The Spirit Of AdoptionSample

The Second truth you must learn is that “All things are from him and through him.” This is true of adoption. We are adopted through Jesus Christ. What does that mean? It means that to be adopted by God He had to die for us. Look at verse 7 of this same passage: “In him [Christ] we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.” This is a strange statement but still Paul tells us that that was the only way it could be accomplished. 

Today when parents to be want to adopt a child, they don’t literally have to die physically in order to adopt a child although there is a process of death involved with every adoption—it is a death to selfishness and a death to all traditional beliefs passed down by generations of biased people about what adoption entails.

So, before the foundation of the world God saw that we would be sinners and planned the death of His Son so that our sins could be forgiven and God’s wrath on all sin and sinfulness removed. Through that death and resurrection of His Son, we were adopted. Note two clear implications of this:

1) Not all people are God’s adopted children. The blood of Christ covers the sins of all who believe (Romans 3:25). Therefore believers in Jesus are adopted, and no others. If we talk about God being the Father of all mankind, we speak very loosely and are not talking truly about those who are saved and whose sins are totally forgiven.

The second implication of being adopted through Jesus Christ:

2) We were not cute little orphans that God was attracted to—we were enemies in rebellion against God. That is who God decided before the foundation of the world to adopt. Romans 5:6, “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.” Romans 5:10, “While we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son.”  So our adoption is not based on our being worthy or cute or attractive. It is based on the free and sovereign grace of God planned before the world and bought for us by the blood of Christ.

Remember: YOUR ADOPTION INTO GOD’S FAMILY IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND HIM ALONE!