Basic Theology: Adoption - The Foundation of Adoption

The Foundation of Adoption


The adoption is located not in the act of humans adopting humans, but in God adopting humans. This is not part of God’s ordinary providence in the world, but it is at the heart of the gospel.

Galatians 4:4-5, But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

God did not have to use the concept of adoption to explain how he saved us, or even how we become part of his family. He could have stayed with the language of new birth so that all his children were described as children by nature only.

John 1:12-13, But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

But God chose to speak of us as adopted as well as being children by new birth. This is the most essential foundation of the practice of adoption.

Adoption costed God but its free for us!

To redeem means to obtain or to set free by paying a price which we saw in detail in the previous lesson.
What was the price that God paid for our freedom from sin and adoption?

Galatians 3:13, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),

It cost God the price of his Son’s life.

There are huge costs in adopting children. Some are financial, and some are emotional. There are costs in time and stress for the rest of your life. You never stop being a parent till you die. And the stresses of caring about adult children can be as great, or greater, than the stresses of caring for young children. There is something very deep and right about the embrace of this cost for the life of a child!

God’s cost to adopt us was infinitely greater than any cost we will endure in adopting and raising children.

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