{"id":1055,"date":"2010-10-28T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2022-11-19T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:59:39","slug":"galatians-46-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Galatians 4:6-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,\u00a0 &#8220;Abba, Father!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>you are sons (v.6) \u2014 the Galatians <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were<\/span> saved (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=367\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Romans 8:14<\/span><\/a>).<\/h3>\n<h3>Spirit of His Son (v.6) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=369\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Romans 8:16<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Abba (v.6) = father in Aramaic \u2014 familiar. Father (<em>pater<\/em>) = father in Greek \u2014 title.\u00a0 So, &#8220;Abba, our Father.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>The Spirit enables believers to call God &#8220;Father.&#8221; It is the Spirit in us who cries &#8220;Abba, Father!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>therefore (v.7) = with the effect that &#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3>no longer (v.7) \u2014\u00a0 you once were<\/h3>\n<h3>To know God is to acknowledge Him as Father. To be known by God is to be acknowledged as a son.<\/h3>\n<h3>Paul is urging the Galatians to remember their positions as heirs and sons by grace and not to return to servanthood to the law.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,\u00a0 &#8220;Abba, Father!&#8221; 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-galatians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}