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Lesson Summary:

Paul explains the position, privileges, and preeminence believers have through our sonship in Jesus Christ.

Focus Passage: Galatians 3:26-29; 4:1-10, 21-31.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. Position of Sonship (Galatians 3:26-29)

Principle: In Christ, Believers stand as the Sons and Daughters of God.
Application: How well do you understand your position as a son/daughter, a child of God?
Scripture Reference

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
I John 3:1

II. Privileges of Sonship (Galatians 4:1-10)

Principle: In Christ, Believers have all of the Privileges as Members of God’s Family.
Application: How are you exercising your privileges as a son/daughter, a child of God?
Scripture Reference

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,
Ephesians 2:19

Privileges of Sonship: Illustration from the Prodigal Son

III. Preeminence of Sonship (Galatians 4:21-31)

Principle: In Christ, Believers can live by the Spirit and in freedom as Sons and Daughters of God.
Application: How are you demonstrating the preeminence of the Spirit over the flesh in your life?
Scripture Reference

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Romans 8:2