adopted into God's family. What an amazing grace? "And if children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ..." (Rom. 8:17). Knowing this, we must think more of the things in heaven, meditate more on the realities of things in the city of God, the new Jerusalem, delivered from the lust of mundane things and separated from the most-miserable people whose hope is on earthly things. As sons and heirs of God, God is our possession, our inheritance, our righteousness and our deliverance.
Prayer: Dear Lord, please keep us by your power, enable us to finish this race strongly to receive our eternal reward in Jesus' name. Amen.