The Blessing Spiritual blessing of Adoption

The Blessing

Spiritual blessing of Adoption

Many say…

 “We are all God’s children.”

I can’t connect with this

statement or belief, here’s why…

Jesus tells us there are those who claim God is

their Father but He says their father is the devil.

Jesus says His Father teaches Him the truth.

And the Devil is the father of all lies.

There is a language in each family

that reveals the family members.

You can read this in John 8.

In John 3, Jesus makes it clear no one comes

 into God’s family unless that person is “born again”.

It is clear God created man and woman

but that does not make us family.

We are all God’s creation

 but not all God’s family.

When we understand our father is the devil,

 who keeps us in deception, we can appreciate

the spiritual blessing of adoption.

If you were looking to adopt

what would you be looking for?

Chances are you would not be

looking for deceptive children.

Think about it…“God so loved the world”.

“In love He predestined us to be adopted.”

“God is love”

Adoption is not something you do on a whim.

It takes planning and it takes love.

God sent His Son with an adoption plan.

John 1:10-13 NIV

“He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received 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.”

Amazingly, Jesus came to adopt sinners.

He revealed the adoption plan to thieves,

prostitutes to the unlovable He revealed His love.

The spiritual blessing of adoption

is to “all who receive Him”.

Through adoption we learn a new

language of truth and love.

We are given heavenly mansions where

we can dwell with our loving Father forever.

   

This spiritual bless is a big deal.

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:4-5 NIV

 In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—

The Blessing Blessing of being holy and blameless

The Blessing

Blessing of being holy and blameless

In Ephesians 1, we are told God had blessed us

 with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.

The first blessing listed in this passage is the

blessing God had for us before we were created.

In God’s plan of creating man, He

created us to be Holy and Blameless.

 Think of Adam and Eve…

 Imagine their bodies, minds and spirits uncontaminated.

Physically, the most perfect bodies

ever to walk the face of the earth.

No generational defects, no wounds

or scars, physically or spiritually.

 If you have a pain or scars,

you know what it is to be unholy.

Imagine your life without pain and scars.

That has been God’s intention

for us before we were created.

We cannot blame God for those pains and scars.

But there is someone to blame.

It could be a great, great grandparent,

a friend or enemy, even you.

Blaming someone or something

else is a natural tendency…

Because none of us want to be the blame.

Many of us will resort to lying to avoid being blamed.

You may not think about it in the terms of

 holy or blameless but that is what we want.

The problem is we have the desire for the

things that contaminate the perfect state of being.

You and I can live for a long time in a

contaminated state but contamination kills.

My wife had a contaminated gallbladder;

it eventually was removed and discarded.

We were not made to die but live forever.

God sent His Son to get us back to the

state of being holy and blameless.

In many cases, He healed people

of the effects of contamination.

People who were in pain or blind,

were healed…restoring holiness.

But all those who were touched by Jesus eventually died.

Yet many did not die without hope.

Jesus died to restore us to holiness and blameless living.

As we believe what He said, and do

those things, we can discover new life.

Even those we can see the truth of God’s Word

 reverse the signs of contamination, we too, shall die.

God still wants you and I to be holy and blameless.

And if that is what we want, God has devised a plan.

God’s Son took all our contamination

 upon Himself on the cross.

You and I may have a hard time seeing it but through

Christ, God is able to see those who put their trust in

living according to His Word which reveals how to live.

God sees us as redeemed and promises a

new body, new heaven and new earth;

 All holy and blameless, life without contamination.

 What a spiritual blessing to be holy and blameless.

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:3-4 NIV

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.