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Intro
What are the blessings of being adopted as a child of God?
What glorious grace does God give us in adopting us as His own beloved sons and daughters through faith in Jesus Christ?
Speaking about adoption, the 1689 London Baptist Confession says By this they are counted among the children of God and enjoy the freedom and privileges of that relationship.
And here’s the question.
What are those privileges, those blessings, of being called a child of God?
Last week, we talked about how adoption makes us beloved sons and daughters of the Father in and for the sake of Christ.
So the primary blessing is obviously love.
In this sermon we are asking, “What does that love look like?”
What does being a child of God mean in my everyday life?
John 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
What is Adoption?
This passage speaks of our adoption into the family of God, where God Himself becomes our Heavenly Father and makes us His own beloved children.
Outside of Christ, the Bible says we are all sons of disobedience (Eph.
2:2), children of wrath (Eph.
2:3), and of our father the Devil (John 8:42-44).
We are outcasts.
Far off.
Enemies of God and destitute in our sin.
But to all who receive Him, who believe in His name, Jesus gives the right to become children of God.
Saving Faith
This is a picture of saving faith.
Believing in Christ’s Name, putting your faith in Him means receiving Him as your personal Lord and Savior.
As the Christ, Jesus is One True Prophet, Priest, and King who can save us from our sins.
He is the True and Ultimate Prophet who alone reveals God the Father and proclaims the good news of eternal life.
He is our Great High Priest who offered His life as a sacrifice on the cross and rose again three days later to once and for all forgive all of our sins.
And He is the King of kings and Lord of lords who rules all things and to whom alone belongs all the glory.
Believing in Christ’s Name receiving Christ and saying “Jesus, You are my God.
My Savior.
My Christ—My Prophet, Priest, and King.”
You alone have the words of eternal life.
You alone are the One True Sacrifice that can atone for all my sins and make me clean.
And you alone are the King of my life.
All that I am, all that I have, and all that I do is yours.
Right
And to all who trust in Christ and put their faith in Him, Jesus gives the right to become children of God.
The word right means privilege or legal authority.
So Jesus gives us our adoption papers, or the legal standing to be called children of God.
You’ll notice this right is given to all Christians who believe.
All those who have been justified and forgiven of their sins.
There are no second class Christians.
No black sheep in God’s family.
All are adopted and beloved by God.
In this way, Adoption is an act of free grace.
Its objective.
Its not based or rooted in us in anyway.
Our adoption and God’s love for us, all rests entirely on Christ.
In the same way that our justification, our righteousness and being forgiven of all our sin rests only on Christ’s own righteousness, God’s love for us as sons and daughters rests on Christ’s own beloved sonship.
Who contributes to their righteousness in anyway?
The same with God’s love.
When God forgives us, He forgives us in Christ.
Through faith we are united with Christ.
God puts us in Him.
So When God sees us He sees us in Christ.
His righteousness becomes our righteousness.
He lived a perfect and sinless life on our behalf and He paid our penalty for sin that we deserved.
That’s why we are forgiven.
Well, when God loves us, He loves us in Christ, as well.
God loves us with the love He has for His own Son.
Jesus said that the Father loves us even as He has loved Him (John 17:23).
Why?
Because we are in Him.
In Justification, God’s mercy forgives us, and in Adoption, His love embraces us.
And both of those glorious graces are rooted in not ourselves, but in Christ.
Which means they can never waver or be lost.
God loves you because of Christ.
To all who did receive Him, He gave the right to become children of God.
There are no lesser children in God’s house.
All are beloved.
Why?
Because God’s love for you is objective.
Its not rooted in you, its rooted in Christ and His own Sonship before the Father.
Its not based on you or anything you do.
What a rest for weary souls.
How do you know that God loves you, even when the devil and your own flesh try to convince you otherwise?
Because God loves you in Christ.
By grace through faith, you are united with Him and God loves you in Him.
Summary of Adoption - God actually loves you.
If I had to summarize the doctrine of adoption and what it means for you life it would be this.
God actually loves you.
And God actually loves you because God’s love for you is objective.
It’s not dependent on you.
It’s rooted in Christ.
Here’s what that means.
Dear Christian, You are beloved.
And the whole reason you are beloved is because through faith you are in Christ.
And now, when God loves you, he loves you in Christ, His own beloved Son.
That means your belovedness, God’s love for you, is rooted in Christ’s own belovedness as the Perfect Son of of the Heavenly Father who says This is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased.
The doctrine of adoption means that for all those in Christ, God actually loves you and that is a glorious and wonderful truth.
Now with all that I want to do in the rest of this sermon is lay out all the blessings that come with that Adoption.
John Owen calls the Doctrine of Adoption our “fountain of privilege” and since that fountain is rooted in God Himself it is an infinite fountain of love and blessing that never runs dry (Packer, Knowing God, 214).
God loves us in Christ, but what does that mean and what does that look like in our everyday life?
What are all the blessings God pours out on those who, in Christ, are beloved sons and daughters of God?
Look at the 1689 London Baptist Confession’s theology of Adoption from chapter 12 paragraph 1...
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1689 London Baptist Confession 12.1 God has granted that all those who are justified would receive the grace of adoption, in and for the sake of His only Son Jesus Christ.
By this they are counted among the children of God and enjoy the freedom and privileges of that relationship.
This is everything we were just talking about.
All those who are justified through faith in Christ are adopted into God’s own family.
They are counted as God’s own beloved children and enjoy the freedom and privileges of that relationship.
The freedom refers to our freedom from sin.
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