Spiritual Gifts part 84. Adoption = God decides, declares, executes, and consummates.
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Spiritual Gifts Part 84: Adoption includes a decision, a declaration, the execution, and the consummation.huiothesia means God’s recognizing Church Age believers in that position as a child come of age, an adult son. Decreed or made certain in eternity past.
Decreed or made certain in eternity past.
Decreed or made certain in eternity past.
Eph 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons [in the past - eternity past]
Rom 8:14 you have received a spirit of adoption as sons [now, looking back at the moment of faith]
Eph 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons [in the past - eternity past]
Rom 8:14 you have received a spirit of adoption as sons [now, looking back at the moment of faith] Our father has the right to discipline His sons (Heb 12:5-11). We are members of a family, and we are to love the members of the family in the special way that our Father loves the members of this family, 1Jo 5:1.
Gal 6:10 1. If we have the Spirit of adoption, we have lost the spirit of bondage again to fear (Rom 8:15). 2. We have been given a spirit of liberty. 3. We receive this spirit of adoption through the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Rom 8:16 4. Because we have been adopted into God’s family, we are entitled to bear His name.
Eph 2:19 5. We can enjoy the present protection and consolation which God alone can give, and the provision He makes for His children .
Luk 12:7
Heb 13:5
Eph 2:18
Mat 6:8 6. We are under the training of fatherly discipline. 7. We are heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ.
1Co 3:21-23
1Co 3:21-23 (cont.) 8. There is the certainty and security of it all.
Rom 8:38
Rom 8:39 If God has taken me into His family, I am not only a child, I am an heir, and nothing and no one can ever rob me of the inheritance. 9. We will be conformed to the image of Christ, the uniquely born Son of God, 1Jo 3:2; Rom 8:29 .
Rom 8:29 We are also, above and beyond all that glorious good news, we are declared to be the sons of God, the heirs of God, joint heirs with the only begotten Son of God. Heb 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. It is a result not only of regeneration but also the baptism by the Spirit, which places the new believer into a permanent organic union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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