Moore Urges Biblical View of Adoption

The Gospel IS adoption. We should model it.

by Rod D. Martin
December 13, 2012

Very important.  The Gospel IS adoption:  the New Testament repeats this again and again.  Christ did not die to make us servants only, but sons and daughters, of whom He Himself is the first, the "only begotten" (or natural) Son.  We are co-heirs with Christ, we have access to the Father which is precisely like that of a little child and his daddy, and indeed, when Jesus teaches us to cry out to "Abba, Father", He uses the Aramaic ("Abba") for "Daddy".  Christianity is not just reconciliation of rebels, sinners, to their God, but an adoption:  of hostile children of the devil as princes and princesses of the loving, faithful King.

If Christians understood this properly, there could be no racism, no classism.  We are saved from our depraved state -- purely by grace, the unearned favor of One who owes us nothing but contempt and judgment -- not simply to some state of neutrality, or of judicial compliance, or even of pardoned criminal, but literally to a…