Join Jen and Crystal as they explore the powerful theme of adoption in Christ and what it truly means to be a child of God. This conversation includes looking at the scriptural truths of being brought into God’s family, the deep intimacy believers can experience with God as their Father, and the vital role of the Holy Spirit in leading and empowering us. Jen and Crystal also discuss the freedom and assurance that comes from knowing we belong and the spiritual blessings that flow from being His adopted sons and daughters.
Ephesians 1:5 (NIV)
He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
John 1:12-13 (NIV)
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
2 Corinthians 6:18 (ERV)
I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord All-Powerful.
Psalm 68:5-6 (ERV)
God, who lives in his holy palace, is a father to orphans, and he takes care of widows.
God provides homes for those who are lonely. He frees people from prison and makes them happy. But those who turn against him will live in the desert.
Galatians 4:4-5 (ERV)
But when the right time came, God sent his Son, who was born from a woman and lived under the law. 5 God did this so that he could buy the freedom of those who were under the law. God’s purpose was to make us his children.
Psalm 27:10 (AMPC)
Although my father and my mother have forsaken me, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].
Psalm 139:13-16 (MSG)
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made. I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.
1 John 3:1 (NIV)
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God!
Romans 8: 12-14 (ESV)
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:15 (ESV)
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
