REDEEMED FOR ADOPTION
Galatians 4:4-7
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Encouraging Words
In the day of slavery, when someone bought another person off of the auction block that person was redeemed from their former owner, but still a slave to the new owner. God, however, when He paid the price of His Son's life to redeem us from the bondage of death, He did not stop there. He went one step further and took off our chains of bondage and claimed us as His children through adoption into His family. Through this form of adoption we are not step-children or half-siblings, but fully children of God and brothers and sisters to Christ incarnate. Glory be to God!
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