ch.8. cont. The Spirit and Pauls Images of Salvation.

Justification. The action of being declared Righteous.

1Co 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Redemption, propitiation, and reconciliation are not at all linked with the Holy Spirit – these are the objective aspects of Salvation. i.e. the New believers relation to God by faith. But the new believer's experience of the reality of Salvation is associated with the Work of the Holy Spirit in the heart.

Adoption.

Gal 4:5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

Verse 5 deals with the Objective aspects of Salvation and verse the subjective aspect of conversion.

Sonship :- provided by redemption

Sonship :- made a reality by the Spirit in the life of a New Believer.

Gal 3:2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

Gal 3:4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

Gal 3:5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

Rom 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him

Abba.

This is the Cry of infancy along with “Imma” mother, these are the first words in Aramiac a child would lean. It is also a very endearing term a child of any age would use – expressing intimacy and special relatedness. We are the Beloved children of the Eternal God. This is a spiritual knowledge shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Rom 5:5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Crying “ABBA”, in our lifelong relationship of utter dependence on God, has been restored by the Spirit of His dear Son. So we are justified ( accepted in the Beloved) and leads to our awareness of all the privileges of Sonship with our heavenly Father. Being “in the presence of God” is through Christ and by the Spirit.

2Co 2:17 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.