As we are led by the Spirit, the Spirit of God gives us the Spirit of Adoption whereby we become God’s children. Jesus redeemed us and paid the price so that we might receive the adoption of sons making us joint-heir with Christ. By the will of God and our belief we have received the right to become children of God.
The Lord has set apart those who live godly in the righteousness that is by faith. God transforms us in the fulness of time into the image of His Son so that we might join with many brethren. Jesus has changed our relationship to the Father; He now dwells in us and becomes our spiritual Father and we His spiritual sons.
He knew us before the foundation of the world and chose us to be adopted as His sons. We are His servants but He has made us His friends and ambassadors, full of His life, His family on Earth. He called and saved us according to His purpose and grace with a holy calling, a gift from God. He gave unto the church the five-fold ministry to help all the saints develop their own ministry. It will take us all working together to produce that full-grown man, a son of God grown up into Christ.
Rom 8:14-17 RV
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
(15) For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
(16) The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:
(17) and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.
Adoption; G5206
Uihothesia; hwee-oth-es-ee’-ah
From a presumed compound of G5207 and a derivative of G5087; the placing as a son, that is, adoption (figuratively Christian sonship in respect to God): – adoption (of children, of sons).
Total KJV occurrences: 5
Son; G5207
Uihos; hwee-os’
Apparently a primary word; a “son” (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figurative kinship: – child, foal, son.
Total KJV occurrences: 382
Place; G5087
tithēmi; tith’-ay-mee
A prolonged form of a primary word θέω theō (which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses); to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from G2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while G2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate): – + advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, X kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.
Total KJV occurrences: 96
As we are 1ed by the Spirit, the Spirit of God gives us the Spirit of Adoption whereby we become God’s children.
Gal 4:3-7 RV
(3) So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
(4) but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
(5) that he might redeem them which were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
(6) And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
(7) So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
Jesus redeemed us and paid the price so that we might receive the adoption of sons making us joint-heir with Christ.
Joh 1:10-13 RV
(10) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
(11) He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not.
(12) But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:
(13) which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
By the will of God and our belief we have received the right to become children of God.
Psa 4:3-5 RV
(3) But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
(4) Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah
(5) Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
The Lord has set apart those who live godly in the righteousness that is by faith.
Rom 8:28-30 RV
(28) And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
(29) For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
(30) and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
2Co 6:16-18 RV
(16) And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
(18) And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Eph 1:3-6 RV
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:
(4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
(5) having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
(6) to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
He knew us before the foundation of the world and chose us to be adopted as His sons.
Joh 15:15-16 RV
(15) No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you.
(16) Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
2Ti 1:7-11 RV
(7) For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.
(8) Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
(10) but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,
(11) whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.
He called and saved us according to His purpose and grace with a holy calling, a gift from God.
Eph 4:11-16 ASV
(11) And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
(12) for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
(13) till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
(14) that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
(15) but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
(16) from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
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Romans the 8th chapter gives us a deep insight into the truth that salvation is a three phase process.
First, in Rom 8:1 – 11, we are presented with the truth that by “walking in accord with the spirit,” we are set free from the walk we were born in and that is to “walk in accord with the flesh.” There is no pleasing the Lord when I walk in accord with the flesh. Rom. 8:6 – 7
Paul goes on to inform us of this walk as he uses three different Greek words to describe the phases of my relationship with the Lord.
We find this in Rom. 8:12 – 23.
In verse 14 we find the word – sons – #G5207 and this shows us a new born son completely dependent on it’s parents. He cannot drive or go to the store on his own, read, write and his communication is very minimal.
In verse 16 we find the word – children – #G5043 and this shows us a teen that has had years of training yet is still under the hand of his parents.
In verse 23 we find the word – adoption – #G5206 and this shows us a son that is “placed” by the father. You could say that now he is his father’s “right hand man.” He has his father’s name to use as an authority in the function of the day. He is his father’s partner, so to speak.
We are walking through these phases in our daily walk with the Lord and IF we walk on in the spirit, one day our Father will say to us, “well done thou good and faithful servant, enter in . . . . .”
We find in the scriptures that Jesus will reign as Lord and Christ during a 1000 year time and with him will be those that are “son placed” to labor with him to redeem and clean up the earth from the past six thousand years of man’s failings. It will be a new day, a day of redemption and those “placed as sons” will be right there, working with the Lord in this beautiful redemption work.
Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26 – 28
Rev. 3:5, 12, 21
Rev. 14:1 – 5
Rev. 19:6 – 16 and
Rev. 20:4, 6