An Heir of Salvation

Sunday Sermon
October 11th 2009
Rhema Community Church

Sermonic Skeleton

Sermonic Pericope: ESV 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, 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Sermonic Theme: Saved & Set Free (The Doctrine of Salvation)

Sermonic Subject: Redemption (The Gospel Explained)

Sermonic Tension: If I am, an heir that means a wealthy friend/relative has died.

Sermonic Question: Since I am an heir, why do I feel so poor?

Sermonic Sentence: I am set for life.

Sermonic Help: REDEMPTION from the Latin redemptio, from redimere, “to redeem,” “to buy back again.” In theology, the idea that Christ “redeemed” or “bought back” humanity by delivering us from sin and its punishment, therefore making salvation possible. Jesus came to redeem all of fallen creation and to pay the price for human sin. ESV Luke 24:21 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. ESV Romans 3:24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ESV Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us- for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"- NLT Galatians 4:27 That is what Isaiah meant when he prophesied, "Rejoice, O childless woman! Break forth into loud and joyful song, even though you never gave birth to a child. For the woman who could bear no children now has more than all the other women!"

Sermonic Title: “AN HEIR OF SALVATION”

Sermonic Structure:

I. AN HEIR OF SALVATION LIVES LIKE A SLAVE (V.1-3)

II. AN HEIR OF SALVATION IS AN ADOPTED SON (V.4-5)

III. AN HEIR OF SALVATION HAS SIBLINGS (V.6)

IV. AN HEIR OF SALVATION IS SAVED (V.7)