![]() ![]() ![]() The establishing of the child’s status as a member of the family is only the beginning. God’s adoptive grace does not stop with the initial act of adoption.Similarly, God adopts because he chooses to. If you become a father by adopting a son or daughter, you do so because you choose to, not because you are bound to. “Adoption, by its very nature, is an art of free kindness to the person adopted. Just the opposite, he adopts us out of his free love, not because our character and record show us to be worthy to bear his name. In the ancient world, a well-to-do childless man would adopt a young adult who had shown himself to be worthy of carrying on the family name. ![]() God’s Love: Our adoption shows us the greatness of God’s love.ġ See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ![]() The focus of the NT message: adoption through propitiation.Yet the concept of adoption is the nucleus and focal point of the whole NT teaching on the Christian life. The word adoption only occurs three times in the NT with reference to our present relationship to God in Christ (Rom 8:15 Gal 4:5 Eph 1:5).Propitiation only occurs four times in the NT, but it is fundamentally important, as being the nucleus and focal point of the whole NT teaching on the saving work of Christ.Adoption is the basis of Christian prayer.Adoption is the basis of Christian conduct.A Christian is one who has God as Father. ![]()
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