Adopted As Sons (Galatians 4:4–7)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:30.0 | The Son did an heir through God. |
| 0:32.6 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:33.4 | There's so much we could talk about according to these verses, |
| 0:37.4 | this picture of God sending his son, Jesus, so that we might be adopted as children, |
| 0:46.3 | as sons and daughters of God and heirs through God. |
| 0:50.7 | What a picture of adoption. |
| 0:52.8 | And just in case you've listened to this podcast a lot and you've heard me mention |
| 0:57.8 | many times about how for the last three and a half years, |
| 1:01.2 | we have been waiting to adopt our son, JD, from overseas. |
| 1:07.2 | How we were three days away from going to pick him up back in January 2020. |
| 1:11.0 | And we got a call saying that would be postponed for a couple of weeks |
| 1:14.2 | and a couple of weeks turned into months, turned into years. |
| 1:17.0 | But now JD is home and our family. |
| 1:19.8 | We just got back a few weeks ago from bringing him home into our family |
| 1:25.1 | as one of our sons and there's a lot that's changed in our lives |
| 1:30.5 | and in his life over the last month or so. |
| 1:33.2 | And it's such a small picture. |
| 1:35.5 | And there's a lot we could talk about the parallels adoption in the Bible, |
| 1:39.9 | a lot of hard and a lot of beautiful. |
| 1:42.4 | But the reality of Galatians for that I want to encourage you with today is reflected |
| 1:47.3 | in this new son in my own. |
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