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when once Charles Wesley’s ecstatic epitome of Romans 8 becomes yours—
No condemnation now I dread, Jesus, and all in him, is mine; Alive in him, my liv...
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righteousness divine, Bold I approach the eternal throne And claim the crown,...
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when you realize that God has taken you from the gutter, so to speak, and made you a son in his own house—you, a miraculously pardoned offender, guilty, ungrateful, defiant, perverse as you were—then your sense of God’s “love beyond degree” is more than words
can express. You will echo Charles Wesley’s question:
O how shall I the goodness tell, Father, which Thou to me hast showed? That I, a child of wrath and hell, I s...
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God adopts us out of free love, not because our character and record show us worthy to
bear his name, but despite the fact that they show the very opposite.
We are not fit for a place in God’s family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrou...
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that, is what our adopt...
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If you become a father by adopting a son or daughter, you do so because you choose to, not because you are bound
to. Similarly, God adopts because he chooses to.
He need not have done anything about our sins except punish us as we deserved. But he loved us; so he redeemed us, forgave us, took us as his sons and daug...
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Nor does his grace stop short with that initial act, any more than the love of human parents who adopt stops short with the completing of the legal process that makes th...
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status as a member of the family is only a beginning. The real task remains: to establish a genuinely filial relationship betw...
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Accordingly, you set yourself to win th...
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by loving the...
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So with God. And throughout our life in this world, and to all eternity beyond, he will constantly be showing us, in one way or another, more and mor...
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love to him cont...
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Like the prodigal in the parable, we may only find ourselves able to say, “I have sinned. . . . I am no longer worthy to be called your son;
But God receives us as sons, and loves us with the same steadfast affection with which he eternally loves his beloved only-begotten. There are no distinctions of affection in the divine family. We are all loved just as fully as Jesus is loved.
No wonder John cries, “Behold, what manner of love!”
When once you understand adoption, your heart will cry the same.
Second, our adoption shows us the glory of the
Christian hope.
For the Christian, the best is always yet to be.
Our Father’s wealth is immeasurable, and we are to inherit the entire estate.
the doctrine of adoption tells us that the sum and substance of our promised inheritance is a share in the glory of Christ.
This likeness will extend to our physical being as well as our mind and character;
“We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” This, the
blessing of resurrection day, will make actual for us all that was implicit in the relationship of adoption, for it will introduce us into the full experience of the heavenly life
we should always remind ourselves that everything he has will someday be shared with
us, for it is our inheritance no less than his;
Finally, the doctrine of adoption tells us that the
experience of heaven will be of a family gathering,
It will be like the day when the sick child is at last able to leave the hospital and finds father and the whole family waiting outside to greet him—a
“I see myself now at the end of my journey, my toilsome days are ended,” said Bunyan’s Mr. Stand-fast, as he stood halfway into Jordan’s water, “the thought of what I am going to, and of the conduct that waits for
me on the other side, doth lie as a glowing c...
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I have formerly lived by hearsay, and faith, but now I go where I shall live by sight, and shall be with him, in ...
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What will make heaven to be heaven is...
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of Jesus, and of a reconciled divine Father who loves us for Jesus’ sake no less tha...
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To see, and know, and love, and be loved by, the Father and the Son, in company with the rest of God’s vast fam...
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My knowledge of that life is small; The eye of faith is dim:
But it’s enough that Christ knows all; And I shall be with him.
If you are a believer, and so an adopted child, this prospect satisfies you completely; if it does not strike you as satisfying, it w...
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Third, our adoption gives us the key to understanding the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
they ask anxiously how they may close the gap between the New Testament picture of life in the Spirit and their own felt barrenness in daily experience.
The cause of such troubles as we have described is a false, magical type of supernaturalism, which leads people to hanker after a transforming touch as from an electric, impersonal power that will make them feel wholly free from the burdens and bondages of living with themselves and other people.
