Redemption and Adoption

 REDEMPTION AND ADOPTION

Adoption is a distinct part of the eternal plan of redemption and carries with it distinct blessings and privileges. How is adoption different from regeneration? Different from justification? Related to redemption? Glad you asked.

Redemption is a comprehensive term. It has to do with regeneration, conversion, repentance, faith, predestination, election, justification, sanctification and glorification. Some people, without thinking, just lump adoption into the aspect of justification or simply believe that it is a blessing from regeneration. It is much more than that! Please read the following carefully.

Justification means that our acceptance before God as righteous ones and the bestowal of the title to eternal life. Justification is totally based on the merits of Christ alone.Justification is something that God does; it is a pronouncement by the Lord. He declares that we are righteous. See Romans 3:21-26

Regeneration is the renewing of our hearts, the impartation of spiritual life whereby we can ultimately be conformed to the image of God. We are made new creatures and now can understand and see Biblical truth. New life is breathed into spiritually dead people.

But these blessings in themselves, however precious they are, do not indicate what is conferred by the blessing of adoption. By adoption, the redeemed become sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty; we are introduced into and given all the privileges of God’s family. Neither justification nor regeneration precisely expresses that. John 1:12 reinforces that particular truth.

A foster father can give the foster children gifts but legally he cannot confer on them his name. A male friend may give a fatherless child some money but he cannot confer on that child -- legally -- his name. He does not possess the legal right to do so. God gives us gifts and blessings and promises and wealth AND changes our name because He has the right and authority to do so!

“I’m a child of the King, a child of the King

With Jesus my Savior, I’m a child of the King”

“Hush-a-by” by the Gettys

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