Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

If you're doing our new Testament plan, today we finished our sixth book.

And if you're doing the whole Bible, we finished our 40th book.

This book in particular is the first of Paul's letters.

When we're talking about the books of the Bible that are letters, we call them epistles

because that's the Greek word for letters.

When we left off yesterday, Paul was telling us that we are heirs according to the promised

God made to the offspring of Abraham, which includes everyone who has been adopted into

God's family, regardless of race, gender or status.

Today, he opens by telling us that as sons of God, we are fellow heirs with Christ and

as co heirs, we inherit everything.

That is bonkers.

But even better than that, we inherit the spirit of the son or the spirit of Jesus, which

is just another way of saying God, the spirit or the Holy Spirit.

He goes by lots of different names in Scripture, but you probably have one way of addressing

him that you're most comfortable or familiar with.

The presence of the spirit in us is what enables us to call God our Father.

Those without the Spirit do not have God as their Father.

Paul says that when we have that status as a child of God and dwelled by God, it's ridiculous

to go back to being a slave.

And that's what happens when we try to rely on the law.

It enslaves.

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