2. Men generally adopt such as they think deserving; God adopts criminals, traitors, enemies.
3. Men adopt living children; God, those that are by nature spiritually dead.
4. Man generally adopts one only; God adopts many.
G. S. Bowes
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Adoption is that act of God by which we who were alienated, and enemies, and disinherited, are made the sons of God, and heirs of His eternal glory.
R. Watson
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By adoption God gives us—
1. A new nature (2 Pet. 1:3)
2. A new name (Rev. 3:12)
3. A new inheritance (Rom. 8:17)
4. New relations (Rom. 8:15-16)
5. A new hope (1 Pet. 1:3)
John Bate
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