Sermon

The Experience of Adoption

Tim Keller |  February 8, 1998

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Topics:
  • God the Father
  • The Holy Spirit
Duration:
40:12
Scripture:
Galatians 3:26-4:7
SKU:
RS 288-16

Overview

As a new Christian, I thought of salvation as taking things off of me: that my sins were taken off. But at the very same moment, there’s another part of that legal transaction: something is put on me. I’m adopted as God’s own son.

Galatians tells us that because we’re legally adopted, we have an agent—it’s the Spirit. The Spirit is sent not into the world but into our hearts. And the Spirit comes to give not the objective status, which we already have, but the subjective experience of sonship.

Let’s break it into three things: 1) what is promised, 2) what it’s like, and 3) how it comes.

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