The Transition from Servitude to Sonship

Galatians 4:1-7

Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing from a seruant, though he be Lord of all,

But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.

Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.

But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,

That hee might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes.

And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.