Being Spiritually Adopted by God: A Scripture Hike through Galatians 4.1-5

Being Spiritually Adopted by God: A Scripture Hike through Galatians 4.1-5

From Nomads You And I by Cindy Dunagan

April 14, 2026 · 19 min

About this episode

Cindy and Mark discuss the spiritual adoption of believers as heirs through Christ, as illustrated in Galatians 4.1-5.

How faith building the depth of God’s plan, the intentional timing of Christ’s arrival as the Messiah, and that through Jesus, believers are no longer slaves of the Old Testament, but are instead, heirs within our intimate relationship with the Father!In this podcast, Mark and Cindy explore the opening of Galatians chapter 4, where God, through the Apostle Paul, uses the illustration of an heir to reveal the transition from spiritual immaturity to full sonship in Christ. In these verses, God explains how, under the Law of Moses, His people were like children—restricted and guided, and not yet able to fully access their inheritance, until, at the perfect moment in history, God sent His Son, born under the Mosiacal Law, to redeem those bound by that Law, to elevate them into an initmate relationship with Him by being spiritually adopted sons and daughters!

People in this episode

Host: Cindy Dunagan

Guest: Mark

Topics covered

  • spiritual adoption
  • faith
  • inheritance
  • relationship with God
  • Galatians
  • spiritual maturity
  • Messiah

Keywords

  • spiritual adoption
  • Galatians 4
  • faith
  • inheritance
  • Apostle Paul
  • relationship with God
  • Messiah
  • Old Testament
  • sonship
  • Law of Moses

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Books & works: Galatians

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