Gentile Christians are included in the restoration of Israel! The Holy Spirit bears witness with the spirit of Christians (the only instance where “spirit” in Rom. 8 is the human spirit) that they are the children of God (8:16). So incredibly intimate is the believer’s relationship with the heavenly Father that by the Spirit the child of God calls him “Abba,” an Aramaic term of endearment for a father roughly equivalent to “daddy” (in Mark 14:36 Jesus calls God “Abba”; in Gal. 4:6 Christians call