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Well good morning everyone.

What a glorious day it is today.

We are by in large over the Easter drag, I think Easter Monday is a real thing and we should have that day off as well.

especially if you are in any type of ministry position.

This Sunday we are also finishing up the series on SaveOne.

The talk that you just heard from Jey about Compassion Experience fits right in with today’s message.

Today’s message is all about adoption.

It is a word and a truth rarely discussed in the church but of huge importance to us.

Itis exclusively used by Paul but a word he uses 5 times. 1 for the past

One for the future

And then there are three for the present.

Galatians

Ephesians

Now we must define adoption in order for us to get the complete picture.

Because there is a sense of adoption that we understand but then there is a point that our understanding stops and we don’t grasp the entirety of the picture.

The word adoption means placing as a son.

In today’s society we take an outsider and adopt them in.

In the spiritual, it is as though you always were.

There is no difference.

You at the moment of regeneration are immediately thrust into maturity and responsibility of a son.

So today I want to discuss three main points of adoption.

The grace of god in adoption

The privileges adoption brings

My responsibility because of adoption

So lets get into it.

Adoption is that act of God whereby men and women, who were by nature the children of wrath and were of the lost and ruined family of Adam, are from no reason in themselves, but entirely of the pure grace of God, translated out of the evil and black family of Satan, and brought actually and virtually into the family of God.

They take His name, share the privileges, and they are to all intents and purposes the actual offspring and children of God!

This is entirely the process initiated and fulfilled by God.

No man has the right to be adopted.

I mean we see that even in the natural world.

There are children all over this country and others that are not adopted.

They stay in the system.

They grow up never having earthly parents.

It is a sad thing but the truth of the matter is, being allowed into someones family only happens if they allow it.

It is the same with god.

You cannot earn your way into the family.

Even if a man kept the law perfectly, I mean Adam himself had he never sinned still would have been no more than a servant.

He would have no right to adoption.

Above all contradiction and controversy, becoming a part of the family of God is nothing less than a pure act of Grace.

To make it even more pure, had God picked out of the best families it would have been sovereign grace but he doesn’t pick out of the best he picks out of the worst rebels.

We were born of a thief who stole from the garden, a rebel guilty of the highest treason against God and yet He still put us in His family.

Then even think of your own life.

When a husband and wife go to adopt a child there is usually some merit in the child.

The child is too cute, the child has some intelligence, or even the child is in need of some great pity right?

But when God looked at all of your darkness, all of your sin, there was no sign of remorse, no tear in your eye until he put it there.

Even to creation.

There was no “reason” other than the fact that God wanted to express His perfect love in grace, for Him to create us.

Ad after that creation we lie in a field filthy, frightful, rebellious, and ugly in which He could have said be cursed forever.

But instead, he picked us up and covered us in our brother’s robe.

That’s the grace.

Imagine if you would a rebellious wicked man standing before a judge.

The judge declares you are guilty.

But then He says, I have found out a way whereby I can forgive your rebellions—man, you are pardoned!”

There is a flush of joy upon his cheeks.

“Man, you are made rich; see, there is wealth!”

Another smile passes over the countenance.

“Man, you are made so strong that you shall be able to resist all your enemies!”

He rejoices again.

“Man,” says the judge at last, “you are made a prince!

You are adopted into the royal family, and you shall one day wear a crown!

You are now as much the son of God, as you are the son of your own father.”

Don’t doubt it.

Don’t allow the enemy to persuade you in any way.

but also don’t allow yourself to fall into the trap that some do as though there was something in them that God liked or that made them special.

Faith is a gift of God.

Good works come because of our faith.

Therefore even your good works are attributed to God’s Grace.

2 The PRIVILEGES of adoption.

Now here is what I am going to do.

I will talk about these privileges as they come to us via the west Minister Confession of Faith.

If you do not know what this is, you might want to check it out.

It is a really cool thing that I don’t really want to get into the history of it for sake of time.

It was a confession of the church in 1646 affirming biblically the view on scripture, on the trinity, on numerous things.

It is an amazing document on the stance of the church.

One of those is article 12 about adoption.

It reads as such.

All those that are justified, God vouchsafe, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption:(a) by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God,(b) have His name put upon them,(c) receive the spirit of adoption,(d) have access to the throne of grace with boldness,(e) are enabled to cry, Abba, Father,(f) are pitied,(g) protected,(h) provided for,(i) and chastened by Him as by a Father;(k) yet never cast off,(l) but sealed to the day of redemption,(m) and inherit the promises,(n) as heirs of everlasting salvation.(o)

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Now let’s talk about the privileges.

The first one i want to talk about is one that actually isn’t mentioned and should be.

It is this..

You cannot be in two families.

Why is that a privilege.

Because when you join the family of God you are no longer a part of the family of the enemy and are no longer subject to it.

I am not the son of satan.

I am not a child of wrath.

Though he may be the father of lies, I am not one of them.