The beautiful gift of adoption

When we think of adoption, we think of one without biological family maybe they were given up or something happened, where they entered the system and this is the natural concept of abduction but when we think of our lives in Christ, we see the word adoption, but that word in the scripture context does not mean the same in the natural so I’m going to read scripture meaning and then I will read the scriptures that we will be going through tonight adoption is used to describe a spiritual act of God taking believers into his family as his sons and daughters this is a powerful metaphor to illustrate the scopes of God’s redemptive plan and the new life believers receive in Christ GOD adopted believers and into his family, not as a result of their own merit but as a gift of his grace through the work of Jesus Christ Adoption highlights the intimate relationship between believers and God where they are loved cared for and have access to God’s throne adoption also implies that believers inherit the blessings and promises of God, including salvation, eternal life and a place in his kingdom

Ephesians 1:4-5“just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,” ‭‭

Israel being chosen, wasn’t about their statue as a people, but God’s plan to use them as a means of blessing the world they are given blessings like the law and the promise of the Messiah in the special part of this is that Christ has come through this line as the ultimate seed

This stood out to me because when you look at the word oath, it has more weight than a simple promise actually oath binds the promise that was made listen to this

I brought that out because I want us to see and what I’m about to say this is how I look at it not to discredit anything, just to say the highlight of all of this is not the Israelites being chosen by God but Abraham remember I said that Christ is the ultimate seed so it is not that God chose the Israelites but he chose them through Abraham

Galatians 3:26-29

Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed

Galatians 3:16 now to his seed where the promise made. he does not say and to seeds as of many, but as of one and to your seed, who is Christ

Acts 3:25 you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers saying to Abraham, and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed

so now being the ultimate seed of Abraham or I say the seed of Abraham through faith in Christ Jesus, we are now called sons of god

Galatians 4:5-7

John 1:12-13

Romans 4:16 therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

Roman 9:8

Ephesians 3:6 that the gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel

God gave life to Adam but through Abraham life comes through the choice of faith in Christ Abraham showed another level of trusting God that we see in the Old Testament through the pain and agony that he was faced with of sacrificing his only son from his wife Sarah the promise son from God but above all Abraham had faith so in our faith in Christ we are now called the seeds of Abraham

now this is the beautiful gift of adoption which God has given us through his son Jesus that he has called us out of darkness, freed us from the chains of slavery washed us clothes us, and called us children of God so may the Lord be blessed and honored through this word and I pray that all understand part of what the Lord has given us tonight he is the promise. Amen.