“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”
Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, 'Abba, Father.' — the Spirit's sending ('apostellō' — mission-dispatch) into the believer's heart ('kardia') is the evidence and effect of adoption: the Spirit witnesses to our sonship by enabling us to cry 'Abba Father' (Aramaic intimacy + Greek fatherhood), a privilege once exclusive to Christ but now extended to the redeemed.
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