435. What Does Adoption by God Involve?<\/p>\n
"And I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (2Co_6:18). Such adoption is according to promise, by God's grace, through Christ, and we take it by faith (Gal_3:7, Gal_3:26; Rom_9:8; Eze_16:3-6; Rom_4:16-17; Joh_1:12). Saints are predestinated unto adoption and are gathered together in one by Christ (Rom_8:29; Joh_11:52), whereupon they become his brethren (Joh_20:17). Our new birth is connected with our adoption, the Holy Spirit is a witness of it, and by leading us gives us evidence of it (Joh_1:12-13; Rom_8:15-16; Rom_8:14). This adoption should lead to holiness and should work in us likeness to God and childlike confidence in God (Mat_5:44-45, Mat_5:48; Mat_6:25-34) ; a desire for God's glory, love of peace, spirit of prayer, forgiveness and mercy (Mat_5:16, Mat_7:7-11, Mat_5:9, Mat_6:14; Luk_6:35-36).<\/p>\n
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435. What Does Adoption by God Involve? "And I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (2Co_6:18). Such adoption is according to promise, by God's grace, through Christ, and we take it by faith (Gal_3:7, Gal_3:26; Rom_9:8; Eze_16:3-6; Rom_4:16-17; Joh_1:12). Saints are predestinated unto … Continue reading “435 – What Does Adoption by God Involve?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}