to know oneself rich and privileged beyond any monarch or millionaire. Third, we have God’s Spirit in us. With our changed relationship to God (adoption) goes a change of direction and desire, of outlook and attitude, which Scripture calls regeneration or new birth. Those who “believed in” Jesus’ “name” were “born … of God” (John 1:12ff.), or more precisely “born of the Spirit” (3:6; see verses 3–8). “Because you are sons,” says Paul, “God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying [that
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