Quotes about Adoption

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father!" Romans 8:15

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

It is evident that imputation depends ?upon our union with Christ. "Having been made by God a surety for us and given to us for a head, he can communicate to us his righteousness and all of his benefits." Our union with Christ is the "cause and foundation" of our sharing in all his benefits, including justification (remission of sins and adoption as sons) (1992, 16.6).

God has no cousins, only children.

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.

The illumination of   our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith   flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same   faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that   account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.