Title: Freedom's Cry
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00:00 Humans Rally Around Cries
03:01 Reading Galatians 4:1-7
03:51 Do You Cry "Abba, Father?"
06:01 What Type of Cry?
07:45 What is Your Cry in Distress?
09:42 Abba, The Cry of a Child
13:13 A Cry of Distress
15:50 The Cry of God's Children is Not Based on Your Morality
19:44 The Cry of Christian Freedom is Not the Absence of Distress
20:55 The Cry of Freedom
22:56 What Are the Elementary Principles to Which We Were Slaves?
31:15 Christ Came to Free Us From Slavery
36:06 God Wants You to Rest in His Favor
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Galatians 4:1–7
I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. (ESV)
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“Freedom’s Cry” centers on Galatians 4:1-7, showing how life before Christ leaves people enslaved to performance and the elementary principles of the world. In the fullness of time, God sent his Son, born under the law, to redeem us and grant adoption. God then sent the Spirit of his Son into believers’ hearts, forming a new reflex in hardship and in worship: Abba, Father. That cry, not a moral résumé, marks the children of God. Christian freedom is belonging to the Father amid distress, no longer slaves but sons and heirs who rest in his favor.
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