Adopted Heirs
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Our salvation is not merely a matter of getting into heaven someday. It also involves being a child of God today. From his sermon series in Galatians, today R.C. Sproul explains what it means to be graciously adopted into the family of God.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | When you draw life's last fleeting breath, and your eyelids are closed in death, |
| 0:08.6 | you will not suddenly become unconscious or annihilated or swallowed up in oneness in the ocean, |
| 0:16.6 | you will awake in the next second and face your maker. |
| 0:25.6 | And that reality should cause us to stop and think. |
| 0:31.6 | Are we prepared to meet our maker? |
| 0:34.6 | If you're not sure, please request R.C. Sprawl's free e-book, What is the Gospel, |
| 0:40.2 | at Renewing Your Mind.org slash gospel. Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and welcome to the Sunday |
| 0:47.1 | edition of Renewing Your Mind. Today, we're beginning a short sermon series in Galatians |
| 0:53.6 | Chapter 4. |
| 0:55.1 | I remember hearing these messages preached when Dr. Sprawl was my pastor. |
| 0:59.7 | While all of those messages from the entirety of Galatians were brought together to form |
| 1:04.6 | his commentary on Galatians, and we'll send you a hardcover edition when you give a donation |
| 1:10.0 | in support of this daily outreach |
| 1:11.7 | at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, if you have your Bible, open it to Galatians Chapter 4, because here's Dr. Spraw. |
| 1:23.6 | I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no difference from a slave, though he is the owner of everything. |
| 1:34.7 | But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. |
| 1:42.0 | In the same way, we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary |
| 1:47.8 | principles of this world, but when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, |
| 1:56.7 | born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive |
| 2:06.3 | adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, |
| 2:15.2 | crying, Abba, Father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son. And if a son, |
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