Saturday, January 30, 2016

1.  Men generally adopt when they have no children of their own.  But God had a Son, His dear Son, His well-beloved Son.  He had angels.

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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