PAUL IS A good pastor; thus, he cannot wait until the end of his “sermon” to make some applications. While he still has one more argument (4:21–31) to go through until he has presented his complete case, he nonetheless jumps into the significance of his arguments thus far. He has argued from the Old Testament (3:6–14), the nature of covenants (3:15–25), and from sonship (3:26–4:7). Our section, the application, belongs to the argument from sonship but goes well beyond it to become an application