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Sermon date: 3-16-03
Goal: To communicate the overall privilege and joy of being in God’s family
Introduction- express why the subject of adoption is so precious to me.
Adopted by the Father
Introduction:
My wife, Ruth and I were married in 1988, and one of our primary desires as a couple was to have children.
However, the Lord had other plans.
After many years of prayer and a few cats and dogs came 1994—the year Ruth and I began thinking seriously about adopting.
We were anxious about the whole process but wanted nothing more than to be parents.
In fact, we were willing to go just about anywhere to find our child, little did we know that we would end up going literally half way around the world to find our precious daughter.
After all of the legal paper work process, we made the trek to China and in June of 1995 where we officially adopted our daughter, Sarah.
The whole topic of adoption is very precious to me for obvious reasons.
Another reason why the topic is so beautiful to me is the truth of adoption taught within the Bible.
Did you know, for instance, that we were all spiritual orphans at one time?
Have you ever stopped to think about that fact?
However, the great news is that all who have been born-again by the grace of God, have been brought into His family through adoption.
This much-overlooked concept is paramount to a healthy view of God as a Father.
I think that J.I. Packer summed up the teaching of adoption quite nicely in his book entitled Knowing God where he writes:
*“Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption.”*
J.I. Packer Knowing God pg.
182
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Your grasp of adoption is my goal today!
Our outline will be as follows:
A brief, biblical definition of adoption
I. The */NEED /*for our adoption- we were all enslaved orphans
II.
The */COST/* of our adoption- the death of our elder brother
III.
The */JOY /*of our adoption- familial relationships (with God as Father and each other as brother and sisters)
(Transition to A biblical definition)
* A BIBLICAL DEFINITION OF ADOPTION*
A.
The Bible speaks of adoption in three ways:
1.
*Natural*.
Adoption is the legal process by which a man might bring into his family and endow with the status and privileges of a son, one who was not */by nature/* his son or of his kindred.
a.
Thus Pharaoh’s daughter adopted Moses Ex 2:10 and Mordecai adopted Esther in Esther 2:7
2.
*National*.
That relationship which God was pleased to establish between himself and the Israelites in preference to all other nations
a.
God adopted Israel Ex 4:22; Ro 9:4
3.
*Spiritual*.
The nature and condition of the true disciples in Christ, who by receiving the Spirit of God into their souls (Redemption, salvation, being born-again, saved) become sons of God.
a.
This aspect of adoption will be our emphasis today.
B.
Adoption is not justification
1. */Justification/*/ is a forensic idea, conceived in terms of law, and viewing God as judge… But contrast this, now, with adoption.
*Adoption* is a family idea, conceived in terms of love, and viewing God as father.
In addition God takes us into His family and fellowship, and establishes us as His children and heirs.
Closeness, affection and generosity are at the heart of the relationship.
*To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the father is a greater.*//
//From /Knowing God/ by J.I. Packer/
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“Justification, writes Robert Peterson, occurs in the criminal division of the court, while adoption takes place in the family court.”
“Adoption” he continues, “is another way of speaking of the application of salvation”.
From Adopted by God
*(Laying that basic groundwork, I want you to step back and look at the whole idea of salvation through these family terms.
In addition, I have a question for you: why in the world do we need adopted in the first place?
Why?
Because we have an incredible dilemma!
Let me explain!) *
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*I.
THE NEED FOR ADOPTION*
!!!!! *(There are three basic reasons the first is)*
!!!!! * *
!!!!! *A.
We were all born into the wrong family*
(Note: The NT assumes there is more that one spiritual family in the universe)
!!!!! 1.
To show the above point we must first establish this fact.
*There is a /two family/ concept* *throughout the NT.*
!!!!! a.* Matthew 13:36-40 *
Here the Lord Jesus uses a simple earthly farming analogy to describe a heavenly reality.
He also adds these *familial terms to describe spiritual realities*.
So in verse 38 we read “the sons *of the evil one*” and who is this evil one to whom these sons belong?
vs. 39 “and the enemy who sowed them is the devil”
So we begin to see the two-family concept unfold.
See the following:
1.
Two Sowers: Jesus and the devil
2. Two types of seed: good seed and the tares
3. Two offspring:
a. “sons /of/ the kingdom”
b.
“sons /of/ the evil one”
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b*.
John 8:31-44*
Jesus continues this concept of using *familial terms to describe spiritual realities* in John 8:31-44.
Notice again the contrast that Jesus establishes between “My Father” and “your father”.
Then notice what results from their fatherhood vs. 44 “you are *of your* father the devil (key prepositional phrase), *and you want to do* the desires of your father”.
Again, we see the two-family concept in the following:
1.
Two fathers: God and the devil
2.
Two offspring:
a.
Children of God
b.
Children of the devil
(Am I alone in this observation?
NO! Transition to Commentaries)
!!!!! Jn. 8:44 People’s New Testament commentary
/Ye are of your father, the devil/.
*There are two households: *that of God, composed of his children; and that of the devil, composed of his children.
All who hear the voice of Christ become God’s children by */adoption/* (# Ro 8:15-17), and all who refuse to hear him, do so because they belong to the devil’s household and hear his voice.
They "will do the lusts of their father."
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