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Heirs through Faith

!. The Heirship

The Specifics of this Heirship. v26 - Through Faith - not bought by us, not earned by us, not owed to us.

Introduction

- i need a story about being apart of the family - An adoption story

Verse 23 tells us that before faith came , we were kept under the law

Verse 25 tells us - but after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster

I. The Promise. v.26

todays text we see the verse starts out with the Conjunction word “FOR”

For - In favor of, with regard to, on behalf of or to the benefit of

You - pronoun used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing.

This is key - Who was he addressing?

Jews? - No

Religious leaders? - No

Gentiles - Yes (just like you and I.)

Are - it’s a verb and verbs show action

All - inclusive, nothing left out or missed.

The - it points to a specific person place or thing

Children - heirs, kinship, belonging to someone

Of - preposition that is expressing the relationship between a part and a whole, expressing the relationship between a scale or measure and a value.

God - Theos - deity, supreme divinity, GOD

By - Through - moving in one side and out of the other side, so as to make a passage in

Faith - the act of believing, the basis for belief, confidence in what is believed

In - this use of the word is theologically significant when supraterrestrial localities are denoted, especially “the heavens”

Christ Jesus - Our Savior and Lord.

What the verse means in our terms

II. The Position. v.27

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

III. The Pronouncement. v.28

IV. Condition. v.29